I blame it on the internal alarm clock

Both my schools are on what's called an "in-service" teacher's day and I did not need to get up early, did not need to hop on the computer looking for a job on the substitute online website, and did not need to be awake at all at 6:30 in the morning....but I am. I blame it on the internal alarm clock. It's not that I set it each night to wake me at a certain hour; I don't try to wake up early on weekends and holidays; but I do.

And so here I am stretched, awake, wondering if I want to make coffee (I sort of gave up coffee over the summer, so this is a strange thing to be thinking) and waiting for it to get light enough to go walk around the lake. This summer I started on an exercise program of sorts. The American Heart Association has a couple different things you can do that are pseudo-online. One, Justmove.org, allows you to choose and track your exercise routine online, will create a calendar of your workouts, and it gives short encouragements on the sign-in page. Totally private....no way for others to view your record. The other one I check is Choose To Move. It's more encouraging and geared toward women. Both of these sites can be found through the American Heart Association. But what I was really saying is take a walk around the Lake. I live near a very small lake and the distance around it from my home is about 2 1/2 miles. Not a daunting work out, but calming and just enough to get started on the day.

I think I have another twenty minutes before i can go out....now what about that coffee....

be blessed in the small things

First time caller long time listener

Okay that's not really true, but this is my first time publishing on the web for the interested, indifferent or just plain bored person scoping out the lives and insights of others. I have never been much at journaling, keeping a diary, or other forms of written self expression even though I like writing...Bear with me while I figure out who I want to be on this blog.

Could you figure out the teacher thing? I love teaching, it's almost as much fun as "hanging out with friends" but there are also challenges in each day. Take yesterday, I was at a high school in my home town working for a teacher that I have subbed for before. Five classes of high school math.

You think your life is difficult? Try being a student with a graphing calculator in one hand and a book asking you to figure out the angles of a parallelogram that has been bisected through the opposite corners and all the information you have is two angles and one side. SOHCAHTOAH ! That is code for how to figure out various angles and length of sides of a right triangle. Please don't ask me when you will ever need to know that outside your trigonometry class! First time I saw this mnemonic device, I wondered why the students were studying about some obscure native American tribe. Go figure ~

Blessings on your day!