Sistah Pat

184.5 is still visiting and I’m thoroughly enjoying him. At least for a short visit.

What do you wear to work on the next to last Friday before the end of school? I don’t have any students today and will probably spend all day checking and cleaning computers. Not really my job but considering that teachers are not exactly clammoring for my help during the last week of school, I probably won’t be resourcing in any classrooms today. I think it’s definitely a jeans day!

7:00 Ready for work and waiting for Steven to finish flossing, brushing, combing, etc. I think teenage boys spend almost as much time in the bathroom as girls. Thanks for the comments last night, brseay, for helping me to see that I can bitch about it and still be human. Guess I’d better go hurry him up or we’ll all be late.

12:00 - Know what really makes me mad? When the doctor nags you to death to do something you don’t want to do anyway and then you can’t seem to get anybody on the phone to even make the appointment! Does anybody want to have a colonoscopy? I mean, they should be grateful for us even making the effort to schedule one but to have to call over and over and play phone tag for a month to even set up an appointment is ridiculous. I’ve been trying to get this done for six months! First I set up the appointment and was only able to choke down about 2/3 of the junk I was supposed to drink. I called the next morning and told them that I thought I was fine but I wasn’t able to drink all that crap and they said they didn’t think I should have the procedure. So…they rescheduled me for six weeks later but then they called me four days before the procedure to tell me that the doctor had to go out of town and they would need to reschedule. I told them I would call them back but I forgot. I went back to the doctor and he wasn’t happy that I still didn’t have a colonoscopy because I’m over the age of fifty!! So I try to make another appointment but their scheduling clerk is only in from 10:00 to 2:00 each day. What? So…for a month, I call her at 10 and leave a message and she calls the school and they tell her they won’t interrupt me during class but they’ll give me a message so she leaves a message for me to call and I call and leave a message on her voice mail and she calls my house but I get home after 2:00 so she’s not there so I call her back and leave a voice mail…yada, yada, yada. Why is it that the clerk is only there from 10:00 to 2:00 but I can only get her voice mail? I mean, if you had hours like that, couldn’t you sit at a desk and answer your own phone?

3:20…home again. I don’t hang around school on Friday afternoon. Don’t look for me at meetings or committees or anything else. I do, however, have to go over there tomorrow to chaperone a fund-raising car wash for 3 hours.

Now, here’s the thing, Friday evenings around my house have always been special. We celebrate the end of the week by having lots of good food and being couch potatoes. I like to open a bottle of wine on occasion and sit out in the spa and we like to rent a movie and munch on goodies. Now that I’m dieting, I don’t know what to do with my Fridays. I get off work and rush home and do what? I don’t want to exercise because I feel like I should have the night off. I can’t order a pizza or chinese. I really don’t like to sit around and watch a movie without being able to join in with the goodies. I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. DH just went to the store to pick up hamburger and french fries for him and the boys and I told him to pick up veggie burgers, lite whole grain buns, and a sweet potato for me. I can sit in the spa but I certainly can’t open a bottle of wine because I’m the only one who drinks it (hubby says my wine is Kool Aid and I have to admit he’s right. I’m not much of a connoisseur and a sweet dessert wine has 270 calories in 6 ounces!). Even if I were to break down and open a bottle, I’m certainly not going to open a $20.00 bottle of wine and drink 6 ounces. So, my special “fun” night is pretty blah. They’ll all sit around and munch on nachos and drink cokes and watch the movie and I’ll munch on a rice cake and drink unsweetened tea. They’ll grill burgers and have deep fried french fries with lots of ketchup and I’ll have a sweet potato. DH will guzzle beer and potato chips and I’ll…what?

Don’t get me wrong. I’ll be fine. I’ll be good and eat healthy but I have to admit, I miss my Friday evening entertainment.

10:15…I thought I’d be fine.  I didn’t do too well.  DH brought home a different kind of veggie burger than what I usually get.  The ones I get have 80 calories.  The ones he bought had 170 calories.   That’s pretty steep for a veggie burger!  I fixed dinner with a burger on Whole Grain Light Bun and baked sweet potato.  After dinner, I snacked on some rice cakes.  I was still wanting to eat so I fixed another veggie burger and then I ate some more rice cakes until I realized that I was actually feeling pretty gross and it didn’t taste good.  I stopped but what did I do?  250 calories for each burger and 100 for the sweet potato and at least 200 in rice cakes.  Sh8t!  Can’t wait to add it all up!  On the bright side, at least I caught it and QUIT!