8/18/24 Sunday- The first weekend of the school year.

 I am not happy that today is Sunday but I did not need an alarm on Saturday or Sunday so that did make me happy. 😁

I wrote a post last week but never published it, so feel free to scroll down and read it. 

The first full week of school is completed. Only 34 weeks left to go! Hahah  I got lots of movement and have already subbed for a few teachers. They were just set times though not entire days. I have mostly been in the front office helping the attendance person. She is supposed to have the receptionist to help her but it is a new one this year and they are not starting till 8/21. 

I had some stress yesterday morning trying to figure out how I was going to be paying bills. Hubby got paid Friday but my first check doesn't hit till 8/30. Trying to pay two income house bills on one income is not pretty. I finally got something figured out that will not cost us extra money. We might only have like $30 in the bank and almost at limit cards but we will survive. 

I have a suspicious roast in the crockpot. Let's hope that all is well and there are no issues. I am cooking it on high for 5 hours.  A few months ago my oldest left the deep freezer door cracked. Everything in the door was ruined and several things inside started to thaw a little. I researched and read and decided to keep everything that was still partially frozen. So let's hope today's me can trust past me. LOL, I was too lazy to cut potatoes so I only dumped in seasonings and carrots. I will make mashed packet potatoes for the roast to be eaten with. I cleaned the kitchen counters last week so they are actually still ok. It's the kitchen sink that is overwhelming. I have washed two small drainers worth and will hopefully get another set worth washed. It's not that bad honestly. I am just a big whiney baby because no one helps me with them. I got all my knives washed and am thinking of sharpening them before I put them in the knife block. I also am thinking about pre-cutting veggies for dinners. It would probably be a really good idea. Because when dinner comes I just want to dump and go. I don't want to put any effort in. Our school day rolled back and I get out 50 minutes earlier but due to traffic, it doesn't feel like it. Before I could park in the back and slip out. Now we are not allowed to park in the back anymore so I am stuck in carline traffic even though I park in employee parking! Parents have made the front office parking into a carline as well so we're trapped. It annoys the crap out of me and makes me rage, to be honest. Nothing I can do about it though. 

My college classes start tomorrow. I am taking 6 of them again but they are broken down into 2 sets of 3 classes. One set will be Aug to mid Oct. Second set is mid Oct to Dec. The next 3 are totally online. The second set has me online on Monday nights for Zoom and going to the college on Wed nights for a physical class then the 3rd one is online online. One class has everything showing but locked. It is one of the hardest classes I have been told by several people. Business Law I  The class is online but the testing is through HonorLock which means it is recorded and they can stop your test if they think you are cheating. The good news is that the teacher does allow us to have one 4x6 prewritten notecard per quiz. The quizzes are worth 75% of our grade!!  YIKES!  I just have to remember C's get degrees! LOL

My plan for food this week is

Roast with carrots 

Brats with onions and peppers.

Butter chicken

Shrimp something -maybe pasta?

tacos with Dorito shells

I hope all is well with you all!

Oh weight loss-  So I had good intentions starting the week then I threw my hands in the air and waved them like I don't care. I didn't go off the rails and I am now getting a lot more movement. My weigh-in would have been better had I not chosen Pizza Hutt and regular Dr. Pepper for dinner Friday night. I can officially claim a .4 loss at least so something is better than nothing. 

Down a whole 4.2 lbs  

The Sunday post that was never published! Dun Dun DUN!

 In the last episode, I left you with the knowledge that I was done with my summer classes. I can now update you that I finished the term with a  4.0.  That accounting class was rough and I ended up with a 90% but that is still an A. LOL

Back to work on Thursday and Friday was a lot of waking up early. Tomorrow is going to be even earlier though! Our school day is now starting 45 minutes earlier. So little girl will now have to attend before-school and after-school care. We need to leave the house by 6:45 am and take her to before-school care. Last year we could leave at 7:15 and drop her off in the carline on the way to school. 

I have a haircut scheduled for 6 pm today. My little gal spent the night at my inlaws and will be home in about an hour or so. I have nothing prepped as far as food or even my bookbag. I should probably clean it out and load it with what I want. I carry a bookbag with me rather than a purse or teacher bag. I have my pens and notebook paper and various things that might be needed.  Since I never know what teachers will have in their classrooms. This year I got a little office supply mini kit I am excited to have. It is from Micheals and is really cute. 

It was only $3.99 so it isn't like I paid big bucks.

Weight- So I was a little sad with my WI on Saturday. Because I thought it was the same as the week before and considering I saw a much lower number Thursday morning I thought Saturday mid-afternoon would be good (upon waking up).  Well, I didn't really take into account how much Thur/Fri would affect that number.  I did over 10k steps on Thur and 9k on Friday. My body was not happy with me and retaining water and inflammation I am sure. But then yesterday afternoon I made not great choices so it is up today. That is OK though. I have all week to make sure nothing sticks from yesterday and to hopefully get my body used to moving again. I did also realize I was actually down .2 in the morning not the same as I had thought so that helped a little. 

