Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Hey everyone!  I won an award!  Ok, I am not the only one to win it, but still… I am one of the recipients of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence for 2007 - 2008!  My school gets $1000 and I get a letter from the PM and a pin.  OK, $1000 for me would have been nice, but you can’t have everything!

Visited my new school for next year.  Seems like a good place.  I like the Principal - eventhough she won’t be on site.  I knew the person I am replacing by face if not name.  It is a tiny school but a nice situation for me as I will be running the school for the most part.

Started packing for the move.  How can I have so many boxes and seem like I have not touched anything??!!  As I do not have to close up this place to move there I have decided to use the strategy of only packing up the furniture I am taking right now and THEN getting the rest of the stuff.  I am looking at moving furniture on June 14 as I hope to have finished painting by then.

Just finished inputting report cards for the online course I teach.  I have to finish marking essays for the night school real life course I teach.  (They have asked me back for the fall, and I said I would be interested, but somehow I hope I win the lottery or something before then.  What can I say?  I need the money but it is soooo exhausting!! Still it is nice to be asked!)

Booked the hotel for our honeymoon.  We are only going for  days - how much excitement is there in Ottawa?!!  Still DH has not seen it and it is a pretty city.

What else can I tell you?  Home Depot did come through.  Nothing like a threatening letter. So all was more or less finished before my Mom’s party on the Sat night.  We then spent a week eating the left overs - order for 140 even if you only invite 40!  she kept forgetting what she ordered and kept buying and buying.  OY!

Haven’t done a lot of weight lifting but have done some.  I develop muscle fast so I don’t have to do as much as most people to get some definition.  Now to remove the layer OVER the definition!

Actually, I was considering my dog and his diette.  He is a chunky guy but not obese.  As those of you have been reading, he has a thyroid issue, and large ribs (he gets those from me) so he will never look slim.  And I thought, the poor guy has been on diette food almost all of his life. (just like me! ) I alternate between senior food and regular food now can for can.  He is happy.  He is pretty healthy, so why get all worked up about it?  I think happy and healthy is all anyone really strives for.  Then I thought, if I want that for him, why aren’t I satisfied with being happy and healthy?  I certainly have a better outlook than many of those superslim women.  My health is better than the starving models.  So what am I doing being a slave to a number??

When I was at WW and went down to 170, I was asked if I had set my goal as I must be close - by the leader.      When I pointed out I had 40 more to go according to their charts, it made me wonder.

Ok, enough depth for one posting.  Wedding plans are going well, thanks JJ.  Now if only I can remember who got post dated cheques!!  I have to go over my contracts again!

Cheers, everyone!