Good morning!!!!
Kerry- being the newcomer to this group.....how much have you lost in the past year?
What a huge attagirl.... not being recognized because you look so darned good!!!!!! (keep that one in your memory bank!) And of course, go ahead and have that cake, one piece is not going to hurt you......and denial gets you nowhere. I am happy for you about standing up to your Dh too (glad one of us did this weekend!). Congrats on getting the excercise in too.....sounds as though you had an all around good weekend. What a great way to start out a new week.

Got the kiddies to school this am......oh, these next few weeks will be tough with the holidays approaching. Students are much harder to control/contain, daylight hours lessen.....road conditions go in the tank......bring out the advil please~!!!! Got a short walk in this am- today was a high family stress day, Dd returning to school (teary eyed, again), Dh worrying/stressing out over her (gee, Hon,it is time that she grew up!), youngest Dd not wanting to go to school (as if any of us did!).
OK- nuff blabbering from me!!!! Off to get some work done around here. See ya later!
Ginny

Since I met my dh 2 1/2 years ago, I have lost close to 70 pounds. In the last year or so, I have lost about 20 pounds. I slept in this morning, since we have today off too. So now I have to get my butt up and moving to get some errands done today before I have to start back to school tomorrow.
Ginny,Sounds like you had a stressful morning at home. How were the kids on your bus route this morning? Glad to hear that you got your walk in this morning. Hope your afternoon and evening is better.
Robyn, Summer and Mouse I hope your first day back to school after a long weekend is a great one. I will be to the trenches tomorrow. It is going to be a long day with my kids. Once they have their routine broken for a little while it is hard to wheel them back in.
Well I best go and get my stuff done today, since I wouldn't have another day off until Christmas time. Talk to you all later.
Have a wonderful week!
Kerry

Kerry, I had no idea that you were such a big loser!!!!!!!!That is so wonderful, and you have much to be proud of. A major accomplishment.

Thanks for asking about me......I am so stressed out. Filling out paperwork for Dd's accident- she is trying to run so far from the accident (admits to fault but will not talk about it!) oh where is the advil.....and dear ol' Mom (getting more and more old by the minute too!) is stuck filling out reports for DMV, insurance co.......etc.............. I am such a burnout.......did we really have 4 days off???????? For Christmas and my bday I want a week by myself in a rubber room........lots of books, tea and a nice place to walk and some walking shoes.....that is all....maybe a craft to do......
Gotta go- been online all am getting this darned accident report completed(Dd emailed me the accident report, which is printing horribly because she crumpled the darned thing so badly.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r)
See ya and sorry for bellyachin'.
Ginny

Ginny,
I hope that your day got better. I think we all would like to have the pleasure of being in a rubber room with only a few items of comfort to us. Maybe that is what we need to tell people to give us for Christmas. LOL. Sorry to hear that your dd is not helping much with the paperwork. Wait until she gets older and has to handle the paperwork on her own. Then she won't be able to run away from it then. I am glad that you are helping her get it all straightened out.
I was able to get my 2 mile walking video in this morning. Then I walked to Subway to get a sub for lunch. I walked back home and then ate it. Now I am up to my eyeballs in laundry. I have already done two loads and I have about five to six more to do. I am hoping to get them done so that I can enjoy some of my day off. I was able to run to the post office to mail some stuff and then drop off my medical records from my old dr. to my new dr. office. Tonight I have a workout date with my one friend's daughter at Curves. She is a freshman in high school and just started getting serious in her weight and body appearance. Since her mom is not able to workout for a month or two due to some surgery she had, I have been taking her daughter with me when I go. It is fun to have someone to talk to while working out. Well the dryer shut off, got to go and fold those clothes and stick the current washer load in there and start another load in the washer. Fun, fun fun!
Hope everyone had a wonderful day today!
Kerry

Kerry, I hope you enjoyed your day off!!!!!!! Even with having mountains of laundry, just not having to face the daily runaround sounds wonderful. A 2 mile walk tape and visit to Curves?? You enjoy that! How nice that you can workout with some company too....at times a workout buddy is nice.

