Sistah Pat

Wonder how many of you chickies are old enough to remember cooking with pressure cookers? I remember. Clamp the lid down on those things and turn up the heat and pretty soon, the metal weight at the top would be shaking back and forth and making all kinds of racket. Clattering and clanging and letting everybody know there’s a lot of pressure trapped in that pot.

I feel like that today. I’ve got so much stuff going on, I feel like I’m clattering and clanging all over the place. I need to finish up the school newsletter by Friday. I’ll be out of school all day tomorrow for a TRT meeting. I’ve got to finish up a newsletter to distribute to our students and the elementary schools in our area about a literacy workshop for families that we’re holding next week. I have to finalize plans for my own segment of the literacy night training. Statewide testing starts Monday and I’m trying to get ready for that. Of course, I’m still trying to deal with a school full of laptops and my own classes. Add dieting and exercise to the mix. Pam sent an email about tomorrow’s TRT meeting. We’re supposed to bring a collection of “evidence” in the form of videos or webcams or student work to show some of the things we’ve done with teachers this year with explicit directions that this can’t be from something we did with our own classes. I’ve done lots of stuff but I don’t know how I’m supposed to find time to get “evidence” together by tomorrow for the meeting. Guess I shouldn’t have spent time with the TV yesterday evening but then, a girl’s got to have at least a little break.

Speaking of yesterday evening…I was so busy, I didn’t even have a moment to blog. Run ragged after school. Only got 45 minutes of a workout in but I did manage to complete the staff meeting, run home from school, workout for thirty five minutes, eat half a Subway club while driving back to school, stay for the ROTC Booster Club meeting, drive home again and workout for another 15. Maybe all the running should count for 10 minutes. Ate the other half sandwich and a bowl of soup while I watched half of The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons and American Idol and hit the bed.

At least 2008 Patty won’t be making it so rough on me today. I managed to keep up with her yesterday but don’t feel like I beat her. I’d call it a tie. Today, she’s challenging me to a 45 minute easy workout and a day of dieting. I can do that.  Still, the scales show me at 182.5 this morning.  Up a pound from yesterday.  That’s sooooo NOT fair….