Author: kathleen

I’m trying to get back on track, and I’ve found that making lots of short entries about the things I’m trying to change helps.

So last night I got to bed at 10:30, which is much earlier than I have been getting to bed but later than I wanted. I did stay in bed all night even though I woke up twice.

Unfortunately I weighed this morning, and unfortunately my suspicious are true, I have started gaining weight again. I had other clues, my clothing is too tight, and my insulin usage is up.

Tonight I’ll probably be up late since it’s dog training, but I do plan to stay in bed all night.

I bit the bullet on Monday, and ordered 3 months worth of OneTouch Ultra test strips. Yeah, it’s bigger, yeah, it doesn’t have the cute little flashlight, BUT it does have graphs, which is helping me.

Sticking to one meter isn’t bad, I’ll have to start finding and shifting emergency meters.

Someone asked if was using the OneTouch software — I like EzManager much better and it not only downloads all of the UltraSmart data, but also the pump data — it’s an Animas product.

I had a better day, but the kiddos were really wound up after yesterday’s forced sitting still all day (also known as TAKS testing).

I think that not waking up helped, but I do need more hours. I’m going to try to go to bed around 9:30. Notice I said try.

The knee has been stiff all day, partly because the elevator isn’t working. I managed to get 15 minutes in on the treadmill not much but it’s the most I’ve been able to do all week.

Right now, before I can get anything else on track, I have to sleep all night. Which I managed last night, though I didn’t make it to bed until 11:30.

Knee is still incredibly stiff. I can’t decide what to do about physical therapy.

Students this time. I expected a disaster, first because the walk-through didn’t work, second because I found out shortly after I arrived, that the person who was supposed to relieve me had a car accident and wasn’t at school. I lucked out because a counselor brought me an extra student and I was smart enough to talk her into watching my student while I went to the restroom. I finally gave up on being relieved about 10:30, called the office and begged for someone to watch my room. The good news, is that I was assigned a new relief. He had other duties, so I didn’t get much time.

The other part that was nice was that I had only 12 students. A 13th was assigned, but he didn’t show and was withdrawn from school a few weeks ago since he was 18 and hadn’t shown up in weeks.

I eat with my students, which was actually pretty enjoyable. One of my students, a late arrival, took until about 2:30 to finish the test, most were done about a half hour before that. I did manage to get the students who finished early a couple of computers to play with which kept them busy. And I had plenty to do also.

We had another change in weather which is really giving me knee trouble. I did some of my physical therapy exercises, but sitting here in front of the computer isn’t helping much, but I just can’t bring myself to do more.

I may yet break down and get a stationary bicyle, but man, I love my treadmill, and don’t enjoy stationary bikes much. My biggest problem, is that I’ve never been able to find one that fits me.

Sleeping isn’t though. Just couldn’t get to bed before 11:30. I always have trouble going to bed after a bad night. Then I woke up around 5:00 am. Piddled around a bit on the computer, got a few things actually done, and then went back to bed to get warm and listen to the news.

I went back on the anti-inflammatory last night — and the knee is better. How much of that is due to the warmer weather though?

I am dreading today. We’re testing our 1st period class ALL day. They should finish around 11:00 am. I’ve got 3 DVD’s, hopefully that will keep them entertained.

I’m not going to say a whole lot about this, but part of the stress I’ve been experiencing this year is due to the fact that I cannot trust the students in my portable. I want to move them to my computer classroom, but they just cannot be trusted. At all….

I’ve taught for 14 years, and I have never witnessed the theft that I’ve seen out of these students. Anything that cannot be stolen is destroyed. I have no idea if it is one student or more than one student. I am not even sure if it is a current student.

It’s never happened while I was in the room. One time it happened when I went into the building into the restroom, but I’m pretty sure who did it. Fortunately that student is no longer enrolled in my classes, as I’ve caught him three different times, wrote him up and nothing happened.

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