Hey friends,

So, if I’m being honest… (and I am) I’ve been allowing my foot injury to keep me from doing any major calorie burning for about 2 months. Here is the timeline, as I figure it.

 

December 13th, I went for a 4 mile run. On the 14th, I woke up and could barely walk.

 

On January 1, I started practicing yoga at an amazing studio in my town, and I could NOT be more happy with the progress I’ve experienced in my yoga practice.

 

On January 21st, I went to the podiatrist for the first time, and learned that I have a textbook case of plantar fasciitis. I was prescribed NO weight bearing activity, but was told I could swim, use the recumbent bike, and do some yoga (careful with poses that cause me to be on my toes or apply great pressure to my feet (plank on toes, some lunging)

 

So… while I’ve done some walking, one jazzercise class (before I saw the doc), and yoga a couple times most weeks… I’ve not had a good hard sweat in a while.

 

Sad, isn’t it? I’ve wanted to run so bad, that I’ve let it sour my opinion of other activities and foster feelings of laziness!

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So, today, I went to the school weight/equipment room, and went to town on the recumbent bike. It was pretty okay, made my knees feel a little weird… but it made me sweat, and I REALLY missed that! :D

 

As far as today’s eats, I started with yogurtoats, my favorite breakfast… I made it with the new yoplait greek (I’m testing the new yoplait and dannon varieties) topped with some fresh raspberries. As always, this always looks awful, but tastes YUM

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Yogurtoats included-

-Strawberry Yoplait Greek yogurt

-bottom of the Bob’s Red Mill thick rolled oats, probably 1/2 cup

-8 or 9 raspberries

 

For lunch, we had a local dinner company bring some eats, I had about a 1/2 to 3/4 c serving of a mexican casserole, 2 slices of honeydew, and a few bites of a chicken tortilla soup broth, that was tomato based, (and totally chock full of cilantro, AKA DEVIL HERB so I hated it and didn’t eat more than a couple slurps)Untitled

In the afternoon, there was a giant bowl of banana pudding, and I had one teaspoon full. When I went back later to grab a pic… it was licked clean. haha. It was good. :D Untitled

I also had most of an apple later in the afternoon, and about 5 bites of a mushroom risotto that was going to be lunch, before I found it was catered.

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Dinner, we decided fast food was on the agenda, as we’ve not stocked up on dinners at the store, so I had 5 nuggets from wendy’s most of a plain baked potato (with some newman’s ranch) and grapes.  (I may have had a few bites of Daron’s frosty too. :) )

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I’m sleepy, so I’m going to go to bed early tonight! I’ve got to get ready for my trip, 2 coworkers and I are going to Austin for a conference and we leave on wednesday! :D woot!

 

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Jacki over at Lovely Little Shelf has started this great “Flashback Friday” meme where we write about old books that we loved when we were younger. This could be a series or an individual book that we read until it was worn.

Today, I’m writing about my favorite book when I was about 12-14… I think I read it about 8 times. I seriously thought it was the SCARIEST book ever!

A Ghost in the House by Betty Ren Wright

This is the story of Sarah, who (of course) is crushed and angsty when her family moves into the beautiful old house in the suburbs which belongs to her Great Aunt Margaret. She would be fantastically happy with her amazing new bedroom (complete with fireplace!) but nursing home life doesn’t agree with Aunt Margaret, and she soon rejoins the family and reclaims her bedroom.

The bedroom squabble soon turns to darker tales, as Sarah bonds with her Aunt over the strange happenings that continue to plague their sacred bedroom.

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When I became a middle school teacher, one of the very first things I did was  check this bad boy out from the school library. I read it in about 5 hours, and of course, it wasn’t NEARLY as scary as I remembered it, but I still really enjoyed the story.

I thought it was clever, and twisty, with just enough ghostie-goodness to make me remember why I spent my youth reading mystery/scary/suspense books for kids.

I’d encourage you to check out your old childhood faves from the library too… it is a great way to take a book breather between more heady works, and remind you what you loved about reading back when it all still felt shiny and new. :)

Hey lovelies!

As a special treat for you (wink, wink) I’m going to take the few extra minutes I have tonight to actually throw the photos up into this link, eliminating the need for you google readers/email subscribers to make the dreaded LINK to the page. :D

 

Here are my weekly photos. :D

 

 

There you have it!

Isn’t that first one sad? ugh.

 

See you, pretties tomorrow. :D

 

Somehow, I went through ancient blog entries, and found this GEM. I was crying so hard while reading it, because I could not stop laughing.

 

**I challenge you, my bloggie friends to find an old, hilarious, or otherwise interesting blog post and give it new life. it is so fun! :D

 

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Helloooooooo bloggy friends!

 

interestingly enough, I’m in a REALLY good mood.

 

I mean, really good.

 

If you knew how yesterday panned out, however, you might wonder how a good mood was POSSIBLE.

Remember that time, years ago, when I barfed in front of my students? (it was my first year of teaching… sometime in 07… blogging wasn’t nearly as candid, trust me)

 

Well, this may have been even a bit worse.

 

If you know me, you know that I have horrendous periods. I mean… it is normal for me to lose consciousness, barf, scream bloody murder…

 

Well, my plantar fasciitis is being treated with a topical patch, that happens to be the same anti-inflammatory medicine that I use to manage that “special time pain”. I didn’t double up on it, and so yesterday, Aunt Flizzo hit me like a ton of bricks…

 

I was at work, and trying to start my morning… started to feel nauseated, walked towards the bathroom, in hopes to make excellent barfs, when I started to feel it all going fuzzy. Instead of locking myself in a bathroom (where I would have passed out unattended-WINNING decision, kels!) I turned around and headed back into the grouping of coworkers including my principal and vice principal.

I stated, as clearly as possible, “I need help getting to the nurse! I NEED HELP GETTING TO THE NURSE!”

My principal, clear headed and calm as always grabbed me, tried to help me walk, but I was already melting to the floor.

 

I thank him for the fact that I didn’t lose any additional brain cells by cracking skull on the tiled hallway. ;)

 

I blacked out for a minute, came to with a juicebox already propped in my hands, was hoisted into the wheelchair, lead into the nurses office, where my blood pressure and pulse eventually returned to normal.  WOOT WOOT!

 

After, they sent me home, and I slept for about a billion hours, curled up with sweet dala and darkside tinni:

Darkside Tinni

 

Seriously, ladies, if you have a tame time of the month, please don’t take it for granted!!

 

So embarrassing, haha.

Anyway, I’m totally fine, and its all in a day’s work for us at kelseyville.

 

Good times.

xo.

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