Crazy week here
 

There have been serveral combinations of snow days this week among me and my 2 kids--today daughter is in school, son is not (still asleep--it's the adolescent growth hormone being released!) and I didn't have to go in today. Lots of snow. I shoveled just in case I don't make it to the Y later.

I was going to use this as a fun day for myself (exercise, mani/pedi, clothes shopping), but that plan has to change given that Max is home. I may force him to come along for the shopping anyway; he needs lots of things and we'd be less rushed today.

My eating has not been the best. I am in the mode of "Afraid to gain it back, obsessing about what I eat, not always writing things down." It's not a happy place to be. What I should focus on: eating for hunger, not emotional reasons, keeping things I like around to eat, avoiding the trigger foods (Middle Eastern always sets me off--especially stuffed grape leaves and hummus). Maintenance can be a scary thing!

Well, Max just got up so I'm off to convince him that clothes-shopping with Mom is a great way to spend a snow day. :lol:

Take care.

Ok, lets see.....how to do 3 months worth of housekeeping in one day and still have some time to enjoy life a bit. :dizzy: Virtually impossible.
I did get my WW tape in- a more intense workout than Leslie, but worth the sweat. And I was going to take today off, I usually allow 2 days off a week from workouts.

Elana- great to hear from you!!!! I hear ya with the stress eating. Couple of things, if you do not mind me sharing my opinion. I have heard a lot at WW meetings, been to a ton of them. Are you still attending meetings? Gotta avoid those trigger foods.....and come up with a good stress food that is low/no points. Something that you can enjoy with less trouble. Sounds like you are a salty snack person- what about ff tortilla chips or 94% popcorn (one of my biggies!) Ok, it isn't grape leaves and hummus.....but does fill a need. I hope you can make this a fun day for yourself......get out there and buy the foods you like that are good for you to snack on and not get in trouble! One WW leader told us the story about the really expensive ff sugar free icecream, it is about $5 a 1/2 gallon. She then went on to tell us that we WOULD NOT THINK TWICE if this was for our families (want to please the kids/husband etc...) and would gladly drop the $$ for a snack they liked. But us????? Nah, we deny, sacrifice, need I say more. Go out- buy for yourself the foods you need to keep this weight off!! You have worked SO hard to get to your goal weight! You DESERVE to stay there! (gee, have I babbled enough, ain't you glad I had the day off???Aw, shut up ginny :lol: )

Paisley- great idea with the bracelet. I had a WW leader who gave out colored paper clips for each # lost. We all wore our necklaces/bracelets/belts to the meetings. It was a fun idea and a great visual to keep you motivated. Congrats on the 6# loss!!!!!!!!!! :D

Kerry- YOU ARE AWESOME! Got any great motivating strategies to share with us? Congrats on the 2.5# loss. I thought of you this am, my morning workout cohort in crime. You must be looking for some new clothes soon too, right?

Robyn-had to rub it in about loading your dishwasher eh??? ;) :lol: (its ok)
How was your 5 am workout???? I know the fatigue hits around 10am that you got up extra early, but if you make this a habit, your body will adjust. Honest. I am so glad you and Ds made it thru the civics stuff......gotta love the preamble to the Constitution, and I remember when my 15 yr old had to learn it too. (and he did have a wonderful teacher that year, that woman should be cloned) Good for you for planning lunch and dinner. A major destresser if I ever heard one.

I had better get something done.....and y'all are I am sure sick of me by now.
Hope everyone has a good day!
Ginny

I did get something done....rearranged Dd's room (got rid of some junk too :D ) and did tons of laundry. Now I have a gigantic headache- think I am getting whatever Dh had/has. Oh well. At least today was a wee bit slower paced than a normal day. Gotta go take Dd to skiing lessons. At least the weather cooperated for that!
See ya tomorrow. G'night!
Ginny

