Plugging along

Weighed in last night – have lost another 1.8 pounds for a total loss of 66.8 – Woo Hoo!  Slow and steady – my doctor was very happy with me at my last checkup.  Health screenings are tomorrow here at work – all they are doing is drawing blood but they are going to do a massive amount of tests on it.  This is how I found out last year that I was border line diabetic.  My doc had told me to loose weight or this year I would be on diabetic meds.  I saw my mother do that and wanted no part of it – so here I am 66.8 pounds later.  My sugar levels are normal!

The kids are great – they encourage me.  Last night Aubri made homemade whole wheat pizza dough and I topped my pizza with mushrooms, green peppers, tomatoes, garlic and oregano – was yummy!  Tonight we are having Weight Watchers Chicken Carbonara with Fettuccini – out of one of the new WW cookbooks.  Good stuff – I made it at Bills a few weeks ago and it tastes like I’m cheating!  I told Bill at the time – the kids are going to love this stuff!

Got a call from Tom last week – he has double tapped in one of his classes so they are rolling him back to another class to retake it.  He called last night very frustrated.  Seems the stuff he needs to study isn’t available in the ‘out of training training’ class they have him in temporarily until he can get rolled back into another class.  And his class was the last to use a specific computer program and now he will need to use the new one – but they only have 4 computers for 40 students so he only got 30 minutes to try to learn the new program.  Poor boy, they won’t even let him help some of the guys from classes behind his that he has already passed the stuff on.  The teacher in him is sitting there on his hands with nothing to do. 

We won’t know what his new graduation date is until he rolls into his new class – and passes the next test.  I imagine sometime in July – probably right around Bill’s birthday - so much for plans for a birthday Pig Roast at the property. 

Plans for the weekend include checking out excavator rentals for digging the septic tank at the property, having a couple of friends out, and just general work around the place.  Bill says he has the floor almost ready for the hardwood upstairs in the shop.  Once we get the hardwood floor down up there, we can start working on the walls – insulating is first on the agenda then the plumbing – we have water inside now but only a tap in the utility room.  Have to get that septic in before we can put drains in and really get the plumbing squared away.  Will be nice to have a toilet in the shop so we don’t have to keep running back to the outhouse or back to Bill’s house!