i love my wii fit

so in a little less than 4 weeks i have dropped 6 pounds all because of my wii fit. i work out every day with it for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, i've unlocked all of the exercises and do the 10 minute boxing in expert mode and really break a sweat. i do the balance games when i'm not too tired and do most of the yoga poses (i skip the one legged ones cuz' i'm not strong enough to do them yet) and i do almost all of the strength exercises (except the planks...same reason i skip the one legged yoga poses). the point is that it is working. and yes my eating habits are changing, i'm trying to watch my portions and make sure i eat lots of veggies but if i want a little chocolate i go for it, if i feel like chips i have some and i allow myself 1 soda per day cuz i get a slight headache when i go without (it's a caffeine thing, but i hate coffee and i'm not a fan of tea so...)so anyway, these are little things that i am hoping will amount to a larger thing in the end and as long as i stay motivated i think i will do just fine.

bored

I'm bored with my life, i feel like everything has become monotonous. work seems like the same old thing every day. yeah each of the kids that pass before me have different combinations of problems, but they have started blending into each other. often times i sit at my desk doing absolutely nothing, but i mask it well and always give the appearance of being busy. some of the people at work are grating on my nerves, they're lovely people but if i have to hear one more time about how much they hate their jobs or complain about the fact that they can't wear shorts to work anymore i'm gonna go a little nuts. it just feels like the same thing every day i guess is what i'm saying. meanwhile, on the home front i am trying to turn to a healthier lifestyle, eating more fruit and veggies than any other food group and getting out and exercising more. i have been realy breaking a sweat with my wii fit this past week, i just need to make it last longer than a couple of weeks. i have been making dylan walk with me at eldridge, he grumbles all the way, but i make him do it anyway cuz we both need to get active. i'm starting to plan for the move next summer, but then everytime i have an idea it gets shot down by someone. right now i am really feeling the scranton area, marywood has a decent PhD program for developmental psych with courses offered in the evening and on weekends which would be awesome...if i could get a job in the area which i might be able to, you never know, but like i said someone wants to poke holes in all of my plans essentially forcing me to stay in this area (which i am determined not to do) but i look around at my stuff everyday and wonder what i should take and what i should donate not to mention what mom is intending to bring, cuz god help me i am not lugging all of her crap along with us to where ever we move to that lady has too much crap!! but i am hoping that a lot of her stuff will be left behind for bill to deal with. but i guess it is still far enough away that i don't have to worry about things too much

it's been a while

what can i say? i've been pretty busy doing stuff. trying to get an A in a class that's too easy is harder than it sounds. I get bored and don't wanna do the work and, well grades can slip. but i have been doing well, i know myself and my downfalls and have been worked against my nature to make sure i have a firm grasp on that A. after this class i only have 3 more left before i graduate. and move on to more southern places. people keep telling me how nice north carolina is, and i am thinking in that direction, but we'll see what happens. dylan is going to the orthodontist on monday to see what needs to be done for him to have beautiful teeth, even though it has been asked why i am taking him if we won't be here when he is old enough for braces. the work front has been ok, even though there are a lot of changes. once more i am supervisorless and the CIS coordinator is my go to. She's usually pretty busy, so i try to deal on my own and i think she appreciates that. but the parent advocate is leaving at the end of this month which to me means i will be doing double duties until they can fill that position too. no big, i mean i had to handle a time when i didn't have a supe before, and i had to handle a time when i didn't have the advocate to do her part...just not at the same time. this summer has been pretty swell over all. we've done a lot as a family, taken a lot of trips, gone to the drive in, i scrap book just about everything now. in all honesty i think i've kind of gone overboard with it, but it gives me a forum to do something with my photos and hell i would have them anyway. we're going to knoebels in about a week, and bill might actually go as well...he hasn't taken a trip with us since dylan was a toddler and we rented a place at the lake. that's about it for now, who knows when i'll have time to write again?

