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Monday, March 1, 2010

Day 50: 3/1/2010

First day of March!! This morning, I got up first after the alarm- generally I don't roll out of bed until Matt's already made it through his morning routine. I think I was a little stressed all night about the mountain of work that needs to be done before I leave for Memphis tomorrow! I had ww maple and brown sugar oatmeal for breakfast for 2pts.

First, at work, I headed to the aerogel lab to prepare 2 last samples before skipping town tomorrow. I worked there for most of the morning before stealing a little time for myself and eating lunch with Matt in his lab. I had a chicken teriaki smart ones entree for 4pts and some water.

Matt really wanted to be in the picture (his hand in the center)- notice my hand on the side saying (really??)

And so he got his own picture with his wheat thins and Itallian sub. :)

After lunch, I did some more work in the aerogel lab before a meeting with the professor I TA for. I have a mound of grading to finish by Tuesday on top of all the other stuff I have to do! We headed home a little before 5 to play with Bear and take a break from work- we knew we'd be at it all night. I took at 30 minute nap and then went to my weight watchers meeting. I'm down another 2.4 lbs (I'm sorry but did you see what I ate on Saturday??)!

That's a total of 14.8 in 7 weeks. I'm definitely ok with that. My 10% weight loss will be at 179.4 and currently I am at 183.6. That's 4.2 lbs to go- the question is, can I make it there in the next two weeks (2.1 lbs per week)? The kicker is- I'll be out of town most of that time (Tuesday 3/2 -Friday 3/12)!! I'm going to make that my goal so that I have something to work for while I'm gone.

After the meeting, I headed home for dinner. Matt made tacos!! and he bought me some diet sunkist from the grocery while I was in my meeting. I had 1 ff 8" tortilla 1pt, with 4 oz. lean ground beef and taco seasoning (filling food) 4pts, with 1pk WW cheddar cheese 2pt, 1 Tbsp sour cream 1pt, 16 baked tortilla chips 2pt, 3 Tbsp salsa (generally we get no sugar added, but this one had a tiny bit) 1pt.

After dinner, we headed right back to lab to work on the ppt, poster, and samples which all have to be done tomorrow. Did I mention I also have 70 papers I need to grade? This is a little bit of a nightmare! I'll be here the rest of tonight. Let's see how many of the things I need to get done by tomorrow at 4 that I actually finish.

TO DO before 4: (I'll let you know tomorrow how this panned out)

Make Aerogel Sample A

Make Aerogel Sample B

Finish Ppt presentation

Finish Poster

Meet with Advisor

Attend two classes

Write instructions for new office hours

Grade 70 homework assignments and resubmit to students

MONDAY STATS:

Points: 17/25

Weekly Allowance Points: 14 remaining/35 weekly

Activity Points Earned: 0 today/3 week

Exercise: none

Weekly Weight Loss: -2.4 lbs / -14.8 lbs total

Day 49: 2/29/2010

Sunday! Matt and I woke up late (again). Little Bear was unhappy about it too. He had to pee so bad this morning! Poor guy. Finally we rolled out of bed to save him. I had a Smart Ones breakfast sandwich for lunch for 4pts and matt had an enlish muffin with cream cheese and jelly AND a breakfast quesadilla guys are so annoying!

After breakfast, we finished cleaning the house and then did laundry for a while. After that, we headed in to work to put together the aerogel presentation for the Thermal Management meeting we're attending in FL over spring break. We ate lunch at lab- I had a chili potato! A medium baked potato 3pts, 1 cup of low points chili 3pts, and ww cheddar cheese 2pts. The melted cheese was soooo good. We picked up sodas on the way into work- Matt gave them up for Lent but since its Sunday he gets to have them! I had a diet coke 0pts with lunch.

After lunch, we worked for a while longer at lab before calling it quits for the day. I didn't finish as much as I had hoped, but that just means I'm going to be crazy busy tomorrow and Tuesday!

When I got home, I tried to set up the PC tablet to grade papers, but guess what- still not set up. The guy who was supposed to fix it the 3rd time forgot to re-set up the guest account so I couldn't even log on. Fabulous. Some students have already emailed asking when they'll get their grades so I really wanted to get them out so I just started typing in the corrections instead. Maybe the tablet will be set up correctly before I finish grading all 70 papers. Here's hoping!

For dinner, Matt and I had a serving Thai chicken and rice noodles for 5pts. It was pretty good, but I don't recommend reheated rice noodles- they're a little too sticky.

After dinner, I decided to call it quits on grading because the grading key was missing some answers. Since I didn't finish the presentation and I didn't finish grading homework, I went looking for anything I could cross off my to-do list. I ended up packing (and weighing) my bag to go to MEMPHIS on Tuesday! I'm flying out of C-ville on Tuesday afternoon, staying in Memphis to visit through Monday morning, and then flying to a thermal management conference in Florida until Friday when I'll get back to C-Ville.

I had to pack everything from a cocktail dress (for Jes's engagement party) all the way to business clothes and a swimsuit- all while having lost 12 lbs so lots of stuff didn't fit right. Needless to say- packing was a logistical nightmare! I finally got it under control and packed two weeks worth of clothes and all accessories in 43 lbs in 2 hrs. A little crazy.

After that I hit the hay.

SUNDAY STATS: