A Good Day...

Hello all,
    Well today was a peculiar, but good day. I had agreed to sub at another school's summer program. When I got there I discovered it was FIELD TRIP DAY..ughh..to a pool, no less. Anyone who knows me knows that at this point in my career, I don't particularly like field trips, and I hate those that involve kids in water. I usually spend my entire day counting heads and worrying endlessly about losing a child..but the pool was open only for us. I also got to hang at the water sprinkler "pad" and it was actually fun. I didn''t even mind the rain! :) But then..ahhh THEN we got to go to a rocket presentation and it started POURING rain, but this was the only day to do it..well, the rain stopped and it was actually interesting, and I might even say, enjoyable. It's all what you make it, huh?

    I forgot to mention. I had a little "tiff" with a teacher from another school yesterday at the prof dev class. It basically was a total miscommunication, but I have not felt put down like that in a long time, and even with apologies I think neither of us was satisfied. Hmm..I really really tried to be diplomatic, and I even bit my tongue when he tried to turn the blame on me....oh men, how they can do that, I don't know. But anyway, we both survived but I doubt we will ever be friends.

   I sat down this afternoon and faced the finances. I designed and printed some record keeping sheets. I recorded my payments for the last year and then actually wrote down the balances in ALL accounts...mortgage, utilities, credit, etc. I will return to that sheet in 3 months and hopefully we will see huge changes.

   I read a neat article yesterday about a woman and her husband who paid off their 30 year mortgage in 3.5 or 5.5 years!! They were young, without kids, and very very thrifty. They didn't have cable, they didn't have smart phones, though they did have cell phones. But the neat thing is they really didn't make much money. They are now COMPLETELY debt free. I think that would be an amazing feeling. I know it will take a LOT for me to ever get there, but I'd like to start keeping track of every penny I spend and then cutting back as much as I can...So beginning tomorrow I will have a small notebook in my purse and I am going to write every single thing down.EVERYTHING. Maybe I will even share after doing it for 7-10 days.

   And finally, I did not eat in between meals today! I did not eat breakfast...not good I know...had carrots and peanut butter for snack, ate half of a BLT w/avacado for lunch...without one part of bread. Now that was an eye opener...I checked the clock to make sure I didn't eat for more than 30 minutes. OMG! I scoffed that ding dang sandwich in like 5 minutes! 5 MINUTES, my friends. No wonder I then got sick....so when I eat the other half tonight I am going to make it last at least 15...

So that's all for today. A really long blog, I know. But I just had so much to share. So today starts week 3...I think I have actually made quite a few steps in the right direction.

Until tomorrow...
Cindi