Relaxing

Coulf have gone to Bid Sur but frankly not going has an appeal. I nit the farmers market and the grocery store. Made a quiche, breakfast burritos and potato salad.
That's it. I'll swim and so some corn, t. chicken, peppers and eggplant.

My vendor for quiche and scones was not in the market so I may make some scones too with blueberries.

My medication for my face demands I stay out of the sun. The vitamin D demands more sun exposure what ya gonna do drink milk and eat yogurt.

Sat. a day of rest

I read the book

The Sons of Newport

and rested today.
It was nice to know more of the history behind, the cottages of 100 plus rooms on the ocean that were built at the end of the 1890's for billions just to show they could. They hung golden fruit on trees, had a dinner got dogs and treated the locals like servants.

John Jakes always does well in his his historical description. I like the town a lot and in early May it was not too crowded and still cool. I can imagine the crowds and the dock with the World Cup Yachts in port.

I decided I didn't have enough energy to drive 12 hrs up and back to Trinidad to see Marilyn for the Blue's festival in Eureka.

I'll swim and zumba and do swim aerobics here. I like to go to the farmer's market and now, the weekend is my only time.

Moving Books

Have you ever considered all the tedious stuff a librarian and their clerk do? You have to be organized and detailed oriented. I'm not. I can fake it most of the time. The majority of the stuff, cataloging, checking in, checking out, processing new materials, magazines, bibliographies for teachers, counting class sets for teachers and on and on.
So glad it's a long weekend.

The nice thing about the first week of school is that they throw in Labor Day weekend as a reward once you get through it.

I didn't go swimming this morning. I did wake up but figured I better sleep while I could.

I'll go this weekend.

It was still 70 when I got up. I'm sure it's over 85 now inside my library. It's not a day to carry and move books. I've got kids doing a lot of the lifting. i came in early this morning too.
The 1/2 and 1/2 I had in the frig has curdled it is so warm. Yesterday it was fine for my cereal. Today, it poured out solid, curdled in the frig and today was the due pull date. ICK!

There is a happy hour after school and I don't want to go even if the principal is buying the first round.

All I can think about is immersing my body in a cold tub of water or pool.

We have a lot of kids who didn't turn in their textbooks so I'm not checking out books to them. Legally we have to check out books but a little fear gets the books back or the fines paid.

O.k. I did go to have a drink at the last minute and stayed am hour; enough time for a Cosmopolitan and some bar food to sop it up so I didn't drive home drunk in rush hour. They didn't have a blender so no frozen drinks. I got my socializing in.

A lot of people were drinking different types of beer. Bar food is all fried and the virtuous stayed away from potato skins, french fries, calamari,fried cheese and zucchini. The only thing healthy was the orange in my drink and the celery that came with the wings.

I came in nuked 5 chicken terriaki meatballs and had some cheese and crackers and fell asleep.

S.H.I.T,

So happy it's Thursday. This has been a busy day. In addition they say it's going up to 108.
I put my sun glasses on this morning and don't know where my regular glasses are. As a result I've been wearing sunglasses inside all today and they are not "progressive', or may be they are but it's been a trial. I remember walking out with them on but I didn't see them in the car when I went back out to check.

I think I got progressive one's but I'm not sure. I've had to put them up on top of my head a lot and pull the monitor close to me. Makes for a crazy day. I have a spare pair but I like these best. I know I had them on when I left this morning. I forgot my cereal so I turned around and went back to grab it.

At 7 it was 70. I know it's hard for you all in the E to relate but usually it's 50-60 at night here. It cools off nicely. Some morning with the fog it feels like it's raining with the mist in the air.

It's another spare the air day and traffic was a bear. I've thought about hauling my bike to the train station and riding the train then riding my bike to school. Too much time and energy. I'sd have to pay to park downtown too.



I got up at 6 w/o an alarm and it was too late to go swim I need to swim at 6 so I need to get up at 5:30.

I felt so much better yesterday for having gone. Certainly I was whipped afterwards.

I miss being able to go to the Farmers Market downtown on Friday. Sunday or Sat. will have to do. It's so warm now my stomach is quesy. It was 95 and my fans didn't keep is cool enough.

