Move your body - update

Look how pretty this is turning out. I updated it Sunday night so there is now more color showing. The one day in June with stripes is because I had two workouts over 30 min that day. I talked about it in my last post of practice in morning then pool in afternoon. I have to color in some more black when I update it again. I did nothing Mon/Tue due to a tooth infection hitting me Sunday. My right cheek swelled and I couldn't tell if it was sinus or tooth at first. By Monday early morning (about 2 am) I realized it was a tooth infection. I took off Monday from Cross Country practice and just took it easy and did the same tomorrow. I plan on going out to practice Wednesday morning. 

I also added up my days of 30 minutes and I am only at 39.5 workouts. (The .5 is leftover from a auto recognized workout by Fitbit of 15 min+)  I'm supposed to have 156 workouts by December 31st to meet my Setting my intentions goal. Seeing as we are in June so halfway through the year I should be at 78 workouts so I am very, very behind. Can I catch up? I do not know but I am going to still keep trucking!

My weigh is not falling off but I am down about 8 lbs again. I just need to keep them down and have them take friends too. 

 

Thursday 6/11

 Hello!

Currently I feel inspired to write therefore I am. I have been watching my food since the week before school got out. Not counting calories- Just trying to watch my portions and make better choices. That 5 lost above is for real and technically went up to -8.4 last Friday and now back down to -4.4  Bodies fluctuate too damn much!  I have not eaten that many calories to roll with that kind of weight. Oh well. I know I just need to keep rolling doing what I am and eventually my body will get the memo. 

I realized today that I need to start talking about my 80k try though so it doesn't fade into the black hole of my mind. Monday I did a 30 minute walk during practice and then that night little and I went to the Y and a swam for 45 minutes. Wednesday I did a 30 minute walk while the kids ran. Tomorrow I will be doing a 30 minute walk while the kids run. I had played with the idea of the Y today but then I just heard thunder and it is 90% chance of rain. LOL  Technically it should be done about 6:30 pm but I am not sure I want to even deal with it. 

Week 1 of summer

 Hello!

Graduation went well. We had our grad party last Sunday and that went well. What did not go well is the ER visit afterwards.

A certain little gooberhead slammed the car door very hard. On her own hand! Thankfully, everything was fine and nothing broken. I am not looking forward to that bill though. All the of quick care places were closed due to it being 6:30 pm on Sunday night. 

Monday I went to PF with my coworker bestie and then we walked Walmart for meal prep. I bought some salmon and I went to cook it tonight (Sunday) and it was bad. The sell by was tomorrow so that was very disappointing! I had bought some smoked sausage on Friday so I was able to make that for myself and little one. Still going strong on the not cooking.  I think my oldest is feeling it because he keeps asking about food if he sees me cooking. I remind him that it is on him and he said that I said I would still cook sometimes. I did tell him that I said I would TELL THEM if I was. 

Little bit and I went out for sushi on Friday afternoon. Friday evening I went and rejoined the YMCA for the summer. Saturday was a long day for us as we met family traveling through town for lunch. Then we went to two different gradation parties and little one swam for hours. We didn't bring a suit for her but we just let her swim in her clothing. They have a inground pool and rented a 22 ft inflatable water slide. She was living her best life! Today we went to the YMCA for the pool for an hour.

Tomorrow Cross Country (XC) conditioning starts. We will meet 3 times a week for the kids to run to work on stamina and muscles. I will walk while they run most likely. That is what I did last year after I got named coach and recovered from my hysterectomy. 

I'm going to end here because I am not inspired to write. If I don't though this info will get lost and I will pop up again at the end of summer.  LOL

SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER

Hello my darling!

I am so very happy to announce that school is out for summer! 

Today we have my middle child's graduation. Tomorrow we have his graduation party. Then my only responsibilities is XC (Cross Country) practice the week after next 3 days a week. Those will be early morning days. 

I currently feel so much freedom! We had a discussion yesterday and I am no longer cooking dinner. Hubby hasn't been eating as much lately. I am cooking when I want and it doesn't necessarily line up when he is hungry. Therefore he said he would be fine making himself food. as the kids say BET!  

