Sistah Pat

I’m working with the Ementors today.  Hoping to finish up the tutorials I wrote last week.  I wanted to get 5 of them done and I only finished 3 of them in two days last week.  Don’t know if I can get two more done today but I’m going to try.  If I don’t get them finished, it’ll weigh on my mind and I’ll wind up finishing on my own time which I don’t want to do.  I hate to have something halfway done.  Pam is not going today but I’ll probably drive over and check on her at lunch.

Made a deal with myself yesterday evening that I could skip exercise if I also skipped the Moosehead Beer so I wound up in the spa with iced tea.  Seems like I’m always bargaining with myself.

Mr. Scale is showing me 177 this morning.  I CANNOT figure out what’s going on here.  I dipped down to 176 last Sunday and then up to 180 and then down to 178 yesterday.  I’m three days past my goal date for 175 and frustrated.  Maybe I’ll go back and review my menu for the last week or so.  Or Maybe, that’s just the way it is.  Period!  That’s probably the case.  I’m not doing anything wrong.  It just doesn’t come off as fast as I want it to.  (sigh)  I’m pretty stubborn, however, and I’ll get where I’m going.  It just looks like I may need to do some serious reevaluation of those goals.  On the other hand, I took total body measurements on May 19 so I’m going to check them this evening and see if the loss is showing up in inches.  That’s more important anyway.  It looks like I may be getting just the tiniest little indentation in the area where a waist should be.

Plan for the day - - Ementors will have junk snacks available for us and I will take a piece of fruit.  Lunch will be on the run because I want to go by and check on Pam.  I’ve got to stop skipping meals.  I think there’s a McDonalds on the way so I can pick up an Asian salad with grilled chicken and a fruit and yogurt parfait.  Exercise will be annoying today.  Two choices, the treadmill or the pool.  We’ve had a little cool front moving through and the temperature of the pool has taken a dip so it’s a bit chilly.  I’ll have to see how I feel.  I’d rather do the treadmill but I’m usually too tired if I wait until late afternoon and that’s when I’ll be getting home.

I’m off to the shower and then to work.  Later!

8:40 - Yeah, I know, I’m at work and the taxpayers are paying me big bucks to be here but everyone else is having breakfast and I forgot my fruit.  It occured to me this morning, after reading Joy’s entry about some of the wonderful things we have to be grateful for, that we tend to look at the entire forest and don’t always focus on the trees.   We hardly ever think about the itty bitty things we have to be thankful for.  With that in mind, here’s my top five list for this morning.

I am grateful for my coffeemaker.
I am grateful for water sprinklers.
I am grateful for bras that do not have underwires.
I am grateful for Croc’s flip flops and, last but not least,
I am grateful for wireless internet access.

5:00 - As I feared, I didn’t get finished.  Of course, I don’t have to finish it.  I could come back to it the next time we meet for pay in September but, by then, I’ll have lost my train of thought so it looks like they’re getting at least another three hours or so out of my free time.  I stayed an hour later anyway hoping I could get it finished but I know it’s going to take a while so I came on home.  If I’m doing volunteer work, I’d rather do it here than there.

I ran over to Pam’s at lunch.  She looked a little bit worn but said she’s feeling much better.  She’s not planning on working tomorrow although she was going to teach a group of teachers how to use their new tablet PCs.  Sistah Lisa is going to do it for her.

So now I’m home and want to get this tutorial finished so I can get it off my mind and spend tomorrow packing.

Later!

9:00 p.m. - As far as finishing these tutorials, that big voice in the sky should boom down and say “DONE!”  Whoo Hooo!  Do you think I’m going to work out this evening??? NOT!