Sistah Pat

Weight is at 187 today.  Sloooow going.

Ughh!  Field trip today.  It’s gray and rainy and I promised to help chaperone a field trip on the Belle of Louisville.  Just what I want…standing on the deck of a hundred year old steamboat in the rain with 150 8th graders.  Lunch is supposed to be at a food court so it will be interesting to see what I wind up with.  I thought about packing lunch but then I’d be lugging my purse, an umbrella, and my lunch around all day so I decided to forgo the umbrella and lunch.  Maybe one of the other teachers will pity me and let me stand under their umbrella.

2:00  Uh oh!  I messed up!  Not too bad but bad enough.  It was freezing out on the river.  Standing in the bow of the Belle was just about the only place left since all the kids were huddled down in the second floor or toward the back and all of us nurturing teacher types took the front.  It was unpleasantly cold, damp, and windy.  One of the kids twisted (broke?) her ankle and we had to be met back at the dock by an ambulance which took her to the hospital.  Back on the bus and I’m wondering how many choruses of “99 Bottles of Beer on the wall” I can stand before I get violent except, of course, the kids are singing “99 bundles of bear on the wall” so they won’t get in trouble.  We went to the food court and I ordered Chinese.  Didn’t eat rice or noodles but I had a Chicken stir-fry, green beans, and part of an egg roll.  I don’t have any idea how many calories I consumed but I think the MSG got to me because I feel like a blimp!