The kids go back to school on Monday. Can you say HOORAY?? I can (and am!)!
I'm working tonight at the Cub Scout table at the Open House tonight. I'm going to be one very busy mom come this year...in addition to being mom, I'll be a Band Mom, Den Leader and oh yes, a martial artist. I'm actually looking forward to making an hour and a half three Tuesdays a month MINE. I say three because as a Den Leader, I have to attend Pack meetings. That'll be fun. I'm also the Pack Secretary, so I attend once a month meetings to help plan what we're doing and talk about the important stuff (Popcorn sales, etc. If you want to order popcorn, tell me now!!).
I didn't make it to class last night. I'm only hurting myself when I don't go. I think tomorrow's an "Open" class, which means I can go 'play' and enjoy myself, plus work on the material I need to know for second Dan. I also need to work on remembering Pyung Ahn OH Dan correctly. LOL!! No more Pyung Ahn Sam Dan when I'm told to do OH Dan!!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday's thoughts
One of our cars is related to Lorraine's computer.
It died tonight. This is the second time this month the car has died on us. The first time, I was at karate. Tony had come to pick up Aidan and his car died, so I had to give him my keys while I took class. That night, we got the car jumped for $20.00 (not the $85.00 the dude was originally going to charge us!) and Tony took it home. That saved our bacon. He took the battery in to Auto Zone and had it checked out--it was "fine" according to them.
Fast forward to tonight. Tony called me from work and said "I'm taking the car to Goodyear. It died again. Someone here gave me a jump." Hooray! He walked home from Goodyear. It's a good thing the weather was cooler.
Goodyear called and told him that it was a battery issue. I had to tell him "I told you so!" since I'd told him that it was the battery when it first died. Ms. S suggested that...this IS Texas and extremely high temperatures will kill batteries. hahaha!! I had to laugh when he told me what it was.
$150.00 later, we've got a new bttery in the car. It really didn't take them that long to resolve the car problem. Makes me happy.
Of course, since the car died and Tony had to get to a meeting tonight, I missed my class. I guess I'll live. I'm not going to be overly grumpy. I'll just spend some time on Saturday doing forms outside. It'll be a good thing to do.
Before I left the old martial arts school, back when I was a "instructor" (I say that loosely because I only taught 2 classes by myself), I was planning on running a class outside. I stole the idea from another blog I spend time reading. He was talking about training outside. That's an idea I like. Still need to try to get that tried out one of these days. I'll go outside and do it myself. Then I can't be "busted" for teaching.
I'm a bit bummed about my weight. I've been fussing at myself all week. I didn't eat cleanly this week--last night we had nachos for dinner. Tony and I have gone from each of us eating a plate a piece to sharing one plate, and he eats the lion's share. Unfortunately, the chips have salt in them and any time you even HINT at salt near me, my body acts like it's the Sahara Desert. I seriously retain water. I gained a half pound overnight, despite 90 ounces of water! Ugh. Not my favorite thing to see. Need to work on that. I either can't eat chips (boo, hiss) or I need to up my water. That'll thrill people at work no end...they already make rude comments about me leaving my desk. Just what I don't need! DB has already reminded me once this week that I need to keep up with the water. He told me the other day that he'd drunk 2 litres of water by the time I'd barely finished 30 ounces. I've got to work on that as a goal too.
Maybe I need to figure out how to create an interactive chart to put up on my blog so that people can follow along when I'm drinking water and they can nag at me (nicely, of course) until I drink more.
It died tonight. This is the second time this month the car has died on us. The first time, I was at karate. Tony had come to pick up Aidan and his car died, so I had to give him my keys while I took class. That night, we got the car jumped for $20.00 (not the $85.00 the dude was originally going to charge us!) and Tony took it home. That saved our bacon. He took the battery in to Auto Zone and had it checked out--it was "fine" according to them.
Fast forward to tonight. Tony called me from work and said "I'm taking the car to Goodyear. It died again. Someone here gave me a jump." Hooray! He walked home from Goodyear. It's a good thing the weather was cooler.
Goodyear called and told him that it was a battery issue. I had to tell him "I told you so!" since I'd told him that it was the battery when it first died. Ms. S suggested that...this IS Texas and extremely high temperatures will kill batteries. hahaha!! I had to laugh when he told me what it was.
$150.00 later, we've got a new bttery in the car. It really didn't take them that long to resolve the car problem. Makes me happy.
Of course, since the car died and Tony had to get to a meeting tonight, I missed my class.
Before I left the old martial arts school, back when I was a "instructor" (I say that loosely because I only taught 2 classes by myself), I was planning on running a class outside. I stole the idea from another blog I spend time reading. He was talking about training outside. That's an idea I like. Still need to try to get that tried out one of these days. I'll go outside and do it myself. Then I can't be "busted" for teaching.
I'm a bit bummed about my weight. I've been fussing at myself all week. I didn't eat cleanly this week--last night we had nachos for dinner. Tony and I have gone from each of us eating a plate a piece to sharing one plate, and he eats the lion's share. Unfortunately, the chips have salt in them and any time you even HINT at salt near me, my body acts like it's the Sahara Desert. I seriously retain water. I gained a half pound overnight, despite 90 ounces of water! Ugh. Not my favorite thing to see. Need to work on that. I either can't eat chips (boo, hiss) or I need to up my water. That'll thrill people at work no end...they already make rude comments about me leaving my desk. Just what I don't need! DB has already reminded me once this week that I need to keep up with the water. He told me the other day that he'd drunk 2 litres of water by the time I'd barely finished 30 ounces. I've got to work on that as a goal too.