I finished and mailed the dreaded report......plus some cookies to Dd as she is facing her first college finals. (otherwise known as a study in sleep depravation!). My afternoon was pretty good, many kids were not on this afternoon~ had one little boy with a headache who wanted to sit up front with me. Makes me feel good to know that I am a comfort to most of my students.......guess they trust me. (I needed a vote of confidence today......) Dh went to get Ds from bball practice,so I have a few minutes to myself before dinner.
Hope everyone made it thru today ok!!!!! See ya tomorrow.
Ginny

Just a short hello...........hope everyone is doing ok! Well, at least MOnday is over..........have a good day.'
Ginny

...and now TUESDAY is over!!! NOVEMBER is over too!
I'm nearly to my quota of water intake for the day! ...and I'm trying hard!

My middle school son is marching in a parade this weekend... he has brought MarchingTri's home.... and is playing and marching and trying to drive me insane!
He is so excited! Darn... I should have tried to convince him to play some nice SILENT musical instrument! ...actually....the more he marches and plays... the better he plays...AND the more my head pounds with a great beat!

I'm trying hard to change my mind.

..........life goes on...................
hope yours is okey!
take care,
meee

Today was just one of those days. You know? Nothing wrong, but a whole lot of funny stuff all piled up into one.
Some kids acted like twits on yet another field trip, and one of them asks the floral department at the grocery store we were at if they sell CANNIBIS!
Then I went along to the soccer game at the last minute because they were one staff member short, so I volunteered... I happened to be in the right place. So, more comp time for this mouse. We lost, but they played a darned good game. One of our kids lost it though and shoved another one on our team. He gets lunch detention, of course, and capped his evening with an inappropriate display of bodily parts. In the locker room, in front of the other boys.
One of the other kids came out and told us, and so I went to the door of the locker room, and called him over. And the kid comes over NAKED! Pulling up his underwear!
For pete's sake, they just don't pay me enough to see that!
So that was my day. I, obviously, didn't make it to the gym. But they needed the extra staff member so they could get to the game.
Oh well.
Friday I go see the nutrionist, and I need to call the surgeon's office, because I've called the endocrinologist's office that she tried to refer me to twice, and they don't return phone calls.

Morning Ladies,
Just a quick note from me this morning. I went to Tops last night and gained a pound and a half. So my eating out this weekend caught up to me. Oh well, I will just have to try harder next week. Check in with you all later today.
Have a good one!
Kerry

I have a massive headache........getting a cold.....want my thumband a blanket........

Glad to hear from everyone. Mouse- ok I am sending the flasher and his creepy little brother to you, sounds like handling naked kids is your forte! Robyn- get rid of your headache yet?
Kerry- don't sweat the 1#. How about we make a deal to make next weeks WI a really good one???? (mini challenge for one week)
Gotta go.....up to my eyeballs with stuff to do......see ya later.
Ginny

Hi Ladies,
Oh my god, I can sympathize with you,Ginny about the headache. I am starting to get a massive one from my students misbehavior. They are awful today. They won't listen and follow directions. They think it is funny. They won't be having the last laugh on the 22nd when everyone else goes on the fieldtrip and we are stuck here at school doing work.
Ginny I will take you on your mini challenge for the week. I know we can do this. We will both show a loss next week. I got up this morning and did my walking video, even though I felt like sleeping some more. So that is a great start to a new week.
Geez Mouse sounds like you had an interesting day yesterday with your students. I hope today was a little bit better. Hope you can get a hold of the nutritionist soon.
Robyn and Summer hope that your week is going good.
Talk to you all later. I had to come on here to calm down before I blew my stack for the second time today. I think I am calm enough to go back to my kids now.
Take care,
Kerry

Kerry, sorry that your kids were so miserable for you......oh, it can be so stressful, I hear ya. Good for you coming here to blow off some steam, it is safe here and we have nothing but sympathy and hugs for you. Good job getting the walking video in, I did my WATP tape this am too!

Mouse- I am anxious to hear about the visit to the nutritionist........
Summer and Robyn, hope life is treating you better than the rest of us!

