Good evening everyone. Happy mother's day to all you mothers out there. This morning when I woke up, it was 10AM. I woke Lex up and asked her if she wanted to go to church. She said yes. Erin seemed pretty tired still, so I figured since it was mothers day that I would go to church with the girls and let Erin sleep. It was nice to be back at church. I especially always enjoy singing along with the choir. After church when Lex and I went to get Zoe from the daycare section, the person in charge said "She was so good!" I was like "I'm glad to hear it!"
When we left church, I asked Lex if she brought her money. She said she did. I told her that I wanted to go to wal mart, and that if she had her money she could get mothers day stuff for mommy. She was excited about it. At wal mart, while lex was picking out her cards and flowers for mommy, Zoe and I were picking out ours. I think it was a big surprise to Erin when we got home. I handed Zoe her card and flower and said "Go on Zo! Go give your card and flower to mommy!" She was like "okay dadda!"
Left overs for lunch was really good. I reheated lex's brisket plate from last night for her, and mac & cheese and scalloped potatos from last night as well for Erin and I.
This week, Erin has more hours scheduled. Paycheck wise, I'm hoping she works most of them. I know it will make her happier if next time she gets paid it is a nice paycheck compared to the usual pizza ranch paycheck.
I'm pretty tired right now, so I'm not in as much of a writing mood as I would like. So I'm going to close with this. I got the deputy sheriffs application filled out today. The plan is that I will turn it in tomorrow. Then to continue getting in shape for next month's civil service testing. WHAT FUN! I am going to call that it for tonight all. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Day 34
Good evening everyone. Today was a fairly sleepless day. By 7:15 it had been raining for 2 hours and the coach was calling to say that the game had been cancelled. So I picked Lex up from the YWCA sleepover, came home and went to bed. It was barely 3 hours later and the kids were being loud. It looked like Erin needed sleep, so reluctantly I dragged myself up and went downstairs with the kids.
For brunch I made fryed egg sandwiches and bacon for everyone. Those always hit the spot. Maybe my lack of stuff coming to mind to write about is due to my extreme lack of sleep. So I will try this.
Yesterday we finally received the books I had ordered a few weeks ago. I read "The house of night" series, book number 1. There are 6 or more total books in the series. Book 1 was awesome. I flew threw it. When I finished, I knew I wanted to continue the series. That night Erin and I ordered the next 4 in the series. Finally! Finally! Finally! After what seemed like 3 weeks, they showed up. I had been trying to read a book called "The witching hour" and oh my gosh! That book is hard to get into. I don't know if it's that I think it's slow, or that it is boring. For me, it's like the witching hour story just has not really gone anywhere fast, and feels dull. I kept reading it while waiting for the house of night books to ship because I didn't want to give up on it. Last night when I went to work, I left the witching hour here and took the house of night book 2 with me.
Two weeks of trying to read the witching hour and I was only on page 60. An hour of reading the house of night and I was on page 30. I was like "ok, so it wasn't me. It was the book I was trying to read."
So, although I have not written much tonight, I'm going to move on to the closing. Tonight we are going to have brisket for dinner. It has been cooking for the past 5 hours. In addition to the fact that it feels like too many days I've gone without working out, I have also felt more weak when it comes to food. I find myself in the kitchen, looking for a snack, and then telling myself "I shouldn't be doing this. I should be grabbing vegis or fruit, or just waiting till later when we eat." I'm sure it's partially because of the stress. Lack of sleep sucks big time. It stresses me out so bad. And depending on how late Erin was up, sometimes I have to be the one to get up in the morning when Zoe wakes up, usually because Erin is too tired. It sucks! I can't stress that enough. IT. SUCKS. OH. M. G.
One other thing before I bring this entry to a close. Although I'm filling out the app and applying for the Deputy Sherrif's position, I do find myself nervous and a little scared. I don't know about what exactly, I'm just really nervous and scared when it comes to applying for and possibly completely switching jobs. So I will call that it for tonight. I appologize for not having much to say. I will write more for you all tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
PS At least I still maintain my goal of blogging every single day. Some days, obviously, are better than others. Some days are extremely hard due to things like lack of sleep, or just not feeling too hot emotionally.
For brunch I made fryed egg sandwiches and bacon for everyone. Those always hit the spot. Maybe my lack of stuff coming to mind to write about is due to my extreme lack of sleep. So I will try this.
Yesterday we finally received the books I had ordered a few weeks ago. I read "The house of night" series, book number 1. There are 6 or more total books in the series. Book 1 was awesome. I flew threw it. When I finished, I knew I wanted to continue the series. That night Erin and I ordered the next 4 in the series. Finally! Finally! Finally! After what seemed like 3 weeks, they showed up. I had been trying to read a book called "The witching hour" and oh my gosh! That book is hard to get into. I don't know if it's that I think it's slow, or that it is boring. For me, it's like the witching hour story just has not really gone anywhere fast, and feels dull. I kept reading it while waiting for the house of night books to ship because I didn't want to give up on it. Last night when I went to work, I left the witching hour here and took the house of night book 2 with me.
Two weeks of trying to read the witching hour and I was only on page 60. An hour of reading the house of night and I was on page 30. I was like "ok, so it wasn't me. It was the book I was trying to read."
So, although I have not written much tonight, I'm going to move on to the closing. Tonight we are going to have brisket for dinner. It has been cooking for the past 5 hours. In addition to the fact that it feels like too many days I've gone without working out, I have also felt more weak when it comes to food. I find myself in the kitchen, looking for a snack, and then telling myself "I shouldn't be doing this. I should be grabbing vegis or fruit, or just waiting till later when we eat." I'm sure it's partially because of the stress. Lack of sleep sucks big time. It stresses me out so bad. And depending on how late Erin was up, sometimes I have to be the one to get up in the morning when Zoe wakes up, usually because Erin is too tired. It sucks! I can't stress that enough. IT. SUCKS. OH. M. G.
One other thing before I bring this entry to a close. Although I'm filling out the app and applying for the Deputy Sherrif's position, I do find myself nervous and a little scared. I don't know about what exactly, I'm just really nervous and scared when it comes to applying for and possibly completely switching jobs. So I will call that it for tonight. I appologize for not having much to say. I will write more for you all tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
PS At least I still maintain my goal of blogging every single day. Some days, obviously, are better than others. Some days are extremely hard due to things like lack of sleep, or just not feeling too hot emotionally.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Day 33
It's amazing how much the apparent need for naps increases as you get older. Sleep is one of those things that I look at now as being golden. In the past I still loved sleep, but it was no where near what I think of it now. When I was in High School, did I try to sleep in on the weekends? Sure! But the funny thing was this. I have always been some what of a night owl. I would stay up till 3 or 4 some nights depending on what I was doing, go to bed and try to sleep till noon. Of course, my dad would usually flip my light on around 9 or 10 saying "Time to get up Chris! It's late! Got a lot of things to do today!" Of course, we didn't always have that much to do, but that was what he said.
