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Whoo-hoo! I pulled two 12 and 13 hour days at school this week because we had parent/teacher conferences so I have a comp day today! Yahoo! I got to sleep in. A few minutes to update the blog... And then I'm out the door to enjoy some powder on the slopes this afternoon before all the Denverites head up to ski this weekend!

Update #1 - "The Diet"
Monday was really hard, but I surprised myself that when I limited my lunch to just a sandwich and water... I then had a midafternoon snack... And it wasn't bad! I've been hungry every night and I've been struggling with that a bit. I'm also really focusing on getting my calories from protein and good carbs. I definitely need to continue to up my protein intake.

The news I want to celebrate! The wonderful parents at my school brought in all matter of cookies, lemon bars, pie, and brownies for us to munch on during conferences. The first night it absolutely KILLED me to avoid all the sweets. It was just awful. On night 2, it was hard, but not as hard to avoid. Yesterday was Valentine's Day. I could NOT believe the amount of sweets in our teacher's lounge. I avoided every single Hershey Kiss, gummy bear, you name it! And it wasn't as hard as you'd think. I really do think that once you rid your body of all the sugars, it doesn't crave it as much. I'm really happy with how I avoided all the sweets this week. I'm really happy I finally have something in my life to scare the living daylights out of me enough that I'm finally going to scrutinize my diet.

Update #2 - "American Gladiators"
I don't really know anything at this point, so I think it's safe to talk about. My whole school knows about it. Heck, I had a couple teachers comment that they were bored and wanted to come in to talk to me during conferences, but I ALWAYS had parents in my room. I told the other teachers that they would have been a whole lot more popular if they had tried out for "American Gladiators"! I swear, 2/3 to 3/4 of my conferences had absolutely nothing to do with school. All the parents and kids just wanted to talk to me about trying out for the show. I'm not complaining. It was fun.

Thus far I had to do an on-camera interview in workout clothes, with the show's logo in the background. If I'm selected, they'll use some of that footage for my profile. Naturally I have to be the Monday morning quarterback and rethink everything I said and answered, but I can't change it now. They also gave me 2 1/2 days to go home and make a home video tape of myself that they might also use footage from.

Thank goodness I work in a school that it nutty over the fact that I tried out for the show. Our tech ed department let me borrow a camera, and then they did all the editing for me. The guys didn't use all the footage that I would have liked, but then again, it was probably good to have a third party choose what went into the video and what didn't. My only regret is that my husband and I got up at 5 a.m. to film, and then stayed up until 12:30 to film. We did some filming of me with my bike on the trainer when my husband starts laughing. "You should tell them you like to watch the Weather Channel!" (For some reason he thinks this is absolutely hillarious. I feel the same way about him because he watches poker on tv. To me, that's even more boring!) Anyways, I look into the camera and say "And one unique thing about me... I can watch the Weather Channel for hours on end." My husband thinks this is just funniest thing ever. My tech ed department decides to use it in the film....

Um... Good choice? Bad choice? While it might have been funny at 12:30 at night, it wasn't as funny the next day. I'm sure the producers think I'm a barrel of laughs at this point. Yeah right! But what can you do now?

So for now I'm just waiting. If they want me on the show, they could call anytime between now and the time they start filming in Los Angeles. If they don't, I won't hear anything. If they do want me I hope they notify me sooner than later. I'm going to have some hoops to jump through to get the time off from school. Who knows. I'm trying to pump up as much as possible if they do call. If not, I've really enjoyed the status upgrade at school. As one parent commented, "You've had a good year, haven't you?"

Yep. It's been a good year! Now off to the slopes!!!! Yee-ha!!!!