Ghoulie eliptical v ST November challenge (Page 38)

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-11 8:21 AM

Welcome home Helen.  Hope you had a great time in Ireland.  Did you do any riding over there?  Bet the kids loved it.

This is a selfish challenge from our challenge team from last month.

Stacie called me out for hating on the elliptical (I did some damage to my ITB so I restricted from riding or running) and I think she was a wimp for feeling the same towards Strength Training (ST).

So I challenged her and the rest of the team to see who could find the one item they disdained the most and whoever did the most sessions for November is champion!

So needless to say Stacie is so far behind all of us true disdainers that she has no chance of catching up ( - a little smack talk since we have been so polite to each other lately) and so she will have to put in her signature line - I got punked by (whoever wins) in the November Disdain Challenge and keep it there all of December!

aquagirl - 2009-11-11 8:13 AM Oh look!! A chatty tread!! And I somehow missed it?? Must have been when i was MIA in Ireland......drinking copious amounts of Guinness. So....Bill.....please explain.....what is it that we are doing here?? Ignoring the elliptical? Well thats easy enough. And umm......hate to be dense but ST is?? Slow Twitch? Well I ignore that as well. There. Do I win??

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 5:26 AM MORNING GHOULIES.

inserted off day for me today....

teacher-parent conferences.  get to go hear how well my kids are doing and to hear how wonderful they are.....for someone else. 

j/k.  they're good kids all three of them.  and im so thankful that they're growing up well.

they BETTER.  i work hard enough!


in fact, speaking of kids, i was at the register at McDs (picking up Ghoulie orders) my kids unprompted by me used their manners to ask for an Icee - excuse me, may i please have a blue raspberry....thank you.

and the lady at the cash register said, 'its so nice to children who are parented well.  who behave appropriately.  who use their manners.  i see 'all types' here and most of the kids definately are not as well behaved as your children.  you can tell you spend time with them and teach them 'right'....

how nice is that??

they Know better than to act like WILD THINGS in public.

i was never opposed, when they were younger, leaving a full grocery cart in the store, taking them to a stall in the bathroom or out to the car and swattin' their WILD THING behinds or sending them to their rooms as soon as we got home.


im glad for moments like those.  makes when they act like Wild Things a little more 'tolerable'

they're 'coming around', parenting IS a lot of hard work and to do it 'well' it takes energy/time....but oh so worth it!

and golden when you get a compliment!


so its parent teacher conferences.  and then chiropractor appt in the middle.

and hoping that i dont lose my mind when my "well-mannered" children are underfoot.

they may be WILD THINGS, but they're MY WILD THINGS.

LOL.



stacieb

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 8:23 AM oh the smell that is in my house right now.

no its not stinky WILD THING feet and you know what.


its uber yummmy curry honey chicken.  and oh.  so.  easy.  to.  make.  [told ya im on a cooking/recipe JAG]

heres the recipe:

Ingredients

Directions

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 8:32 AM

one parent-teacher conference down, one to go.

Wild Thing 2s grades were 'uncharacteristically' low in Lang Arts/Reading and Social Studies (all taught by the same teacher)

i brought this up as a concern, since these arent typical subjects that M. struggles w.

theres an interim teacher thats covering for the reg teacher who has been on Maternity leave.  she's coming back two days before Thanksgiving break.

the team said, w/out saying it (disparaging their co-worker) that M. is not 'the problem'

well.  alrighty then.  talk about a 'strange' conversation.

im hopeful (as they are) when the 'regular' teacher returns, Ms. grades should improve.

stacieb

iowagander - 2009-11-11 11:49 AM

That's a great story Stacie! Glad to hear your kiddos have learned their manners, but I'm not surprised. You definitely seem to put a lot of time and effort into them and it's no wonder that it shows. I also love getting compliments like that. It really makes my day! Yay for kids who know better than to act like punks in public!!!

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-11 10:32 AM

Keep up the great work Queen - you know I have to lay down some smack talk to make the day go by faster!

Anything to get called Dorkface

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-11 10:05 AM

Morning Tom - you are a veteran (well currently) so there is no house work allowed today!

Have a great run and just remember back to when you could not run because of the ITB and let that be your motivation up that hill!

Have a great day!

skrtrnr - 2009-11-11 10:29 AM

my kids know.  they act like PUNKS in public, it will be the VERY last thing they do! 

good kids are the result of good parenting, and im ABSOLUTE CERTAIN knowing what i know about you mr. iowagander, that your kids are UBER DUBER GOOD.

its always nice when someone 'notices' isnt it?

stacieb

iowagander - 2009-11-11 11:51 AM

Good lord woman! You and your recipes... Pretty soon here I'll have to just get a binder just for all of your wonderfully delicious ideas!

wgraves7582 - 2009-11-11 12:43 PM Stacie - you crack me up!  My AZZ is healed it is now my ITB that does not want to co-operate.

Thanks for the laugh!

iowagander - 2009-11-11 12:47 PM

That's sweet of you to say Stacie I wish we could get the same manners they always show in public while we're at home, but I suppose tiffs about messy rooms and substandard homework is all part of the game. All we can do is make sure they understand it's all part of a bigger picture and I know they'll end up just fine.

iowagander - 2009-11-11 1:02 PM Mixing curry and cannabis, huh? Sounds like you're getting ready to move out to California