Panic Ensues

So even though this is my second year at the nursery school I was extremely nervous going in the first day back. I will be in a new classroom. With a new set of kids. With a new head teacher. Too many new things. I have 20 kids in my class and 15 of them are boys. Obviously the director hates us. To say I'm excited might be pushing it but I'm curious to see if I'm any less miserable this year because I now know what to expect when working in a nursery class.

Mark was offered a teaching job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I'm freaked out for him. He's working in the Tremont section of the Bronx. He's been assigned a self-contained special education class for 5th graders. During the interview they told him that these are literally THE WORST kids in the school. They then brought in the teacher who had them last year and had her tell Mark all the horrors that are to be his future students. He then took the job on the spot and he literally has two days to prepare for them. He knows nothing of the school's policies, what the first day will look like, the expected curriculum, what textbooks they're using, etc. And they wonder why kids suffer in the public school system. Because they just throw an adult in there and hope for the best.
Luckily, Mark is a much harder and more dedicated worker than I am and those kids are lucky that their future teacher's response to this cluster fuck is "This is why I became a fellow. This is what these kid's need." Sadly, they will never know, understand, or appreciate that.
I love him.

Yesterday I went with a friend to help her pick out her wedding dress. Well...she already knew which one she wanted I was just there to ooohhh and aaahhh for her. But I was glad I forced my presence on her because what made me nervous about one day having to go through the process myself was that I didn't know what to expect. I like to test the waters before diving in. So now I know what happens behind those rows of ivory and white dresses in plastic bags and I'm ready for my turn. I now have wedding dress fever even though I have to do like a billion other things before I get to trying on dresses.

One of those things is to firm up! I don't expect me to lose tons of weight. As I pretty much eluded to earlier, I lean towards lazy. I'm not going to change my eating habits. I snack too much. But I have to say that I've been pretty good about hitting up Planet Fitness. You would be proud! I don't get there every single day but I've been there at least five days a week. I get in my 30 minutes. So basically I'm certain that I will look exactly the same as I do now when it comes time for me to walk down the aisle (i.e. soft and doughy) but I'd like to think that if I stick to some sort of regular exercise maybe I'll lose an inch or two....we'll see.