77 days since I last posted

 

HOLY WOW   I cannot believe it has been 77 days!

According to Alexa, I last posted 77 days ago. Jan 17, 2026 was 77 days ago. Just wow! I am still here and I am still trucking along in life. I am still losing and gaining as always. Last I posted, I had started to watch what I ate in December on break and then of course the new year carried me through and I had lost a little bit. But over the course of the last 77 days I have regained what I lost and they brought friends. If you look at my ticker I am now UP from when I started in Dec. Oh well, I am not going to beat myself up for it. It is what it is and life moves on.

I did indeed start getting teacher money (prorated though) as of Jan 30th. I am now making about $600 more a month. You would think that would fix our money but it has not. It actually got veeeerrryyy tight due to the no pay from my instructional post from Christmas break. I have been trying to dig out of that and now my student loans are due. I was able to get on a repayment plan so it is 86.xx instead of the 3xx.xx they wanted. Hubby's loans are in collection but it is what it is. I do not have the 5xx.xx they want. When I tried to get his into a reduced plan it seems at least one if his is on forbearance for another year. If I force the plan it will pull that one off forbearance. I am just going back to head in the sand for now. It was so bad at one point I had to borrow money from my 17 year old. It was only for a week and I have it right back to him on payday that Friday. My one tire had been leaking air for months. It was a slow leak and I have a car plug in air pump so I would just fill it up. One day it went down a lot in a few hours so I finally looked at my tire. Holy wow it was bad. Like there was a huge scrape on the inside of the tire. I could even see metal threads in a few areas. So I made an appointment at Walmart and got two new tires the next day (My two back tires are about a year old so they were fine) I had no money on credit cards to get the tires which is why I had to borrow.  I actually kind of did but I didn't have the physical cards. I had one card left that is still empty from when I paid everything off years ago and another that only had a $500 or so balance I have been chipping away at for years. I didn't worry about not knowing where the cards were because I didn't want to use them. Well I requested new copies and now have them as I may need them to help us eat this summer. Because of when I was hired I am not  full teacher.  I am as far as responsibilities and the like but because I will be a teacher for only 92 days and not 1 semester plus a day I am actually in year 0 right now. Which means I will not get the little bit higher pay next year that people in the second year get and I will still have to have all the new teacher reviews from the principal (first years get 3- two formal and one informal) This year I only had one formal and one informal. 

Life hit the fan with being a teacher. Everything is actually going really well work wise. But I have a lot more responsibilities to juggle now so life is even harder! I now have to write IEP's (Individualized Education Plans) that I didn't have to do before and I have to lesson plan. Those are kind of bullshit and I spent spring break and got mine done through the rest of the year. We have to turn them in at the end of the semester but my mentor teaching told me to start my hire date and not make more work for myself in trying to go back to the beginning. More on my plate and also needed down time for myself has left me just not even opening my personal laptop. I only have been opening the work on to lesson pan or write IEP's. Right now I should be working on work or at least working on a document I need to fill out some forms properly. I figured though since I finally checked my movement log I needed to at least update ya'll.

I am so very behind on my move 30 minutes 3 times a week. I actually colored in one of my trackers last night and it is so very bad. I am not giving up though. I still have lots of time to make this up. I can see when I got more responsibility and just stopped walking or doing the workout class after work. There is a workout class every Tue/Thur that I was going to. I stopped to have more time after school to work on paperwork. I would leave and they would be gone from working out. I park next to my mentor and she is the leader of the workout classes. So if she looked she would see I was still there working that I didn't just high-tail it out of there at my contract end time. 

• Purple is walk day.  
• Pink is fitness class day. 
• Grey is a day I was moving so much that my Fitbit recognized it as a workout so I am claiming it! 

The end of February (the triangle shaped purple) was my last workout. There is another tracker I bought on Etsy underneath which is why you see the floral shape. I never used it though so there it sits. 

We have (by my rough count because my official count is at school) 38 days left of school.  My middle son is a senior and they should be out about May 19th so he has even less days left. His is about 32 days left. Or 8 Thursdays for me- 7 for him.  I am saying Thursday rather than Monday or Friday because the last week we do not have Monday or Friday. 

Lets see I really have nothing else to update. My Nespresso broke but I mailed it in and they sent me a new one. I did really well on my formal- must better than normal first year teachers. (If they were grades I got 4 A's and the rest B's) This is also my 5th year at the school and I have tons of support so I feel that is why. Someone new to a school that doesn't know anyone isn't going to do that great naturally. 

Now I have to go lesson plan for the next week. I may go up to Panera so I have a table to use. I do not have a table at home and am currently sitting on my bed with my laptop sitting in my crossed legs. 

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.