Spring Break, March 21 to 25, 2022

 Spring break was about 11 days long including the parent conferences on the Thursday and Friday before break.  Hopefully the students got some well needed rest and are ready to finish the school year on a good note.  

It's going to be a flurry of activity as the year wraps up with track, testing, and geometry and stats units.  

Spring break was a little disappointing because I wasn't able to accomplish everything I wanted to.  I was going to meet with Pete for a couple nights but that was cancled because he got sick.  Then I was going to get some projects done but several things got in the way.  First I got sick on Monday.  I mean really sick in that I don't think I've felt that bad since I had strep on the 4th of July several years ago.  Then Tuesday I fixed the dishwashers, something that wasn't on my radar.  But even doing that made me tired.  I was able to do a little school work but not any other projects because my body was still wiped out.  Then on Wednesday I was feeling better but Susie worked and Esther and Simon started feeling sick.  I did get some lesson planning done that morning.  I wasn't able to do any outside projects because we ended up getting about 4 inches of snow on Wednesday.  Which was very cool but I wasn't planning on that.  

Thursday was a chance for me to get some things done but I had track practice all morning.  Then I was able to work on the long jump pit in the afternoon so that was good.  I still have some finishing touches to put on that before I can call that project complete.  That was tiring though.  I was able to get a little school work done that evening but also spent some time watching the basketball tournament.  I was able to get some work done on the fence.  However, we celebrated Mary's birthday and it took a good chunk of time to get the dinner made, so I didn't accomplish all that much.  

Now it is Friday night.  Today, Esther was feeling bad and I had to do laundry so I had some distractions going on.  However, I was able to work on the fense and on painting the swamp cooler, but didn't finish either project.  

I'm not even going to look at everything I didn't get done, but I know it was several things.  

I was able to do some research on this stupid pre-diabetes that I have been dealing with.  I really hate it.  However, it is good that I have a pretty idea of what is going on with my boday and how I can better deal with it over the next few months before I see my doctor this summer.  

Tomorrow I hope to do my workout, meditate, work on school work, get another coat of paint on the swamp cooler, but the wood for the fence and fix the fence (though that's probably not going to happen until Sunday evening, and finish the tons of school things I still need to do, and go to Steve's to pick up that sledge hammer.  

However, like Adam says, it's not about where you are going it's about the journey that you are on.  So, when I wake up tomorrow.  I'm going to start with going to the bathroom.  Getting myself dressed.  Spending time in meditation.  And doing my cardio, lifting, and stretching while I listen to Adam Young.  If I can do all of those things I will be starting my day by engaging in the journey.  And then I'll see what happens from there.  

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