I debated about how if I should write one massive post or several smaller ones. I am going to just write as much as I can while making as much sense is possible and see where it leads us. Please bare with me...this may not be the best writing but I will try not to be ashamed of my grammar... I am an English teacher after all... ;-)
Saturday I woke up and almost forgot to weigh-in. Freudian slip...I was not surprised to have gained .4 lbs. I did not write down what I ate. I did not count my points...points...I think I may have forgotten what a point is!! I did not exercise nearly as much as I should have...I know that I need to but I just let being tired be an excuse. I managed to get 30 minutes on the treadmill.
Sunday was a rather lazy day of watching football but I walked for 30 minutes on the treadmill. I tried a minute of running here & there and I am not sure I like it. My goal was to walk 30 minutes every day this week....I didn't even make it to Monday.
I got a roommate this week...yesterday to be exact...but I was expecting move-in day to be this coming weekend. Monday I found at that Rich would be moving in on Tuesday. I spent a few hours rearranging all my junk in my attic. This was a sweat-producing activity but I was actually happy when it was done. I pulled a trunk full of things to take to my mom's for a yard sale in October and I brought out a couple of dolls (the fancy porcelain kind that juts collect dust) that a friend of mine is going to sell on E-bay. I love the way it feels when an area is decluttered. All the crap in the attic was kind of strewn about in the most haphazard and unorganized way and NOW, it is neat and organized and there is less of it!
What on earth possessed me to get a roommate?
It was a matter of circumstance...
Richie, my new roommate, has been taking care of his grown sister and her son (E is 25 but mentally he is a teenager - as a result of some accident) for a long time. The sister cannot work but now gets SS and was living with a boyfriend, but Richie continued to take care of E. Well E spent the summer with his mother in Wildwood...what a place for a young kid! Long story short, Richie has been struggling for years to make ends meet while he supports E and sometimes his sister but E decided he wants to stay with his mother. Perfect, we have been asking Richie to come and stay with us so he can get ahead & get back to his life (he really has had no life for
years)! At the same time as all this was happening, we received notice that hubby's unemployment had exhausted and there were no extensions at this time.
So you see, the timing could not be better!
Tuesday (that is almost today...are you still reading?) was just a long day at work. I had the intentions of getting up to workout before school but wound up staying up way too late watching Monday Night Football. I stayed late at school ~ I had a student working on my classroom computers and I got home in enough time to change my clothes and ride my bike to the kid's school. She is staying afterschool for cross country but by the time practice is over the crossing guards are gone so I ride & meet her and we ride home together. I did this Monday as well. Then we had dinner and I had Back to School night at kiddo's school. By 8:30 When I got home I was beat! Totally pooped!
Ok, for info about today you have to wait for the next post! don't worry it won't be long...I am going to write it after I publish this post!