Hey!
We've made it to Wednesday! YeeeeeeeeHawwwwwwwwwwww!
Found out today that one of the kids searched for drugs was actually trying to sell oregano. Talk about trying to sell some "herb". He is suspended for a couple of days but I bet his customers are not going to be too happy with their purchases. Maybe they can use it on spaghetti! :lol:
I think I am in a rut. I was doing so great and losing a lot of weight. I know it's usually water in the beginning, but durn now it's stopped. This is usally the point where I say forget about it, and give up. I'm not going to do that this time! It isn't helping that hubby has found every opportunity to cheat this week. Fried chicken, went to Texas steakhouse for ribs today. He sucks! I bought a pedometer and wore it for a whole day. It said I only took 33 steps the entire day. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I must really be light on my feet. Especially since it's a quarter mile to the office from my classroom.
Here's another question I have since I'm already babbling. Why is it that someone who is four inches shorter than me and five pounds heavier than me can wear such a smaller clothes size? It's driving me insane. I have read all of this stuff on here about people saying well when i was 199 I was in a 16. God, I wish I could fit in a sixteen. I'm 5"8. Don't have big legs it's all around the middle. After losing twelve pounds, it looks like I've only lost weight in my legs. Everything else pretty much fits the same.
Robyn: My brother goes ballooning in Glousester. He is in the process of getting his hot air balloon liscence and that's where he flies. I live in Rocky Mount. (about an hour east of Raleigh and an hour west of Greenville)
Ginny: Everytime I saw the student from the fight today all I could think of was CRACK KILLS! :lol: I will never look at him the same again.
Do any of your schools have uniforms? We've adopted a uniform policy this year. Polo shirts, khaki pants.......It's been such an uproar. There is a law suit in progress. We now have to be the fashion police everyday and write down the names of the students who are not in compliance with the uniform policy. I really liked the idea at first, and the behavior seemed a little better in the beginning, but now it's just one big headache. We have to constantly tell them to tuck their shirts in, wear your uniforms. Blah Blah Blah. There were supposed to be consequences for the students who refused to comply, but I haven't seen anything happening so far. We have a new principal now who seems ready to enforce it. Just wondering if anyone else had feed back on that.
Guess I need to go fix dinner. My little one has asked me three times what is for dinner and I still haven't decided yet. Cereal sounds good to me at this point. I don't think anybody will go for it. I asked him what he was going to cook he said since he didn't know how to cook and hadn't had cooking lessons he couldn't do it. Darn the bad luck!
HAVE A GREAT DAY TOMORROW!
Pam

Wow, you guys have been super busy. I know I was here and read stuff on Monday! What happened??????
I'm going to try and work backward, but not sure I'll hit everybody:

