still morning air

Still not running.
But! The last two mornings I've gotten up for sunrise and gone walking.
One of the biggest side effects / impacts of not running regularly (for me anyway) is the depth and quality of my sleep. I'm generally a pretty good sleeper if I'm running. If I'm stressed out or not getting enough exercise though, my body has a tendency to decide to wake up around 4. Sunrise right now is around 4:55 or so, so yesterday morning I got myself outside in time to see it, but it was cloudy. So today I tried again and got to see a very pretty sunrise, and some folks doing tai chi (I think? I am not actually 100% certain what they were doing, but something that could have been tai chi, slow moving and peaceful looking) and possibly a wedding...a lot of people all dressed up and standing in a gazebo in a park near my house all laughing and taking pictures of each other. Interesting early morning activities in my neighborhood, huh?
Today is solstice. I really like the idea, to get married at sunrise on solstice. It would certainly make people think twice about rsvp'ing yes, for sure, having to get up early early early that way.
My leg is still giving me random fits of achy pain, but nothing sharp. By the calendar (6 weeks!) I can try running at the end of this week...though we're supposed to go hiking this weekend, so perhaps I should wait for next week?
My mother thinks I should be taking all sorts of supplements to attempt to strengthen my bones (calcium and vitamin D got mentioned several times this week) probably she is right, but I have no interest in dropping $50-100 on things that might-possibly-but-not-definitely do something that has not been evaluated by the FDA*.
I am hoping I can continue to get up super early and go outside all of this week and make it sort of a habit, then once I can run again use the extra morning time to run some. I'd like to be one of those early morning runners again I think. In my non-running dreams anyway.

*okay, so mostly I don't have the $50-100 to spend on extraneous vitamins right now. I had to pay for car insurance last week and I need to get a stupid dress to go to a stupid wedding ( actually 3 weddings, hopefully only 1 dress) and buy presents for those to be wed as well. argh. The wedding season is upon us. Generally I like weddings, I think it is a cool thing, to celebrate people's love for one another. But I'm living with a guy who hates them rather vocally, and that makes it way less fun.