Hmmmm, let's see...since I talked to you last I have settled into my new job. At first I was not digging the 20-25 minute drive in the morning since my old job was 3 minutes from my house, but I'm in the groove now. It gives me time to collect my thoughts for the day, listen to news or whatever's on the Christian station- a good financial program normally comes on. The afternoon is not so bad because I come back to my home school at 11:15-11:30 then at the end of the day it's like 8-10 minutes to home. I get reimbursed for gas mileage.

Since I'm teaching all Spanish One there's no brain strain; I actually enjoy planning the lessons. I stopped teaching before bc of the administration but it's much cooler here, especially since I'm the only Spanish teacher. Before when I taught, I had this militant Spanish department head breathing down my everloving neck every 5 seconds seeing what I was doing wrong.

Also, the schedule has been great for my diet too. I have cut out between meal snacks 100% because I don't have time, and I never used to eat breakfast but now I'm having cereal each morning. I don't know about you but I don't like wimpy airy cereal. I want a cereal so heavy the box weighs like 10 pounds. Chex, Cheerios, etc- too light. I want something with like twigs and sticks and big unidentifiable nuggets that you have to gnaw to chew. Oh yeah, and raisins are good.

So far I have lost about 12 pounds give or take and I just now started exercising so I'm hoping things will progress a little faster.

Autumn is arriving here in Monkeyville. The days are still warm but the nights are getting chilly willy. Soon the leaves will be a-changin' and it'll be "pumpkin weather" as I like to call it. It's my favorite time of the year. Just cool enough for long sleeves but not too too cold. The girls asked to go get "punkies" this weekend so we went to the farm/garden center place where they have the sheep and horses and that was a fun little family adventure for them.

Thank you for all the niceness in comments and emails to me. Although I enjoyed the little break I missed the camaraderie and I am glad to be back here at the Monkeyville Ranch. Now all I need is a new template (cough, Echo, cough cough) and I'll be good ta go.

BTW in case you didn't read it b4 my new email is two_wild_monkeys@yahoo.com. Verizon bites and they wouldn't let me keep my same address.

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