Summer- I just can't imagine! Oh well. You know the importance of being an involved parent, so that is all that matters. Just leave your gun at home next time!

Robyn - I feel for you. Our computer has been shutting itself down without warning lately. There is nothing worse than losing everything you just typed. I hope you have better luck tonight. I always love your words of wisdom!

My birthday went from bad to worse since my DH (and D is for dipshit) didn't bother to come home even at the usual midnight time. I waited until 1:30 a.m. and finally broke down and called him. He said the router went down at work and he had been there since 10. I, in my PMS/sleep deprived best, handled this of course with sobs and wails. He came home from 2:30 to 4:00 and appologized and tried to make it up but I think I will be broken hearted over that birthday for awhile. I can't believe he didn't even think to call me when he knew that I was hoping for him to come home early. Then to make matters worse, I have that damn internal alarm clock so I was wide awake at 5:30 a.m.! I have to meet with a student and his mother at 9:30 this morning. Between the six hours of crying and hour and 1/2 of sleep, I out to be a pretty sight! I feel like one of those cartoon charactures whose eyes are popping out a foot. My DH will of course be allowed to leave work and sleep all day. I on the other hand have appointments scheduled all day that I don't want to reschedule because next week I WILL be a woman of leisure. I also am meeting the new sped teacher this morning. Won't he be impressed! Oh well I guess it will be a birthday to remember!

Sue

Oh Sue...I wish I was closer so I could drive over and give you a massive bear hug. :grouphug: Sometimes men just don't get it. I'm at the point with my DH that I expect nothing. Sometimes he surprises me with what appears to be love and affection and it isn't connected to sex either...when that happens, I don't know how to react and usually say something really stupid and awkward. I was brought up by a very loving family and was trained well by my parents to be a great wife. I was a great girlfriend and after 12+ years with my DH who was emotionally abused as a child, I am now a wife who has built up unbreakable barriers around her heart to survive being with him. I am however a very loving mother, friend, and teacher. I would love to open my heart to DH, but I've been hurt too many times to risk that. Anyway, I hope your day gets better, and you get a good nights sleep tonite. Take care of you. :goodvibes

Robyn, hanging around sailors again?! HEE HEE HEE :lol3: You've been in true "Robyn" form lately. :s:

Gotta eat breakfast and go to school to see what Nimrod has done next.

Hey!

I must first apologize to everyone for *****ing and complaining about moving to sixth grade.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was day 1 today. Ok, yes, they are unsure, nervous, scared, etc....But what a great great great day.
They are so little. My blind student is so adorable I could just "eat him up".
There is one kid in my second class who is taller than me and looks to be about twenty. Need to check into that. And, I read the Teacher from the Black Lagoon today. I asked them if they were nervous about middle school and wondered what their teacher's would be like. Only one boy said "who cares" ughhh. But, I ignored that comment and the rest of the day was great. I also talked about how in my class they could absolutely NOT laugh at anyone for making a mistake etc....Then, I read, Don't laugh at me. It was appropriate because I wanted them to realize we are all different, learn at different speeds, etc...Also, wanted them to be accepting of all differences. The locker situation is just insane. I will be opening locks til June. I opened one boys lock about ten times, I told him that I was going to know his combination soon. The funniest thing to me was lunch. In elementary school here, nobody can start eating until everyone gets their tray and sits down. So, after I got them all settled in line, I went back to my table and they were all just sitting there. I said" Guys, it's ok, you can go ahead and eat and you don't have to wait on everybody else." They were so excited about that.
I'm babbling.......I'm tired and my feet hurt. But, I am proud to say that I got up at 5:40 and didn't hit the snooze alarm once. This was amazing in and of itself, since I couldn't sleep last night. I wore a pair of sandals that put blisters on my feet and then remembered that was why they were in the back of my closet. After the kids left, my shoes came off and I was walking barefooted til time to go home. Tomorrow I'm wearing comfie shoes....

I don't have the energy to get personal today, but just to say Hey to everyone, Sue: sorry about your birthday, and happy belated birthday. Robyn: Met the blind student's mother.....The lady lied, I loved her. She was great.

Talk to you all later.
Pam

Evening Ladies,
Sue, I feel so bad for you. I wish I lived closer to you and could come over and help you celebrate your birthday. Men are just such idiots at times. Sending hugs your way. Hope your day went okay and you were able to get some sleep this afternoon. Maybe we need to plan in the middle of next summer a day to celebrate your birthday and mine and that way we will do it up the way we want treated. But I think my dh knows he has to be nice to me next year, because a lot of our friends and family got on his case about how he was such an @#$hole to me on my birthday.
Summer how is your room coming along? Hope things are going great for you setting up your room. Are you going to meet with your dd's teacher before she starts school or just leave it be?
Robyn, sorry you lost your post. I hated that when our computer was acting up at the end of last school year. I would type a long post and than it would just shut down on me. SO how is the diet going?
Pam, glad that you love your kids. Loved the story about them waiting to be told to eat lunch. My kids were okay today. One throw up and I called mom to tell her. She said it was because he was overheated and wearing a long sleeve shirt. That he would be just fine. Hello if you know that it is going to be in the high 80's do you send your kid to school in long sleeves. So have you been able to get use to a normal routine for school, eating and excerise yet? I am still working on that one myself.
Mouse, I hope your day was a tad bit better today. The people you work with sound very rude. I am sorry we couldn't all just work in the same school and that way we would be friendly with each other. Plus we could get Ginny to be our bus driver. Have you been able to go to the gym lately to work out your frustrations?
Ginny, hope you are enjoying your wonderful vacation. Did you make it to your WI today?
Well I need to go and pick up my dinner. I was just too tired to fix something tonight so I order a salad and some breadsticks. I figured I deserved a treat after the day I had at school. Plus I walked 2 miles this morning and went to Curves this evening already. So that should make up for it. Talk to you all later.
Kerry

Hi, all.
I hate to be so down, but today was at least as bad as yesterday or maybe worse because I was there ALL DAY.
Remember the schedule snafu? Well, apparently a huge part of it has nothing to do with HQT, though that is definitely an issue... it has more to do with the fact that I still don't have a contract! No signed contract, so I'm not in the computer system, and they can't schedule classes for me! They managed to put my room number down for one class, but not for the others (?). The principal embarassed me twice in front of the entire department. One time he made a comment about teaching assistants being moved every half-block or so, and I glanced over at the TA who wants to be in my room (she spent all day helping me out), just to see what hse htought of that because none of the other TAs wants to be in my room or the severe and profound class. And he yells out to the whole room, "Don't roll your eyes!" I was mortified!!!!!!
Then, he told the whole department that the scheduling issues were because he can't put me in the system so some of the classes look bigger, etc, etc. And, we were told to talk to people if we had highlighted students on our rosters, my entire roster was highlighted, all 6 kids.
I don't have any of the stuff done that my mentor said she'd help me with: she hasn't helped me with the accommodation forms we're supposed to do (which aren't computerized!), or making arrangements for a bus for community instruction (and she said she would help me with that and getting access to funds for it).
By the time I left, my room was at least "teachable"... very boring, plain, etc... but doable. My TA is going to hang bulletin board paper tomororw. The other teacher had ZERO teaching materials, just some pre-school picture books and some money and some calculators. I did manage to swap my desks for tables with the ESOL teachers next to me, fortunately, and the maintanence people were great... they moved a filing cabinet and all the desks and tables for me.
We have a phrase for the bulletin board: Community of Caring (kinda trite, but I can deal). WE're going to hang the kid's good work up there, and also pictures of them doing 'good' in their community (school, home, community trips). That way we can change pictures often, but not the whole board. The rest of the room is getting mostly posters.
Its just that I hate going in there, and its not getting better. I know it might after the kids come because I will get involved with them... But today I told the principal I liked her vest (I did, it was crocheted, and nice) and she acted like I had insulted her.
Then there was the whole thing with keys to my classroom... And the fact that ESOL had my room last year, and didn't know they didn't have it this year. Nobody had bothered to tell them.
And the school has definite issues. I have heard all kinds of stories about last year's principal, and how everybody wanted to leave and nobody wants to be there.
I do have a last-minute interview. The thing with that is its at a voc ed program in the other county that I've really admired for a long time. Seriously, its awesome. The kids are only on campus all day on Mondays... every other day of the week they are at job sites doing actual work and independent living. Each group has a voc teacher, an independent living teacher, a couple of TAs. Its awesome. Its the program (I think I shared this last summer) that I wanted the school I just left to go see last year. I couldn't pass up an opportunity to interview with them...
I am going to go print good copies of my resume now. I'm going in late to my other building which means there will be paperwork and stuff not done... and Staples didn't have the stuff I needed (self-laminating sheets and a decent border) tonight. :grump:
Anyway, I am SOOOO sory that I'm being so darned negative. I can't help it right now.
No, I haven't been to the gym at all since I've moved here, which I also hate... but I just don't have the energy to deal with that mess.
:mouse:

Pam, I can tell that you are one of those special middle school teachers...the kind that can make the difference in an awkward, insecure, pimple-faced preteen's life. There should be more just like you. Your stories are endearing and funny. Please share more as the year goes on.

