Monday, 04 September 2006

• Where oh where did the summer go? I can't believe I will be starting the second week of school tomorrow. My girls are on their third.

  My new job is going great, I am already starting to feel comfortable, and am so much happier than I've ever been before teaching. It's so strange just having everything laid out for me to teach for the year. What an awesome program. Saturday I got ticked off and finally went through all of my old stuff from school. Took a tote of books and such to school and will have another one tomorrow. It felt SO good to get through it all.

  Yesterday we had "the" BBQ of the year. Kind of ticks me off that we NEVER have people over. That is why we LOVE living out here. So last night our friends came out and we had a great time. Of course all the hard house-cleaning we did was pointless, with 9 kids running around, the house is trashed again. We need to do that more often, maybe it would inspire me to KEEP the house cleaner, instead of just letting everything pile up. One of the couples we had over, Jeff and Dana (Jeff has been Thad's best friend since they were about 9 or so) moved back to South Dakota this year. It's great that we can just call them up and they can be here in a couple of hours! I get a kick out of having them here. Jeff and Dana are so much like Thad and I personality wise, but Jeff never gets wild like Thad does, and Dana is wilder than me. It's SO much fun to have them here, I hope it's the start of many visits. Just wish they could have stayed longer. Good food, good friends, margaritas, music, what more could you ask for?

  Let's see...otherwise, I'm still on track with my Sparkpeople diet. I don't really follow their food guidelines much anymore, just the calorie count. I am not losing much weight, but with getting ready for school, I did a lot of junk eating, and didn't have time to exercise. Now I'm walking a half hour a day at noon, so hopefully the weight loss will kick in. I know it sure felt DANG good to fit into size 12 jeans again. Maybe I can be down to a 6 by next summer. But I'm more worried about FEELING healthy than the size, and getting down to a healthy weight for me. So far I'm down 24 pounds. About 35 to go.

  • 3:33 PM
  • 81 Views
  • 2 eProps
  • 3 Comments