Today when I finally got to bed just before 8 this morning, I slept till about 1:30 when my alarm went off. I hit snooze, and went back to sleep till 1:45. I actually was awake enough that I could have gone to today's class. Days left include: Today, monday, and wednesday. All we are doing is further going over the paper that she already went over with me on. My initial thought when I got up at 1:45 was that I wanted to go back to bed for another hour or two, email my teacher and tell her that I would email her the draft she already saw, and that I would see her on Monday. At this point, we are basically not doing anything else, and I really did not feel up to driving all the way across town to do what I was already doing on my own, so I emailed out. Did I initially plan to go? Yup. When it comes down to it, the idea of getting extra sleep will usually win out, especially with how I work nights, sleep days, etc.
I'm really looking forward to next month. First week of June is when my online classes start. Finally I will be able to work a little faster towards my bachelors degree. Also, just after I start classes, the civil service testing for the deputy sherriff's position takes place. From what I understand, there is a written test and then a physical agility test that consists of pushups, situps, and 1 1/2 mile timed run. I have already been working towards getting in better shape for the past 2 weeks, but now that I have seen the info packet with the application that explained the physical tests, I know I need to get out and run, pushing myself more and more so that when the time comes I will be able to breeze right through it. I didn't follow through with applying to the police department, I want to follow through and complete this. Who knows? I could get hired! If I did, I would make more than I did working for Schwans and probably much better hours. Plus, and this is a big bonus for Erin and I, Employer paid health and life insurance! :-D
I do really enjoy my job as a security officer. I decided a long time ago that I would really only leave for a really good job offer. When I left my last security job for schwans, I knew the hours were going to suck. I thought only of the money. If I had also strongly thought of the hours, the being away from my family, the stress involved, I may have decided to stay with the college security position, continueing to work on my online degree with Ashford University, and by now probably being at least a year away from my bachelors in teaching. But, a different choice was made, and now I am where I am. All I can do is continue working towards my goals.
So today, when I came downstairs around 2, Erin, Zoe, and I went to pick up her paycheck. We headed over to the check cashing place to cash it and have it put on one of their cards. The card we got was basically a waste because we tried to make a payment onto our verizon account and the card wouldn't work. We thought "ok, we will try it later" and went over to pick up some food from Arbys. They tried to run the card there and again said "insufficient funds." So we ended up going to an atm, withdrawing the money off the card instead because obviously it had issues.
When we got home, Lex had just gotten home and was waiting outside playing. Tonight Erin dropped her off at the YWCA. There was this sleep over thing going on with her after school program, taking place at the Y from 7:30 pm till tomorrow morning at 7:30. Initially I was going to go ahead and crash when I get off tomorrow morning, and Erin was going to pick her up at 7:30, but Lex's soccer game is at 9. So I'm thinking, as much as it will suck for me, I'm thinking I will just force myself to remain awake till we get past her game and then I will go to bed. The idea of going to bed after being up for an all night shift, and not having a set time when I "Have" to wake up, sounds better than any time I have gone to bed and only had 2 or 3 hours to sleep before having to get up. Chances are I may end up sleeping till 4 or 5 tomorrow evening but oh well. I will try not to sleep quite that long though. Erin actually has this weekend off and I want us to go to church on sunday. It will be the first time in a few weeks since we last went. I'm weird, I prefer not to go to church unless we are all able to go. I've gone with just the girls before, and I'm willing to again, I just prefer to have Erin there with us too.
So tonight I'm going to try something. Lately I have noticed that it feels really hard to get on the computer and convince myself to write. Thankfully I have still been able to motivate myself to do my blog entries every day. However, my book has not really been updated too much in a few days. I have opened it up a few times and started typing, and then lost interest, or my mind was blank, and ended up saving and closing it again. I want to write both the blog, and the book every night. I don't know what the issue is. So tonight I want to do something. I'm going to do some descriptive writing. I don't know how much it will end up being. However, what I'm going to do is describe the weather for today, and what I was thinking and feeling this morning when I got off and was waiting for Lex. Ready? Here goes.
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The time is currently 6:20 AM. I just got off work, and drove back home. It rained hard throughout my entire shift, and although the sun was up, I can not see much of it. There are many dark clouds filling the sky. The day was going to be a gloomy one indeed. It was almost as though there was a grey blanket that had been pulled over the veil that was the sky, and now the light of the day was nothing more than a very gray glow.
Here I am now, sitting in the chair. I have already gone upstairs, turned Lex's light on, told her that her cereal is ready and waiting for her, and came back down. I have turned on the TV, the wii, put the next episode of hercules on. When I initially came into the family room, the lamp had been on. I wanted the room as dark as possible, because it is easy for me to relax when it is dark. Light keeps me awake. I reached down with my right hand, feeling for the lever. Feeling it, I pulled it, causing the foot rest of the recliner to extend. Ah. So comfy! I can see how Erin can so easily nap in this chair. Without the light of the lamp, and the light of the tv being the only light, the room was still pretty dark. I could see into the kitchen, but it was really dim in there as well. I left a single lamp on near the kitchen table for Lex.
As hercules started to play, I thought "I should get my laptop and get online," but of course, with the gloomy day causing the nicely dimmed room, I was too relaxed. I did not want to move. All I wanted to do was stay exactly where I was, and enjoy two things. The comfy position I was in, and the show I enjoy so much. This was the life. I wish it was possible to feel that relaxed all the time, but unfortunately too many things are going on in life, that Erin and I now occasionally will be getting cheap massages from our close friend every few weeks. Erin had hers just yesterday and apparently it helped her a lot. I don't remember it helping her as much the first time, but maybe I'm just not remembering it correctly. As I recall, it was gloomy yesterday as well while she was at her appointment. The main difference was it really was not raining at that point. It was just the "promise" of rain. Thankfully before the official rain came, Erin was able to get her mother's day plants in the ground in her garden.
