So how many times have you heard someone say "I've been on my feet all day?" I've never really thought about it, but I highly doubt that they were. They could work twelve hour shifts, but you gotta sit to eat, take a break occasionally, work at a computer or drive right?

Well I've never heard of anyone doing otherwise, so why not try it out? Usually when I wake up, there's a shower and dressing and only sitting for my shoes, so I just leaned on the wall for that. But getting to work proved a little tough. There are seats in my car, a seat (however uncomfy) on my bike... but there is a way to get there without seats.

So I decided to hoof it to work. Judging from google maps it was roughly 2 miles straight to work, 3 if I wanted starbucks...
Obviously I wanted starbucks...

So that's breakfast, walking to work and eating and taking pictures on my cell phone. :) It wasn't such a bad walk really, a little humid and what not, however in the end my feet weren't sore, I was feeling good. I somewhat new that standing would be easy for the first few hours of the day. I work at a shop that used to be a restaurant, and I work the front counter, which is a modified bar, so the desk is high, I just took my chair and put it in the sales office for the day, just in case. So my work space looked like this...

Not too bad. Well after things got rolling for the day, it became a little tiring so I came up with the plan to stretch about every hour or so, doing the one where you lift your legs up behind your rear one at a time, and touching my toes.

Well lunch rolled around and I decided to walk down about a mile to the local grocery store with a more organic all natural flare and get the asian hot bar they had. I think I had some chicken in some sauce and some rice... with some other stuff in it. (They didn't have the tags put out labeling the food. So instead of sitting outside and enjoying the day I stood by the chairs...

watching them as they mocked me.

Though a side note is on the table, was my cookie. (I thought if I wasn't going to sit for lunch, I totally deserve a cookie!) Then walked back to lunch. After lunch things just went downhill. At that point my manager was offering me a seat, and my boss even offered a ride home. Each offer started to sound better as I worked at the computer more. I stacked my monitor and keyboard on some paper, which you can see in the earlier photo of my workspace. As the day dragged on I started to think of more clever ways to feel comfortable... I tried leaning more often, and putting one foot up on bars and boxes. At one slow point with no in-store traffic I slipped my shoes off.

This almost renewed me completely for about an hour. It just felt nice for my feet to decompress. (And no they DIDN'T smell! Though i don't think i would have cared much if they did.) Though about an hour later my back was a little tired...


To make a long story short... because literally I'm just talking about standing around all day...

I walked home... and the first thing to come off was...

I showered and let the dogs out... and decided the rest was best left to video.



:) Man I'm not getting up for at least an hour.