Maybe I need to figure out how to create an interactive chart to put up on my blog so that people can follow along when I'm drinking water and they can nag at me (nicely, of course) until I drink more.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday
I love the rain. I absolutely adore it. When I was younger, I don't think I appreciated it nearly as much as I do now. There's just something soothing about watching the rain fall. It's that kind of a day today. I want to be at home, watching the rain fall and enjoying the cooler weather. It's all courtesy of an upper level low system that pushed into Texas from Canada by way of Colorado. Soothing. Very nice. There's something to be said for the quality of sleep I get when it's raining. I think I relax more.
Last night was the "Husky Roundup" at the oldest child's school. We got her schedule and met the teachers. Should be a most interesting year. She's got US History this year, along with "Skills for Living" (a useful class and one I'm glad she got!), plus of course, Math, Honors Band (YES!), Pre A/P English (again!! YAY!!), Science and Intro to Business Applications this semester. This will be a very good year and we'll have to work very hard to make sure she's applying herself to doing well.
While we were there, I saw one of the teenagers from the old martial arts school. I was very happy to see her and gave her a big hug. She was surprised to see me for sure. She probably doesn't know the reasons I'm not there anymore. I am not badmouthing the old place if I can help it. I'm a firm believer in Karma--what you say/do will come back to you three times over.
I know I've mentioned things to several people, but I haven't really gone into details. They know that I felt like I wasn't worth much as a black belt...and they know that I felt like I wasn't getting a lot of support from that one person. Not everyone was like him. DB, who is my dearest friend always was able to help me and wasn't grouchy about it. I got a LOT of help from him. He helped me perfect, or at least, make better, Pyung Ahn Ee Dan. Of course, right now, I wouldn't be able to do it correctly because I haven't practiced. If you were to personify a person with good people skills, you'd have a picture of DB there.
I told one of my co-workers today, after a technician asked for ME, that he was only asking for me because I'm "nice". Then we decided that it was because the guy couldn't figure out the alphabet. M comes after A, technically speaking. However, my last name begins with an N. The other guy's last name starts with V. Go figure. However it's calculated, I got this tech and was able to help him. PLUS, it was handled in a timely fashion, which makes the boss extremely happy. The tech was supposed to be in and out in an hour. We made it just under the wire. WHEW!!
I'm taking tomorrow off. Oldest child is going to the orthodontist to get something done with her mouth. This has to do with the thing they put into her mouth to keep her teeth from shifting. She's missing an adult tooth--something she got from her mother. There was a baby tooth there but no adult tooth underneath it. They pulled the baby tooth last year and put in a spacer to keep the remaining teeth from shifting over and causing problems with her braces. She's on her third spacer because the first one was stripped (it's like a little screw). The second one had gum grow over it--she's got an awesome immune system that took over. It looks like number 3 is doing the same thing. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. I looked at it the other day. Poor kid is not going to get the lower braces, I don't think. I need to leave that determination to the dentist. I just have a feeling though...
Last night was the "Husky Roundup" at the oldest child's school. We got her schedule and met the teachers. Should be a most interesting year. She's got US History this year, along with "Skills for Living" (a useful class and one I'm glad she got!), plus of course, Math, Honors Band (YES!), Pre A/P English (again!! YAY!!), Science and Intro to Business Applications this semester. This will be a very good year and we'll have to work very hard to make sure she's applying herself to doing well.
While we were there, I saw one of the teenagers from the old martial arts school. I was very happy to see her and gave her a big hug. She was surprised to see me for sure. She probably doesn't know the reasons I'm not there anymore. I am not badmouthing the old place if I can help it. I'm a firm believer in Karma--what you say/do will come back to you three times over.
I know I've mentioned things to several people, but I haven't really gone into details. They know that I felt like I wasn't worth much as a black belt...and they know that I felt like I wasn't getting a lot of support from that one person. Not everyone was like him. DB, who is my dearest friend always was able to help me and wasn't grouchy about it. I got a LOT of help from him. He helped me perfect, or at least, make better, Pyung Ahn Ee Dan. Of course, right now, I wouldn't be able to do it correctly because I haven't practiced. If you were to personify a person with good people skills, you'd have a picture of DB there.
I told one of my co-workers today, after a technician asked for ME, that he was only asking for me because I'm "nice". Then we decided that it was because the guy couldn't figure out the alphabet. M comes after A, technically speaking. However, my last name begins with an N. The other guy's last name starts with V. Go figure. However it's calculated, I got this tech and was able to help him. PLUS, it was handled in a timely fashion, which makes the boss extremely happy. The tech was supposed to be in and out in an hour. We made it just under the wire. WHEW!!
I'm taking tomorrow off. Oldest child is going to the orthodontist to get something done with her mouth. This has to do with the thing they put into her mouth to keep her teeth from shifting. She's missing an adult tooth--something she got from her mother. There was a baby tooth there but no adult tooth underneath it. They pulled the baby tooth last year and put in a spacer to keep the remaining teeth from shifting over and causing problems with her braces. She's on her third spacer because the first one was stripped (it's like a little screw). The second one had gum grow over it--she's got an awesome immune system that took over. It looks like number 3 is doing the same thing. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. I looked at it the other day. Poor kid is not going to get the lower braces, I don't think. I need to leave that determination to the dentist. I just have a feeling though...
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