Thanks for the good wishes everybody. I'm feeling mostly better, but then I managed to trip and fall and bash my leg this evening. Garrrr.

Work is crazy. Gave an exam today, had students crying because it's too hard, but it was the same darned stuff we tested them on at mid-term. I SWEAR something different is happening the last few years. I mean, this girl literally had tears streaming down her face and didn't even look at the exam booklet the first 20 minutes! Others left with an hour to go, but didn't even try to answer all the questions. Very frustrating: it was a team taught course, lots of work, we did everything we could to help them get the foundation they need for the major, and it really feels like we put a lot more effort in than they did....

Anyway, almost to the end. I WILL get myself reset by the end of the week.

Happy Wednesday all.

Angela

Im so confused by the scale. I have been doing really well and its slowly inching upward. Tom is already gone and the scale is still climbing?

Angela -- That happens here too sometimes. I swear I never fail students. They fail themselves.

Back from WW. Up 1/2 lb. :mad: It was not unexpected. It's a combination of too many salty things, nil exercise and too many high point snacks. I used a lot more of my spare points than I ever have on stuff that was high in fat. Hit the grocery on the way home and restocked on fruit and proteins.

Don't all LOL but I've never had a turkey burger and bought a 4 pack. I DON'T have any idea how to cook them.:o Can I just throw them on the Foreman? Do they taste like turkey or hamburger? HELP!

Gotta buckle down and keep fighting the bulge. After all I actually donated some too big stuff last week and that was NOT a mistake.

Okay, I have a new weight loss plan: stay on amoxycillin forever! It is SOOO weird for me to be unable to finish eating something: I was actually hungry at lunch time and let my co-worker bring me a Jimmy Johns sub, but I was completely full only a third of the way into it and ended up throwing it away. If I could be satisfied eating portions that are a third the size of normal, man!

Okay, I'm going to vent just a little bit more about school. So, I teach an early American literature class. We read a lot of novels, but we did also read some political materials, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. So, making up the exam, I put the first sentence of the Declaration ("When in the course of human events," you know...) on the identification section. All they had to do was say where the sentence came from. I figured, hey, it's mostly a gift, but the ones who didn't read might confuse it with the Constitution.

One did guess the Constitution. One wrote the "Decerteration of Independence." But a THIRD of them guessed one of the novels we had read.

So, not only have they not been paying attention or reading this semester, but also, my gosh, how do you get to be a college junior or senior and still not recognize the Declaration of Independence?

It, like, literally breaks my heart. I have no kids of my own, but I like to think I do something positive by teaching, but my word, lately it seems like it's getting to be impossible to actually teach anybody anything.

Hey, Judy, sure, just cook that turkey burg like hamburger, maybe up your usual seasonings a bit.

Deb, maybe salt causing that fluctuation? Or, um, interrupted bowel habits?

Cheers, all.

Angela

Great day yesterday. No cravings - probably cause I was angry with myself and I kept busy. Today is cut and color day. I NEED both.

Angela: You could have really confused them with "Four score and seven years ago ....." . They might have guessed The Exclamation Proclamation!:?:
Hope you're feeling better and can just tell your tummy you are still on amoxycillin.:)

I'm in full vacation mode - wish my eating wasn't. Need to come home lighter than I'm leaving. Today is my last day at work then really hope the surgeon releases me tomorrow - we have snorkling plans 3 days next week - will be tough if he says I still can't swim.

Apparently it will be the first of the year when I get down right serious about food and exercise again - is that now?

Angela - how sad but I thank you and Heather (and all the other teachers out there) for making a difference from the bottom of my heart.

Merry Christmas if I don't get back here before we leave.

Carol have a blast and Happy Birthday tomorrow!

Angela and Heather_ what you do is awesome! I have been on college campus with my kids and I dont think I could deal with the craziness daily!! So many arent there for an education but to party. Hang in there and know you are really impacting lives of the ones who are serious about learning.

judy- I think I need a cut also, my color isnt bad yet. I swear I have debated about letting it go gray. It just gets so old having to color all the time.

I went to a finger food social at church last night and did GREAT!! I avoided the sweet table!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Angela -- I know it can be frustrating (especially when you give a gift like that!), but I bet they're learning things all the same!!!

Oh, I know you're right Heather.

Anyway, I'll stop griping about school for a while. Had a baaaadd stomach day today. One more day on the antibiotics, then I hope I can be sort of back to normal.

What's going on with everyone else?

Good morning everyone!

Food....what can I say? One day I am op the next, just pathetic. You would think I had no control over my eating!:o:shrug:

Are all of you ready for Christmas? I have children coming for Christmas week end, so I guess I will be cooking something. I want to keep it simple. That never happens. It starts with a simple plan and mushrooms. My fault! :p

I hope your weekend is wonderful and as op as you can manage at this time of year. :hug:

Mornin',

Another OP day yesterday. Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting it back together.

Off to Tractor Supply to get tiny dog biscuits for the not so tiny dog. She loves her treats so se gets lots of little ones and still gets dinner. LOL then it's home to laundry and house cleaning.

Enjoy your day.

Thanks for the birthday wishes Debbie - we will celebrate once things are done and we get to San Juan or on the ship - maybe Monday.

Stay strong!

Carol, I thought you were gone! happy birthday!

Yes, happy Birthday Carol!!!!!

Yay for Friday.