Setting my clock for the "real" wake-up time for 5am, in a few days, is going to be tougher. So I thought I would start my week out with some time to adjust to a new schedule. Yes, I do wake up at 5am on typical school days. I find that I do much better with planned time to read, go for a walk, etc- my mind is fresher and readier to work when I have ample time to wake up and "mentalize" my thoughts before the chaotic days at work begin.
I did go to Big Park from about 8:30 am until almost 2:30 pm. It really wasn't that bad. I did a lot of setting-up and organizing; cleaning out piles of papers from teachers before me, figuring out what exactly the storage cabinet does have stuffed inside of it, hanging up new bulletin-board trim (apples!) around my board, etc. I had a lot of well-intentioned but semi-obnoxious interruptions from the janitor guy today... I will try to post pictures of my classroom (maybe some from the campus) soon! Let me finish more of the organization first...
This pic is old, it is from last summer- just after I'd signed my first contract with BP. But it does show the beautiful view from our elementary playground!!
Sayde did really, really well in her kennel while I was at school. I was very pleased. It had been a few weeks since I'd last kenneled her, so I was a little nervous to see how she'd do. Continuing our practice with verbal commands & hand signals, she did "go in (her) house" when I pointed towards her kennel. There's this product, PupCorn, that she just looooo-ves. She got a pupcorn today, and that made her a happy girl. Therefore, it made me a happy girl, too!
Oprah is becoming of high interest for me. I don't mean the show, or her book lists (some of which I have actually tried to read, and detested)-- I mean her website. http://www.oprah.com/index has loads of good-looking and healthful recipes, good articles written by respectable and credible-seeming people, and overall it just has a good "positivity" feeling to it. I am really hopefully about trying one of the recipes tomorrow, for baked cinnamon apples with honey-sweetned farmers' cheese. Two of my favorite ingredients? Apples? Cheese? Together?!! Sounds like a winning combination for me!!
I am doing pretty okay today... sticking to positive and productive thinking was easier for me today. Ate pretty healthily today, too- half bagel and yogurt for breakfast, frozen Swedish meatball Lean Cusine for lunch, snack was hard-boiled egg/edamame/more yogurt (various times of day), and dinner was chicken/rice with jerk sauce. Not too bad!
MTV had a show that I just finished watching, about stuents and kids with hearing impairments and some with cochlear implants. Kids getting to hear for the first time, living the same life of struggling in a hearing world- same as me. Pretty exciting, actually. It was really fun to see some all-too-familiar aspects of my own life, on TV, I guess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKJo-krJJNY
I'm thankful today for the following:
6. Talking with yet another friend from wayyyyy way back, thanks to Face Book!
5. Shows on MTV that are often rather pointless, but today there was one that was actually informative & worth watching. Hopefully someone learned something new that they hadn't known before. :)
I didn't take this picture, but it did make me smile. It was titled, "Hello there!" Goodnight.
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