Kerry, yes, I'm finally making progress in my room. Before lunch, I was ready to have a very mini panic attack :tantrum: because my room didn't look much different from Tuesday when I started tackling the mess. But after lunch, I made a plan and now it looks better...not done, but better. I wanted to unpack everything from my shipment that came from my grant and get rid of all the boxes this week before all the noseybodies start making jealous comments. Everything that is new that could be put away has been, and those boxes are gone. But there are 4 things to be assembled, and Nimrod couldn't do it. So, on Monday, someone else is coming. By then, everyone will be back, and there will be no hiding this from their envious eyes. :blah: :rolleyes: Whatever!

I went to the GYN today. Luckily my period was done or I would have had to cancel. I have to have another mammogram right away because apparently I was supposed to have one six months after my biopsy...OOPS! They probably told me, but after my bad experience, I must have pushed it back in the recesses of my brain. So, no lollygagging now. I don't want to go through this again. :( I am going to a different radiologist since the last place was so insensitive and made me cry. They hassled me about my weight and complained that SBD isn't a good diet. They want me to do WW. Whatever. I like SBD, and if it works for me, what do they care? They are happy I'm going to a personal trainer. Whatever. I definitely can't go back there again till I lose a lot of weight. I'm so tired of the friggin speech. :p

Tomorrow is my last chance to get in my room. I haven't had too many interruptions from people registering for pre-k. There was a triple murder around the corner from my school yesterday, so people were probably busy watching all the excitement yesterday. Today, 3 people came in, but it didn't take too long. I have a lot of stuff to do at home, but I feel like making myself a very strong margarita instead. Yeh, I vote for the margarita!

Thanks everyone for all the support. My DH has been majorly sucking up lately, so I am feeling better. I think I'll milk this for awhile though.

Summer - I am sorry to hear about your relationship with your DH. I have a pretty solid wall around my emotions too. Isn't it nice that we can still love our children and friends and feel safe. I am surprise they are making a deal out of SBD vrs WW to me the diets are very similar. SBD is more restrictive in what you can eat and WW in how much! They both stress lean proteins, fruits and veggies.

Pam - I think you can tell a lot from your first day with the kids. I am so happy for you that you got a good group. That makes all the work worth while. I was working in school today with a bad choice of sandels too. Finally I just had to kick them off and go barefoot (we don't have students yet). I definately have to remember NOT to wear those when school starts.

Kerry - Oh your scaring me with that talk of school routines and being too tired to cook. I can almost feel the exhaustion thinking about it! I can feel the lazy days of summer being ripped away already!! WAAAAAAAAAAA! I have one more week of freedom though.

Mouse- I can't believe that school could have had a principal last year that was worse than the one they have now! I am keeping my fingers crossed that your interview goes really well and you can tell the other school where they can stick it! It isn't like you have a signed contract or anything!

Today is beautiful and I really wanted to play golf. Instead I was at school way longer than I had planned. The more I do the more I realize I have to do. I have a headache just thinking about it. Now I have to go back in on Monday because I never managed to connect with the new teacher yesterday or today. We were there at the same time just running in opposite circles must be! The good news is I have all of MY stuff done that absolutely HAS to be done before school. I am actually set for the first two weeks, so I can plug away at all the less urgant things.

Tonight we have to go to a wedding rehersal. DH and I are the Mistress and Master of Ceremony. Then tomorrow will be spent with the wedding. The bride is my cousin. She is 43 and a paranoid schizophrenic (sp?). She does very well on her meds but is still a strange bird. Her DH to be is just as old and she was the first girl he dated, so you can imagine! It should be an interesting two days! I just hope we don't get the rain they are predicting as it is an outdoor wedding!

Sue

Hey!
Made it through day 2! Another good day. My little blind guy I will call him T for future reference has already invited me to go dancing. Wooo Hooo.
I have the students fill out questions about themselves a survey called Just me, so I can find out about them their likes and dislikes etc.....One of the questions says one thing I would like to know about my teacher is......The first question was.....How old are you? I said Ok, I am going to answer your question but first let me say Never ask a lady their age, weight or hair color! T said I think you look about 26. TO which i gave him my undying love forever. Ha :D The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, just the normal locker stuff ughhh.... So far, that's the only downside of the sixth grade. Not to bad if you ask me.

Kerry: I have been doing ok with the eating part. I have to lose back the five pounds I put on this summer. I'm down two..... However, excercise is nonexistant. Maybe I will get out and walk tonight. I need to.....

Sue: Those sandals of mine are going in the trash. I have had them for three years. I have worn them three times. Each time I came home with blisters. Maybe I am just a glutton for punishment. I too went barefooted during my planning period.. Although I thought I would die when I had to stop at the grocery store on the way home . Ouch.

Mouse: Did you like just drop a huge mirror or something. I mean you have the worst luck. I hope everything will settle down, and you'll be able to get to the gym, it might help you to take out some frustration.

Summer: Thanks for your kind words. I really do try to connect with my students. Especially those ones who don't want to budge. However, today my bad boy from last year made two special trips to see me. Once he snuck onto our hall and opened the door smiled and waved, and then he got out of line at a fire drill to say hello. IT's funny. All of the eighth grade teachers I've seen have made comments like..."What did you all send us?" I said well, I was just sharing the love.............. I do like seeing some of them though. I will miss a lot of my kids from last year. It's a new year, we had a longer summer, and I feel like now maybe this move was a great chance at a fresh start. Isn't that the great thing about teaching? One day you are ready to become a walmart greeter, and the next day can be absolutely wonderful. Everyday is a new day. I must say, I can't believe that your radiologist is hassling you about weight. What's up with that?

Robyn: Where you at???????????
Ginny: Lounging in the sun................

Talk to you later.
Pam

I'm stuck there for the year. They got me as soon as I walked in the door... they had personnel bring the darned contract over. They were mailing it to my address in Baltimore, but it isn't being forwarded. They had never changed my address. Losers.
My mother has pointed out that it is NOT a good sign that I'm referring to all the administrators by their first names... I wasn't raised that way, you see, and was taught that is a major sign if disrespect. My mom can always tell which ones I respect because I typically refer to them by Mr or Ms or Dr whomever.
I still don't know my teaching assistant's schedule, but that's okay... the kids get their Monday, so it doesn't matter if I know that stuff or not! They didn't get us bell schedules until THREE THIRTY THIS AFTERNOON, so there is no schedule in my classroom. The last teacher left ZERO teaching materials (and she left because she couldn't stand the mentor I've been assigned; ain't that just freaking wonderful?!).
I can teach in the room on Monday, but it doesn't have any posters up or schedules, rules, nothing. I didn't get any masking tape! Heck, I didn't get any supplies at all until this afternoon!
They quite seriously expect me to spend my own money on everything, and that is just not happening. I've drawn the line: I will buy instructional materials (which will remain in my apartment for the most part!), but I will NOT buy stuff to teaching cooking or hygiene. If they want that done, they MUST supply the microwave, blender, toaster oven, dishes, etc. You'll watch me pull my hair out all year long because of that, since I typically just give in and buy it (and I could get a decent toaster oven and microwave at STaples for $75 total). NOT DOING IT! NO!
And I can't transfer out mid-year.
These people are so disorganized. I've never seen anything like it, not since I left my inner city schools. This place is just as bad, if not worse. Somebody stole the damn school t-shirt off my desk. We were supposed to wear them for staff pictures today... I left it on my desk Thursday so I could change and not get it dirty before the pictures. It was GONE GONE GONE before I got there this mornign. The assistant principal had to get snide and smarmy, too. "Nobody got in your room, so Id on't know what you think you did with it".

I think I have an imp of the perverse following me around. Nothing I do ever goes right, its really enough to destroy my faith in just about everything. All I want is to be in a school where they are organized enough to make sure the kids come first.... and this place ain't having it. I can't even give out individual schedules to my kids because... GUESS WHAT? They weren't FINISHED!
And I refuse to go in on Saturday. Not happening. You know the quote: "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part". That describes it. Even if I had been here last Friday to work in my room instead of camp, it wouldn't have mattered: I didn't have a room yet... or if I had, I couldn't have done anything. Nobody told the ESOL staff that the room wasn't theirs anymore.
And again, I can only apologize. I don't know where else to vent, and I'm really really hating this school. I dont' think I'd be hating it so much if I hadn't had such a rough time at the one I just left, but ...

