Made it home, but that was a scary, scary commute.

I think Ms. M is trying to combat the very real problem our school has with childhood obesity. However, we are in a very low socio-economic area with few public transit-acessible food stores and a lot of liquor/convience stores that take food stamps. Food choice is pretty limited.

I appreciate what she's trying to do. One of the things she does is she has a family book bag that goes home every week with a student and it's filled with books about exercise and healthy food and healthy lifestyles and the kids each make a page about what they did that was healthy during the weekend they had the book bag. It's pretty awesome and I really liked it. But, there are some pretty serious issues that affect being able to make healthy food choices. But, like I said, I worry that too many of the kids are making the same assumption that Em did that skinny = healthy.

And speaking of healthy food choices, I totally just had an everything bagel with cream cheese and salami for dinner. With Faygo red pop. Go team.

I've made an appointment to consult with a surgeon about laproscopic removal of my fibroids. I figure that I have 600+ hours of sick leave and an uneventful summer ahead, so might as well use it.

I don't know what to have for dinner. I've got a fridge full of leftovers, but they're all spicy, and my stomach doesn't seem like it's better enough for spicy food. I could go out and get something, I guess.

I might bring it up with the teacher - and it made me think about some things

I did get the message that too fat was worse than too skinny . and also that being lazy or overindulgent was part of what made some one fat . But I had a skinny sister that was very thin and a picky eater -- this wasn't good either .

As a teenager/20 year old I figured out that too skinny might very well mean weak, out of shape and not strong.

As an adult I learned - hey I have asthma - which might explain my reluctance to run as a child and I have diabetes - which has meant I was always able to eat if you put food in front of me. ( so the clean plate club was a really bad idea)

I am guessing that talking about things - and talking about things like food is fuel -- and good food choices give you energy to sing and dance and run will balance things.

and now i am going to walk down to the store to pick up the organic, fresh, no preservative pop tarts ( strawberry and apple ) made by my friend and owner of the Niles pie co.

Balance

Are there any organic, fresh, no preservative poptarts in chocolate? 'Cause then I would totally be on board.

Or did I miss a point in there somewhere? :)

I decided based on the Vyvanse attempt that failed miserably that stimulant medications do Bad Things to me. Or at least that one. But I wouldn't be shocked if the other ones do the same brain breaking things.

Vyvanse is the longest-acting of the stimulants; it's possible a shorter-acting one wouldn't be as bad. Tim can't take the long-acting ones (they make him feel shitty as hell) and just takes Ritalin every 4 hours.

Completely unrelatedly, I get to go have adult beverages and/or Graeter's with brenda in an hour! (That's assuming that the Apocalyptostorms don't unleash holy hell between now and then.)

Not yet Epic -- but she dose an amazing chocolate puddle pie