End of February

Nothing real exciting going on here the last week or so.

Last Friday I went to up to Weber State with the English Quest kids. It was fun. They were pretty cute. Sitting in the student union building always makes me want to go back to college, but unfortunately since there's more to school than hanging out in the union, I guess that will need to wait until life slows down some.

I'm finally getting serious about losing some weight, so I started counting calories. It's been very enlightening. I got soup, salad, and a roll for lunch today. I would normally think of that as a fairly light lunch, nothing too over the top, but I was shocked by how many calories it was when I really added it up. Ranch dressing alone is 70 calories for 1 tablespoon. The baked potato soup was about 300 calories. I skipped the roll. The thing that's been nice about it, though, is that now that I'm not pigging out like I used to, I just feel better. I don't get stuffed, I don't feel bad if I eat a treat because it's in my calorie count, and it's not even that big a deal. Of course, I've only been doing it for a few days, ha, so I imagine I might say something different a week from now.

Lexi woke up this morning with what looked to be pink eye, and the daycare of course won't take anyone with pink eye. It was too late to get a sub, so I took her up to my classroom with me until I could see if it was just a runny eye, which my kids sometimes get when they're getting a cold, or actually pink eye. It stayed pretty pink and puffy looking, so she stayed with me all day. About 10:30 or so she started feeling crappy, and she fell asleep with her head on the desk in the computer lab before 3rd period ended. So I took her back to my room and she fell asleep on the floor for lunch and most of 4th period. Then she woke up and threw up all over. Such a fun day. So she's still sick, got a fever and still throwing up, and elevated ketone levels. I need to give insulin, but she hasn't kept anything down, so I might have to break out the glucagon. Oh, diabetes, how you add an extra little thrill to everything. Can't decide if I want to get a sub tomorrow since I was just gone last Friday for Quest. Maybe I'll have Sean take this one.

Josh and I were chatting about school, and I asked him what he does in music class... if they learn fun little songs or get to play cool instruments or what. I remember when they used to break out the glockenspiel and xylophone and drums and the triangle and the tamborine... all that stuff that I thought was so fun. Nope, none of the above. They've been watcing The Sound of Music, in half hour increments since that's how long music class is. I feel sorry for him. I hate that show. He apparently does too.

Brittney got a job at Lagoon in Ticketing, so she's got all sorts of training and junk going on this month. She'll be doing the auto gate, tickets, Bounce Back, the Skycoaster, all that good stuff. I hope it works out OK and that she has some fun somewhere along the way. Yay for a kid with her own money.

Josh and Lexi start up swim lessons next week, so I'm hoping between Sean's night job, Courtney's work schedule and school, Brittney's trainings, roller derby, and swim lessons we can somehow get everyone where they need to be. And I'm hoping swim lessons will tire my kids out, because they are impossible to put to bed at night. It's ridiculous and I wind up being a really unpleasant person before they finally fall asleep.

Josh got a crab for his fish tank, and the little sucker is always trying to escape. He is so ugly. I always have to go look for him before I go to bed to make sure he's not on the loose because one night I went in there and he was out sitting on top of the tank. I woke Sean up to poke it back down inside. Uck. I want nothing to do with any of it.

It's time for March Party! We made it to March. Unfortunately, we're in the middle of a snow storm, so it will have to wait. Sunday is supposed to be sunny and warm, so I'm thinking a picnic or a hike is in order.