The most exciting thing to happen this week was probably that I am now officially 5 feet 4 inches. Yes, apparently it's either been a while since I was officially measured, or I hit a middle-age growth spurt. I'm now ONE INCH taller than I was.
I had a great talk with a friend on Saturday. She's been a friend for many years, and it was awesome to hear her voice. Messaging and commenting on Facebook only gets you so far with feeling connected - talking in real time, with the sound of your friend's voice in your ear is so much better. In fact, I think I'm going to need to ask if she's on Skype so I can see her face too. (Skype is awesome - it's allowing me to see how my niece is growing and changing - which happens so fast!) My friend is going to be my diet/exercise buddy to keep me encouraged about losing weight.
I took two walks over the weekend, one on each day, so I was proud of myself. It's tough to get the exercise done during the school week so that's a challenge that I will have to face and conquer because it's been too many years that I have been carrying extra weight and the number on the scale just keeps climbing up. This is the year I WILL lose weight and get healthy.
On Sunday I went to church, the first time in a long time that I was there as a 'civilian' and not a Bell Choir member. It was awesome to be in a community of faith and have the moments to really connect and pray with God. Not to mention my pastor is uber-cool and referenced Doctor Who in her sermon.
After church I had coffee with a former co-worker from school. I miss her a lot but I'm so happy we're still able to keep in touch, even if she's not right down the hall from me anymore. It was awesome to have two great visits with friends in the same weekend!
In work related news, I feel like I'm really hitting my stride as a teacher lately. Things are working well, even when my students get chatty I don't feel like they or I am out of control, we just get back on track. I can see their knowledge growing and their motivation to succeed makes my heart swell. I am hoping for this to show on the big state tests at the end of the year - we both deserve to have the success and the recognition.
Tomorrow is a workday at school to do report cards - I'm looking forward to getting my classroom in order. I didn't come in over the Christmas vacation to clean it like I should have - so I've been managing but not as smoothly as I would like. I like things to be in control and in their place or it tends to stress me out. (The house will be getting cleaned this weekend as well!)
Off to sleep, hopefully peacefully, since my to do list is updated (God Bless Remember The Milk) and I've had a long (but good) day.
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