December 18

Something about Wednesdays must bring out the writer in me. Wow, lots to say but I'm at work, so can only write a bit quickly.

DJ went down with Joe to Austin Grand Prix Thursday afternoon, and Larry drove to Austin Friday evening and met him and they stayed until Sunday around noon. DJ had 3 races: Friday 200 breast, Saturday 400 IM, and Sunday 200 IM. He got to warm up with Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps in the same lane! He was not ready for this to be a championship meet as they are in the middle of their training season, but in spite of that he did ok. He only added a second or two in the IM's and about a half second in the breaststroke. So he was happy not to be completely embarrassed.

Friday night I went to a movie with Carla & Joan and then we went to Applebee's for a late dinner. Carla and I were both on the hcg so had grilled chicken salads, but ended up having cheese on it, so the scale wasn't too pleasant Sat morning. I was down 12 pounds and the past 4 days I've been wavering between xx7 and xx8 as I've done better or worse. Saturday I did laundry, went to Walmart for groceries with Daniel, and then chatted with him a bunch. Saturday night the 3 middle kids and I watched "Tangled" on my new blue ray player and I made taco salads.

I had hoped to accomplish more cleaning, but I did get the laundry done, and worked on DJ's swim scrapbook that has taken on a life of its own. I take his meet results and copy and paste his events to a Word document, make it bold and font size 6 to get more on the page, but still barely be able to read it. Then I look to see if there are any swim pictures from that meet, or pictures of some Fast activity around the time of that meet to include on the page. It's actually quite a fun project, and he absolutely loves it, but setting aside the time to do it is the challenge.

I'm co-leading a group this semester on the Purpose Driven Life. Susan is the co-leader but her mom is dying of cancer, so I'm really the leader, but in order to have the group see her as a leader instead of a core team member, we've given her the title. Joan is a core team member, too, so hopefully we'll have a good group of ladies again. There are ten of us signed up after the first week.

So far this week at work has been a bear....nothing going well and lots to do.