4th of july weekend

i had a pretty good weekend, three days off from work is usually good. dyl spent friday at mom's where he and bill apparently played video games for a good portion of the night. i stayed home, watched fanboys, made a strawberry rhubarb pie for the saturday meal and finished harry potter and the order of the phoenix. and the weather was nicer than i thought, though not extremely hot, and the pool temp was about 72, saturday and sunday were both nice days to go swimming and i of course got a little color...red to be exact since i don't tan well. and we finished the weekend by hitting the fireworks. last year we sat right next to eldridge lake, and i planned to do that again this year, only the parking was insane. so i ended up driving around and parking in the back parking lot of a buiolding across from king kone with about 50 other people. but in reality we had an amazing spot, the fire works were being shot off just over the railroad tracks from where we were and the view was spectacular. and we didn't even leave the car, they were right there. so overall it was a pretty good weekend.

most awesome fighting game ever

ok, mom rented a game for dylan to play at the house today on the xbox 360 and it was mortal kombat vs. dc superheroes. i was LOVIN it!! it was especially fun because i figured out how to do all the cool moves first and stomped all over both dylan and bill, as a good sport i explained how to do the moves to all, but poor dyl just couldn't compete against my awesomeness and kept saying i was cheating. anyway, flash is number 1, joker is my number 2 and my number 3 is scorpion. dyl favors the ladies of course, and bill was all over the big heavies like batman and superman. bill and i were tied, beating each other twice and dylan multiple times. now bill will be practicing all night so he can beat me tomorrow...oh well, at least i had tonight to be a champ. if i had crazy money i would buy an xbox just to play that game, sadly they don't make it for the wii or the ps2. it was a lot of fun!!

research research research

man, o man, i am just about finished with my research methods class. two more discussions and i'm done with it. i finished my final paper and just submitted it to safeassign which i am sure is one of those websites schools like to use to make sure we aren't plagiarizing other people's work. the paper was pretty easy actually, since i got 100 on my mrf assignment i basically just did an intro, copy and pasted alot of what i had in the mrf, making it a bit more cohesive that it was in the mrf form and wrote up a conclusion discussing where i thought the research could have been improved. and for once in my life i printed out my paper and edited it, checking for errors and making sure i had everything right. normally i just send the paper on its way when i'm done... i also wait until the last possible day to write it. but not this quarter, this quarter i finished everything ahead of schedule (except the mrf, because i thought i had more time than i reallt did and spent about 6 hours tied to my computer working on it while dyl played around.four more courses to go until graduation!!

oh canada

i went on vacation with the family (minus bill of course, he never goes any where with us). dylan had a great time and we all had a blast at marine land. the wax museum and ripley's believe or not were a lot of fun. we didn't end up on the maid of the mist, that line was way too long and i definitely didn't want to wait and wait and wait for it. instead we took in some sights, went to clifton hills and marine land. we went up to the revolving restaurant, but well...i promised never to speak of that again and won't relive it here. let's just say we got a free ride on what dylan was calling "the bus" to the top and we probably should have paid. meanwhile, the whales and dolphins, seals, sealion and walrus were awesome. I got a lot of great pics and will be scrapbooking soon (i have a paper due this week and need to get working on it tomorrow). the hotel was pretty nice, but i was a bit of a cheapskate and parked the car myself rather than use the valet, i'm sorry, but really i prefer to have my keys and know where the car is and all that. the car was a cute little nissan versa and i really liked driving it. except that i had the driving duties for the entire trip, and sometimes it is nice to just be the passenger. at the canadian border i had to explain that dylan didn't have a dad,i so hate that. if only those people knew how hard america made it to get a passport for a kid without both parents (except that dylan doesn't have a father listed on his birth cert. anyway) they would have just accepted the damn passports without asking him who lived in our house, and then mistaking him saying "my cat" for "my dad". but whatevs. the border patrol coming back to america was very friendly and nice even joking with us and telling dylan he had to take the funny hat dyl bought as a souvenit that was red and white and said canada on it cuz he was back in the US and needed to show his patriotism. it was cute. meanwhile everything was crazy expensive and we didn't do half the stuff we could have done. regardless it was a blast. when i got home i realized i had a text from kelly (and one from her husband) that she had her baby so i will miss her while she is on maternity leave. maybe i will go visit her and bring her some flowers or something. and now it is back to the routine. i dread going back to work, hope i didn't get a million voicemails and a ton of paperwork dumped into my mailbox. maybe i should run back to canada.