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.