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With the overcast day, the temperature gradually got much cooler. When I woke up, it felt really cold downstairs. I looked at the thermastat and it said the temp in the house was 63. Thinking of the kids, I went ahead and flipped the switch back to heat. It had been in the "off" position for a little while. Usually whenever it cooled down outside briefly, the house was still comfortable. When it stays cold for a day or longer, then the house slowly gets cold, and hense, the heat is required. Mid 60's is good. I have always had a saying. You can always throw more clothes and blankets on, but you can only take so much off. The hotter it is, the more you have to take off. If you take everything off, then eventually thats it. You can't take off any more, and yet you might still be burning up. Where as in the cold, you can throw on another shirt, a sweater even, a blanket or two, and eventually you will find the amount of layers that helps.
Time to close this long entry. Tonight about an hour and a half before work, I decided I would try to catch a quick power nap. I looked at the clock, and it was 7pm. I had not fallen asleep yet. Again, I closed my eyes and tried to clear my mind. I found myself imagining the feeling of the tight muscles being worked on in my back, the knots being taken care of. I remember subcontiously thinking to myself "I wonder if I'm going to get any sleep before my alarm goes off," and suddenly my alarm did. It made me jump because apparently somewhere in my mind I thought I was still awake. Obviously I had fallen asleep for maybe 30 - 40 minutes, because the alarm came up on me quicker than it normally would if I was still awake. I definitely know the difference. In the past I have layed down trying to nap, and been awake and alert right up until the time I was going to get up. Those experiences suck, because then you're getting ready for work thinking "sleep. needed sleep. Oh well. Will sleep tomorrow." lol. So on that note, I will call that it for tonight. I thank you all for being apart of my long rant, and will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
Today when I finally got to bed just before 8 this morning, I slept till about 1:30 when my alarm went off. I hit snooze, and went back to sleep till 1:45. I actually was awake enough that I could have gone to today's class. Days left include: Today, monday, and wednesday. All we are doing is further going over the paper that she already went over with me on. My initial thought when I got up at 1:45 was that I wanted to go back to bed for another hour or two, email my teacher and tell her that I would email her the draft she already saw, and that I would see her on Monday. At this point, we are basically not doing anything else, and I really did not feel up to driving all the way across town to do what I was already doing on my own, so I emailed out. Did I initially plan to go? Yup. When it comes down to it, the idea of getting extra sleep will usually win out, especially with how I work nights, sleep days, etc.
I'm really looking forward to next month. First week of June is when my online classes start. Finally I will be able to work a little faster towards my bachelors degree. Also, just after I start classes, the civil service testing for the deputy sherriff's position takes place. From what I understand, there is a written test and then a physical agility test that consists of pushups, situps, and 1 1/2 mile timed run. I have already been working towards getting in better shape for the past 2 weeks, but now that I have seen the info packet with the application that explained the physical tests, I know I need to get out and run, pushing myself more and more so that when the time comes I will be able to breeze right through it. I didn't follow through with applying to the police department, I want to follow through and complete this. Who knows? I could get hired! If I did, I would make more than I did working for Schwans and probably much better hours. Plus, and this is a big bonus for Erin and I, Employer paid health and life insurance! :-D
I do really enjoy my job as a security officer. I decided a long time ago that I would really only leave for a really good job offer. When I left my last security job for schwans, I knew the hours were going to suck. I thought only of the money. If I had also strongly thought of the hours, the being away from my family, the stress involved, I may have decided to stay with the college security position, continueing to work on my online degree with Ashford University, and by now probably being at least a year away from my bachelors in teaching. But, a different choice was made, and now I am where I am. All I can do is continue working towards my goals.
So today, when I came downstairs around 2, Erin, Zoe, and I went to pick up her paycheck. We headed over to the check cashing place to cash it and have it put on one of their cards. The card we got was basically a waste because we tried to make a payment onto our verizon account and the card wouldn't work. We thought "ok, we will try it later" and went over to pick up some food from Arbys. They tried to run the card there and again said "insufficient funds." So we ended up going to an atm, withdrawing the money off the card instead because obviously it had issues.
When we got home, Lex had just gotten home and was waiting outside playing. Tonight Erin dropped her off at the YWCA. There was this sleep over thing going on with her after school program, taking place at the Y from 7:30 pm till tomorrow morning at 7:30. Initially I was going to go ahead and crash when I get off tomorrow morning, and Erin was going to pick her up at 7:30, but Lex's soccer game is at 9. So I'm thinking, as much as it will suck for me, I'm thinking I will just force myself to remain awake till we get past her game and then I will go to bed. The idea of going to bed after being up for an all night shift, and not having a set time when I "Have" to wake up, sounds better than any time I have gone to bed and only had 2 or 3 hours to sleep before having to get up. Chances are I may end up sleeping till 4 or 5 tomorrow evening but oh well. I will try not to sleep quite that long though. Erin actually has this weekend off and I want us to go to church on sunday. It will be the first time in a few weeks since we last went. I'm weird, I prefer not to go to church unless we are all able to go. I've gone with just the girls before, and I'm willing to again, I just prefer to have Erin there with us too.
So tonight I'm going to try something. Lately I have noticed that it feels really hard to get on the computer and convince myself to write. Thankfully I have still been able to motivate myself to do my blog entries every day. However, my book has not really been updated too much in a few days. I have opened it up a few times and started typing, and then lost interest, or my mind was blank, and ended up saving and closing it again. I want to write both the blog, and the book every night. I don't know what the issue is. So tonight I want to do something. I'm going to do some descriptive writing. I don't know how much it will end up being. However, what I'm going to do is describe the weather for today, and what I was thinking and feeling this morning when I got off and was waiting for Lex. Ready? Here goes.
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The time is currently 6:20 AM. I just got off work, and drove back home. It rained hard throughout my entire shift, and although the sun was up, I can not see much of it. There are many dark clouds filling the sky. The day was going to be a gloomy one indeed. It was almost as though there was a grey blanket that had been pulled over the veil that was the sky, and now the light of the day was nothing more than a very gray glow.
Here I am now, sitting in the chair. I have already gone upstairs, turned Lex's light on, told her that her cereal is ready and waiting for her, and came back down. I have turned on the TV, the wii, put the next episode of hercules on. When I initially came into the family room, the lamp had been on. I wanted the room as dark as possible, because it is easy for me to relax when it is dark. Light keeps me awake. I reached down with my right hand, feeling for the lever. Feeling it, I pulled it, causing the foot rest of the recliner to extend. Ah. So comfy! I can see how Erin can so easily nap in this chair. Without the light of the lamp, and the light of the tv being the only light, the room was still pretty dark. I could see into the kitchen, but it was really dim in there as well. I left a single lamp on near the kitchen table for Lex.
