Where's my earplugs and blinders?

Always, I must remember, do not listen, or read/watch any news during the Olympics.  Bill forgets that sometimes, and will say, "did you know that so-and-so placed..." grrrr, no, I didn't know that, and I was trying my darndest to make sure I didn't until I saw it on tv.
Oh, well, that happens, I just wish it didn't happen so often.  I logged on to the internet a few minutes ago to write in my blog, and saw another winner (I won't reveal it here, in case any of you are serious followers).  These two weeks are pretty serious for me.  I just wish I didn't have to go to work, then I could stay home and watch 24/7 (just about, anyway).

The snowboarder you see here is the winner of the snowboard cross event, but I won't tell you who he is, or what country he is from.  Just trying to be fair, in case your as serious as I am.

President's Day

Today is the day I'm starting, again,  my no sugar/candy diet. Or should I say, better way of eating, brand spanking new way of living, give up all your old eating habits diet?  I don't know.  I do know that over this past week I have gained 2 pounds, and I'm not happy about that.  Maybe my system needs to get used to not consuming those massive amounts of sugar.  So that I would not eat last night, I made my 4th little girl's apron, and I'm ready to send them out to my granddaughters.  Bill thought I should try to find a pattern for little Katie, but gee I don't know about an apron for a 3 1/2 month old.  Ashley, do you let Katie help out when you cook?  I will look for something I can make for her, though.  That will be fun.  As for our grandsons, I'm kind of thinking along the lines of Bar-B-Que aprons that the guys put on when they're out at the bar-b-que cooking up the big game.

I'm a Failure!

Even though my blog title says I'm a failure, it's not really my fault.  This one goes on Bill.  I had 3 1/2 days without sugar/candy, and was feeling quite pleased with myself.  I didn't yell at my students, even though some of them deserved it, and I don't think I was a cranky pants, either.
Bill and I went to Las Vegas today to sort of celebrate President's and Valentine's Day in one fell swoop.  We were going to stay overnight, but after we finished shopping, realized we couldn't afford it. (jk)  Anyway, back to what Bill did.  While we were at the Fashion Place mall, we both spent an hour checking out our own favorite stores.  When we met up, he had gone to Godiva Chocolates (yes, I said chocolates), and bless his heart, he bought me a huge chocolate-covered strawberry.  I really didn't want to eat it, since I felt I was on a roll with this anti sugar thing, but I didn't have the heart not to since Bill bought it for me.  I took a bite out of the part that didn't have any chocolate on it, and then gave it to him to finish off.  I really think I have become a bit obsessive about this whole thing.  In the car, I finished off the piece of fruit (and yes, thank you very much, I will call it a piece of fruit, not a delicacy from Godiva Chocolates).  It was pretty good, actually.

 

We finally finished "dinking" around Vegas, and decided to get a bite to eat before we headed home.  We did forget it was a Saturday night, and a holiday to boot, and had a hard time finding a restaurant that didn't require a 2 hour wait.  We went to Macaroni Grill and had a great dinner.  When I got back from the restroom, after we finished eating, in place of my empty plate was dessert!  Bill had ordered (for Valentine's Day)  a Lemon Pound Cake (3-4 small slices) with strawberries. He looked so pleased with himself, so I split the dessert and, again, ate my fruit.

Oh well, there's always tomorrow.  There's also that friend who follows Ashley and Adam's blog (Open Pantry) that is an amazing cook, at least she has amazing recipes.  Tonight I saw one for  Cake Pops/Valentine Bouquets.  Oh my, gotta try that recipe!  I'm baaaack!

3 Days and Counting

Well, I've finally hit the wall (just kidding).  I'm actually proud of myself for getting this far.  I'm on my third day of "no sugar/candy/cake, etc."  Someone told me today that the third day is the hardest.  I guess that's sort of like mile 20 in a marathon, but surprisingly, I'm ok.  I should probably wait until my last class to update you, and make an accounting of the the student heads I've bitten off.  For now, I'm happy to report all is well...