Pam: Wow... you sound like you have my kids, before they get to our school! I wanted to tell you when I saw your intro, but I forgot, that your 4th period and my 4th period sound like identical clones. Maybe when I have kids that are absent from that period, its because they are in your classes? ;) My 4th period class has a plan in place for no cursing directed at staff/peers, and if they do it is automatic resource referrals. If they get 3 referrals in any given school day, they get half-day in school suspension. My kids don't get the concept that 50% of their grade in my class is based on their "workplace behavior", since I'm their voc-ed teacher. They get 'paid' in points the same way adults get paid in money. And everytime they miss my class for resource or in-school suspension, they don't earn their pay, which lowers their grades. We show them their grades every week or every other week, and they still don't see the connection.
We have a "dress code" called Uniform School Attire. The kids are supposed to wear polo shirts in either red, white, navy, or light blue (I think... one of my inner city schools did this too, and the light blue, yellow and evergreen are from that program, I'm pretty sure), and then khaki, black or navy pants; no jeans. Sneakers are allowed, but regular shoes are preferred. We're supposed to adjust their point sheets 1 point for 'not following directions' if they don't dress that way... and I admit that I don't do this unless they are really sloppily dressed and icky looking. I have some students that dress as neat goths... the pants with all the goofy metal hardware over them and a t-shirt/sweatshirt. But they are clean and neat and the pants fit. I don't see underwear or butt cracks. I also don't believe that negative reinforcement works very well. They'll realize soon enough that in order to do on or off-campus work, and to work at their industry jobs, they must wear the USA attire. I require them to wear it when we go off-campus for field trips or community service events, unless there is a reason not to (like, when we helped set up for a huge fundraiser for the hospital and the kids were moving Christmas trees and playing with fake snow), or we're marching in a parade and jeans are more suitable. If they don't wear USA, I don't take them on the trip. The trips count toward their grade... they actually get a separate behavior grade and classroom work grade for each trip.
Kerry: Congrats on the weight loss! As a good friend of mine says, w00t! ;)
Ginny: Sorry about the headache, and the teenager thing. When I went to Post, there wasn't a 5 year program ending in Master's and teacher certification. Actually, I was doing some research on their Art program for a student my friend at the gym was working with: he's a good artist, and fairly smart, but has attended a not so good school and needs a college that would take him as is, with a good art program, and without some of the required classes (like some of the hard sciences) and low test scores. He also needed scholarship money. I figured CW Post would be a good place for him to try. Anyway, I looked, and discovered the program I did is no longer even offered! WOW! What a shock: I was a special education major, with no minor (I wanted Russian History, but my advisor said it wasn't close enough to my field, and I couldn't earn the credits for that and special ed in the 3 years I had funding for!). If I'd had the funding to stay for a 4th or 5th year, I'd've had a minor in journalism in the end, likely. Now all they offer is elementary education with a special ed concentration... you have to get a master's degree now to even be a special education teacher in most states. This is due to NCLB, of course, because a self-contained special education teacher must now be elementary education certified (varies by state: PA says any self-contained special ed teacher can do this; Maryland says that only special ed teachers with students taking the alternate assessment can do this) to be considered highly qualified. I have never taught, and don't WANT to teach elementary education. I know that if I have the elementary ed certification, I could be placed as an elementary ed special education teacher. I've had that happen WAY too many times... I've had to do emotional disturbance in VA because the state of VA included that in my license, and the same with LD in both Virginia and Pennsylvania. This is despite being hired in both places to do life skills and/or self-contained/inclusion mixes for kids with mental ******ation. And their ALLOWED to do it, even under NCLB, since my certification has that addendum. But, hey, I'm not required to be highly qualified under NCLB because I don't teach a core subject and what I teach isn't considered important enough to require a highly qualified teacher. Never mind that what I'm teaching helps determine the future for a lot of our kids! I'm really not sure which is worse: the elementary ed certification or being certified in each subject area... or being told that my certification doesn't matter because I don't teach a subject that is important enough for people to worry about!
Robyn: Yea, okay. ;) Sounds like you need some virtual brownies. Let me know! Remember: virtual brownies have no calories.
And some stuff about me: I have been to the gym once in the last week and a half... that was yesterday. I think I'm coming down with the cold that is going around the school because not only am I tired, my neck is stiff and I keep sneezing. Earlier, I had a sore throat which went away after lots of fluid and some extra vitamin C. I received a compliment from one of the staff today: I don't see this person often, she a teaching assistant in a classroom on the 4th floor. I've had some of her kids every year for all 3 years that I've been there... and she always makes a point to stop me in the hallway and tell that I'm looking good and she can see definite weight loss. She stopped me today, and today is a day I can almost believe her: I wore my favorite garnet colored velvet pants and a same colored vest. I actually wound up with two pairs of pants like this, because my grandmother bought me 2 pants outfits for Hanukkah: one in a nice purply-blue, and the other in garnet. They are velvet/velour pants, and matching vest. When I got them, I started to send them back because they were a bit too tight. Fastfoward a month, and the pants definitely fit better and the vest now fits as well. I wore the older pants with the new vest and a gray turtleneck. LAst year, the turtlenecks were too small for me to even consider wearing them without something covering them. Now they're big enough for me to wear untucked and without anything else.
So, while I feel guilty about not swimming... I also know that at least I'm continuing to lose weight. I haven't been eating very much either, while that has been normal for me for awhile, when I start thinking that the only things that sound good are fast-food and salt, its a sure sign I'm coming down with something.... When I would get pneumonia or bronchitis, the only things I'd want to eat were junk... including this horrible lemon-lime fruit drink. And this hasn't changed as I got older. I don't have time to be sick this week or next week!! Grades are due tomorrow (I'm done, just need to export them), IEP quarterlies are due Friday, I have an assessment report to write, field trip permission slips to get out... AND a community service even upcoming, along with swim lessons starting again at the gym. Oh, and have to reschedule the meeting we had with Marriott for next week hopefully. They are really willing to work with us and our kids, but the meeting we'd scheduled today was cancelled. The lady at the hotel did call the school and tell us, but I didn't get the message. She offered to buy us lunch, but we paid ourselves. We told the restaurant we'd give her another chance next meeting, but it didn't seem fair to let her pay for it when we had to reschedule because it wasn't her fault. And then our poor receptionist was so embarrassed and upset that she'd forgotten to tell me about the message...
Okay. Engouh. I'm going BACK to sleep. Yes... I came home earlier today and slept... forced myself up to eat, and am now going back to sleep.
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A short good morning......mid terms so lots of mid day driving.
Pam- when I was 183#, I fit into some 16's (not tops though, I am slightly bigger there). And I am 5'5. The other person must be on something.........

