Down another half pound this morning. Nice way to start off the day. I’m still racing against 2008 and I’m winning. 6 pounds lower and, again, she didn’t exercise on this day a year ago so I feel confident that I’m going to kick her butt today.
DS has his interview this morning. Hope, hope, hope he gets the job!
8:00 - Sistah Pat is back! Arrived at work to find that the PTSA had breakfast catered for us for Teacher Appreciation week. I grabbed my plate and went through the line. Passed up the biscuits and gravy. Passed the ham and sausage. Passed up the hash browns. Passed up the scrambled eggs (who wants eggs without sausage or ham?). Passed up the fruit bowl because it wasn’t fresh fruit but a fruit medley in syrup. Passed by the pancake and danish table. Passed up the juices and came to the coffee pot. There wasn’t anything I could eat. So…I placed my empty plate back on the stack and walked away. Think I’ll sit here at my desk and eat my yogurt.
10:15 - Doesn’t seem fair. Almost all teachers have an assigned duty before school. Monitoring bathrooms, monitoring halls, monitoring cafeteria, etc. A lot of teachers didn’t get to eat because the office staff and custodians went through the line several times before teachers had a chance to get down to the library and they ran out of food. Heard a lot of grumbling about how teachers should have been allowed to have breakfast and then everyone else could have come down after teachers had eaten. Don’t know about that. I don’t think I’d feel comfortable with that kind of situation. They had door-prizes for the teachers. You were supposed to put your name in for a drawing at the pancake/danish table. Since I didn’t get pancakes OR danish (or anything else for that matter) I didn’t put my name in. Guess it doesn’t matter anyway. Looks like the secretarys and clerks won everything. Is it petty to be a little resentful that all the door prizes given out for Teacher Appreciation Week went to the custodians, secretaries, and office staff? Yeah, guess it is….grumble…grumble…..(still, they had their special days and I don’t recall being invited to their luncheon…)
I can be so cranky….
4:45 - Came home and did my workout thing for 30 minutes (Mondays don’t inspire me). That’s 30 minutes more than Patty 2008. Kept the heart rate up high and burned 200 calories (according to the treadmill). Still can’t figure out this new HRM. I can get my heart rate but can’t figure out how to set it to show calories burned.
DH prepared Southwestern Egg Rolls (deep fried), cole slaw, and fried rice for dinner. sigh….gimme a break. Guess I’ll fix a salad..
9:30 - Okay, let’s put this day to rest. Fixed a Smart One entree for dinner, a huge salad, and treated myself to a fake frozen mochaccino. Gotta share how I’m making these things because they’re so good and filling! I love frozen mocha cappaccino. Can’t have it, obviously, so I’ve figured out to recreate them. I bought some sugar free Torani chocolate syrup (you can find this in the coffee aisle with the other flavored syrups) with zero calories. I have one of those wonderful blenders that’s specially designed to make frozen drinks and I throw a splash of Light Vanilla Silk soy milk, some of the toscani, about a tablespoon of instant coffee, about three tablespoons of fat-free, sugar free vanilla yogurt, and about 6 or 8 ice cubes. I blend all that into a nice frozen slushie and top it with a sprinkle of cinnamon. YUM! I could drink these things all day long except that they’re so filling!
DS had his interview today. Don’t know how he did but he felt good about it. They sent him to the Board of Education to be fingerprinted and have a criminal background check done and told him to take a copy of his diploma. That’s not anything special, all applicants have to do it, but they’ve already scheduled him for a second interview and I hope that does mean something special. The position will be advertised until Wednesday and applicants can apply until then. In the meantime, we’re just keeping our fingers crossed!
Alrighty, then, made it through another perfect day and beat the daylights out of 2008 Patty. Getting the hang of this…
sunnygee says 4th May @ 8:34
congrats on walking past all the temptations! I find, however, scrambled eggs are slightly more palatable without meat than eggs any other way. BUT, good girl nonetheless! Have a great day!