it's not every day that you want to be called a loser. but today was the day.

i am sooo tired! i got to school early and finished some more of my telpas papers (checking out my students' english proficiency)...i didn't finish all of them, so i will be working on some of that this week. i did run across one funny thing in speaking about math, one student wrote: someone invented numbers his name was herold, but he's not with us right now. not sure where that came from, or what our math teachers are teaching our students....smile.

 i ended up walking the school during planning period to help dr. hughes  map out where all of the murals will be so that she can let the primer people know! i've got lots of drawing to do this week as well.

today was the last weigh in for our biggest loser contest, and our school out-lost junkins by about 40-some pounds! i ended up losing 29 lbs since jan 17, but i still have about 25-30 to go...ugh. more eating well and exercising and moving around! we are going to start a new contest starting when we get back from break. my biggest goal is to not gain any weight before we go back and to keep on losing-but we all know how difficult that is when traveling and playing. our nurse is pretty amazing at getting special prizes for these things. this year it was dickey's barbecue sandwiches, special wellness book, as the winner i got a 6 month pass to the farmers branch rec center and a gift certificate at nuevo leon-mexican in case you weren't certain, plus the money in the pot (which will be good for the trip to ok)

fun stuff

a little sacrifice makes the pants a little baggy.

anyhoo, i had to run home to the office to get my package before the office closed because i won't be able to get it in the morning.

i followed the tracking, so i knew that it had been delivered!

my coffee and flax grinder arrived! yippee!

and after i had secured my package, i went over to agave azul to meet with some teacher friends that i don't get to seevery often because we're all in different parts of the bldg, and one doesn't work at cabell anymore. it is always good to get together with these ladies to catch up!

now i need to get to bed because i have an early morning ahead so that i can get up to oklahoma to visit the crew!

will try to keep updating over the spring break!
julie

wapp is not hitting someone over the head really hard, and yes, chaco, it's ok to be a fanny pack dog...

k, i have to make this one quick because i have a ton to do tonight before tomorrow ('before tomorrow' wasn't necessary, because it's pretty obvious that that's what comes after tonight)...

today was a crazy day; i ended up canceling tutoring because i didn't want the hassle with parent-pick-up if the weather turned south. i just got a new app-it's called wapp...weather app by news 4-very exciting (good to have since the weather is going to be crazy this spring...maybe).

free ap-weather app, fox 4...i don't exactly remember how i got it.(app store or android market, search kdfw weather)

i just figured it would be handy if the electricity went out...since i still haven't figured out what mile markers i am between....

it got terribly dark today around lunch, and the last thing i wanted to deal with was bad weather and parents not being able to make it in time to pick up their kiddos. the other thing is i wanted to get home to work on mural-stuffs and some of the telpas papers.i figure our verifier will be placated a bit if i can at least get some of the classes done before spring break! and i don't plan on staying after school tomorrow for too long-i've got a date at agave azul! then i need to come home and get my car cleaned out and bring some necessities down so that i can leave early in the morning on saturday! woo hoo!!

ok, so i just saw that mary kay is doing a month long volunteer service...(i don't know how dr. hughes got us on that list, but they are the ones helping with the murals)...i hope they don't bring the cameras with them, because when i'm painting, i wear my grungy paint clothes...and i won't look like i came out of a facial party.

 last night, chaco grabbed the fanny pack that sometimes comes with us on walks, to house the treats) and he started walking around with it. he said he was a fanny man. and it's true...he does go around sniffing other dogs' fannies. anyhoo, he must have smelled the residuals of treats because he acted like there was a basement and he was going to go down into the thing.

well, the tracking for my flax grinder says that it is supposed to arrive tomorrow!!  yippee!!

gotta' go get stuff done!
julie

the raspberries made me spend more money...

today was a beautiful day! i went for a walk around the neighborhood for lunch. as i was going, there was a girl riding on the hood of a car down the road--how foolish. when i lived in kc, one of our klife kids was doing something similar and fell off the hood and under the car. she had to get skin grafts and all sorts of rehab. the driver felt guilty and the gal had nightmares about it for years after. boo.

on the way home, i knew i needed raspberries, so i stopped in at the tom thumb around the corner...they had a special, so i got two...and blueberries..and brussel sprouts...and spices and flax seed. i hate shopping for that very reason. what should've been 3 bucks turned into 30.

oh, and it occurred to me the other day that i haven't eaten out since i started on this biggest loser-thing except for my turkey sandwich this weekend from ruthie's rolling cafe..so i haven't technically been to a restaurant. that spell will certainly be broken when i head up to oklahoma at the beginning of spring break.

when the boys and i went out, we stopped at the office, and there were no residents, so we stopped in to play and got the story about one of my manager's neighbors. an elderly hispanic lady was coming up tho their house and peeking in the window and the kids told mom about it, but she didn't really believe it. the lady would come into the garage, and one day, she finally saw the lady trying to look into the cab of her husband's truck and when she went over, the lady began speaking to her in spanish. well, my friend just looked at her with a raised eyebrow, not knowing what she was saying or what was going on. she later found out that the lady was in the beginning stages of dementia and alzheimer's, and the truck was similar to her other son in ca. sad, but slightly humorous. hopefully the neighbor will keep closer watch on grandma.

there were too many big dogs at our dog park, so we passed it by. but we did see more signs of spring!

hey, bud!

 oh. i just ordered a grinder for my flax seeds and coffee beans. woo hoo! should be here in a couple of days-show. it to you when it arrives!

don't go staring into other' windows if you don't want them to think that you have dementia.

julie