Sistah Pat

Starting that countdown! Three more days of school for the kids. Teachers have to go back on Tuesday of next week but that’s not a problem. With the kids out of the building, it’s just a day of packing up, enjoying friends, and clearing up any last minute paperwork. For me, that’s pretty easy because I’m already finished with students for the year and have been working on last minute stuff the last few days.

183.5 is my new acquaintance. I won’t say friend because we’re not all that close yet. I met him this morning but I’m learning about these new friends. They like to tease and come and go before they get serious. Still, it’s a pound lighter and I know I’ll be seeing more of him.

9:30
There is so much food floating around this place I’m afraid I’ll gain weight just walking down the hall! Everywhere I turn, someone’s inviting me to have a doughbut, a bagel, a piece of coffee cake, some cookies. I have to admit, most years I’m tickled pink about all the food but this year it’s like a bear trap (or a butt trap). Students have to take finals but teachers are not heartless. Many of them bring treats for the kids or allow the kids, themselves, to bring stuff in. Of course, there’s always the administration providing goodies for teachers and good hearted parents sending stuff in. Man, it’s dangerous around here!

7:00 p.m.
Oh, Amigos, I have fallen off the wagon!  Got a bump on my head but I don’t think it’s  life threatening.  Things got very hectic this afternoon and I went with the tide instead of swimming hard against the current.  Another teacher sent out an email that she had bought a new house and it came with all new appliances.  Wanted to sell her stove immediately for $100.00.  Two years old, like new, seldom used (she doesn’t cook).  My stove is getting rather worn and I jumped on the email and told her I’d meet her after school to look at it.  I was supposed to meet Sistah Pam after school so I emailed her and asked if we could meet at the gym at 4:00.  My sister, Donna, was in town today for lasic (spelling?) surgery on her eye and I was supposed to hook up with her so I figured I’d try to do that after the gym around 5:30.  Traffic was worse than I expected and it took a while to get to the other teacher’s house to look at the stove, which, by the way, was not for me.  Looked good but very basic with no bells and whistles.  Not even self-cleaning!  The way my stove takes a beating, that’s a must.  So I’m heading to the gym and I realize there’s no way I’m going to make it by 4:00 so I call Pam to let her know I won’t be there until around 4:30.  Turns out, she was wanting to cancel because she didn’t feel well so that worked out pretty good.  Hooked up with little sis and she wanted to go over to Panera because we needed to do some stuff on her blog and she didn’t want to pay an extra $11.00 on the motel to get wifi.  Okay, so all this rushing around has got me a little frazzeled and I didn’t eat lunch so I decide to get the citrus lime salad, and the onion soup, and an iced chai tea latte with skim milk.  Rationalizing that I won’t eat all of it but it all sounds good and I haven’t been out to eat in a long time.

I’m chatting with Donna and paying no attention as I’m munching away and a friend of hers joins us so we’re all chatting and munching and I realize (actually, little sis points out) that I’ve eaten almost all the salad, almost all the soup, and a good sized chunk of whole grain bread (don’t forget my iced chai tea latte!)

Now I’m home, it’s getting late and I still have to help Andrew and Steven with homework so I’m not going to get to my workout tonight.  (sigh) Guess I’d better log on to Panera’s site and get the breakdown on calories.

Asian Sesame Salad (440)
French Onion Soup (160)
Iced Chai Tea Latte (150)
Bread (200)

Geez!  That’s 950 calories for one meal!  Okay, can I take off 100 for the little bit that I didn’t finish?  That’s still 850 calories.  I know that’s not bad for the whole day because I only had an orange for breakfast and things were so hectic at work that I didn’t get lunch but the point is, I need to be careful with this kind of stuff.  This is way too many calories for one sitting.  Nothing else to eat tonight!