I've been thinking about my blog, and why I post the pictures I do.

• -it's fun to post the pictures I take, or the ones I match up from google.
• I hope it's more fun to read the blog (open for interpretation). 
• The food ones provide a temptation, which in the long run make me stronger ("that which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.")

        and finally

•  It's my attempt at a creative outlet. Ha-Ha.  Actually, my blog is nothing compared to everyone else's (Summer-with all your links and music). I won't do Facebook, although I know EVERYONE uses it, so maybe doing a blog is my version of the anti-Facebook...who knows?

36 Hours and Counting...

I know it doesn't sound like much (36 hours without candy/sugar), but let me tell you, it is for me.  I'm not really cranky, yet, so let's just see what happens.  It's lunch time, and I just went to the faculty lounge to heat up my Lean Cuisine Turkey lunch.  I was ok with the Lean Cuisine, it was just the Krispy Creme donuts on the table that killed me.  One of our teachers gets them from his brother, who delivers them to various places around town.  These are the "extras."  Honestly, I usually partake, but you'd be really proud of me today.  I ranted and raved, but in the end, walked out of the lunchroom sans the donut.  Yaaaay!

They even had these heart shapped donuts!

Youth.lds.org

Youth.lds.org is a new site for the youth.  It links to lds.org and is a great youth-centered church site.  I just went there.  Try it!
My students are in the middle of their research/power point presentations, and as 10th graders, they seem to want to be spoon fed every single bit of information.  They don't want to figure things out for themselves.  They also want to be allowed more time to do something they had not done in the first place. Monday, a student asked me for the questions to an assignment he claimed he was absent for (last week).  I did what I don't usually do, which was to give him another chance.  They were due today.  Soooo, today rolled around and he asked me, again, for the questions, because he left the others at his house.  I think he mumbled some lame excuse which was supposed to relieve him of all responsibility.  I just told him he had his chance, he left the work home, and NO, I would not give them to him a third time.  The reason I'm blogging this is for all of you wonderful children (mine) out there with your own children (my grandchildren), please teach them to be responsible for their actions, and if they fail, they fail.  There will be a next time, and hopefully, they will remember what they learned and know how to fix it.
Sorry for the lecture, sometimes I get on my soap box and just let'er rip!

No Sugar!!!

OK, Adam E. (or Ashley, not sure which one responded to my blog) has asked that I attempt to go without sugar (at least until the weekend).  This means approximately 72 hours from now.  I'm going to honestly try.  This morning I had a soft boiled egg, a single piece of toast and oj.  The main problem is, there was sugar in the oj.  Maybe I won't count that.  Anyway, I'm well on my way to 72 hours of no sugar. We'll call this the "zero tolerance sugar" diet, short that it's going to be.  Sounds intriguing...If, and that's a big IF, I can get to the weekend, who knows what I can do.  Oh well, just talk to me Saturday morning, that is if I haven't bit off Bill's head, or anyone near me.
You don't understand what temptations I have in my classroom.  I have a box of Tootsie Roll Pops sitting in my cupboard.  I just may hand them all out to my classes!  How sneaky I am.  I'm even giving up my all time favorite lemon-lime tootsie-roll pop, so that should say something.

It's now been 12 hours since I had that single Valentine M&M.  Watching the clock is not such a good idea.

I just need to verify something about this no-sugar diet:  can it just be "no candy" for this first three days?  I find it very difficult to read all the labels for sugar.  I know candy has sugar, that's a no-brainer, but, I just bought a subway sandwich (no mayo, etc) and diet coke.  In order to get the diet coke down, I need to add fresh lemon, and if there are no fresh lemons, I use lemonade, etc.  There was no lemonade, so I used Orange soda.  Now that could be construed as "sugar", but let's get real, I hate worrying about a teeny bit of sugar (in the soda).  If I've erred, then I have to start all over, and I've only got a few minutes into this diet instead of the 12 hours I mentioned earlier.  Am I rambling?