Friday! Fridayfridayfriday!
I had no idea how much I needed a day off until I realized that not only is it Friday, it's a Friday where I don't have to do ANYTHING. No travelling, no family obligations, no need to do anything or go anywhere I don't want to. I can catch up on my housework and plant my tomatoes and cuddle my kitty and go for long walks along the waterfront without feeling the least bit of guilt. And I'm going to do exactly that, dammit.
The biggest stressor I have right now is work, of course, like most people. However, the Big State Test (tm) will be over on Tuesday next, so now all I'll have to do is teach normally up to the end of the year. If I'm very lucky, my team teacher will be feeling better and will come back to work (she only had a substitute one of the three and a half days she was gone), so it won't be me all alone in the blended class. (Blended means a lot more Special Ed students than in a usual mainstreamed class; in our case, about a third of our students qualify for Special Education services in mathematics, and the others, while not SpEd qualified, are very low.) After this week with the test, we have a weird week--one full day, three half-days for student-led conferences, and then a Friday-Tuesday five-day weekend for Memorial Day. Well, Friday-Tuesday for the students; I have a teacher work day on the Tuesday. But a day without students almost qualifies as a day off, except that I get paid for it!
Today, we said goodbye to my student teacher with a couple of class parties. It was very sweet--the kids were sorry to see her go, and so am I--but I was pleased with the way I managed to keep my "bad" snacking to a minimum. Even after the parties, lunch, and taking my student teacher out to an early dinner, I came in UNDER my calorie count for the day. Under my MINIMUM. So I think I might have a Weight Watchers ice cream bar in an hour or so, since they say eating too few calories is as bad as eating too many. (I'm about 200 calories under where they want me to be for the day--I'm still mostly doing South Beach, but have started tracking my calories on SparkPeople.)
Isn't that a good feeling? 200 calories under the minimum, on a day when I was thinking it would be easy to really screw up.
Had my chiropractor's appointment today as well, with the consequence that my hips and knees no longer hurt. My doc said my spine was all "cattywumpus". I'm assuming that's one of those esoteric medical words that ordinary laypeople can't understand. *grin*
I think a walk on the waterfront tomorrow is definitely in order. Why waste a gorgeous, 72-degree day? Perfect weather for playing outside. *nods*
The biggest stressor I have right now is work, of course, like most people. However, the Big State Test (tm) will be over on Tuesday next, so now all I'll have to do is teach normally up to the end of the year. If I'm very lucky, my team teacher will be feeling better and will come back to work (she only had a substitute one of the three and a half days she was gone), so it won't be me all alone in the blended class. (Blended means a lot more Special Ed students than in a usual mainstreamed class; in our case, about a third of our students qualify for Special Education services in mathematics, and the others, while not SpEd qualified, are very low.) After this week with the test, we have a weird week--one full day, three half-days for student-led conferences, and then a Friday-Tuesday five-day weekend for Memorial Day. Well, Friday-Tuesday for the students; I have a teacher work day on the Tuesday. But a day without students almost qualifies as a day off, except that I get paid for it!
Today, we said goodbye to my student teacher with a couple of class parties. It was very sweet--the kids were sorry to see her go, and so am I--but I was pleased with the way I managed to keep my "bad" snacking to a minimum. Even after the parties, lunch, and taking my student teacher out to an early dinner, I came in UNDER my calorie count for the day. Under my MINIMUM. So I think I might have a Weight Watchers ice cream bar in an hour or so, since they say eating too few calories is as bad as eating too many. (I'm about 200 calories under where they want me to be for the day--I'm still mostly doing South Beach, but have started tracking my calories on SparkPeople.)
Isn't that a good feeling? 200 calories under the minimum, on a day when I was thinking it would be easy to really screw up.
Had my chiropractor's appointment today as well, with the consequence that my hips and knees no longer hurt. My doc said my spine was all "cattywumpus". I'm assuming that's one of those esoteric medical words that ordinary laypeople can't understand. *grin*
I think a walk on the waterfront tomorrow is definitely in order. Why waste a gorgeous, 72-degree day? Perfect weather for playing outside. *nods*