I just finished reading The Innocent Man and it made my heart hurt.  In Oklahoma, two innocent men were in prison, one on Death Row, for 11 years for a crime they did not commit.  Worse than that, if the police and procecution had done their jobs correctly, this would not have happened.  I was on a murder trial that lasted 4 months.  I  worked closely with the police department when I worked at the academy and respect these men and women immensley.  I personally could not do their job.  However, like every place, there are lazy people who are capable of lying and do no matter the price to someone else. 

I love to read and was compelled after reading it to do follow up research on the men who spent time in prison. Now I know these are not the only men who have spent time in prison for a crime they did not commit and I also know that there are plenty in prison who deserve to be there.  But it does make me sad to think of precious time being taken away from someone because as we all know, life is precious and from the moment we are born, the clock starts clicking away. 

Sorry for being so depressing - on another note - I did the treadmill for 85 minutes.  5 minutes were spent on warm up and 5 minutes were spent on cool down.  I felt good afterwards and think I should do this a couple of times a week.  My secret goal is to be able to do the Avon 3 day walk for breast cancer.  My friend Cindy died 6 years ago much too young of breast cancer and I miss her every single day - sometimes more.  Once she called me in my sleep.  I had a dream I was talking to her on the phone and we had this wonderful conversation.  She promised to call me again.  I hope she does. 

Tomorrow is another day and weigh in day is Wednesday.  I hope I lost weight this week.  It was hard being out of town for a couple of days but I did the best that I could.  My goal is to be 145 by Christmas.  Wouldn’t that be nice?