Paisely- uniforms, dress codes....next to impossible to regulate and enforce. Dd's school has uniforms, Ds's has a very strict dress code. And a size 16 is just fine.....I am glad you are content being one. I had to buy a 16 dress in the spring, and I was at 153# or so.......just the cut of the dress demanded it. And my particular figure flaws. Size is just a number.

Mouse- hope you are feeling better!!! Sorry about the cold, and all the hassle with your education. Amazes me how someone can be educated such as yourself and still not "fit" into a program, per se. I am working with a driver, a 51 year old retired teacher, who LOVES kids, but got totally sick of all the regs, nonsense- basically felt as though her hands were tied and she could not teach. So, she became a driver. I also know of another teacher who did the same that I work with. Guess your plight is not uncommon.
Gotta go pick up from mid terms.
See ya!
Ginny

Greetings from breezy, chilly, North Carolina!
Thanks for the input on the clothes size guys. I'll get there! One thing I am noticing lately is that my wedding rings are much loser! So, that's something. I got my pedometer working properly and at school today just doing my normal daily trek from the office to the lunchroom etc... I walked 4.98 miles, and that's before our regular evening walk! :D
Had a parent conference with my son's third grade teacher today. Finally a good conference. My son will be one of the kids teacher's dread having because he is a very logical and smart young man who will not think twice about correcting you if you say something wrong. Excuse me....didn't you mean to say???? ;)
More drug searches today! This one boy has already been pulled out and searched twice this week. Nothing on him though. I'm so glad cause he is one I am really working hard to get going on the right path. I am a true believer that you can overcome anything. I get a lot of the hard case kids cause the principal says I have a special way of reaching those unreachable kids. I don't know this week Walmart Hostess is looking better and better. :lol:
Does anyone have suggestions on how to teach a nineteen year old his telephone number? I think mine must have trouble remembering because he never bothers to call and tell me if he isn't coming home. (He's free to a good home! I'll also throw all his friends in for free too!)
TOMORROW IS FRIDAY! YIPPEEEEEE
Pam

Mouse: Before I forget. The chaos has shifted slightly from fourth block to second block this week. We moved several E.C. children from fourth to second where I have a co-teacher, and that has totally destroyed my second block.
However, I think fourth is better because one of my gals is in ISS until February 1st. :D
You are welcome to borrow them anytime you need a change!
Pam

Pam, I totally stink at teaching older teens a phone number. Remember, I had trouble with an 18 yr old not calling home last weekend??????? (BTW, she still has not called home, but has sent two terse emails.) And if you find a good home for the 19 yr old, can I throw my 18 yr old in too??? Hugs to you, I am sure you are feeling very unappreciated, which I am sorry to say is par for the course with teens.
Been an emotional day.....can't really go into it now. Nothing awful, just wishing that my kids were little once more. I enjoyed that phase of life so much more.

Ok, so now I am going to submit myself to what is probably tons of abuse. I heard on a radio show a huge discussion of NCLB- and although I heard what was said on the radio, have little idea how this idea is supposed to be implemented on the front lines.
Can someone (or each/any of you) enlighten me?
Gotta go. Have a good nite!
Ginny

ginny--I spend the first half of my walk every day trying to forget NCLB. So, here's my short version--->our state's draconian interp of NCLB is why I teach only 3.5 weeks of this quarter (the rest is testing), it's why all my students' achievements are meaningless except for their scores on a few tests, it's why 3 different consulting companies are making a killing off our our school's title 1 money while our kids go without, and it's why my bi and tri lingual kids firmly believe they're stupid each time they earn below standard on a test in English. I don't know how NCLB is supposed to be implemented--I just know hawaii's way doesn't work.

Speaking of. . .my walk today was awesome! It was relaxing, and a little cloudy--which was nice. It's been a brutally tough week at work. Even though the kids were awesome, well-mannered, hard workers, sweet, and their usual selves. My admin (sadly) were also their usual selves--and next week, the entire English dept is getting called on the carpet for an entire day by one of our consultants for the kids poor test scores. So, I needed the walk, and enjoyed it immensely. I put in a new de-stress playlist for my walk. . .but I think the music is tooo peaceful. I need to make a playlist that starts out fast and angry and eases into peaceful--to better match my mood when I walk.

take care all!

