End July

I have to say goodbye to the loss that was previously listed above. Now it is a plus. 

For my birthday I didn't do anything but cook my own dinner and make brownies. I kept not caring and eating what I wanted throughout the week till we left on Monday 7/22/24 to go on a cruise- I ate.  I drank regular soda. I am drinking regular soda now!  LOL, I figure this will be my only one then back to diet. I already got two 12 packs of diet plus there is always water. I figured this Coke would be lower in calories than a coffee if I tried to make it with heavy whipping cream since I am out of half and half.  I do have a Kroger delivery arriving in about an hour though. 

Today is the first day I finally feel normal and like I am back to myself after arriving home from the cruise. We drove down to West Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon to beat the traffic that would be there Monday morning.  Who wants to make a 3.5-hour drive the day they are supposed to be somewhere? I was able to get Pollo Tropical for dinner which made my grew up in Miami heart happy. :) Then we went and boarded the ship on Monday mid-afternoon. It was a comedy of errors with mine between issues that kept happening. We finally got on board though and we were able to go to our rooms. We had booked two rooms right next to each other. Our rooms were free so no matter if we got one room for the four of us or two the cost was the same. Margaritaville has a Hero's Sail free promotion and teachers/staff fall under this category. We were allowed a guest plus a kid. We still had to pay the port fees and all the other fees though. This cruise was FAR from free. Far, far, far from free I can tell you that! But at least we made memories with the kids. Our 19-year-old stayed home and held down the fort as he usually does. Middle son (16) and daughter (8) went with us of course. There was a boy's room and a girl's room. The port in the Bahamas that the ship docks at is an industrial port. So to visit the island you have to book an excursion. You can do this through the ship or through various people on the island that have taxi services. I chose the ship because you are guaranteed that the ship will not leave you if the excursion is late. If you book on your own and you are late the ship can leave you if you are not back in time. We spent a day at an all-inclusive resort and I was not impressed. The food was buffet-style and just not very good. The drinks were flowing but the bees made it hard to drink them. There were bees all over the drinks looking for free access to sugar. I was so tired and sunburnt when we got back to the ship. I used sunscreen but not well enough apparently. Sleep and then we were back in Florida. It was only a 3 day 2 night cruise and the 3rd day was just disembarkation. My husband didn't want to get off early even though we had an express pass. That turned out to be a mistake. We were stuck in there forever and a day till we got off. Then the 3.5-hour ride home. It has taken till today (Sunday) for me to feel back to normal and we got home Wed afternoon  LOL  That long of recovery and hurting from sunburn and whatnot. 

I am blogging instead of writing the assignment that is due today. Haha, Story of my school life if you look at past posts. 

I did write and turn in that APA draft. The professor graded it and just wanted me to tweak a few things like add titles. Also when I copied over my references from citation machine it flipped the indents so I had to fix that. I didn't have to fix any of my report as far as writing so that is great! 

I just did the math  I have 10 days left till I go back to work. Technically I will go back on the 1st to go to Freshman Preview because I love seeing the new faces. 

I just paid for a year of LoseIt so I will try and track again.  I have completely gotten out of the habit of taking pictures of my food.  I was on a cruise and didn't take any food pictures! Just of the water and the ship and whatnot. I used to take pictures of all of my food. I don't know why I just have not felt it lately. Ok it is 6 pm and I need to get this assignment done.