Sun, 9/26
I can't believe how fast time flies. I have had a terrible week. I have eaten way too much. After maintaining for 2 weeks, I know there will be a gain this week. Why do I keep doing this? I know what I have to do to loose this weight, why can't I just do it? I have been fritzing around with the same 15 - 20 pounds for 2 years now. I just feel so depressed right now. I feel like there is no hope. Sorry to be so down. Hopefully things will start to look up this week. Keep the faith ;)
Tues, 9/21
I have had a terrible time lately. After spending what seemed like forever cleaning up after Floyd, we are getting more rain again today. We are under a flash flood watch. What a drag. And to top matters off, we are still below our average rainfall for the year. Can you believe that?

I went and got my haircut Friday morning. Boy what a mistake that was. I asked for a wedge and that is sure not what I got. The girl layered my hair up the back. She thought it would look better than a wedge. Whatever happened to "the customer is always right"? To top matters off, I had to go down to my neighbors and get her to even it up. Not only was it uneven from side to side, over my right ear it was very uneven. I feel I should have gotten the haircut for free, but they only gave me half off. And then the girl who cut my hair had the nerve to ask about a tip when I wrote the check out for exactly $7. I told her the best tip I could give her was to change her profession. Not very nice of me, but I really don't care at this point.

Weighed at the dr's office today when I had Tim there for his allergy shots. I maintained. Have to kick up the exercise I guess. Keep the faith ;)

Sun, 9/19
I has been a while since I updated, but with Floyd paying a visit and the server being down, this is the first chance I have had. We made it through Floyd with little damage, mostly tree limbs down from the woods behind our house. Thankfully none of them his our house or cars. Downtown proper had some flooding, along with Elkton (the building where our server is housed had 18 inches of water on the first floor. The basement was completely flooded.) The hardest hit was the small town of North East, with the only road in and out of town being washed out. The have been working on it and it should be fixed in time for school on Monday.

Of course, schools were closed both Thursday and Friday. My brother in Florida wrote telling us he was used to us getting snow days, but didn't we think it was a little greedy to take hurricane days, too. His daughter is usually the one who gets out of school due to hurricanes. They said this was the first time in history MD schools were closed due to hurricane. I hope it is the last. I could do without them.

Don't have any idea how the weight loss is doing as I haven't been near a good scale in over a week. Take Tim to dr on Tues for allergy shot, hope I can weigh then. Keep the faith ;)

Tues, 9/14
Had a pretty rough day today. Didn't really eat over my points, just faced with temptation everywhere. Sometimes it is so tough to turn all the goodies down. I joined the water club at work, so I don't have to worry about carrying my water back and forth to school. I have been drinking an average of 60 - 80 ounces of water at work each day, then drink another 20 - 40 after I get home. The only problem is that you are supposed to replace the water bottle if you empty it. I had to put a new one on again today. Someone had not only emptied the bottle, but the reservoir in the water cooler was totally empty too. I replaced the bottle the one time I emptied it and have had to do it 3 times when I didn't empty it. Why can't people just replace it when they empty it?

Took the youngest over to the dr for his allergy shot and they forgot we were coming. We were a little later than usual getting there and the dr was already gone. They are usually seeing patients til 6:00 in the evening. It was 4:08 when we got there today. I wouldn't be so upset except that Tim was bitten by some kind of bug or something and his whole hand is swollen. He isn't sure what bit him, but it sure looks nasty. Will weigh in tomorrow and let you know how things are going. Keep the faith ;)

Mon, 9/13
My fifteen year old daughter (Jai) was upset when she got home from school. She wore a cute top and jeans to school today. I told her that you could really see her figure. She said she knew because the boys at school had noticed and she didn't like them noticing. She usually wears baggy jeans and T-shirts that would fit her big brother. I thought she looked real nice, but she probably won't wear that outfit again because the boys noticed. I would have killed for a figure like hers when I was 15. She doesn't realize how lucky she is. Meanwhile, I am plugging away at this weight-loss plan and doing my best to drop just 5 pounds a month. Why is life so unfair? Keep the faith ;)
Fri, 9/10
Sorry it has been so long since I have visited here. I have had some kind of bug. Now I have a cold. Sunday was our anniversary (18 years) and Yobo took off from work so we could spend the day together. I woke up sick as a dog. The nauseous feeling has lasted almost all week. Now I am getting a cold to end things up. Was so tired when I got home from work today that I curled up on the couch and slept for about an hour and a half.

Things are looking pretty good on the weight loss front. I am down to 232. I am going to try to be down around 200 by Christmas. I think that is a doable weight loss. Keep the faith ;)

Sat, 9/4
Okay, this is the third time I have tried to update here. Tripod keeps asking for me to login and then looses my work. If this doesn't take, I give up.

What I typed yesterday was probably best lost anyway. To put it bluntly I had a terrible day with that bitch I work with. She pissed me off major big time. Sorry for the language, but I feel like saying something much worse, but will refrain since I am supposed to be a lady. Sure as heck don't feel like one right now.

To make a long story short, she spent more time on personal business that she did doing her job. I was alone in the room with the kids most of the day and when she was there, she wouldn't even help me with the project we were working on. She thinks it is a waste of time because we have to do everything hand-over-hand with all the kids but one. I feel it is better to do something with them than to just sit there letting them vegetate. I am sure the principal and assistant principal would much rather go by and see me doing something with them than just sitting there ignoring them, which is what she does most of the time.

Because of being so stressed out with her, I came home and started eating. Realized what I was doing and stopped. Hope I didn't do too much damage. Keep the faith ;)

Wed, 9/1

I can't wait til my foot is better. I have been under a lot of stress lately and can't even walk to help get rid of some of it. Just walking around at work makes my foot bleed through the bandage. At least it isn't getting infected.

Well, the countdown has begun. Only 177 more days of school in this school year. We are using popsicle sticks to count the days down in our classroom. Not sure how many of the kids grasp the idea, but we are doing it anyway. I have started a unit on transportation and we will be using different shapes to make different vehicles. Tomorrow we are going to make a school bus. I am planning a different project for each week because I refuse to just sit there and read to the kids. It will be a lot of hand-over-hand work, but I can handle it. Keep the faith ;)