Dancing, Weight lifting, Grocery Shopping and Snow Days.

I have been reflecting a lot this past 2 weeks.  Reflection is good if you are doing it for positive results.  Yesterday would have been my 25th wedding anniversary.  I truly meant to blog yesterday with those disappointed feelings, but decided to think on it instead.  I want this blog to be positive and the more I thought of it, my divorce was positive.  I have grown as my own person so much since it, but it is hard not thinking about what could/should have been.  So, I want to talk more about what has been going on the past two weeks.  I do not have any one deep thought so I will be jumping around a bit.

Exercise is going well for me.  I have discovered Zumba. Zumba is an awesome workout combining

high energy and motivating music with synchronized dance movements designed for any fitness level.

  Now, I want to tell you that I am very dance challenged.  This class gets you to move and feel sexy even if you are so far from looking it.  The music is a cultural mix of beats, sounds and speed.  At one point I stopped to see what everyone else looked like and I almost fell on the floor laughing.  Not one person was even close to the little hottie running the show. So....when I get really confused I just move around like I know what I am doing checking everyone out.  What  a hoot.  I have even gotten my principal to agree to Zumba as an energizer for our next Professional Development day.   (well, it is culturally diverse, hee hee)

Once I discovered Zumba, I turned my attention to another class I was curious about (Body Pump).  I show up to this class only knowing it was some sort of barbell lifting class.  Basically, you have a step bench in front of you with a mat, a barbell, and weights (2.5, 5, & 10 lbs).  The class is a lifting class choreographed to punish every muscle in your body.  My back was killing me, but that is an area I am trying to strengthen.  It was not necessarily the next day, but 2 days later I was popping Ibuprofen to function.  So, I kept repeating a friend's comment "pain is weakness leaving the body".  Riiiiggggghhhht. 

What is every one's idea of the price of groceries.  OMG...just when you think you are cutting corners the prices rise again.  This Sunday, Bob and I discussed groceries.  Sooooo, I made the comment about going to Sam's and biting the bullet and stock up on all the things we buy every week.  Planning with Bob was fun.  We share the cooking so it really has to be a team effort.  350 painful dollars later we are successfully stocked up for at least 3 weeks worth of meals.  If this plan works, we should only have to spend about $50 a week on odds and ends.

Snow days...hmmmm....nice when they are here...but when the end of the school year is here I want out and I want out NOW.  My school district has 6 days built into the school calendar.  Therefore, if we do not use them we get out of school earlier.  Whooo Hoooo.  We already have a school calendar longer than most schools so why not?  Yesterday, my peers and students were walking around praying for snow.  Now, I love being able to have a day off that sub plans are not needed, but I cannot help think about the end of the year.  When the end nears, peers and students will be, again, complaining about the length of our school year and what districts start after us and end before us.  All I keep thinking is that if we had not used those stupid days we would be out and I could enjoy the awesome wonderful fabulous summer weather.  I wish we could have year round school.  Now wait a minute.  Think about this....teach 9 weeks off 3 weeks with a nice winter break and a break in the summer.  I have not had a fall vacation in 17 years and that is my favorite season.  My burnout level would be greatly reduced.  Just a thought.

Love ya,
Lisa