As hercules started to play, I thought "I should get my laptop and get online," but of course, with the gloomy day causing the nicely dimmed room, I was too relaxed. I did not want to move. All I wanted to do was stay exactly where I was, and enjoy two things. The comfy position I was in, and the show I enjoy so much. This was the life. I wish it was possible to feel that relaxed all the time, but unfortunately too many things are going on in life, that Erin and I now occasionally will be getting cheap massages from our close friend every few weeks. Erin had hers just yesterday and apparently it helped her a lot. I don't remember it helping her as much the first time, but maybe I'm just not remembering it correctly. As I recall, it was gloomy yesterday as well while she was at her appointment. The main difference was it really was not raining at that point. It was just the "promise" of rain. Thankfully before the official rain came, Erin was able to get her mother's day plants in the ground in her garden.
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With the overcast day, the temperature gradually got much cooler. When I woke up, it felt really cold downstairs. I looked at the thermastat and it said the temp in the house was 63. Thinking of the kids, I went ahead and flipped the switch back to heat. It had been in the "off" position for a little while. Usually whenever it cooled down outside briefly, the house was still comfortable. When it stays cold for a day or longer, then the house slowly gets cold, and hense, the heat is required. Mid 60's is good. I have always had a saying. You can always throw more clothes and blankets on, but you can only take so much off. The hotter it is, the more you have to take off. If you take everything off, then eventually thats it. You can't take off any more, and yet you might still be burning up. Where as in the cold, you can throw on another shirt, a sweater even, a blanket or two, and eventually you will find the amount of layers that helps.
Time to close this long entry. Tonight about an hour and a half before work, I decided I would try to catch a quick power nap. I looked at the clock, and it was 7pm. I had not fallen asleep yet. Again, I closed my eyes and tried to clear my mind. I found myself imagining the feeling of the tight muscles being worked on in my back, the knots being taken care of. I remember subcontiously thinking to myself "I wonder if I'm going to get any sleep before my alarm goes off," and suddenly my alarm did. It made me jump because apparently somewhere in my mind I thought I was still awake. Obviously I had fallen asleep for maybe 30 - 40 minutes, because the alarm came up on me quicker than it normally would if I was still awake. I definitely know the difference. In the past I have layed down trying to nap, and been awake and alert right up until the time I was going to get up. Those experiences suck, because then you're getting ready for work thinking "sleep. needed sleep. Oh well. Will sleep tomorrow." lol. So on that note, I will call that it for tonight. I thank you all for being apart of my long rant, and will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Day 32
It's amazing to think that I am now on my 32nd entry out of the 365 that I intend to do for this perticular blog. Some days, I admit, it is hard as hell to get myself to write anything. However, I am the type of person that, if I allow myself to slack off, then I will keep doing it. For example, as far as going to the Y, and/or exercising, etc, if I tell myself "Oh I don't feel like it. I will just do it on Thursday." Then Thursday comes along and I think "You know? I will just start fresh on Tuesday." So instead, come Tuesday, I tell myself "I'm going to go otherwise I will want to skip Thursday also." I just have to be determined to do it no matter what. The other day Erin had made a comment about how she would go to a 5:15PM work out class but felt too tired. I mentioned to her later that next time that happens, if she's thinking "I will go later, I'm too tired," that she should go ahead and go anyway. I said that although she felt tired before hand, that who knows, maybe she would feel better after going through it.
So, as you all know, I have been trying to be on a strict diet. Salad's have been my close personal friend for the past at least 2 weeks. Also, I have tried to only drink Mt Dew while I'm at work *mainly because I need at least some caffeine to work overnight*, and I have been trying to resist any urges to snack on anything between meals. I have also made sure to check the labels whenever I'm going to possibly buy something to eat, and make a final decision based on the nutritional information. For instance, last week I was going to pick up easy bake stuff for dinner for all of us because I didn't really have the energy to cook. I looked at Stoufers TV dinners and one of them was like 700 Calories by itself. I was like "DAMN!" I mean, they are pretty damn good, but DAMN!
So I had been pretty strict with my diet lately. Eating granola cereal or other healthy cereal for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and then eating dinner without worrying about anything. Plus exercising at least a couple times a week. Well yesterday I felt like crap. It was a combination of things. 1) I felt exausted all day. I slept good, but by the time I came to work I was dragging. Every time I ate anything, an hour or two later I was starving again. We had frozen fish fillets and mac& Cheese for dinner last night, and literally by 2 hours later I felt weak and as though my stomach was already empty. The only thing I could think was that I had really not been eating much protein at all. Also, with avoiding the snacks between meals, and sugar as much as possible, and not drinking caffeine hardly at all, my body must be burning through everything much faster. Maybe my metabolism is getting higher? Who knows.
So anyway, I decided that I probably really needed a good protein. So when I filled my gas tank up yesterday, I grabbed Erin a snack also, and I got a single serve package of beef jerky. After eating that, I was like "meat. yes. meat. that's what I need. More meat." Didn't leave work this morning until 6:30 because I was trying to get the schedules written up for the next 5 weeks. I meant to do it throughout the night but forgot until 15 minutes till 6 this morning. I rushed when I got home. Put cereal on the table for Lex, had a small bowl myself, ran upstairs and woke her up, and then turned on the next episode of Hercules.
By 7:05 there was still no sign of Lex. I hollered up again but didn't get a response. So I walked up the stairs. She heard me and was on her feet by the time I got to her door. I was like "You don't have much time missy. Get dressed! Your cereal is still on the table." She was like "kay." I went back down, lounging again on the recliner, and resumed Hercules. Eventually she came down, ate, got mostly ready, and then layed on the couch watching the show as well. When it was over, there was 5 minutes before the bus was going to show up. I didn't want her to be late, so I grabbed my keys and said "Hop into the truck, I will drive you down there." I literally dropped her off on the corner near the other kids, did a u-turn and then the bus was pulling up. It was close, but at least she made it.
So for some reason, I couldn't sleep past 1PM. I wanted to sleep till 2 or 3 because of how tired I was all night, but nope, I was wide awake feeling rested at just after 1. Erin came home and put Zoe down for a nap. She showered quick and then layed down, falling asleep herself. I tried to sleep but couldn't, so figured I would get my shower and shave out of the way early. I hung out downstairs for a little bit, and then Lex showed up just after 4. Wanting protein really bad, I thought "Tonight feels like a steak and potatos night." I was going to go with Lex and Zoe to Wal mart to get steaks and stuff for dinner, and I was surprised that Erin was awake. I told her that I had planned to take the girls out and let her sleep, but since she was awake we all went. For mother's day I got Erin a couple different plants for her garden. This time we did vegitables. Tomatos was one of them, brocoli, I think we did onions, and strawberries? Ok, so not 'all' vegi's.
Lex brought her money she got for her birthday, and she bought mommy a nice and big flower plant to plant in the garden as well. We have dreams for how big we want the garden to be. I would even love to take half of one small section of our yard and put a little garden fence around it and have vegitables on one side and regular flowers and such on the other. We were talking about what my dad's reaction would be if he came to visit mid summer and there was this lovely garden all in bloom. I guess we will see!
So the steaks I picked out were this large ass sirloins. Between 4 steaks in the large package, the weight was almost 4 pounds. We rushed back home and dropped Erin off at her appointment with our friend the massage therapist from church. While she was at that, the girls and I headed back home. I began getting the vegitables chopped up and into the foil, ready to throw on the grill, and Erin finished it when she got home. It was about 40 minutes before work, Erin was planting her new plants, the girls were running around in the yard, and I was grilling the steaks and vegis. Gotta love a dinner like that! There is still 1 1/2 steaks left! I joked around with Erin "left over steak will be good for something like Steak and Eggs!" She was like "Or, steak and salad!" I was like "That's a good idea! I've never really had steak in a salad but I know it'd be good!"
So today I splurged a little bit more than usual. When we filled up Erin's car, I grabbed a larger bag of beef jerky. I tried to make up for it though. Instead of eating a lot of it myself, I made sure the bag was passed around the car and we all ate some. Share the calories! ;) It wasn't really the calories that concerned me. It was the sodium. The sodium is rediculous in some bags of beef jerky. The calories are like, 120 Calories per serving, with 15 calories being from fat. Then the sodium is like, 500 Mg, or 28% of the daily consumption for sodium. WOW! Too much sodium and then you retain more water weight.
So, I've noticed that with the way that I have felt tons better so far today, I have felt more like getting on here and doing my writing. When I'm tired and constantly starving I just was like "blah. Lets get this over with." I guess in order to clear your mind and let yourself go with your writing, it is too difficult if your body is saying "WHY HAVE YOU ONLY EATEN 3 MEALS AND NO SNACKS?! I'M HUNGRY DAMN YOU! FEED ME!" And you're like "GEEZE! YOU HAD 3 MEALS! PLUS LOTS OF WATER! WHAT ELSE DO YOU FREAKING WANT?!" lol. I guess a big part of trying to eat healthier and "diet" is having to constantly tell yourself "That's enough. Don't eat anything more until your next meal." Or, "I don't really need that fast food." Or "I don't really need to eat that entire candy bar!" Or even "Nah, I don't need to super size." ;)
I will have to jump on a scale again to see what my weight is so far. If I'm in mid 230's fully clothed then I will be pretty happy. I don't expect to have already dropped 20 pounds but if I'm close to 10 just from consuming water instead of pop and lemonade, that will be good. So I'm happy that today I felt more up to coming on here and writing a decent amount. I am going to call that it for tonight, but will write more for you tomorrow! Check out the pictures of Ally's awesome birthday cake made by Erin. The picture is posted on Erin's blog! Be sure to comment saying what you think! She made it so realistic that it actually looks like a personal pan pizza. Lex wanted a "Pizza Cake." See you all tomorrow!
Thanks for being here.
CB
So, as you all know, I have been trying to be on a strict diet. Salad's have been my close personal friend for the past at least 2 weeks. Also, I have tried to only drink Mt Dew while I'm at work *mainly because I need at least some caffeine to work overnight*, and I have been trying to resist any urges to snack on anything between meals. I have also made sure to check the labels whenever I'm going to possibly buy something to eat, and make a final decision based on the nutritional information. For instance, last week I was going to pick up easy bake stuff for dinner for all of us because I didn't really have the energy to cook. I looked at Stoufers TV dinners and one of them was like 700 Calories by itself. I was like "DAMN!" I mean, they are pretty damn good, but DAMN!
So I had been pretty strict with my diet lately. Eating granola cereal or other healthy cereal for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and then eating dinner without worrying about anything. Plus exercising at least a couple times a week. Well yesterday I felt like crap. It was a combination of things. 1) I felt exausted all day. I slept good, but by the time I came to work I was dragging. Every time I ate anything, an hour or two later I was starving again. We had frozen fish fillets and mac& Cheese for dinner last night, and literally by 2 hours later I felt weak and as though my stomach was already empty. The only thing I could think was that I had really not been eating much protein at all. Also, with avoiding the snacks between meals, and sugar as much as possible, and not drinking caffeine hardly at all, my body must be burning through everything much faster. Maybe my metabolism is getting higher? Who knows.
So anyway, I decided that I probably really needed a good protein. So when I filled my gas tank up yesterday, I grabbed Erin a snack also, and I got a single serve package of beef jerky. After eating that, I was like "meat. yes. meat. that's what I need. More meat." Didn't leave work this morning until 6:30 because I was trying to get the schedules written up for the next 5 weeks. I meant to do it throughout the night but forgot until 15 minutes till 6 this morning. I rushed when I got home. Put cereal on the table for Lex, had a small bowl myself, ran upstairs and woke her up, and then turned on the next episode of Hercules.
By 7:05 there was still no sign of Lex. I hollered up again but didn't get a response. So I walked up the stairs. She heard me and was on her feet by the time I got to her door. I was like "You don't have much time missy. Get dressed! Your cereal is still on the table." She was like "kay." I went back down, lounging again on the recliner, and resumed Hercules. Eventually she came down, ate, got mostly ready, and then layed on the couch watching the show as well. When it was over, there was 5 minutes before the bus was going to show up. I didn't want her to be late, so I grabbed my keys and said "Hop into the truck, I will drive you down there." I literally dropped her off on the corner near the other kids, did a u-turn and then the bus was pulling up. It was close, but at least she made it.
So for some reason, I couldn't sleep past 1PM. I wanted to sleep till 2 or 3 because of how tired I was all night, but nope, I was wide awake feeling rested at just after 1. Erin came home and put Zoe down for a nap. She showered quick and then layed down, falling asleep herself. I tried to sleep but couldn't, so figured I would get my shower and shave out of the way early. I hung out downstairs for a little bit, and then Lex showed up just after 4. Wanting protein really bad, I thought "Tonight feels like a steak and potatos night." I was going to go with Lex and Zoe to Wal mart to get steaks and stuff for dinner, and I was surprised that Erin was awake. I told her that I had planned to take the girls out and let her sleep, but since she was awake we all went. For mother's day I got Erin a couple different plants for her garden. This time we did vegitables. Tomatos was one of them, brocoli, I think we did onions, and strawberries? Ok, so not 'all' vegi's.
