-After gaining all that weight, I promised myself I'd reverse nature's punishment in 2008. That means, NO MORE SUGARS. After going completely nuts on cakes, cookies, pastries and candy bars, I'm now three days into no added sugars. I'm fine eating things like fruits, but no more chocolates!
-Long story short: Day 3 is taking its toll. I'm so co-dependent on sugar that I was light-headed and dizzy all morning. So I grabbed a handful of dried cranberries and hopefully that works.
-Monique is starting a big campaign for it to be spring already. So far, so good as it's nearly 60 degrees mid-morning. I've stopped wearing my jacket, while everyone else around me is all bundled up -- UNNECESSARILY! After weeks of yucky, freezing rain, I'm getting ready to start wearing sandals again.... if only in my head.
-When I return home in three weeks, I'm going to Santa Barbara for three days! I sort of landed a very casual "meeting" (since we're not calling it an interview) to see about having a job in June. Not really going to tell you too much about it, since I don't know myself, but it's a winery/cellar/event hosting-site in Santa Barbara and hopefully they need some PR/media people!
-This morning, I was going to take my usual mid-morning nap and as soon as I started to drift off, I was rudely "awoken" to a five-to-six minute blaring horn. Now I don't live on a very busy street, for those familiar with the area, it's akin to your Dublin/San Ramon Valley/Danville Blvd. stretch of road back at home. I guess the entire road was clogged for about a mile by parents picking their kids up from the middle school right next door to me. So instead of sitting and waiting patiently for 10 minutes, EVERYONE AND THEIR MOM decided to honk their horns. Not sure what that was about, but I can tell the buses are now late and the road's cleared up again.
-Teaching is coming along a little better. I think I was so overwhelmed because I didn't really have any classes planned since I was traveling nearly every weekend. But now I have free time and free weekends to dedicate to planning extra activities in my classes.
-And you know what, it's not worth it to get stressed over them!!! They're just elementary students (not even mine) for God's sake.... haha. So I'm just going into this all with, "Today's going to be fun. They're going to learn something."
-Yay for the Dollar-value going up! It's getting a little bit closer to the Euro again, though not by much. You know what, I'm willing to bet that it's not actually going up, but the Euro is going down. All stocks are down and many countries are blaming their dependency on the U.S. for that, so maybe they're starting to come back down to the Dollar's level. Either way, today would be a good day to withdraw from my American account, if I hadn't promised myself I wouldn't do it again back in October.
A media relations position recently opened up with the St. Louis Cardinals. I considered it, but really, I don't want to relocate to Missouri. I looked into it and I feel like the job is very low paying, intern-y crap. I think I've been working professionally in sports long enough at this point to not continue applying for intern positions. I know you have to start somewhere if you ever want to work in a professional sporting organization, but do I really want to be running copies and making coffee all day? How is that ever going to showcase my skills?
