I am so thankful today was Thursday. Four straight hours with my kids this morning was more than enough. Not that the day was really bad or anything, just I was SO thankful for the two music classes. My little boy who's stepdad's grandma died last week finally came back today. He is a bit of a handful usually, but today he was fairly subdued. Although I have the feeling it was mostly due to having been gone for so long. I really hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. Inside recess just isn't enough to get the energy out.

After school I went to the park and did my walk - I managed a little bit over 20 minutes. I was thankful that the rain had cleared up.

I had taken a bunch of the big manila (sp?) envelopes from my stash at school. When I got home I got all my stuff put together for Ebay. I thought I had it all finished up, when up pops the little mail icon. It was a notification of another instant payment, so I had to put together another one. I'll be mailing out 9 packages tomorrow. There are still two auctions that haven't been paid for yet.

Just a few minutes into ER, I got an email from Scott. I was really wishing for Tivo. If I had Tivo, I would have replied right away, and he might have called me (he got out of class early). I admit it, I am a tv aholic. **It was a year ago Mother's Day weekend that I first met Scott in person.

Then, about 15 minutes later I got an IM from my ex-bf Todd. Of course I couldn't see what he had written because my Yahoo Messenger has been really annoying for the past few days. The text box where you are supposed to be able to see the messages from the person, as well as the ones from you, is completely blank. I told him this in my first message to him, and then -- he sent a message back to me!! Um, I just told you that I *can't* *see* anything in the text box - why did you send me a message back????

I'm probably not going to get my afternoon walk in tomorrow. I have to post my Ebay packages, and then dad wants to go out to eat somewhere. Maybe if it isn't too late, I can do one of my 30 minute videos instead.

Oh, almost forgot. I called my mom about Mother's Day. I'm going to take her out to eat at Romano's Macaroni Grill (her favorite place). I also have the "Notebook" DVD, and am getting her a hand knit scarf (4th grade fund raiser) tomorrow. I would have just invited her over here for brunch on Sunday, but right now I am feeling like I am going to need to do some major cleaning and prepping in my classroom for the final 10 days of school. Also, she told me that she is going to be pretty much working all day
Sunday.

Spending Log: NONE

Goals for today:
Do 8 minutes in the Morning weight-lifting routine -- Yes
Do 1-mile video tape in the morning. --- Yes
Do a 30-minute walk after school. -- Yes.
No eating or soda after 7 p.m. -- Done
Lots of water. -- Yes!
Get papers graded and sorted and ready to send home! -- Graded - not sorted


Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura