Science Teacher Era

 

Hello there my bloggy friends!  

We are now in my Science Teacher Era!

I am officially a teacher per my county AND the state of Florida! I officially started this past Monday on 1/12/26. My first teacher check will be 1/30/26. My pay will be prorated and unfortunately I will not get summer pay. Of course this opens up much more on my shoulders so I am trying to deal with my feelings regarding this. Things that I will now have to deal with that before I could hide my head in the sand. Like formal and informal observations and official lesson plans. I'm not stressing though.  Right now this second because it is a THREE day weekend and I am go grateful for that.

I met up with a fellow teacher for lunch of sushi at a decently priced place and he ended up paying for me so that was nice. He said it was his gift to me for getting my teaching license. I'm a cheap date though because the special is 3 rolls for $13.50 plus my diet coke. Haha! 

I'm so tired and will be going to sleep soon. I have been partially sick since last weekend. Partially sick is a odd thing to say but I don't know how else to say it. I'm having the mucus and wheezing and the blowing out green but it is only effecting me like 25%. I can function and move on like normal and I don't feel like I got hit by a truck. It's almost like it is running in a tab in the background. 

I am still going strong with my 156 days of moving my body at least 3 times a week. Today is the 17th and I am at 10 of 156 days. I even left my comfort zone and went to the group fitness class that is hosted at the school twice a week. It is a combo if step aerobics and HIT on the fitness machines. My feet were having a hard time with the stepping but I just marched in place next to my step if I could not grasp the motion. I am horrible at coordination and trying to follow fitness videos. At the end the floor part is some ab work and then yoga. My abs are complete garbage and I could barely do anything. My arms were the most sore right after from the motions when stepping. I didn't wake up sore but by the next evening I could feel it in my abs. It wasn't just the lower ones either. It was all upper abs that I could feel a twinge in. 

I wasn't sure how my weigh in was going to get this morning but it went really well! I am happy to report that I am down 8 lbs.from the most recent "highest" weight I have logged. I haven't tracked that much this week but I have kept my calories somewhat OK. There was a day where they were higher when I had Zaxby's at a collaboration meeting. I still kept with the diet coke though and I only got a 3 count rather than a 5 count like I could have. Basically that one high day did not derail me from my path. 

I hope to keep this momentum train zipping along!

Setting my intentions

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!  

There are no resolutions this year. There are only intentions, which are focusing on internal growth and not a strict fixed commitment like resolutions. I honestly don't even have a list written down. Just several things I want to work on this year.

First, let me say that my Winter Break is just about over and I am super sad about it. I will be happy to have income again though. Monday and Tuesday are ease back in days with Monday being a teacher work day to finalize report cards. Tuesday is a professional development day where we will have to go to trainings. 

Next, I am happy to report that I have been doing better for a few weeks now and I am down 2.8 lbs. Is it an amazing drop? Nope. But it is a drop and puts me under 250 again. Now to keep up the momentum. 

Last, my intention will hopefully help keep up the momentum. My intention is to walk/workout for 30 minutes at least 3 times a week. Doing the math this amounts to 156 days of movement. I want to go at least that many or more. Rather than track it per week I am tracking it per workout. If I can I would like to go back to the YMCA to swim in May but we shall see how life works out. I hit Etsy and got a cute little tracker that I plan to have be like a mosaic if I can do things other than walk. 

I can picture this in my head all filled out with various colors. Will it actually happen? We shall see won't we. 

My next tracker says miles but it is actually days. It is tracking the same information just in a 156 way to ensure that I get my days in. I know life happens and I might not make 3 times one week but there may be another week I go 4 and they will balance out.

There was nothing 156 days and I figured I can print two of these and just half fill the second shoe. For now I only have the one printed. Honestly, it will be a miracle if I fill the one shoe and we worth celebrating.