Middle guy (B) was in the car with us so he of course heard the conversation. He turned 18 last month and now that he is out of school he is finding himself. He has been going to the gym with a friend and is slowly working on himself and getting into fitness. My oldest is 20 (A) and his is just his lump of a self. All he does is eat, sleep, daily bath, and video games. He swears that he is applying for jobs but no one is calling. He doesn't drive so a job would have to work around our schedules. 

Anyway I have been cooking for everyone most nights of the week. Now I am no longer doing that starting yesterday. I will of course be cooking for myself and potentially my youngest that is 10 (C). She is able to get her own food though when it comes to sandwiches and chicken nuggets. 

I knew I could join a gym for a lower rate thought my insurance but I just never dealt with it. My teacher bestie dude has it for Planet Fitness.  I ended up joining and went to the club by my house. They said that it was only for the basic one and $14 more a month for black, so I just signed up silver because I paid for it. Then spoke to his and found out he went the other one and they gave him a black card. I called the one in town and they said they had to check the plan but when I told them coworker has black they said then it should be black. Come to find out the one by my house is a franchise and the in town one is corporate. I cancelled the franchise one (I can still go back till 6/16) and then 6/17 I will go to the town one and re-sign up under them. 

So this girly pop is now a member of PF.  I also plan on joining YMCA as well for the pool. Plus my brother gave me the money for the Y. I can take my daughter to the Y and either put her in teen center or take her to the pool to play in the water. I am waiting till June for that one though and will have it for June/July. It will basically be like our "going to the beach" 

Technically now that I am a teacher I get into Legoland free so we may do that this summer as well. I have not told my daughter because I am not committing to that yet. 

My first day at the gym I took my kid to meet up with his friend. I can to internally laugh because all I saw was a whole bunch of that picture below. The two of them standing around on phones. My kid said that is part of the fun- spotting each other on lifts and bonding.  He told me his friend will help me out (19) and I told him hell no. That I would be super pissed if he offered his "expertise" unless I asked for it. His friend is 19 with a baby that thinks he knows everything about the world and my son idolizes him. His friend is like his god and nothing we say mattered unless his friend has said the same. It drives us bonkers! I have been in a gym and I know how to ask for help if I need it.  I did internally giggle when he told me after that his friend said I looked like I was getting a good workout in. 

I have now officially gone 3 times and will keep going. No set schedule yet, just on a whim at this point. 

I have other stuff to say but that can wait. Off to get ready for graduation!

May 9th, 2026

 It's me.

Just trying to survive the last few weeks of the school year. I have been stress eating like crazy even though that helps me in no way shape or form. 

I teach one class of Biology which has a state end of year test. The school's grade comes from these end of year tests. The school doesn't get credit for students that score under a 3. I fear that my students will not score that high. I only have 9 so in the long run it isn't that many but I am fearful for the department as a whole. There is so much pressure for the kids to score well that we have been having mandatory review for the past few weeks during lunch. 

We have 13 days of school left.  Seniors have 7 days left. 

I am at a all time high- Like higher than I have ever been that I can recall. I find myself not caring much lately. I should be down some tomorrow as I did have two meals out yesterday to celebrate. 

Yesterday I walked across the stage to receive my Bachelor's recognition. I earned it in December but the school only walks once a year so I had to wait till May. I got mine 3 weeks before my middle son will get his High School Diploma. Funny enough the same thing happened with my oldest as well. I finished my AA in December and walked the following May 3 weeks before him two years ago. 

Hopefully, I will have better news when I am back again. 

April 26th 2026

 Hello,

I last posted in early April. I did indeed add more color to my tracker (that I still need to do) but it was a whopping 2 days worth. One walk and one workout at school. Pretty pathetic but hey at least I am down about 2 lbs. but that is just dumb luck. I try and make better choices but it is almost like hour to hour on how my mindset changes on how much I care. 

We have 23 days left of school here. My son has 17 days left (seniors get out earlier). Our last official student day is May 28th with the 29th being a teacher work day and graduation practice. Graduation in on Saturday May 30th and then my summer break starts. 

I had volunteered to work summer school but only a few days. I don't want to work the whole summer. I would have taken some extra money though. With me starting mid-year I do not get summer pay like my husband does. I did sign up for my pay to fall that way though so next year I will. Basically they hold back some from each check and then you get a 4 paycheck lump in mid June. 

I guess I really have nothing to say but I didn't want to go another 77 days before I post again.

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.