taxes, mortgage

collecting paperwork for the mortgage
doing taxes there’s no way to make
this fun just want to say
i stayed home all day and
tried to do the needful
still had to get out for a
walk after rain stopped
left at 4:33 pm and returned at 5:35
3.3 miles in the neighborhood
wearing my weight vest and my
gaudy* joyful walking shoes

*word origin for gaud from Google: Middle English (denoting a trick or pretense): perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French gaudir ‘rejoice,’ from Latin gaudere . Current senses may have been influenced by obsolete gaud ‘a large ornamental bead in a rosary.’