Survived yesterday. I am convinced though that I turned down my temp basal instead of up, but have not proof. I have asked Animas yet again, to provide that information.
By surviving, my weight is less than it was yesterday morning, and my blood sugar was at 108. Kind of wish I’d switched to the exercise basal, and I really had time to walk even though I didn’t but I am having heel spur problems.
I can always walk afterwards anyway. And I probably need an off day after the 55 minute walk yesterday.
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On the friend’s job — well, she took the SS early retirement. Which I am very much against, it never should have been available anyway. I’ve never really understood the whole thing, but she ends up with $827 more a month, and supposedly can get her job back. Supposedly they have to post it. Okay, right now, I’m not believing much of what she says since she spent so much time and energy lying to me, and what was the point? It really wasn’t nice to freak me out like I was yesterday.
But it doesn’t change. The things I like about my job are staying the same. The things that bother me, change and always do. I like the neighborhood kids. I would even consider living in that neighborhood, if it wasn’t in Dallas, and didn’t have Dallas services and politics. We live in a suburb with a less than 5 minute response time on emergency services, and a city council who runs things and doesn’t drive people nuts.
Funny, but when I really analyze what is going on, it gives me more time in the classroom and more time to concentrate on what matters. Teaching 5 preps — the norm for me — is hard. One class never gets my attention. 6 was worse, two didn’t. I’ll be down to 3 preps, and I will be able to spend lots of energy on PreAP which is where I should concentrate. A good PreAP program will make a really strong AP program which is what people want.
I get paid pretty well for a teacher. I consistently take home $45000 a year, and may top that this year. I get lots of time off, after this workshop, I’ll actually have summer — I still have 2 days of staff development in July, but I understand most of that is on line.
They are paying for a master’s degree and I’ll have the majority of that work done soon. The classes I’m taking are pretty easy, more paperwork than anything. Most of that is online too.
So why change?
And I’m going to walk in and turn up the basal to 20% (not down) and test all day. And get through another workshop day.