Current mood:

bouncy

I love Friday!
Another lazy Friday!

I love having summer off. I also love that my summer job is only 4 days a week for 4 hours a day, haha.

I am still procrastinating over sending my paperwork in to the Social Security Office. I have it all filled out I just keep forgetting that I need to buy a big envelope so that I can mail the marriage license and my passport and stuff along with the application.

Let's see...what else is new...

Oh, I need to get Trevor's Heartguard and I need to buy a toilet brush so that I can clean the toilets. Apparently we threw ours out when we moved and I didn't know that until I went to try and find it this week. I also want to take Trevor to the dog park for a while since we are going to be over in Dunwoody anyway.

I spent a few hours yesterday moving furniture around my classroom. They didn't have the air turned on so I was pretty disgusting by the end of the day. Last year I just left things as the previous teacher had arranged them because I didn't have time to fix things up because of all of the stupid MONDO Literacy Design training we had to go to during pre-planning week. I also couldn't get into my room early last summer because of construction. I didn't like the way things were arranged but I just dealt with it. Now I am changing up everything. I just hope the dumb ol' fire marshall doesn't have a cow about the fact that I put my big metal storage cabinets in the bathroom. The bathroom is HUGE and the cabinets don't block anything so I really don't see what the big deal is. I am also going to hang things from the ceiling, put stuff on the wall within 5 feet of my doorways, and cover my big dividing wall with fabric that ISN'T flame retardant (if flame retardant material is too expensive, anyway). MWAHAHAHA.

Seriously, though, if you follow all the stupid rules then your classroom ends up looking barren. Not cool.

I figure the worst thing that can happen is they ask me to change it.

Since I worked the SPARK kindercamp this summer I got to meet 11 of my kids and I LOVE them. I think I ended up with a fairly high group and they were so well behaved for the three days I had them. Almost all of them caught on to things really quickly. I ended up using all of the extra work I had been given for "early finishers". Hopefully they won't throw in any crazy kids before school starts. I don't need anyone messing this up!

What else...

Oh, I've lost 8 pounds! Between moving in with Dan, starting teaching, and planning the wedding I had gained a fair amount of weight over the last year (about 10-15 pounds) and was feeling really gross. I finally started doing something about it after I noticed that I was starting to get a fat pooch above my knees and imagined me as a 300 pound lady whose thighs and upper arms had gotten so big that the fat pooches were covering her elbows and knees. You know what I'm talking about. You've seen it! After that I was like "Oh, hell no. No, no, no. Not me!" So I started cutting back and working out more in the second week in June and I've lost 8 pounds. From 156 to 148 as of this morning. I'm going to try for between 135 and 140. So far so good!

Here's the thing about my weight, though, that's always bugged me. I will fully admit that I am lucky and never gain weight around my middle. No matter how much I've weighed I've always had a flat stomach and a small waist (as evidenced by my size 6 wedding dress!). I gain weight in my butt and thighs where it's less noticeable. Lots of people are shocked when they find out my true weight or pants size because "You're waist is so tiny!". Yeah, well, check out this ass! Haha.

This leads to a lot of "Why are you trying to lose weight?" and "You don't need to lose weight!" and "You can eat this huge piece of cake because you're young and tiny and it doesn't matter!"

The final comment usually comes from someone at work (a lot of middle aged women work in elementary schools). I always feel like I would be insulting them, since they are almost always lamenting about needing to lose weight, if I didn't take the cake and eat it. Like I was saying something like "Oh, no thanks. I don't want to end up like you." or whatever. Plus, if I didn't eat it, they would start in on the "Why are you worrying about your weight? You don't need to!" comments which are just annoying! Don't make me feel bad just because I am concerned about my health and wellbeing.

Luckily, my mom is not one of those women. She was chunky when she was a teenager/young adult and has gone the opposite route of most people and now weighs significantly less than she did when she was younger. She's always told me not to let myself get too big because it just makes you miserable and that it's better to worry about it now than when you're 40 and it's even harder to lose. Thank goodness for her otherwise I might give up on this whole thing and just keep eating that damn cake!

Anyway, that's enough of that. I think that has been brewing in me for a while. Amanda and I were discussing this stuff last night (we have very similar body types) and I guess it finally got to me.

Hrm. Anything else?

I don't think so. I can't wait for pre-planning week! That's my favorite week because I get to decorate and play with school supplies and such all week. I get so geeked out over school supplies! I bought pencil boxes for my kids at Office Depot for $0.19 apiece! They can keep their crayons, pencils, scissors, etc. in them and there will be less disputes over everything because everyone has their own box. That will be nice. The communal thing didn't really work for me last year so I'm going this route. I also got individual dry erase boards for the kids to use (Go to Home Depot and ask for tileboard. $10 for a huge sheet and they will cut it into 12x12 squares for free. I got 24 I think). I am so excited about all my new stuff!

Okay...so there was more. It wasn't important, though. I was just having a moment.

I should do something now.