Sistah Pat

Attending a two day seminar called Imagine the Future of Learning.  These are pretty long days.  They start at 7:45 and finish at 4:30.  Sistah Pam is picking me up because all my Sistahs will be attending as well.  Always good to see them!Tipped the scales at 180 today.  Finally made my June 1st goal even though it’s June 3.  Today will be a challenge (as all work/social occasions are).  They’re providing a continental breakfast (might as well call it a doughnut/pastry breakfast) and a box lunch.  After the seminar, I’m supposed to go to the gym with Pam for water aerobics.  At least, I’ll get a mini break from the kids.  David doesn’t have to be at work until 4:00 today so DH will watch the kids until I get home around 7:00.

2:47 - Taking a break.  We just finished a session and I’m waiting for this next one to start.  It’s on the computer so I can kill a little time.  Managed to avoid breakfast.  Nothing but pastries and doughnuts.  I was hoping they would have some fruit but they didn’t.  Don’t know how I did on lunch.  I ate about a Tablespoon of potato salad, a pear, and a vegetarian wrap.  It obviously had a lot of dressing on it but I figured it was better than the chicken salad on croissant.  Ate a small sugar cookie.  Every one of my friends is raising Hell with me that I’m not eating enough calories.  They made me promise to go to a site called sparkspeople.com  so I guess I’ll check that out this evening.  Getting ready to start.  Later…. 

5:22 - Not doing well.  I’m definitely feeling the pressure.  We had afternoon snacks of rice crispy treats and drinks.  I don’t even like rice krispy treats so why did I eat one?  Finished up at 5:00.  Pam drove me today and as soon as we got in her car I said, “So, are we going to the gym now?”  She gave a little groan and I jumped right in and said, “I don’t want to either.”  She picked me up this morning at 7:00 and we’d already put in 10 hours and I just didn’t want to go.

Came home and found out that Stacy called David today.  She wanted to pick up the kids to spend the night with her.  David told her “No.” and she got furious.  Says she should have known he’d make this difficult.  He told her he wasn’t trying to be difficult.  She could see them during her regular visitation hours.  She was really mad when she found out he’d gone down to the courthouse and gotten a copy of his custody papers and was going to hold her to the visitation schedule the court set up almost three years ago.  She ranted and raved about how he was keeping her kids from her and he reminded her that she walked out a week ago, took the car, took the money from the bank account, and hasn’t bothered to even call and check on them for an entire week.  He told her if she wanted to see the boys and the visitation schedule doesn’t work for her, he’d be glad to change it but he was not going to be at her beck and call whenever she had a few minutes free and would like to see them.  He said if they mean that much to her, she should be willing to set aside specific days and times and make a commitment to be there for them.  Good for him!  He didn’t tell her that he reinstated the child support order.  I’m sure things will get very nasty when she finds that out.  In the meantime, I heard from a very reliable source that she has a new boyfriend and she’s living with him.

On the diet side of things…what’s going on with me???  It seems like the pressure of trying to do what I need to do and keep up with Jake and Scout at the same time is not working.  Here’s my committment…give me one more day.  I have to go to this seminar for another 10 hours tomorrow and Jake and Scout will be here clammoring for attention as soon as I get home.  I’ll do my best with dieting tomorrow but I will get back on track first thing Friday morning.  I’ll have to get my exercise in and plan my meals before they get here each day.  I feel like everyone is grabbing a piece of my day and there’s no time left for me.  I can’t even blog without being constantly interrupted.  Enough for today…

Sistah Pat out.