I am back at my original -3.8 loss that I was at before my birthday and cruise. We shall see how this week goes with being back at work for the full week. It is going to be a ROUGH week. We are not morning people and having to leave the house at 6:45 will be miserable. It isn't just me as I will have to make sure the kids are awake and getting ready as well which complicates life. At least my 11th grader should have NOTHING to complain about this year. Last year he took quite a few mental health days because he didn't want to deal with some classes. This year he has US History and FIVE electives!!!  The history teacher he has is pretty chill and I think he will enjoy her. 

Goodbye Summer

 I have to say goodbye to summer today. Today is my last day before I report back to work tomorrow. The kids do not report back till Monday at least so two days to work on various things needed around campus. 

I finished my last 3.5 assignments and am DONE with my summer classes.  I start fall classes August 19th so I have a 2 week break. 

I have a to-do list today that I am slowly working on.  I could possibly do it all in like an hour if I choose to. Instead, I am going to take the entire day I am sure to work on it. Not like I have anything better to do with my time. 

 

Yeah, I finally got a picture uploaded.  I made this Saturday. The high peak is my WI from after the cruise and then you can see the decline after that. 

Happy to report that I am lower than that as of this week. Saturday will be the true weigh-in in though that will determine how much lower. 

I finally got a picture in and now I cannot decide what other pictures to post.  Story of my life.

Ok off to go work on this to-do list. 

Saturday 8/3/24

I am down to 3.5 things due before the end of the summer term.  I say .5 on one of them as it is a slideshow that I will have to present. I have made my slides- I just need to decide how I am presenting and get that recorded and is due tomorrow. Those 3.5 things are in two classes.  I have completed everything else in my other 3 classes so they are done. 

Friday was a very blah day and I just was not a happy girl. I woke up grumpy and just stayed that way most of the day. Today is a better day! I woke up in a better mood. I knocked out my slides. I spoke to an old customer from my old job on FB to ask her about my 19-year-old. He needs to learn to drive but everything I see online says no permit past 18. How in the heck is he supposed to learn if he cannot get a permit? Turns out he should still be able to. He just needs to go take the permit test in the DMV office. He took it in high school in driver's ed (@@ yeah I know- he didn't want the class and failed it) and passed it. There is a slight chance that will be on record but not counting on it. Plus that was over 3 years ago as well. She doesn't work there anymore but she reached out to a current DMV employee for me so that takes some stress off my shoulders of the unknown. 

I'm hungry which makes sense since I only had protein coffee today and it is almost 7. HOLY WOW where did the day go!!!!  So I need to cook dinner and I want to try and get the kitchen cleaned up. There are dishes in the sink I want gone. 

I changed my tracker today.  Looks FANTASTIC doesn't it? It is a lie.  haha  Ok fine, I changed my starting weight to the WI after I got back from the cruise.  Really I am down 3.6 from my start weight on 6/22. I want credit for losing the birthday and cruise weeks weight though dang it! Hah!

Hello August!

 Today was the Freshman Preview at the high school.  A bunch of us running around trying to get 450+ students a tour of the campus along with a preview of what to expect.

 I have been up since 6 am and this girl is running out of gas. I tried to go to sleep at 10 and even with Tylenol PM I could not stay asleep. I slept for about an hour and was up again so I took a melatonin gummy to turn off my brain. I think it was the knowing I had an alarm set that was keeping me up. No alarm tomorrow thank goodness!  I am down to the last 8 things due. One of them I am not doing though. The professor drops the lowest grade in each section. So I didn't do something due Monday and I am not doing something due Tuesday for the same class.  No matter if I do them or not my grade will be the same so I am not even going to worry about it as I am at 96.98 in that class. 

Each day my weight was going more and more down to where I was only up .2 from the -3.8 I had before my birthday. I did not weigh in today because I have been weighing in at 11:45 am and I didn't want to be annoyed by the 6 am number. I have been eating REALLY well not even meaning to the last few days. Today I really didn't want to cook and I looked at the frozen pizza in the freezer (buffalo chicken HAH! Too bad I didn't realize I had that Monday (see below) However- 300 calories per slice! OUCH!

Monday evening I really wanted Wingstop- It was National Chicken Wing Day after all. I was looking at the specials and the best value was boneless wings. When I presented the idea to my husband he started immediately with his- "Oh, so you mean chicken nuggets?" which annoys me.  I kept looking at the price as well thinking that would be a lot to feed everyone. I ended up closing the app and cutting up that chicken I mentioned in Monday's post. I sliced two breasts thinner into 3 pieces each and then I put them in a lemon juice greek marinade I had Googled earlier with the listed ingredients- just not the same measurements. Then I sliced up the other 4 into nuggets and found some panko in the pantry. I made frozen fries and homemade nuggets. Tuesday's dinner was the marinaded chicken air-fried with rice. Wednesday was leftover rice and a bag of shrimp I turned into garlic shrimp. I sauteed up a zucchini for me as well. Tonight I was tired and didn't really want to cook.  I didn't want to mess up my calories even. Told hubby self dinner for him because he doesn't like breakfast for dinner. I sliced up some potatoes that were going soft and seasoned them then air-fried them. Then I simply made scrambled eggs. I ended up with potatoes, scrambled eggs, and the most perfect avocado for my dinner. 

I have a PowerPoint test to take tomorrow. Some more accounting stuff to do. A PowerPoint presentation and a few other things left in those last 7 things. 

Over 5k steps which I have not done much over the summer this year so far.