Just to be close for a moment

Friday, February 26, 2010

First Announcement

You guys could take a cue from mom...she got one almost on the nose. Counting from my low weight of 73.5kg (162.037lbs.) on March 7, 2009 to my current weight as of February 23, 2010 (approx. 1 year) I weighed in at 91.6kg (201.940lbs.). That leaves me another week or so to get up to, you guessed it, 93kg on or before March 7, 2010. My scale has died again, and frankly, after gaining 40 lbs., I'm sick of eating and cannot wait to not have to force feed myself daily. So, while I may come up just short of that MASSIVE goal, as always in my mind, I set something seemingly unthinkable a year ago, and will come up at about 95% of my goal. I'll take an 'A'. When you absolutely shoot for the stars and miss, you're still in orbit baby!

(As per mom's photographic evidence request, I politely decline, I've decided not to share any photos until I do another 90 days of the program. I'm not fat, far from it (body fat is at 13.7%)...but my original goal to myself was to do the 90 day program twice, and be ready to fire on all cylinders come summer...thanks for your patience)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Upgrading the house has begun!

The dryer died and dad said he wouldn't put any more money into it because we are so close to our plans to upgrade the laundry room and kitchen. So we started in the laundry room. Tiles were cracked in the flooring dad and Matt laid, so we started from scratch. I picked a darker tile so it would show less dirt and it should look great with the gray LG front load washer and dryer set being delivered on March 1st. The gray counter top will still be great, but the laundry sink needs to get replaced.

Can't wait to hit the kitchen!

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ho-hum...tuesday night...

So it's Tuesday..a long day for me...I was faced with the prospect of my most obnoxious class at 7:30 pm and a potential lone-student for my 8:30pm class. But...with 45min. left before my 7:30pm class I fired off a text message to the worst three students, it said, "Let's study quietly and hard tonight...if you can't study quietly, DON'T COME!!!...and don't forget your books"

It's another part of my campaign to salvage that class, which also included a profanity-laced episode I unloaded on them a couple weeks ago..dropping the f-bomb on kids..not for the faint of heart..but, effective in Korea.

So tonight class was really excellent, kids were motivated and focused, the two noisiest (brother/sister team) showed up late but just slid into their seats and joined us mid-lesson.

Afterwards was a 1-on-1 with a woman I've been teaching for about 2 years. A long 1-on-1 class quickly turned into, "Let's go get Chinese" turned into "which Chinese liquor" turned into the manager of the restaurant making me a special dish because her cooks had left, turned into the manager 'servicing' us three free varieties of alcohol (the weakest being 39%...woof!), turned into my students buying me a pricey bottle of Chinese liquor that the manager gave her a great discount on because of who we were (friends of the Chinese teacher).

Ok..random story perhaps..but just a normal Tuesday where all things could go to hell, but go quite quickly the opposite way...

Just felt like sharing...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Attention Ladies and Gentlemen...

I will be able to make a few major announcements in the next 10-14 days hopefully...by March 7th all three should be completed. I will also have a MAJOR announcement to make, hopefully by the end of July.

:)

(Let the guessing, hypotheses, theories, and conjectures commence...)