The Universe may not hate me after all!

Ever had one of those weeks? Last week had me believing that everything, including my hair, was conspiring together to irritate, frustrate, and just plain make me miserable. It started when they re-cast my arm. I was really looking forward to NOT being a clumsy buffoon with a flourescent cast. When they re-cast it, I truly was depressed about the whole thing. Then, I was frustrated at home because I felt like it was a mess and I had no time to clean it. Also, I was very frustrated with a friend that's been staying with us. I was trying to grow my hair out and it was at this akward stage where it looked really bad and mullett-y. One of my co-workers was wigging out on me and making work really stressful. Anyway, it just added up to where I couldn't stop crying by Friday. I was rediculously stressed out and frazzled and it was also showing up in my eating. I was having a real hard time focusing on eating right when that was the only thing that I was enjoying. It was the first time since I started WW that I didn't want to go. I was almost in tears about it Sunday and my sweet MIL told me that I didn't have to go if I didn't want to. I told her that no, I would go if only because I wanted to stay responsible for my actions. I will tell you that Monday almost sent me into tears again, but in a good way. I had spent the day getting the house mostly clean. I caught up all the laundry. I got the grading done that I had brought home. I cut my ugly hair into a very cute shorter style (that's not the best picture of it, but you get the idea). Then, when time came for WW, I walked up to the scale and lo and behold, I was down 1.8lbs! That was just enough to push me to my 60 lb star. I really almost lost it because I was steeling myself for the opposite result. I guess it just goes to show that things can work out even when they seem to all be moving the wrong direction. On a note of things working in my favor, it would also be appreciated it you would pray for my arm to heal. I'm still having pain which I fear means that they will say it's not healed next Tuesday. I really don't think I can stand to be in a cast any longer than my current sentence. Please say a prayer that God will heal it quickly so that I can get the cast off for good this time!

Stupid Orthopedist!

Apparently, something that all humans do naturally, I suck at. I suck at healing. I went to the orthopedist's office yesterday and was scheduled to get my cast taken off and get a temporary splint. However, when I said it still hurt they made a face at me. Then, after the X-ray, they said I hadn't healed as quickly as a "normal" person. (Really, I don't think the name calling was necessary! :) ) Anyway, they said I had to get a new cast. To ease my depression over this, I decided on hot pink for my new cast color. The chick put it on kind of tight and it's a little uncomfortable (You can scroll down to the purple one and see that it's bigger looking). Then, when I got to school the next day, all my kids wanted to sign my 'new' cast. Because I didn't want to listen to that over and over for the next two weeks, I decided to decorate my cast. I got a dark Sharpie and drew swirls all over the front and back so that there was no room to sign on it (*Mwah hahahahaha!* >:) ). I guess now I just need to convince my body I'm 'normal' for two weeks so I can get this ding-dang cast off for good next time!

Fun with Mentos and Soda

This is a video I compiled of our Mentos and Soda experiments at school. We were teaching the kids scientific method by having them write out the different parts of the experiment and develop their own hypothesis about what would happen. It was a lot of fun and even though you can't see the kids on the video, you can hear them screaming in the background. If you want to see more, I have still pictures and lab write ups posted on the website I keep for the 6th grade at school. The address is http://wbms6thscience.weebly.com .

A Broken Arm Can't Stop ME!

I really thought that this silly arm was going to sideline me until the cast came off. However, I was actually down 5lbs. this week! (Actually, two weeks because we had to miss for Labor Day.) I'm surprised I'm keeping up my 2lb/week average, but I think walking a lot in class and adding in breakfast and vitamins might be helping.

Pretty in Purple

Ohhhhh....Ahhhhhh! It's purple! They told me not to work out because I could 1) Fall and make it worse 2) have a really stinky cast. I'm kust going to have to try to move more without sweating and watch my food really closely. The other good thing is that I only have to wear this for 3 weeks and then I should get a removable cast that I can take off so I can bathe my arm. They also said I could drive my manual transmission car....Yeah!

Well, I've finally broken a castable bone! After 28 years of only breaking fingers and toes I've managed to finally snap one of the big ones. I was doing yard work on Sunday and I decided to trim all the hedges in front of the house since we're having people over for fantasy sports drafts next weekend. Anyway, I have a beautiful Bottlebrush tree in front of the house that had gotten taller than I care for it to. I was up on a ladder trying to cut it to about half its current height. All of the sudden I thought I saw bees or wasps coming out of the top of it. (It's blooms frequenly attract stingy guests) I tried to get off the ladder really quick to avoid getting stung. Unfortunately, I missed the last step and put my left hand under me to break my fall. I heard a pop when I landed which apparently was the top of my radius breaking. The ER doc said it was a pretty clean break and it went all the way through. I'm going to the orthopedist for my real cast tomorrow. (They didn't want to cast today because of swelling.) I felt pretty awful today (lots of nausea). I'm surprised how much one broken area can make everything feel yucky.

The best news of the day was that even with the added weight of my splint, I was still down 0.6 lbs today. I only have 0.4lbs left until I get my 55lb star. I'm hoping to do that next week and it looks like Sally may be getting her 70lb star next week too.

Let's Give Them Something to Blog About....

Yeah! I'm so excited! I guess I should back up a little first. Last week I had just gotten home from 10 days in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. I went snorkeling several times and repeatedly drank salt water unintentionally. (It was deceptively blue and I kept forgetting to be careful about getting it in my mouth.) I went to WW like 18 hours after getting off of the plane. Sally and I were very faithful to exercise on the trip. We worked out every single day without fail. I indulged a little in food, but mostly I was very good and age small portions of healthy food. Anyway, I was a little disappointed when I was up when we got home. I was only up 0.4 lbs, but I had hoped to not be up any. Well, today was the payoff, because I was down 7.2 lbs! That makes my total loss 53.8 lbs. and my weight is officially under 200(199.2)! I feel so much better not lugging around that extra weight. I'm also really excited about getting under 200 before the kids come back to school. That was my secret goal for myself, and I'm really happy that I met it just in time!