into week 4

So yeah, yesterday was the first day of Week 4 "Lose some More". I doubt the trend of giving each week a rhyming name will last! I'm wondering if counting the weeks is a good or bad idea for me? I've realized there are a lot of things that work for other people that don't work for me . Consciously counting calories, fat, carbs, etc., I mean, I do look at the labels to even check what I'm putting in my body from the serving amounts in each package to some of the ingredients. Is it real whole grain or whole wheat or is their caramel coloring in it? Is the flour bleached or enriched? Will I be floating for the next week because of the astronomical amount of sodium in each serving that has me bloated and swollen? I just don't journal what I've eaten during the day all too well. I' not saying that writing or using my hands to write is dead because I still doodle, draw, grade papers...I still have to use my hands for the ancient art of writing. It's just that I type WWWWAY faster than I write! I could blog my food intake for the day but then I'd have to remember what I ate. I realize that I'm only eating 3 or 3 1/2 times a day and it's not bothering me. I'd thought I was going to eat 5-6 smaller meals but well, I'm satisfied with what I'm getting so far so .. .

It's late but I wanted to blog something. I missed yesterday. This is the last week of school b4 break. I really should be trying to get a summer job to make some income on top of my pay from work over the summer. I probably won't. Will spend my summer at home in the garden/yard trying to manage the plum trees sprouting up everywhere, paying for a new fence for the backyard, and cleaning up inside the house. Maybe finally getting those floor tiles in the kitchen and bath and painting the walls. It's a lot but I've been doing it since 2006..yeah, it's not finished yet. go figure! At least the chance to burn some calories is there. I'm also hoping to get a good amount of painting completed and perhaps started. I have 4 works do complete that have been commissioned. Two are for my church and I'm probably not even gonna collect on the rest of that money. It's been since 2006 and they still aren't finished. So tell me why I took on two more posters last year? Cuz I have high hopes but then ..yeah...just like my grad courses....I take on projects that I should have some hindsight in by now.


For now, I'm thinking my health is first and foremost after my son's. I have to make sure I'm living so if that means just putting everything and everyone else on hold short of my job, so be it. I need to work on me. Even though I am working on some gifts those are no big deal They'll be finished by tomorrow (started them today). Time seemed to fly by today even though I had not a one student in my class today because hardly no one showed up and those who did chose to hang in another teacher's room. I'm going to have to take advantage of the down time to start the reading and finish the papers that are due.

Here's an ongoing prob for me though:
I'm wondering why I can't get through reading one page of reading before I'm yawning and just feeling overwhelmed with trying to get it read? Even magazine articles in a magazine I've bought because I like it! That's a real pisser when you're trying to browse through about 30 books and articles combined to get enough information to write two 10-12 page papers and one 5 page paper based on just one book. It really interferes with my progress in life recently. If I can't get the reading done I won't be able to get the papers written and there goes over $1600 down the drain because if I stay with this school and this degree then I'm going to have to take those two required courses again eventually...I don't have to repeat them asap...can take the courses in any order. Whatever course I take, whenever I take it, there's gonna be reading and paper writing and my brain is in "what are you crazy?!?" mode.

okay for real Good Night All