busy bee

So I've started working at Walmart. It's enjoyable and very relaxing. I work with 3 people at the gas station and I really enjoy them. I work with D. D is the mother of one of my former students. She is fun, nice, and quirky. A. is a Vietnam veteran and full of amazing life experiences. N. Is well...he likes to talk. He reminds me of a more talkitive version of my youngest brother. It endeers me to him, but if it weren't for that he'd be a bit annoying. He and A. Get into arguments a lot, and talk behind each other's backs. 

Also, I earned my first nickname: Chirpy. The guy who gave me the nick name didn't like me because I was to perky all the time. I endeered myself to him by talking about metal music and how we were supposed to go on a metal cruise a few years back.

Anyway, I also signed up to sub at a school like the one I used to teach at. It's a school for students with special needs who don't fit in with the public school system. I worked my schedule to work there Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I'm hoping Walmart will still give me 40 hours because subbing is unpredictable.

I'm still applying to additional/ other jobs. I'm also still intermittently working on masks and TpT plans too, just very slowly.

Mostly I've just been trying to relax and get my house under control. I'm hoping to do that tomorrow. I have to clean my bedroom and bathroom, do some dishes, clean off the kitchen table, clean up the living room floor and lay out a rug. Should take me 4 ish hours. I have to get fingerprinted for the subbing gig. That should take an hour. The rest of my day will be spent making masks, baking, (banana bread, regular bread, and buttermilk biscuits) applying for jobs, and making some TpT materials.

I started thinking about weight. Cody is getting us a stand up freezer. That means on days I'm too tired to cook, I can just pop a frozen casserole in the oven. I've also discovered that I can make ricotta and sour cream from home. Also, I've made my own butter. Anyway...I'm really getting into the whole "cut processed foods" notion. And next year there will be a garden so...maybe it will help me loose some weight. Maybe it won't. Either way...it still takes better.

I'm going to start in on the exercise bike for 20 minutes before my morning showers. With any luck I'll start getting stamina. 

Cody and I will be starting martial arts come January. I'm hella excited.that should improve my strength, cardio, and flexibility. It's expensive, but should prove worth it.

Oh, a trick that worked really well for me in the past was activating my core. Thy and get it activated as much as you can for as long as you can at every point of the day.

I'm going to sleep now so I'll write more tomorrow