Lex brought her money she got for her birthday, and she bought mommy a nice and big flower plant to plant in the garden as well. We have dreams for how big we want the garden to be. I would even love to take half of one small section of our yard and put a little garden fence around it and have vegitables on one side and regular flowers and such on the other. We were talking about what my dad's reaction would be if he came to visit mid summer and there was this lovely garden all in bloom. I guess we will see!
So the steaks I picked out were this large ass sirloins. Between 4 steaks in the large package, the weight was almost 4 pounds. We rushed back home and dropped Erin off at her appointment with our friend the massage therapist from church. While she was at that, the girls and I headed back home. I began getting the vegitables chopped up and into the foil, ready to throw on the grill, and Erin finished it when she got home. It was about 40 minutes before work, Erin was planting her new plants, the girls were running around in the yard, and I was grilling the steaks and vegis. Gotta love a dinner like that! There is still 1 1/2 steaks left! I joked around with Erin "left over steak will be good for something like Steak and Eggs!" She was like "Or, steak and salad!" I was like "That's a good idea! I've never really had steak in a salad but I know it'd be good!"
So today I splurged a little bit more than usual. When we filled up Erin's car, I grabbed a larger bag of beef jerky. I tried to make up for it though. Instead of eating a lot of it myself, I made sure the bag was passed around the car and we all ate some. Share the calories! ;) It wasn't really the calories that concerned me. It was the sodium. The sodium is rediculous in some bags of beef jerky. The calories are like, 120 Calories per serving, with 15 calories being from fat. Then the sodium is like, 500 Mg, or 28% of the daily consumption for sodium. WOW! Too much sodium and then you retain more water weight.
So, I've noticed that with the way that I have felt tons better so far today, I have felt more like getting on here and doing my writing. When I'm tired and constantly starving I just was like "blah. Lets get this over with." I guess in order to clear your mind and let yourself go with your writing, it is too difficult if your body is saying "WHY HAVE YOU ONLY EATEN 3 MEALS AND NO SNACKS?! I'M HUNGRY DAMN YOU! FEED ME!" And you're like "GEEZE! YOU HAD 3 MEALS! PLUS LOTS OF WATER! WHAT ELSE DO YOU FREAKING WANT?!" lol. I guess a big part of trying to eat healthier and "diet" is having to constantly tell yourself "That's enough. Don't eat anything more until your next meal." Or, "I don't really need that fast food." Or "I don't really need to eat that entire candy bar!" Or even "Nah, I don't need to super size." ;)
I will have to jump on a scale again to see what my weight is so far. If I'm in mid 230's fully clothed then I will be pretty happy. I don't expect to have already dropped 20 pounds but if I'm close to 10 just from consuming water instead of pop and lemonade, that will be good. So I'm happy that today I felt more up to coming on here and writing a decent amount. I am going to call that it for tonight, but will write more for you tomorrow! Check out the pictures of Ally's awesome birthday cake made by Erin. The picture is posted on Erin's blog! Be sure to comment saying what you think! She made it so realistic that it actually looks like a personal pan pizza. Lex wanted a "Pizza Cake." See you all tomorrow!
Thanks for being here.
CB
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Day 31
Good day everybody. Last night I headed to bed and crashed within minutes after I got done with the blog. Even as I read it over, I was having trouble keeping my eyes open. Being that tired, I could not keep focus enough on the words that I wrote. Finally, I finished reading it, sent the dog upstairs, gave Erin a kiss good night and headed up. She would have come up too but she had a few assignments she was working on.
Today went pretty good. I had an email right off the bat from my teacher. She was not going to be on campus today and so class was cancelled. When I woke up first around 7 and got Ally up for school, I felt pretty good. It was the first time in a little while where it felt like I had 8+ hours. When Ally was on the bus, I came back upstairs and layed back down. Today was Erin's first day training in the kitchen at her job. Finally! She has been there for about 6 months so far, and has worked her butt off in the front of the restaurant for them, and now they officially are taking her further into training. It is yet one step closer to getting the hours she wants and who knows what else.
So since I now had the afternoon free from school, Erin called the sitter and told her that I was going to be home and we would have Zoe be up there tomorrow while she was working. The sitter was like "ok! Sounds good!" I went back to sleep till about 10 or so and then Zoe was calling out for me from her room. I changed her diaper and then came downstairs and put the wiggles on netflix on the wii for Zoe.
This afternoon after Lex got home, and Erin was home from work, I took Lex out to the YWCA pool again. I figured it was a good time to get some extra exercise in myself. While she was playing with the other kids in the pool, I was in the deep end doing laps. I ended up doing twenty laps back and forth. It was a good work out. Before we went to the Y, we made a quick stop at the Sheriffs department. I picked up an application. They are hiring for Sheriffs Deputies, and I'm trying for it.
So again, there is not a whole lot going on in my mind today, and so the blog entry will be a little short again tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
Today went pretty good. I had an email right off the bat from my teacher. She was not going to be on campus today and so class was cancelled. When I woke up first around 7 and got Ally up for school, I felt pretty good. It was the first time in a little while where it felt like I had 8+ hours. When Ally was on the bus, I came back upstairs and layed back down. Today was Erin's first day training in the kitchen at her job. Finally! She has been there for about 6 months so far, and has worked her butt off in the front of the restaurant for them, and now they officially are taking her further into training. It is yet one step closer to getting the hours she wants and who knows what else.
So since I now had the afternoon free from school, Erin called the sitter and told her that I was going to be home and we would have Zoe be up there tomorrow while she was working. The sitter was like "ok! Sounds good!" I went back to sleep till about 10 or so and then Zoe was calling out for me from her room. I changed her diaper and then came downstairs and put the wiggles on netflix on the wii for Zoe.
This afternoon after Lex got home, and Erin was home from work, I took Lex out to the YWCA pool again. I figured it was a good time to get some extra exercise in myself. While she was playing with the other kids in the pool, I was in the deep end doing laps. I ended up doing twenty laps back and forth. It was a good work out. Before we went to the Y, we made a quick stop at the Sheriffs department. I picked up an application. They are hiring for Sheriffs Deputies, and I'm trying for it.
So again, there is not a whole lot going on in my mind today, and so the blog entry will be a little short again tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Day 30
Good evening everybody. I'm thinking tonight's blog entry will not be too long. We will have to wait and see how long it ends up with. The reason I might not be writing much today is a simple fact that I am having trouble keeping my eyes open. I'm so tired! Last night, Erin and I were watching Buffy on the Netflix streaming. At around 2AM I stood up and decided I would go to bed. Erin asked me about it, saying "You don't want to watch another one?" I was like "No, if I'm going to get to the YwCA by 7AM for the water aerobics, then I need to go to bed."
