It’s all up to me

The last 12 months of weather for my state have been horrendous.  We had a record setting snowfall last year and accumulated 13 snow days from school.  We honestly went from Thanksgiving week until sometime in March before we had a full week of school.  Generally 1or 2 times a week we had a massive snow storm.  Then, this summer, we had a 500 year flood in our state.  I’m sure many of you saw footage from Iowa on the national news.  Luckily our town was spared any major damage but it still was overwhelming to see the town where I grew up under water.

This winter seems to be more of the same.  We had a snow day last week and it’s looking like we might have one tomorrow.  Then, it’s almost guaranteed that we’re going to have one on Friday b/c a big ice/snow storm is predicted for Thursday.  If we miss school on Friday it will be the 3rd year in a row that we haven’t had school the day before Christmas break.  Even though the kids are kind of crazy on those days they are fun and plus, kids bring us presents!  Oh well, I have enough candles and body lotion anyway

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Something funny happened today.  I don’t know if you remember but a couple of months ago I wrote about a guy that was kind of hitting on me at the gym.  I hadn’t seen him there in a while and had honestly forgotten about him but it turns out he’s a substitute teacher.  A teacher in my hallway was absent today so there he was, friendly as ever.  Still haven’t 100% figured out if he’s just nice or if he’s into me, but the attention is nice either way.

So after school I hit the gym and logged 70 minutes on the treadclimber for a total of 1399 calories!  I so wanted to break 1400 that I even sped up the pace on the cooldown but I was 1 calorie short.  So afterward I did a good stretch and some crunches so I know that I did indeed burn that last calorie.  I actually had to slow down the speed, though, b/c I wanted to quit after about 40 minutes and that never happens to me.

So much to do in the next few days and sadly I have to bake.  There is a bread that I make every Christmas and I think I would be disowned by my hubby’s family if I didn’t make it, plus, we give it as part of gifts to a few people.  So, if we do have a snow day tomorrow I know what I’ll be doing.  The good news is that you just throw all of the ingredients into the mixer so I should be able to get through it w/o eating cookie dough, frosting, etc.

Progress toward workout goal:  129/250