Timorrow out principal is throwing a happy hour...buying the first round. I so rarely fo out. I don't need the calories but I need to socialize more. I'd rather go home or over to my friends' Carolina's.

I dd it!

I went to swim at 5:45, doubled my laps and got to work 1/2 hr. early, I felt great. It was a busy day and early release for kids. Then there were team meetings and a faculty meeting.

It was really hot today.

98 and hotter tomorrow. I brought in a fan I bought in 1972 Tomorrow hotter.

Took a nap......

The kids are back

Well not a bad 1st day. I had a lot of helpers to shlep things help put books out, stamp discards, unwrap c/d's, barcode, put on property stamps, throw empty boxes on top of the shelves, change overhead projector bulbs, check out books and all the rest.

My assistant doesn't want me to put anything on his desk. HA! His in box id full. He wants to use the work room which is very hot when temps are up and the laminator is on all day.

I found another hornet's nest and knocked it off a planter with the water from the hose. Unlike the other this was only the size of a quarter.

I hope to swim tomorrow morning. There is just no energy ar 4 and it's crowded
too. I almost went today, I took a muscle relaxer, massaged my back and took a nap instead.

Then, I watered the plants.

Last day without kids

We had one more work day a brief meeting off site and the rest was a busy day. I ran out at 1:30 for lunch aka: to the library to get some books on tape.

I slept till midnight last night was up till 3 watched the rerun of the Olympic closing and tried to get back to sleep. After 30 min. I popped a sleeping pill and was dead till 7.

My plan, since I'm spent at the end of the day is to get to the gym at 5:30 swim and shower and get to school by 7:30-8. We'll see how that goes.

I watched Kennedy and Michelle Obama at the convention. They were powerful. Quite a political machine.

Swimming

I was up at 4:30 this morning read and then went in to swim laps and do a zuma class, a Latin salsa aerobics at 7.

I came home then to knock my hornets nest off the planter. I sprayed it with water 2x last night and then wasp killer. There were still a few wandering around mourning so I decided to wait a full 24 hrs. like the package says. *Don't u just hate it when there really is a reason to wait and they were right?

I went to the farmers market and the library.

Now if I actually eat the veggies and fruit and pasta and sauce instead of letting it go to compost that would be better.

I've got the best garbage in town.

I'm resisting the pull to go in to school this weekend. There is a lot I could do,

I need the down time.

There will always be a lot of work to do.

Tool a nap.

Cleaned out the frig.
Filled up with gas and as Karen says it was a pleasure to be paying less. For me with 45 miles to the gal. it was under 30 dollars. That should last 2 weeks.

I liked going all summer on a single tank. Tells you how I stayed close to home.

Picked Cathy, mu neighbor's peaches for her. She could get the one's pm her side but not those on mine. I kept a few and returned a bag full. Beats the farmers market. She has apples too.

I'm watching the closing of the Olympics. I fell off watching after Phelps. It made for good back ground to grade papers by. I saw the Jamaica runner too.
Then the wrestler throw his metal down too.

Met another man today...
I'm wondering if Armando is returning.
I may have dinner with him and get to know him a bit.

No school!

I woke up at 3 a.m. rested. I must have passed out again lazy night. I don't remember when, but I feel rested and finally my feet don't hurt. If the pool was open now I'd go swim and shower there. I have to go in the mornings because after work there is no way I can do anything right bow bur collapse. I will put my aerobics tape on to stretch my back. A first step.

At school, the 49ers have donated lots of equipment, free weights and treadmills, If I had the energy I'd use the treadmill there room especially after school, but my feet at the end of the day are swollen and throbbing and all I can think about is to put them up and lie down.

My new haircut is so short that I wake up with it standing up all over from bedhead. Last night while watering on the deck I had the bright idea to wash it out there with the warm water from the hose. Not! As I stood naked and got my hair all wet, I decided it was not my best idea. That water was cold ~ and by 5 the patches of sun were few. Sometimes my ideas are crazy and not well thought out. I knew the water would be cold. I dried my hair, wrapped in a towel and went inside. It must have been some rime after that I leapt into slumber, I remember eating and then nothing after 7.

You may ask why not just step into the shower...well the huge shower in the master bath is where I keep Lacy's litter box. Today, I'm going to sweep it out and put her box in the garage. It's time to shower again and forgo baths for quick rinse. We are on water rationing.

