The boot is off! Yahoo! Madeline's toe is finally healed, thank goodness. she was a happy clam. We celebrated at Panera with lunch, her choice. David met us there, which was fun.
started mid-year reviews today, delivered the not-so-happy message to one of my new team members that he had lots of work to do if he wanted to be promoted. I think he was shocked when i told him i was the final decision maker. sorry, buddy.
Spent the weekend in Nashville at Madeline's first v-ball tournament. It was great except for that fact that she didn't even play due to her injured TOE. Hoping that boot comes off this week. Stayed with Joey & Kristina McCloskey (and Anna) -- it was fun, as always. Even with their focus on church and spirituality (that i don't really understand/appreciate), they are still our old friends. Anna and the girls get along well, except when they are arguing over who gets to be in charge.
I have gained some weight since Christmas -- my jeans are ridiculously tight. So, recommitted to eating better and tracking everything that goes in my mouth. this is so hard to do, but going to try. i hate tight jeans, i get grumpy all day and i am not willing to wear looser clothes. problem is they are so tight i don't even want to eat, which screws with my metabolism.
Olivia made me a little picture/message that said something like "you are the worst cook, but i love you anyway" -- nice. she is so darn picky and won't try anything new. i really don't like to cook at all, but i am trying. i keep thinking a cute little tv in the kitchen would help!
hard week at work this week, time for mid-year reviews. feel an obligation to really tell folks the truth about what they need to focus on. no more unicorns and rainbows -- i know these people can do the work, the tactical stuff, it's the soft things that they aren't good at. so, we'll see how it goes. i'm not too popular right now.
making reservations to talk Madeline to NYC in March for her birthday (over spring break) -- she doesn't want my mom to go with us (she is going) because she wants it to be just the two of us. hopefully, she will get over this. Not sure why, but she is all weepy about it.
whew
And so the gay conversation continues. Tonight Madeline asked me if two women are gay, does that mean they both have babies? Or something like that. My response was NOT GOOD -- you have to have a man and a woman to have a baby. WHY? Oh, hell. Not a good move. So i said "i will explain it later when we have more time." Now what?
Spent the day in atlanta-nobody there so not fin at all. Bunch of people I don't know in the office. Guess everybody is doing the work-at-home thing.
Had the gay talk with Madeline tonight - she said some kids at school were talking about the new judge on American idol (Ellen degeneres) and that she was gay. I confirmed that it was true and attempted to explain. Told her everybody was diff and that was fine with me. Decided not to mention that several of her gave teachers like the girls too !
Having a problem controlling my eating and my jeans are getting tight. Have to stop justifying huge portions of peanut butter. Can feel the slide towards cheese enchiladas. Have to get control and drink more water. Doesn't take much for me to lose control. WTF!
In organizing my recipes, came across cake recipe from Mama Byrd called "better than sex" - that is so not right.
Have been a total slacker. Have already managed to not post for several days -- I knew this would happen, so not surprised. This is so typical for me; i put out these big goals and then beat myself up for messing them up. So instead i will just commit to posting regularly. It will still be interesting, right?
Here is a 2 minute recap of the past few days -- Madeline got carpet burn on her face during a "team building" exercise with her volleyball team; continuing to do major spring cleaning in the winter and making lots of progress; turned in our money jar for $200 and gave each girl half -- olivia immediately wanted to get an iPod Touch with hers (plus her savings); trying to get madeline to save hers for trip to NYC in March for her 10th b'day (i think she is going for it); had sleepover friends -- it was loud and giggly; MLK day on Monday; now in Atlanta for a meeting tomorrow and just watched The Hangover which is absolutely hilarious (and so very wrong).
had a very hard workout today -- did 30 full pushups on the bosu plus 10 single leg pushups (on the bosu). OUCH
In organizing my recipes, came across cake recipe from Mama Byrd called "better than sex" - that is so not right.
Olivia told me today that her pal in her class is "so emotional" -- i could not stop laughing. What 7 year old says that? I was cleaning out (off?) her bookcase today and she had several notebooks that she had written in -- most of what she had written revolved around Madeline and how "anoyig" she is. That she is a "terbl" sister. Too funny.
I am trying to get my recipes organized -- not sure why since i don't particularly like to cook. I think it might be odd that i have more brownie recipes than any other type. i do love brownies! I told Madeline that we would try, maybe once a week, to cook something new together. Trying to expand our repertoire. . .
Confession today -- i suck at money management. There, i said it. I really do. We pay our bills but we could do so much better. No excuses that we can't. So, I am going to commit to doing a better job in 2010 and building that oh-so-elusive "emergency fund".
let's see how it goes
