breakfast and lunch - all before 9:50

Okay, it's not 10:00 a.m. and i have gotten alot done so far: mailed b-day card, made rach's lunch, drove rach to school,threw away a bunch of food out of fridge, took out trash, did a load of laundry, ate organic blueberry oatmeal, packed some goody bags for relatives, swam laps for 30 min., ate lunch...oops. kinda early for lunch, huh.

To the Gym Three Days in a Row

Now that i wrote that title, i am committed to going to water aerobics at 3:30 so i'm about to go get on my bathing suit. monday i did the pool thing in the morning, yesterday was the exercise machines in the early evening, so now we'll see how exercising in the afternoon works out. i have to work it around my tutoring schedule, which this year i am doing wed. mornings also. my goal--- i'm trying to maintain my weight and not gain any! once i know i am not gaining, i will be brave enough to start trying to lose. i had some luck at one time when i was doing curves and watching what i ate. unfortunately, i also enjoy reading shape magazine while eating chocolate chip cookies. what an oxymoron. i am .... off to burn calories.

okay here is the second picture

flower arranger i'm not

i thought i'd show you my feeble attempts - this is what happens when you attempt to do a flower arrangement from a picture in a magazine. it never does quite look the way you want it to. the first attempt had to be scratched and the second was a little better.