Hi!
Thanks Paisley for your interpretation of NCLB (oh, I can't wait for Robyn's and Mouse's interpretations...yours sounded more like the kinder and gentler version, and it was not complimentary at all anyway!) Sounds like the program is all about teaching for the test......as opposed to teaching to learn.
Unfortunately, NY has been in that mode for years- we have the stupid Regents. And last year the state mandated Course 1 math regents was SO out of touch with the state mandated curriculum (huh?? how could this happen???? :lol: ) that large numbers (as in well over half) of the students taking the exam were crying during it, because the exam covered NOTHING of what had been taught and they were totally unprepared. An unheard of number of students failed. Oh and BTW, when my oldest Dd took the Course 1 regents 4 years ago, she scored too high......got a 91 and was subjected to a negative curve which brought her grade down to an 88. Never heard of such crap ever..........back in the stone ages in NJ, when I was in HS we had no regents or any such test. Glad you got a nice walk in, nothing better than that, in my book! Hope you can find some appropriate music to inspire you.

Well, only ONE student needed a 12pm pickup today......she was mine so there went my "morning off". Stinks, although the next paycheck will be nice.
Got my WW tape done this am. Still fighting some emotional issues......and this whole thing with Dd is not helping. It looks as though she is planning to come home Saturday~ (what so she can torture me some more?). I am seriously thinking of taking a quilting course. Something I have always wanted to do.....never had the time for. Actually had signed up for one about 3 years ago- bought the materials for it and everything. Then Dd and Dh arrived home in such AWFUL moods, that I could not leave Dd (then only 5) with their miserable personalities. I felt it was negligent to do so. So I never went. Think Dd, who is now 9 can handle it now, and I need to do something for me, whatever that is.........
Nuff bellyachin. I won't be back till much later if all. Ds has a basketball game and then we are going out for a quick dinner. No cooking for me (a good thing tonite, as all Dh did was squawk about last nites dinner. Urge to kill.)
Happy Friday!
Ginny

I don't even know when I was here last. I'm sorry I've been AWOL again. I am sick. DH shared his cold with me. I stayed home from school to try to prevent it from becoming asthmatic bronchitis. So, I don't plan on leaving the house until Sunday morning to teach Sunday School. We had a snow day on Wednesday...about 8 inches fell. It was the usual scenario...the high maintenance neighbor girl whining and driving me nuts all day. I think she is afraid of me now! I had very little patience since I was getting sick with this cold as well as sick of her! So, I was pretty SHORT with her and raised my voice a little (which I rarely do, even in the classroom). There are just some people in this world who bring out the evil witch in me...and believe me, you have to be pretty annoying to do so. I went up to SCSU where I will be taking a graduate course on Tuesday to get my parking decal, book, etc. But by Wednesday, the snowstorm really messed up the roads, so I missed my first class. Every other school was cancelled except for my university. Hopefully the professor will have some compassion and understand. If not, she can take a flying leap. I am not about to risk my life driving 30 minutes on icey roads just to go to a class. Sorry. I really feel like crap, so I'm gonna go back to bed. I will read your postings and catch up this weekend. Take care one and all.

Elana, I read a sentence in your post twice...stuffed grape leaves and hummus...your trigger food is much healthier and quite a bit more sophisticated than mine. I'm so boring and cliche'. My triggers are sweets (preferably chocolate), refined carbs, and fatty foods. I've never even eaten your trigger food. I'm quite impressed! Re: Max's need for extra sleep, in my area, some of the high schools are pushing for a later start to the school day. It seems to be rendering amazing results. I can remember being half dead rushing to make the 7:25am bell 23 years ago. It was rough!

Ginny, I'm so glad you said that about being willing to shell out the money for foods we need to lose/maintain weight. It is true that I think nothing about spending for DD. I feel guilty writing what I want/need on the grocery list. NCLB is a highly flawed law with no funding to back it up...which is why I didn't vote for Bush. The idiots that thought it up clearly haven't been anywhere near a classroom or a child in decades. This law forces you to "teach to the test." It is the complete opposite of what early childhood philosophy is, i.e., a child needs to be exposed to a variety of educational experiences and learns to read, write, and do math when the child is developmentally ready to do so. Pre-K through 3 used to be this way. Over the years only Pre-K and K were developmentally appropriate. Now even Pre-K is at risk of becoming "teach to the test." I already have received documents telling me to prepare for the Connecticut Mastery Test!!! I am very angered by this bullsh*t!!! My students are 4. Get real Bush!

