Tired

Not feeling the blog much lately. Sorry. I will come back new and improved.

Peace and chicken grease.

Very Sad Day

Since I have a vacation day today, I decided that I'd go to the gym this morning with Mrs. C. When I got home, I thought I'd listen to Rick and Bubba live, since I can't do that at school anymore. Their home page has posted tragic information. Little Bronner "Cornbread" Burgess died this weekend in a tragic drowning accident. It happened in their family pool. It's SO sad. He was about the same age as The Child. Bubba is on the air trying to help people understand what has happened. He's doing a great job. Be careful, he's talking about Christian beliefs, so some are sure to be offended.

I cannot imagine how horrible things must be for the Burgesses. Rick told Bubba yesterday (I guess there was a funeral?) that he was going to do the hardest thing he'd ever done, but he said that it was well with his soul. Grace is truly given when it is needed most. I cannot imagine having that enormous level of composure.

My prayers are with Rick, his wife Sherri, and their whole family.

I'm in a Slight State of Mourning

Okay, Brett Favre, you went and got my hopes all up that we'd have a SUPER Superbowl. You and Tom Brady, could life get better? UGH. What a bad pass you made in the fourth quarter! Two words: running game. All of those people who had the Pack in as a foregone conclusion (read: me), too bad. Eli did play a pretty good game, and to win 3 playoff games on the road and 10 road games straight is pretty awesome. I just have a sick feeling that Tom "Cardboard Cut-Out" Brady and the Pats will just run away with this allegedly "super" game. I KNOW that the Giants played the Pats close last time, but are you telling me that the Pats aren't going to be MORE prepared this time? Please. Write down 19-0 and let Mercury Morris finish steaming about the perfect season.

A Search for Inspiration

Do you ever feel as if your blog has become a daily diary, a retelling of your schedule for that day or that plus a few more days? I've been feeling very blase lately. It seems stupid to just rewrite the activities of the day. I was searching for an idea, when last night at the concession stand, one came to me.

Snoopy began talking about having cramps in her butt from the running of eight miles. She's in training for a half-marathon. Okay, so she started asking us to massage her butt to get the cramps out (she was kidding, I think). She then started polling everyone and asking what superpower they would want. Fiona said she'd want the ability to heal. We declared that BORRRRRING. World peace, healing, making people tell the truth, etc. BOO. I said, based on the day, that it'd be kind of cool to be able to give people cramps. I suppose along with that should come the ability to stop the cramp. Snoopy said she'd like the ability to levitate people and leave them just hanging in the air if she decided to. But the BEST was suggested by one of our assistant principals, I'll call her Frau, since she just married a guy with a very German sounding name, she came up with this: THE ABILITY TO MAKE SOMEONE LITERALLY EAT SHIT AND DIE.

We declared this AWESOME. Of course it would only be used in very dire circumstances, but how awesome it would be when it was used. Can you tell we have a hostility-type deal going on at our school?

Now for the regularly scheduled part of the blog:

Today's purposed activities:
Relaxing (laying around doing what I want to)
Going to the gym for BodyPump and maybe a hip-hop class
More relaxing
Planning for next week's school
Napping or sleeping

It's going to be a very good day!

Hot Potato, Hot Potato!

This is what I had for supper. It was delicious. I had one tablespoon of full-fat sour cream and one tablespoon of the Smart Balance Omega-3 spread. How about I needed NO SALT! AND I COULD TASTE ALL OF IT. I'm convinced that my tastebuds are now being awakened after years of being overwhelmed and blitzed by sugar. I also had a bowl of Uncle Sam Cereal (toasty and delicious) with rice milk. As Quincy says on Little Einsteins, "I cannot believe it!" It's taken essentially two weeks for my 'buds to come back to a full life of tasting. No wonder I ate and ate, never really feeling full. I couldn't taste anything. I know that some of y'all are out there going, "No joke, Columbo." I knew this, but I didn't KNOW this. Seriously, this almost-veg thing has been very good.

BONUS: The grant thing is crystallizing. I feel LOADS better about it today than I did yesterday. I've got to work on it tonight, so it's off to www.getstuffdone.com (not a site, but a state of mind--Actually, it's probably a site, but I don't know what it is!).

An Asterisk

Well, a bit of good news I have (as Yoda might say). In my second complete week of the health improvement deal, I have managed to stay on track. Yipee! Week 1 resulted in a 9 pound loss and week 2 has given (or taken away) 4 pounds! So, essentially, this means that I've reached my planned loss for January and, actually, exceeded it by a pound. I don't think I'll be resting on my laurels. This week will be wild, with meeting for the grant daily and, I'm afraid, late. I don't like going to work out too late or I can't sleep.

Speaking of sleeping, that is what I should be doing now.

I Am Exhausted!

Okay, this wireless grant thing will be unbelievably AWESOME if we get it. It will bring me a SmartBoard, a classroom computer response system, share in a classroom set of laptop computers, a ceiling-mounted LCD projector, and many other goodies. But doing interdisciplinary assignment/learning opportunities is quite the handle. I stayed up last night/this morning past 3 a.m. looking to both refresh my knowledge and apply physical science concepts to math. ARRRGGHHH!

I thought I was through with electricity, but I was wrong. This is a great process, though. I really haven't done a lot of interdisciplinary work unless I just wanted to take a day off from a class to do something else!

Well, I'm going to go nap prior to getting feedback from the other participants!