:mouse:

Pam: Glad to hear everything is going so well. The blind boy I had was always cracking jokes about what he "saw". Sounds like you are going to have a good time with T. Isn't he the one you were worried about? The locker thing should get better in a couple of weeks but may never go away completely. My DS started middle school last year. He loved everything but the lockers. He took about two weeks to get it down but then a couple of times during the year he would tell me "my fingers forgot my locker combination and I had to have someone open it for me". Not sure if that was just because of his AI or if that happens to other 6th graders too.

Mouse: Darn I was really hoping you would get offered another job before that contract caught up to you. Hang in there and feel free to vent. That is what we are here for!

Sue

Hey everyone!
How's it going? I've been trying to declutter my bedroom. Getting ready to move into the kitchen. Bluck......My folks will pile stuff high on the trashcan until it can't go anymore then, everything falls off the top when you go to take out the trash. It's getting on my nerves quite frankly. I would go on strike, but then someone would come over and it would be a bad reflection on me of course.
Mouse: I know you've had a tough time lately. Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to go in full force and be happy even when you're not. I really really really did not want to go to the sixth grade. I felt like I was being demoted, and taken away from my friends, and punished for some reason for doing a damn good job. However, I finally realized that I could be miserable or try to make the best of it. In spite of all my whining, I went in with a smile on my face and found that I love it. I know it's not the same situation, but if you go into this school hating it already before the year even starts, it's gonna be a long year. You're resourceful and very intellegent I know you can make it work for you. If in fact, it is as bad as you fear it will be, you can still keep looking until you find the right fit. Your students will also pick up on the fact that you are misereable as well. I hope everything will work out and that you'll find that it was a good move.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I know it's hard to be the new person, and feel like you are on the outside looking in and wondering what in the **** did I do to deserve this? Show them all. Smile, be happy that you have a job and try to enjoy your life. Life is too short ya know? Anyway good luck.

Sue: Yes, T was the boy I was worried about. The only thing I'm worried about now is that his braille books haven't come in yet. Yikes!
We did get his talking calculator. But, there is nowhere to plug it in. I will have to get an extension cord. This is not allowed, but the principal told me that if the fire marshall happened to come in just unplug it since there was nothing else we could do. One of my students has invited me over to his house to play the game cube. Ha! I think I may have to pass on that though.

Hey to everyone else!
Pam

hey people!!! :)

my WI at WW this DAWWWN made me happy! ESPECIALLY since it was one of THOSE weeks where I could NOT get enough first sweet and then salty stuff... i'm hoping that it was hormones....won't know until about Tuesday night and my head starts (or doesn't) spinning for chocolate! ;)

Pam, I'm thrilled that you are loving 6th grade! I had to LOL when you shared that your blind kid responded that you looked about 26! My last vision impaired kid also had a wonderful sense of humor! LOCKERS! Arghh! What a battle lockers are for my kid! He has a keyed lock that he uses as he can not manipulate the combination lock.... but last year he never used his locker as they assigned him one at the opposite end of the school away from any of his classes.... Which was great for a sped kid with arm strength issues! We will meet his new case manager and other assorted teachers on Wednesday morning. It is Saturday... and I'm already feeling like I might vomit! I hate hate hate doing these meetings... but if I don't! Well... you know! I also don't think that I commented when you said that you had met THAT mother...and had found her not nearly as poisonous as earlier promised! Yahoooo! I'm glad that it is all working out! (Mom WILL become THAT mom IF / WHEN things go wrong...so be ready!)

Summer, Where are you?! Glad to hear that you got a bunch done in your classroom. Did my private note to you about your daughter's teacher help at all?! Hope that stuff works out! It is cloudy and cool here... so there are NO hula skirts for me tonight! Hope that you enjoyed your luau.....and wore the grass skirt! :)

Mouse, I'm so sorry that you signed the contract! It sounds as if this year is going to be very difficult! How hard will it be to get out of the contract? Do they give you any $$ for the tools that you need to teach the curriculum? What school system is your new school in again? I can't remember! ...but I want to make sure that I stay FARRR away from that part of the state! I hope that you have had a chance this weekend to rest and prepare to make the most of the situation! You also need to get into a pool and SWIM some of your frustration away!

Sue, Can't wait to hear how the wedding was! Better you than me! LOL What fun without getting rain! Hope the weather cooperated for the wedding couple! First girl he dated? Can you IMAGINE how hard it will be to retrain him???

Kerry, How's it going?

Gin... I know where you are! Hope that you're family time down at the shore was all you wanted it to be. You'd best check in soon!

enough of my mouth...
gotta go help dh get dinner on the grill!
take care,
meeee

Hello. I just discovered that you have a special place for teachers TRYING to lose weight. Is it OK if I join you? I am a 39 year old HS Spanish teacher starting my 18th year of teaching (how can that be???). I am married with 2 kids (ages 9 and 11) and continuously struggle with weight and finding time to exercise.

Back on July 5, I recommitted myself to Walk Away The Pounds, although I also use a treadmill and TRY to get to Curves. I have only lost 5 pounds, but I'm staying quite consistent, so I'm confident that more will start to come off soon. Earlier this week I reached a major walking milestone--I walked 100 miles since I started! I am proud of that fact, though I know it's a small thing.

I would really like to get to know you and swap ideas for how to exercise and eat right with the challenges we teachers face.

Thank you!

Michele :wave:

Hola Michele! (Said in my VERY best SouthernBelle HighSchool Spanish voice! Which means that it gave my hs spanish teacher hair on her chest! You know those accents, yes?! ;) )

Welcome! I'm Robyn. I'm a year ahead of you on most of your stats! I'm 40 (that happened in April...while I didn't die...I *SURE* did begin to fall apart!), I'm beginning my 19th year teaching 1st grade! I taught in the *same room* for 17 of those! At the ripe ole age of 39, I left the comfort and security of everything and everyone that I knew and was THE new kid on the block in a local school. Change is good! I am now teaching for the system in the county where we live. While I still have on my rose colored "new kid" glasses, I'm also the jaded old dog! BUT, changing the scenery did amazing things for the exhausted old teacher! LOL

Hmmm, other stuff about me.... I am also married with 2 boys (10 and 13! Old people have kids THAT old! How did THAT happen?!) I am THE mouth around here. Most everything that comes out of my mouth tends to be, uh, well *they* say, um, ... sarcastic and / or truthful or a combination of the 2! LOL I'm also THE resident punctuation mark abuser! (I *do* know how to correctly use the little thingys...but why limit yourself to the proper (and boring!) uses!)

Congratulations on your 5 pounds AND your commitment to exercise! You'll find VARIETY here! We've got walkers, a swimmer and weight lifter. We've got a golfer, a Curves gal, one with a trainer...and I, personally, have THE HUGE NEED to have a reunion with my treadmill, WATP tapes, and EVENTUALLY my Firm stuff! :sumo:

As for recipes, I posted a great tilapia recipe earlier this week....go back a few pages! It is a yummy fish dish that my WHOLE family will eat! I am VERY concerned about returning to the classroom and dealing, once again, with faculty foods, boring salads, and those horrible 4 o'clock munchies!

Things here have been a bit sporatic and somewhat quiet as we are returning to our classrooms and facing ALL those DEMANDS! BUT, don't give up on us! There are some great people here who totally understand the difficulty with drinking 2 liters of water without having the ability to get to a restroom for 6+ hours! :lol:

Welcome! :wave:

take care,
Robyn

Hey!
As you may have noticed I am again at the computer and not cleaning the house. The Ok, I managed to hang up some clothes in the bedroom, go grocery shopping which I hate and took a two hour nap. :D
Ok, so Saturdays are bad for me. I am at my laziest. I think the whole getting up early thing is not agreeing with me. Friday night I was asleep at 9:30. I can't manage to do that on school nights. I am up late then. I'm all out of whack.

Roby n: Congrats on the loss. You have inspired me. I have lost two of the pounds I gained back over the summer. Three more to go then I will be back where I started. I actually find it easier to lose weight during school because I am away from my fridge which beckons me endlessly when I am at home. However, my husband is about to mix up a pitcher of sangria and fruit so,...................... Fruit is good for you right? ;) :D

Michelle: WELCOME! I am 37. I am a sixth grade Math teacher in North Carolina. I am married with two kids ages nine and nineteen. One is just starting the fourth grade, and one just started college. I love the walk away the pounds tapes. I was doing them everyday religiously until school was out then I became a big time slacker. I keep promising myself everyday that I am going to start back, I plan on that for Monday..........We'll see.
I think you will like it here. Everyone is pretty crazy....Specially Robyn ;)
I too have a problem with punctuation and spelling, however, I teach Math, so who can blame me! Ha!

Ok, I'm outta here........Kitchen duty calling. Yuck!

Hey everyone else!
Pam