At 6:30, I got up, and woke Lex up. Compared to the 2 hours of sleep I got the day before, I got 4.5 hours last night, and I felt twice as good. The water aerobics was great. I really enjoy doing it. Yes it is unGodly early, but it is worth it. So I got back here roughly around 7:55. I came in and was like "You ready to head out Lex?" She was like "Yup!" We loaded up in the truck and I took her to school. Immediately I went to work doing little jobs around the house. Finished what I was working on around 1 in the afternoon. There were other things I wanted to do, but I was kind of starting to feel tired. Needed to relax and chill out for a bit.
Erin had come down and was on the recliner. I picked up the tv room (mainly just had toys that Zoe had just spread out across the floor while I was working on another job in the kitchen). She put on Food Inc on the netflix streaming and I sat down to watch the show with her. It's amazing to see how brutal the processing people are when it comes to processing cows, chickens, and pigs. Wow. That's all I can say is, wow.
Today I met with the guy I meet with weekly. On the nice weather days, we go walking while we talk. The walk was good. Afterwards he was like "I have to get back and mow my lawn." I was like "I have to head to soccer practice." "Oh! You're still doing that?" he said. "Yup. It's fun! I like it!" "Great!" he said. Soccer practice went well. I told the coach the main things the girls need to get better at were 1) attacking the ball and not backing up from it or being afraid of it. 2) not being afraid to take kick it hard/shoot at the goal.
There were only 6 girls there tonight. She decided we would scrimmage, 3 on 3, with me helping one team out, and the coach on the other team. We emphasized that we wanted them to keep spaced apart. We were going to only play half of the field, and the girls on my team kept wanting to dribble past half towards the other goal. The coach stopped play again and tried to emphsize again about how when we get the ball, we will take it from the center line. I said "Do we have 2 soccer balls we could use? Let's set up a makeshift goal here at the center line and that way we will have 2 goals and still be only playing half the field." She thought that was a good idea and so we did it. After scrimmaging like that for a while, the coach changed it up.
The next scrimmaging she had us do was me, her, and this young boy player that was just stepping in to help, against all 6 girls. A few times the coach passed me the ball, and I started to slowly dribble towards the goal. There were 3 girls not too far away from me, but they kept moving away from me as I came in. I said out loud "if you aren't going to attack me, I'm just going to keep coming in!" Suddenly they started trying for the ball. Throughout that round of scrimmaging I did notice them attacking the ball much more. That's good! They need to get down and dirty and go after that ball. They need to not be afraid that they will get hurt.
There were a few times when I slipped and took a fall because my shoes aren't soccer shoes. I did this fancy kick, passing it to whoever was on my team. Next thing I knew I was rolling in the grass. The girls were like "You ok Chris?" I was like "I'm good. When you're a player you will take falls every so often. That's perfectly fine!" So after soccer, we dropped Lex off at gymnastics. Then Erin, Zoe and I went to the grocery store with the food stamp card and picked up ingredients for dinner, plus we picked up gatorades and stuff. Dinner tonight was a dish from india. Erin would be able to better describe it. It was really good though. It had a nice little kick, but wasn't overwhelming.
In closing I will say that I felt great when I was out there running around with the girls on the team. I had already walked about a mile or so, and exercised in the pool. Plus I am alraedy noticing my shorts being loose. Last week or the week before I'm sure they felt snug around the waist, but lately I feel like they will fall down to the floor any minute. Erin kept poking me in the stomach, and I found out that the reason was that she says my stomach already looks smaller. I can't notice anything just yet, but I'm glad she thinks so. I will keep doing what I have been, and eventually I will be able to see it too. I do 'feel' it though. More energy, more focus, etc. When you are eating right, and exercising, etc, your body functions better. The sleep last night didn't catch up with me till around 7:30 while Erin was working on Dinner. I suddenly had the desire to lay down and sleep. I stayed awake but fell asleep a little bit on the couch until Erin brought dinner out. After I ate, I was dozing off again and Erin mentioned that I should go ahead to bed if I'm that tired. I thought "That sounds great to me...but oh wait, I still need to post tonight." So here I am! I'm happy I was able to get here tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
At 6:30, I got up, and woke Lex up. Compared to the 2 hours of sleep I got the day before, I got 4.5 hours last night, and I felt twice as good. The water aerobics was great. I really enjoy doing it. Yes it is unGodly early, but it is worth it. So I got back here roughly around 7:55. I came in and was like "You ready to head out Lex?" She was like "Yup!" We loaded up in the truck and I took her to school. Immediately I went to work doing little jobs around the house. Finished what I was working on around 1 in the afternoon. There were other things I wanted to do, but I was kind of starting to feel tired. Needed to relax and chill out for a bit.
Erin had come down and was on the recliner. I picked up the tv room (mainly just had toys that Zoe had just spread out across the floor while I was working on another job in the kitchen). She put on Food Inc on the netflix streaming and I sat down to watch the show with her. It's amazing to see how brutal the processing people are when it comes to processing cows, chickens, and pigs. Wow. That's all I can say is, wow.
Today I met with the guy I meet with weekly. On the nice weather days, we go walking while we talk. The walk was good. Afterwards he was like "I have to get back and mow my lawn." I was like "I have to head to soccer practice." "Oh! You're still doing that?" he said. "Yup. It's fun! I like it!" "Great!" he said. Soccer practice went well. I told the coach the main things the girls need to get better at were 1) attacking the ball and not backing up from it or being afraid of it. 2) not being afraid to take kick it hard/shoot at the goal.
There were only 6 girls there tonight. She decided we would scrimmage, 3 on 3, with me helping one team out, and the coach on the other team. We emphasized that we wanted them to keep spaced apart. We were going to only play half of the field, and the girls on my team kept wanting to dribble past half towards the other goal. The coach stopped play again and tried to emphsize again about how when we get the ball, we will take it from the center line. I said "Do we have 2 soccer balls we could use? Let's set up a makeshift goal here at the center line and that way we will have 2 goals and still be only playing half the field." She thought that was a good idea and so we did it. After scrimmaging like that for a while, the coach changed it up.
The next scrimmaging she had us do was me, her, and this young boy player that was just stepping in to help, against all 6 girls. A few times the coach passed me the ball, and I started to slowly dribble towards the goal. There were 3 girls not too far away from me, but they kept moving away from me as I came in. I said out loud "if you aren't going to attack me, I'm just going to keep coming in!" Suddenly they started trying for the ball. Throughout that round of scrimmaging I did notice them attacking the ball much more. That's good! They need to get down and dirty and go after that ball. They need to not be afraid that they will get hurt.
