jenniferh

I love summer.   I can actually get a workout in because I don’t have to worry about being late for work - and I’m not so exhausted by the afternoon that I can’t go for a walk.  And then there’s the pool - the baby and  I actually spent an hour in there this morning and we’re planning on spending most of the early evening in there, too! 

 I’m sure I’ve gained since my last weigh in, so I’m not weighing in until Saturday.  I’m eating carefully, I’m working out a LOT, and drinking lots of water.  I haven’t had a soda in MONTHS (go me!) but I wasn’t careful for the last six weeks of school. 

We’ll see what the damage comes to on Saturday.

Hormonal weight fluctuations frickin’ SUUUUUCK!

I’m grouchy, sleepy, hungry, and feeling claustrophobic but too tired to get it together and get out of my house.  We really don’t NEED to go anywhere, and if I do leave the house, I’ll just end up wasting gas and spending money on junk at the grocery store.

I’ve jogged on my mini-trampoline for 20 minutes, today, and I want to do some upper-body strength training.  I thought about starting a little fitness challenge for myself for the month of January to see how many “boy” push-ups I can do by the end of the month.

As for my resolutions, I’m moving every day, I only had 1 soda with lunch at my Dad’s yesterday (it was that or beer!) and today when I was craving a bowl of potato chips I had a V-8 instead (low-sodium), and the craving went away!  YEAH!

We’ll be having BLT’s with mustard instead of mayo on 100% whole wheat bread for dinner, tonight, with tomato soup.   And I think the girls and I will go for a walk around the neighborhood.  It’s been a while since the weather was this nice and the baby needs some fresh air.

Ninth graders are monsters on Fridays when the weather is changing.  They were SOOOO bad today! And the worst one, the one who has an 8 average (yeah, E-I-G-H-T) refused to do the assessment again, today.  I emailed his AP and his counselor and the reply I got back was “Here’s his mom’s number.”

WTF?! 

I already called his mom and left messages, and she hasn’t answered me!  I emailed them AGAIN and said, “Yeah, I usually do talk to the parents as a first line of offense, but she won’t answer my calls.  So I’m talking to YOU.  I’ve tried talking to him and he’s like a brick wall.  His mom won’t answer my calls, and you’re his AP and his counselor, so YOU try to help him.” 

Then the answer was, “Oh, yah, his mom is aware of the problem. She says they’re changing his meds.”

His meds. 

Oh I see. 

Oh, gee, thanks for letting me know SIX WEEKS INTO THE YEAR that the reason he’s being such a colossal pain in my ass is because he’s got a reason to be.  Great job on the “heads up” there, administrative team.  Lets just leave the teacher hanging until the teacher pitches a fit that the kid won’t do a damned thing in class and seems pretty content with getting zero after zero.

On the upside, my kid’s toe ain’t broke.  It got slammed in a heavy metal gym door Monday before last - we took him to the urgent care people and they said, “See a podiatrist.”  So I made an appointment with the podiatrist  - and he said, “Why didn’t you come here sooner!?”

Um, because this was the soonest your receptionist would get us in.

He took the rest of the nail off, and we have to go back in two weeks - on Halloween at four in the afternoon. 

Sucks. 

See, this is why we don’t look for homes in a flood-prone area.  We’re starting now to get the outer bands of clouds and rain coming ashore - it’s getting mighty gray out there, and there are about 100 tiny little birds taking shelter in the bushes in our back yard. 

We’re probably not going to see much worse than 80 mph winds this far inland, and maybe 6-8 inches of rain.  Some of our neighbors have boarded up a few windows, but our two neighbors who’ve lived in the neighborhood the longest aren’t bothering.  We’re taking our cues from them.  We have food, water, and propane, and we’ve caught up on all the laundry and vacuuming so that if the power goes out, we’ll at least be stuck in a CLEAN dark house!

You don’t need to bother praying for us - unless of course the Lord moves you to do so - because I’m spending all my time praying for those in the flood zones to get out quickly and safely, and for the Lord to shelter the heart of the poor family in Montgomery county whose 10 year old son was killed when they were trimming the tree branches in preparation and a branch fell on him and killed him.  My heart hurts for them - my children and my husband are my reasons for breathing, and I can just imagine the horror they are living through.

We’re fine in Katy - pray for the ones who REALLY need it.