Sistah Pat

I have to go for all day inservice today. I don’t know why they change our starting time from 7:30 to 8:30 on these days. Everyone I know would rather stay with the hours we usually have. We’re all used to them and it just means we get out an hour later than we normally would. DS is here. I was trying to sleep in but he woke me up and asked if I was oversleeping. I told him I was going in later today. Thirty minutes later, he’s knocking on the door again to make sure I’m up. I don’t know why he was worried about it. I can’t remember the last time I overslept. So here I am…I don’t have to be at work for two hours and it will only take me about 45 minutes to get ready. To be honest, the reason I have to get up so early on most school days is because it takes so long for the twins to get ready for school and they’re off today. Maybe I’ll take my coffee and go out to the spa.

We’re actually supposed to be in at 8:00 this morning but 8:00 to 8:30 is the optional “breakfast” which might as well be called “doughnuts” and I’m not putting myself in harm’s way if I can help it. I’ve got to start behaving better. We had the “Day of Decadence” last week, followed by the “Family Reunion Potluck”, followed by the “Weekend Shopping Getaway”. Three days of poor choices. I can’t wait to see the tongue lashing Mr. Scale’s going to give me. There was no excuse for what I ate last night. I don’t even like spaghetti and garlic bread but that’s what DH wanted. I told him I was planning on fixing broiled tilapia but he said I could have the tilapia and he and the boys wanted spaghetti. Lazy me, I opted to go along for the ride and eat spaghetti. We have an hour off for lunch today so I need to plan something. I know my friends will want to go out for lunch and everyone will be indecisive about where to go so I need to decide beforehand. Applebee’s has a lot of healthy choices but they take so long to serve lunch that most of my amigos don’t like to go there. Maybe I should suggest it right off the bat before anyone has a chance to wonder about where we’re going.

I’ve been thinking about my workouts. They take a long time. I was thinking I ought to take advantage of quick little 20 or 30 minute opportunities to workout. Why not? There’s no rule that says you can only workout once a day. When I was in my “prime”, the standing rule was to make sure you got your heart rate elevated and kept it there for 45 minutes. That meant an hour workout at the minimum. I think they’ve changed that now and say even short workouts are beneficial for weight loss. I know I need a nice long workout everyday but, on the days when I don’t have time, I might try to do a couple short ones. Another thing I was thinking about was C25K. A lot of chicks mention it in their blogs and I had no idea what it was so I looked it up. Aha! Couch to 5K run in 9 weeks. And, it on the internet free of charge. I can just download the podcasts. hmmmmm….I don’t see why I can’t do that on my treadmill. Only thinking about it. Anyone tried it?

6:30 - Ughh!  There are so many gross people out there!  A nice, fifty year old woman asked if she could be one of my friends on my tagged site.  I checked out her site…pictures of her and her hubby and kids.  I clicked okay.  She sends me a link to a porn site.  Why do people do that?  If you want to do porn, be upfront about it.  Gross!  I think I’m going to shut down my tagged site.  Little sister wants to keep it open for the family but I’m tired of dealing with all the nasties.

Work went well today.  These kind of days are always a little difficult for me.  Where do I fit in?  I’m a math teacher who hasn’t taught math in five years.  I’m a technology teacher but I’m supposed to be full-time resource.  I teach middle school kids and high school kids and I don’t really fit into any neat little package.  I don’t want to be part of the math group because I haven’t taught it for so long I don’t feel like I belong there.  I don’t fit with the tech people because they teach things like keyboarding and word processing and business.  I don’t fit with the middle school because I teach high and I don’t fit with the high school because I teach middle.  Today, I just decided to sit with the Practical Living and Vocational group because they’re all a bunch of oddballs.  Technology, graphic arts, health, ROTC, and PE all thrown together.  All the oddballs and misfits.  I actually fit pretty well with them because they were totally lost with what we were doing and I was able to help them with it.  Maybe I’ll stay with that group for all these “departmental/team” activities.

Things got pretty chaotic around here after I got home.  I was trying to work on some stuff for the “oddball department” because, after spending the day with them, I have a pretty good handle on what they need from me but there was too much going on.  Oldest DS is in town and staying here.  Of course, the twins live here and they were running around.  Youngest DS came by with DIL and his two kids and I couldn’t get anything done.  Tomorrow is parent conference day.  No school for kids.  I only have a couple of conferences since I have so few students and I should be able to get some work done.  We work crappy hours tomorrow to make it convenient for parents.  I have to be there from 11:00 to 7:00.  Think anyone will let me sleep in tomorrow?