There were a few times when I slipped and took a fall because my shoes aren't soccer shoes. I did this fancy kick, passing it to whoever was on my team. Next thing I knew I was rolling in the grass. The girls were like "You ok Chris?" I was like "I'm good. When you're a player you will take falls every so often. That's perfectly fine!" So after soccer, we dropped Lex off at gymnastics. Then Erin, Zoe and I went to the grocery store with the food stamp card and picked up ingredients for dinner, plus we picked up gatorades and stuff. Dinner tonight was a dish from india. Erin would be able to better describe it. It was really good though. It had a nice little kick, but wasn't overwhelming.
In closing I will say that I felt great when I was out there running around with the girls on the team. I had already walked about a mile or so, and exercised in the pool. Plus I am alraedy noticing my shorts being loose. Last week or the week before I'm sure they felt snug around the waist, but lately I feel like they will fall down to the floor any minute. Erin kept poking me in the stomach, and I found out that the reason was that she says my stomach already looks smaller. I can't notice anything just yet, but I'm glad she thinks so. I will keep doing what I have been, and eventually I will be able to see it too. I do 'feel' it though. More energy, more focus, etc. When you are eating right, and exercising, etc, your body functions better. The sleep last night didn't catch up with me till around 7:30 while Erin was working on Dinner. I suddenly had the desire to lay down and sleep. I stayed awake but fell asleep a little bit on the couch until Erin brought dinner out. After I ate, I was dozing off again and Erin mentioned that I should go ahead to bed if I'm that tired. I thought "That sounds great to me...but oh wait, I still need to post tonight." So here I am! I'm happy I was able to get here tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
Monday, May 3, 2010
Day 29
Good day everybody. By the time I finally got to sleep, it was roughly about 5AM. There was one time previously when I had been up that late and had to get Lex up for school. Instead of setting my alarm for 6:30 and trying to get her to the bus stop, I have been setting it for 7:30 and driving her to school myself. This morning I also had my conference scheduled with my english teacher at 8:30. So I set my alarm for 7:30, woke up, got Lex up, ran downstairs and got cereal poured for both of us. I figured I wanted to leave at 8AM to take her to school so that I could get to the college in time. Lex was not acting like she wanted to get up. After about fifteen minutes I went upstairs and she was up, but she was still in her pj's. I was like "I have an 8:30 appointment. I'm leaving at 8, which is in 15 minutes. Your cereal is on the table. If you want to eat before going to school, you better hurry and get dressed and get downstairs." That did the trick. She got downstairs pretty fast and ate her breakfast. She was ready to go, and we left at 7:59.
The meeting with my teacher went pretty good. I got to the school at 8:24, and printed off my paper from the library. During the meeting, my teacher read over the paper *which I had been up late adding to*, and she gave me some really good suggestions. I went in there feeling like my paper really was pretty thrown together so far, but she seemed to think I had done pretty well. She even made a comment "This is actually the most put together draft that I have had from any of the students so far during these conferences. A few had a small draft, but most just had a paragraph or two." I was like "Well that is encouraging. Well ma'am I am definitely a writer. I write as much as I can every single day." She was like "That's great"
So this Wednesday we have actual class. It has been a few school days that we have not had class because these conference days. She said that on Wednesday we are to bring our rough draft in progress. She said that with the amount I have done already, that technically I would be able to bring what I have if I want to. When I had left to go to the conference meeting, my original plan was to go back to bed around 9 when I got home. For some reason, I thought "I'm up, I might as well hang out for a little bit first. Watch a movie and get some WoW time in." I meant to go to bed sooner, but for some reason I waited until 1 oclock. Then I looked at the clock and thought "damn I only have till just after 3. I better go back to sleep." When I woke up, I still kind of felt like crap, but at least it was a nap. Oh well.
Lex's swim class went well. Again she made a big effort to not fool around too much. I even took video of her swimming across the deep end by herself. The instructor was having them each do that while he swam two feet away. Tonight I really did not do a whole lot. I did end up falling asleep on the couch off and on. Erin had eaten, so I grilled hotdogs and made mac and cheese for me, Lex, and Zoe. Then played on my other character on World of Warcraft for a little bit, and have been watching buffy with Erin while she plays on one of her characters. I am going to call that it for now. If I want to go to the YWCA water aroebics class in the morning, I need to go to bed really soon. I don't want to decide not to go simply because the thought of going back to bed sounds better. 1:30 AM isn't necessarily that late, but when you want to get to a class at 7AM, I guess it is. So I will call that it for tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
The meeting with my teacher went pretty good. I got to the school at 8:24, and printed off my paper from the library. During the meeting, my teacher read over the paper *which I had been up late adding to*, and she gave me some really good suggestions. I went in there feeling like my paper really was pretty thrown together so far, but she seemed to think I had done pretty well. She even made a comment "This is actually the most put together draft that I have had from any of the students so far during these conferences. A few had a small draft, but most just had a paragraph or two." I was like "Well that is encouraging. Well ma'am I am definitely a writer. I write as much as I can every single day." She was like "That's great"
So this Wednesday we have actual class. It has been a few school days that we have not had class because these conference days. She said that on Wednesday we are to bring our rough draft in progress. She said that with the amount I have done already, that technically I would be able to bring what I have if I want to. When I had left to go to the conference meeting, my original plan was to go back to bed around 9 when I got home. For some reason, I thought "I'm up, I might as well hang out for a little bit first. Watch a movie and get some WoW time in." I meant to go to bed sooner, but for some reason I waited until 1 oclock. Then I looked at the clock and thought "damn I only have till just after 3. I better go back to sleep." When I woke up, I still kind of felt like crap, but at least it was a nap. Oh well.
Lex's swim class went well. Again she made a big effort to not fool around too much. I even took video of her swimming across the deep end by herself. The instructor was having them each do that while he swam two feet away. Tonight I really did not do a whole lot. I did end up falling asleep on the couch off and on. Erin had eaten, so I grilled hotdogs and made mac and cheese for me, Lex, and Zoe. Then played on my other character on World of Warcraft for a little bit, and have been watching buffy with Erin while she plays on one of her characters. I am going to call that it for now. If I want to go to the YWCA water aroebics class in the morning, I need to go to bed really soon. I don't want to decide not to go simply because the thought of going back to bed sounds better. 1:30 AM isn't necessarily that late, but when you want to get to a class at 7AM, I guess it is. So I will call that it for tonight. I will write more for you tomorrow.
Thanks for being here!
CB
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