Witchy Woman

[copied from dland]

I have certain subtle powers, one of which I just realized I had today. The main one is that I can make the Hubs come home when he's late and I'm worried. I do this by unlocking the side door and turning on the outside light there. Nine times out of ten, he'll come in before I even get back to my chair. I have this power.

Last night, I finally confessed to the Hubs my fear of the last few days that Q is nearing her end. Today, she is crying for food as always and eating like she lives for it. I think this is what happened last year, too, when the girls were driving to and from Toronto and Q was dragging her little body around and not eating. So, it seems I have the power to restore Q to health. All I have to do is tell the Hubs that I'm pretty sure she's dying.

Day One on W8 Watching went pretty well. I'm actually under points here at almost 7:30, so I guess I need to chow down before bedtime. When I'm into this, I just eat lots of foods that are very low in points to leave me more for the snacks I know I will have. Tonight, I made a stir-fry out of a bag of broccoli cole slaw and lots of shrimp and some rice, which is an extremely healthy meal with lots of fiber and virtually no fat. WW chocolate cake for me as soon as I post.

I was having a very K-is-adorable day today. She came to the high school this morning to interview for substituting, and then sat with me in the faculty room on my break and saw all the teachers she loves from when she was a kid and I introduced her to new chums of mine. K was looking absolutely lovely today. This kid has a way with make-up and putting herself together, she always has. I don't know how many people told me after she left how beautiful she looked. Again, kvelling.

Also, she's decided to be in sync with me, more or less, on the WW thing. She wants to lose just a little bit of weight, so all she really needs to do is be more aware of her portion sizes and the calories/fat/fiber of what she eats on her own, and eat whatever I eat for dinner. We took a marathon trip to the supermarket before, which was good to get done with, but exhausting.

Before that, I also had the enjoyable experience of arriving fifteen minutes early for my manicure and finding out that the person in the chair before me and not done yet was the Sibs. So between her finishing up and then drying while I got started, we spent a bit of time together and amused each other.

I'm telling you my day backwards, so here's what happened early on. First, let me remind you that I have been to lots and lots of college, and I am, after all, a teacher, so I am very, very smart. Just so you know.

I decided to bring a thermos with me to school today, but to get the coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, because the coffee I make at home is shit and Dunkin' coffee rocks. I left the thermos in the car -- on purpose -- and bought a large decaf, black, and took it back out with me. I opened the thermos, took the lid off the DD coffee, reached over so that I was at least performing this graceful act over the passenger side floor and not the seat, and poured from cup to thermos, mostly missing the narrow neck of the thermos, but managing to pour really, really, really hot coffee all over both my hands and the floor of the car.

Okay, maybe I didn't think it through.

The good news is that since there was no milk in the coffee I don't have to worry about nasty smells and such (not that they would manifest themselves until the spring thaw), so it's kind of just like I now have a coffee-scented air freshener in the car. The other good news, I suppose, is that I had left my gloves in the car before going into the DD, so my hands were really cold and then they got warm. Sort of. The lesson learned is that tomorrow morning, I bring the thermos in with me and ask them to fill it up and charge me for a large coffee. (Which was more than the size of my thermos, btw, which I hadn't realized, so I kept on pouring -- everywhere -- even after the thermos was full.)

The point of all this, actually, was to make carrying coffee into school with me more convenient. For me. So that instead of carrying one of those pink cardboard drink carriers with two cups of coffee on it, I could just stick my thermos in my bag and carry it along with my lunch and other stuff. Ah, yes, that worked out extremely well, I think.

My two-day headache was gone for most of the day today, but is back now. Advil first. Then cake.


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