Went to the gym to swim and water exercise and learned to do a flip turn.
Got groceries and in trimming plants discovered a wasps nest. Come dusk I'm gonna bomb it!

The week from hell

I slept yesterday from 4 when I got home till midnight then was up from then till 6 when I went to work.

Gas is down to 3.84.

Despite being very busy at work, I actually took a lunch today, a rare event, and went off campus a rare occasion. I've gone to this nearby Japanese restaurant before. I like their CA roll and asparagus and veggie tempura.
Usually I get there at 11:30 when they open, order eat fast and am back at school in 30 min max.
Today, for the first time ever, I went at 12:30 and it took an hour and i ate the salad and tempura there bringing home the CA roll and crab sushi and left over tempura for dinner. Well I learned the steam in the warm tempura turns it soggy. I knew that! You can't take it home but I ate the asparagus anyway. I like pot stickers not goza. I like the shape though they need more ginger or something.

So there I was this large woman and a man 6'7", 400 lbs., my estimate, walks out. You could have heard a pin drop. No one talked about it but you could feel the awe and awareness in the room. He was huge. There for the grace of God go I. It scared me. I can imagine how hard his life must be. I have trouble standing as does my friend Caro and back problems.

My friend Karen hates her diet but continues to drop the lbs. the old fashion way and its more than 60 lbs. now I think! Kudos! Take me along.

Soon my lunch will be at 11.

That's time for my breakfast. My aide leaves at 11:30.

I need to go food shopping. I went on Tuesday but was uninspired and bought next to nothing...cereal and milk, bread and a couple other things.

Tomorrow I hope to hit the Y to swim and the library and then grocery shopping and farmers market on Sunday. My neighbors peaches and apples are Ripe I may just help her pick some. Since her stroke lots doesn't get done.

I got in at 7:30 and left at 4. I could live there , there is so much to do. You'd find me shriveled up in a corner somewhere collapsed.

I misplaced my school keys today. They are on a lanyard somewhere in the library.

The kids come Tuesday, there is a workshop until 12 on Mon. and by then we need to have 980 books out x 3 for kids to come get. OW...my back.

Ill take a muscle relaxer and some hydrocodone before I out on a Lidoderm patch.

There is a great free concert in Golden Gate park this weekend and while San Jose was in the 80's but miserable in the unairconditioned library, the city is cool and at night is about 50 with a strong breeze. Very nippy.

It requires public transportation and a lot of walking. Since I can barely put my feet on the ground after today, I think I'll pass. I'm exhausted!

unbelievably busy

In addition to meetings all the teachers are coming to get there books. After lifting hundreds of lbs of books a day I am exhausted.

Rupert, my new assistant wants me to tell him one thing at a time. We need to multitask. We get constant interruptions.

It's so funny to evesdrop on 3 men having lunch. There was not one personal word the conversation was all about computers.
Women are so different.

My first senior discount

I went to get a haircut and saved 4 dollars in my first senior discount.

The first day of school was exhausting,

I read the last nasty notes frim my previous assistant and met my new one.
I
'm glad she is gone and he is there. Having someone pick away every day is exhausting.

Jury duty

It's not enough for school to start bur I got a jury summons today. The date is in thee beginning of September. The previous 2 times I didn't serve. One time I had to show up and was then dismissed.

starfish and snake and dog liver oh my....

I'd eat the grilled corn but the sea horses, scorpions, beetles and other assorted delicacies leave me examining my Chinese take out more carefully.

Lead me to the silk and pearl market to look at and shop for jade.

I'm about Olympic saturated.

Ah, Viva le difference...

School's out!

I have 5 days until I start again.

Gas has fallen to 3.97.

My Plantation shutters are to be installed on Mon.

I'm reading chasing darkness by Robert Crais.

Hit a tree

Armando called to tell me he ran into a tree. Not a good driver.

Gas has finally fallen to 3.99 here.

The Olympics

I was underwhelmed.

Arthritis

The dr. told me today that I have arthritis on my back.

I got the hated letter telling me I return to school on Wed the 20th of Aug. That's 5 days after summer school ends.

So much for summer vaction.

Emily is about to turn 36. Happy Birthday girl!

Gas is 4.05