So, this afternoon we had horrible winds (50 mph+)- they closed aftercare and sent everyone home. What a messy dismissal.......kind of chaotic, but thankfully we all got home ok. As far as the flasher and his brother (the flasher was a total nuisance this am) I put both in row 1 (across the aisle from each other)....and gently tried to explain (for the millionth time) how to get across the street without fighting....(this is the duo who fought all the way across their street so that the younger one fell in the road......) I was gentle, but firm........the older brother (aka flasher) is such a wise cracker, he is the brighter of the two, and the younger one falls for his pranks all the time and gets sucked into the nonsense. Well, they both heard it this afternoon, andthis was after I took tylenol for my head.
Nuff of me bellyachin........Dd wants to use the computer and show off what she learned today in school, so I'd better go. Have a great nite.
Ginny

Evening All,
I made it through my day without hurting anyone or anything. LOL. My afterschool kids are what put me in a better mood. I had to work with both the 2nd and 6th graders tonight, since we were short handed. So I had the 6th graders help the 2nd graders learn how to graph items and make graphs of their own. Then we played Brain Quest 2nd grade edtion. They had a lot of fun. So that made me feel better. My Special Ed. kids just didn't seem to care about their behavior today. I am hoping that it is a better day tomorrow. I did make it to the gym tonight and put in a good workout. So that helped. Now I am online playing for a while before I go to bed. Atleast I am up later than I was last night, I was in bed before 9 and fell asleep watching the Biggest Loser. So I was upset when I woke up this morning and realized I had missed the ending of the show. I had to ask my one coworker about what I missed today on bus duty. It was a windy and bitterly cold one at that.
Well ladies I best go and check some other stuff on line before I go to bed. So I will caht with you all tomorrow. Have a wonderful Thursday!
Take care,
Kerry

I REALLY hate where I work. People kept asking me stupid questions all damn day long, and then I was scheduled to attend FOUR (yes, FOUR) meetings at the exact same time. I was supposed to attend my department meeting, a behavioral planning meeting for one student, a department meeting for one group of students that I teach, and a department meeting for the program that my homeroom students are in.
I politely asked the person doing the single student meeting if I could catch her as soon as my department meeting was done, and instead of saying yes or no, she called my supervisor and told him that I needed to attend. I never told her I wasn't GOING to attend, just asked her if I could meet with her a little bit after. Then she emails me and says she's done this, meanwhile my department meeting has started, and they want me there. But one of my students in my homeroom is brought to school by cab because his local school system can't manage to get him on a bus route for some reason. The cab NEVER picks him up on time. And was late again today.
So, now my supervisor wants to discuss with me my "communication skills" with other students in the building. He also wants to discuss the behavior of the kids on the last field trip... We had ONE issue with ONE child out of more than 6 successful trips. I haven't heard word one about the SUCCESSFUL trips; but I'm getting a discussion about that one child who had issues. He's probably ticked off because when I asked him what to do, his advice was wrong, and another administrator told him that.
I'm also having serious issues keeping food down lately, and my TA isn't going to be here all next week because my idiot supervisor approved an entire week off (she has the time), but also told me I could be out next Friday and that Monday.
ARRRGH! I'm so pissed off! And I'm so seriously considering NOT going to work tomorrow, but its more of a pain to not go then it is to go.

..... WELL.... it must be NATIONWIDE... cause today was NOT a good day...however, I had NO nekkkid children at school soooo my day wasn't as bad as some!

Hope tomorrow is better...or atleast DRESSED! I'm more and more sure that only going on 2 field trips a year is NOT a bad thing! I have visions of floral arrangements with fern replacements...hehehehe.... sorry! Trust me... had *I* been there I would NOT be amused!

Ginny...hope your headache went away.... mine has sort of subsided... 100% sure that mine is weather related now... the thumb and blanket sound right yummy!

Have a Thrilling Thursday (puke) as my "OLD" school principal said EACH AND EVERY Thursday.... ... oy!

......Obladi oblada life goes on....... hopefully fully dressed!
meeeee