Pam, Oregano!!! That kid is a marked man now. I'm amazed that members of his clientele haven't beaten the sh*t out of him yet! Re: uniforms. A magnet school in my town is doing the pilot program. I am all for it. I think it will save money and level the "playing field." If the kids aren't spending so much time comparing outfits and expensive sneakers, maybe they will have time to learn something! There is one lawsuit going on. The mother is a wacko. She had support from a few, but after the crazy stunts she pulled embarrassing herself and her poor child, her supporters backed off. Now she stands alone. It really sucks when there is a new initiative and no support to back it up from the administration. Without a strong leader willing to provide consequences, we truly have no control. Re: 19 year old not calling. I dread those days...mine is only 7. I imagine once they are considered legal adults, your hands are tied. But, I guess you can always resort to "my house, my rules." My nephew used to really push the envelope. He managed to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America. But when he returned, he acted like a jerk. Eventually, he was asked to leave. He literally packed up his stuff and his dog, and the next day was driving cross-country to Colorado (we live in CT). We didn't see him for a couple of years. My DS was happy, but I was miserable. But now, he is a professional chef, engaged to be married to a wonderful girl, and moving back to CT in October. The prodigal son returns!

Mouse, how exciting that it only took one month for you to already fit well in your two new outfits! You should be very proud of yourself! Even better that somebody noticed!

Paisley, I am impressed that your response to stress is to walk. My first choice is to binge. One day, I will be like you and choose exercise for stress relief rather than self-abuse. GOOD FOR YOU!!!

Robyn, sorry I didn't read back far enough to your last post. I guess you've been away as long as I have. I hope you are well. Miss you!

Well, even though I was home from school yesterday, I still had to deal with school business. One student is transferring to another program closer to home. Her parents don't care that the program is less than great. It is all about convenience! Another student who is transported by the transferring student's mom is at risk of not being able to stay. They are working furiously to find transportation. Another student is going home to St. Lucia for six weeks and the parents want his spot held for him. The principal refused even though she just let another leave for a month in Mexico. We had twins who were in Florida for several weeks and another student in Puerto Rico for a couple of weeks in the fall. I guess six weeks is just too much. Whatever! He is a naughty boy, so if I lose him, it won't be awful.

Today is another day to rest...well sort of. I still have stuff to do, but in my pajamas. It is frigid here, and I know if I leave the house, my asthma will be a problem, not to mention my cold will probably get worse instead of better. Take care everyone!

Summer- you must be feeling better, or at least sound better. There's a big difference between Friday's and today's post. Maybe I am a bit confused.....but isn't the local district responsible to transport the student who might be losing his/her ride (because of other families relocating for less than stellar reasons) to your program? (sure would be here in NY) I hope that something can be worked out. I know that in my town there is a ton of transportation by a privately owned bus company (I drive for the district) to transport many for whom english is not spoken in the home to other programs where they will get the help they need. At I am sure a very nice expense. But then I know of a student who lives a few miles from here (same county) whose transportation costs $80K a year....just one kid alone. (severely disabled student). Oh well. I hope your situation works out. And I hope you are feeling better.
Now, go redo your food shopping list! I am glad that what I shared with you about spending money on ourselves was an inspiration to you. (can't take one ounce of credit for it, it was from a WW leader). But I suffer from the "don't spend money on me" syndrome too.....think it comes along with the turf of being a woman. Hope you can get some rest in and recharge your batteries. BTW- were you able to avoid the asthmatic bronchitis??

As for me......well so far today has been pretty good. Dd is at a friends house.....Dh and Ds are on the way back from basketball practice.....then baseball practice......and Dd was delayed coming home from college. She called and sounded a tiny tiny tiny bit reconcilliatory......(did I just make up a word there? Duh). WHo knows what her frame of mind will be when she gets here. But I am NOT doing her laundry. I refuse. Can't wait till she figures out that one. Anyway, it has been rather quiet here, and although I have been doing housework little shows. This week was just so busy with midterms that the house fell into shambles. And the darned dishwasher being broken did not help. At least that gets fixed on Monday. I did get a walk in today.....a real walk, complete with sunshine and nice cold air ( I LOVE walking in the winter!). It felt so good. Wish I did not have to stop.
Ok, nuff of me babbling. Hope everyone's weekend is going well. Oh, and Summer, thanks to you too for the explanation of NCLB. Politicians do fare better when they stay the heck out of things they know little about. And when it does seem as though most of our national politicians are wealthy bums who have done little to earn wealth themselves (and sadly that describes both Bush and Kerry) how can we possibly expect that they would know a darned thing about being an average citizen? Shut up, Ginny and go put away some laundry. Where is Robyn when you need her.......someone has to tell me to shut up when I am foaming at the keyboard.
Ginny