We actually got back on Monday, but it's been a whirlwind since.  Bill's daughter came over soon after we got home...so we've been staying busy, and I had a ton of reading to do for this week for class too.

The fun thing on our trip is we won about $1,300 on Saturday.....On Sunday we went shopping...I got new clothes.....we played the slots some more....didn't do as good......but still all in all....the weekend was free and I got new clothes...so I call that a good weekend.

I leave for PHX on the 21st and come back on the 24th with Tiffany.

I survived summerschool....and now it is time to play!  Bill and I are heading to Shreveport tomorrow to stay at the Horseshoe Casino.....and we come back on Monday...just a short little jaunt to celebrate the 1 year anniversary.  There is a spa there...and I get a little spa pampering.....should be fun. 

My cough is somewhat better......that codiene knocks me out...so when I got home from work in the afternoons...I've been taking some serious naps....which the added benefit is....I think my grion/hip injury is getting better from the extra rest.....Although I've been in a fog......I've been husling to get my homework done.....has to be done and submitted before we leave tomorrow.  The big project is done...just need cover page, abstract and references......then a 150-250 word journal reflections......and I'm good to go.

I've done absolutely nothing in the weight loss dept....but when we get back from our little trip....I will face the music and get back on track....I should be cough and pain free by then.

OK....I'm off to do some housework....then finish my homework....then I'll check on y'all.

And I just have bronchitis....she said whatever is going around has been lingering for 4 weeks (I've been coughing for 3!).....so she gave me a z-pack, some cough suryp with codiene and these pills called tessalon perls for the daytime.....didn't ask about my hip.....you can only do one problem at a time.......beside I think I should go to ortho for that.

So I took a dose of the cough suryp...and I'm not long for the world. 

We were super busy today!!!!  What's up with that?  3 more days of summer school....I thought we would be cruising....silly me......we did our paperwork for our pay today.....it will be more than I thought.....$3,250 before they rape us with taxes.....won't get it til Aug 20....Bill...says it's just in time for his B-day....so I ask what he would like ....I'll be his sugar mama!!!!  He says something for the house....so we've looked at some super nice office furniture awhile back that is about that much....maybe that is what we will do....of course...we will discuss this 16 million times......before the money hits the bank....but I'll let y'all know what we decide.

OK...I'mm off to bed before I crash.....I'll come check on y'all tomorrow.

And it's not like I had too much time to goof off like this chick......but soon I will.  I have been taking it really easy on my hip and thought it was getting better.....but I was seriously limping after a lap around Wal-mart this morning......so discouraging....took it easy the rest of the day and it's not too bad now....but the cough....yuck.....I guess it's good the mucinex is loosening up the gunck to cough it out...not to gross y'all out.....but I was coughing up big ole chunks (about the size of a tablespoon)...of yellow/grey gunk this morning....and my chest hurt from all the coughing....and I was sort of aching....but it felt good to get all that gunck out.....so I took about a 2 hour nap....could of slept longer...but I had 2 assignments to get turned in....homework is done...quick post here ;then....I'm going to clean the kitchen and get myself to bed.....then decide if I'm going to carenow....or find a new Dr. tomorrow.  Good night y'all

I can not believe I have not posted since Tuesday!!!!!!!  Wednesday was the reading test, so I got to hang out with junior hoodlums and gang banger for a little over 4 hours.....that was stressful.  I've had lots of errands to do in the afternoons, I've been trying to do a little housework each day....a la The Flylady.....I've decided killing myself on this big house once or twice a week was not going to work...so I'm trying to get those routines going.  I ordered some really cute Dick and Jane Fabric (I know those who are my age remember Dick and Jane......for you young uns...that is who we all learned to read with) for the grandchild room, I made a curtain valance and started on the dust ruffle....but can't get to far with that, since some of the fabric for that project is on backorder.

Not much to report in the weight loss department....I'm on a little sabatical until I quit limping....if I don't get better in the next few days...I might have to break down and go to the Dr.......I've also been coughing for 2-3 weeks....thought it was just allergies...air pollution stuff.....but started taking Mucinex...and now I'm coughing yellow junk out of my lungs.

5 days of summer school left, yay!  Then Saturday, we are going to Shreveport.

Oh...my final grade for my 1st Master's class was a 99.25%, but I'm sure this next class will be a whole new ball game.......I actually have to re-read the chapters a few times to get a grasp of what is going on.....once I get it....it makes sense.....it's just a lot of learning and brain theroy sort of stuff .....No big plans for today.....I need to do some stuff around here and some homework....Bill's daughter is coming over at some point....and there is a nieghborhood hotdog and hamburger thing next door later this afternoon, we watched some fireworks from the backyard last night.....don't know if we will see others tonight.

For all my worrying, they actually worked pretty hard.....but still it was a tiring day, tomorrow is the reading test.

I'm a bit overwhelmed about the rest of the summer.....the big thing is Blake coming home for 18 days for R&R....trying to plan some stuff.....but don't want to overwhelm Blake.......plus we have to be flexible...his date to be home is aug 1...but that could be /- a day or two......this is what the rest of the summer is shaping up to look like:

Jul 11-last day of summer school, when school lets out Bill and I plan on heading to Shreveport for the weekend to celebrate our 1st aniversary on the 14th, The week of the 14th , Tori, bill's daughter wants to come stay with us for the week.  The 21st I'll go to Phoenix to help Tiff with her classroom computer center, her and I will fly back to Dallas on the 24th, Molly and Joey will get here on the 26th......we will get things ready for the homecoming festivities ....and I have a conference Jul 29-31.......Molly and Tiff are try to get tiff and Blake's dad here to suprise Blake....but we are not hold our breath on that one......Blake should be here on the 1st of Aug.....which is also Joey's 1st B-day...Ray (Tiff's husband) will be here on the 3rd of Aug....and Tiff and Ray will fly back to Phoenix on the 5th.....Blake goes back to Iraq on the 18th.....Molly and Blake want to spend some alone time away...and Bill and I will have Joey at that time.....but I'm also a trainer at our technology academy Aug 12-14....so they can't go at that time.....so I can't really get my brain around how much I need to plan.

Today was a killer, I'm not sure if it was leftover from the weekend, or the fact that all the 8thgraders get the 3rd chance for the state test, if they fail this time they have a good chance of being retained (there is a meeting....if everyone agrees the student did their best...they can be promoted), but the ones we were dealing with today were really being buttheads.....my intial reaction was wtf....don't they care....but after I thought...they could be putting on the "too cool for school" attitude as a defense mechanism....because they are afraid of failing.....anyway tomorrow is the Math and Wednesday the Reading....if you don't hear from me it's because I'm fried to a crisp!

OK....and second masters class started today...this one looks like it will be more of a challenge......So I get home from  a rough day with the kids, I went to the gym, ran some errands.....lay down and snuggle with Bill for a few minutes...get up ....say I'm going to get in something more comfortable and go read, I tell him it's a heavy reading assignment...3 chapters...instead of 1 like last course....so he decides to get up....I change...I head upstairs to start reading....and he starts hammering...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....What is he thinking???????????  So I go back to the bedroom and try to read there.....after reading the same paragraph 3 times...due to the fact I can't consentrate because of the hammering....so I give up on reading and start dinner.....he comes down stairs and says....I thought you were going to read......I say I tried to but couldn't with the hammering....he says ....you should have said something...now I feel bad...... I think....good....I'm glad you feel bad....but I didn't say anything.......he apologized for being inconsiderate before he left for work(whatever).....so now when I finish this...I'll go read.......if I have any brain cells left...I come say hi to y'all.

Since I had the house all clean for the girls (Grateful Threads) coming over on Friday night.....I didn't have to work too hard at cleaning this weekend....so that was good.  We got the wallpaper border up in the grandchild's room and the beadboard all done.....(except the trim work and painting).  Yesterday was the Grand Opening of the Container Store.....right down the road a few miles....whoo hoo!....so of course we were there, got a few fun things.......I'm still waiting for a call saying I won something  Then we went to Halfprice Books, sold $35 worh of books....bought $60.....so only had to pay $25.  I got 2 Dr Suess and a Mother Goose for the grandchild's room.  Then we had lunch then went to Ikea....got a few things ....my favorite thing we got was a chalk board/easel for the grandchild's room.  Then when we got home...we did the work in the bedrooms that I mentioned above......I was dog tired and fell asleep watching the news.

Was up early this am, sorta wanted to go for a jog.....but groin is still a bit sore (maybe walking the huge container store and then Ikea yesterday was a bit of a strain?)......but also need to get my school work done (I know I said I was going to get it done early this week.....but with getting the house ready for company and having a pokeeno night....I didn't get it all done.....so I finished my discussions this am....and I still need to whipout a 3-5 page paper (it's in my head...so it should not take too long)....maybe I'll reward myself with a trip to the gym when the paper is done.....yeah...that's a good idea.  Also today, I want to finish polishing the brass bed and get that moved upstairs to the grandchild's room......spend a little more time, organizing the scrapbook stuff and start on the dust ruffle and curtain for the grandchild's room (I have some Dick and Jane fabric (but I need more).

yesterday about 6:30 pm the is a knock at the door, I open it and the are 3 soccer mom looking people with a big sign.....they say congratulations, you won yard of the month!!!!!!!

Plus we got a $25 giftcard for home depot.......we were very suprised ....yes we had done some work....just to clean up the neglect....and it's funny...I said next year we should go all out and go for yard of the month.....so we were excited....got to get to work.....later

  I don't know what happened to yesterday, but it was gone in a flash.  It was super busy with the students.....si I barely had time to get on the computer, Then went to the Gym....Lynnwood gave me an easy leg work out with lots of stretching....so my leg groin is doing better today.  Then Bill and I ran a few errands ate a late lunch (Bill makes me do bad things......or maybe it's the other way around....anyway...next week he will be back on his normal shift).......then he bought me a banquet table for my sewing room.....so when the Grateful Threads come over, everyone has a place to set up machines....so we brought that upstairs and I started to get things a little more organized for Friday when I'm hosting.  Then last night was Po-keeno....I had fun, but didn't win anything.....got caught up on some school gossip....two of my friends are always a wealth of information.

This afternoon I'm doing some serious housework....since the grateful threads are coming over Friday....I'll be showing off the house.....Bill is off today and doing some stuff......any help is good....but you know men....they don't seem to understand the concept of cleaning a bathroom, or when you clean the kitchen...it means more than just loading the dishwasher.....but I'm not complaining....anything he does is less that I have to do.  He is also going to be working on the beadboarding today.