exhausted

Today was an incredibly, frighteningly productive day...

First and foremost, I got one hell of a workout in at the gym this morning. No little monitos awake here, I could sneak out without the choir of "I want to go, toooooo" following me out the door. Good stretching, leg weights first (am I the only one who gets really turned on doing leg curls? It's a purely physical reaction but geez, brings me back to sorority days and knowing where All The GOOD Chairs in the University were...) then arms and back and sit-ups. Got my elliptical jog in, but the heartrate monitor was a trite off this morning: I maintained a 7.5 mph clip and my registered heartrate was jumping between 161 and 125. Target is 148.

Got a shower. That was good. Got to do my legs. That was even better and oh, so necessary. Got to play "Guess Who" with La Princesita...she noted the gender inequality right off the bat: "Mommy, why are there 19 boys and only 5 girls?" I am GOING to have to complain to Mattel about this. There are 24 possibilities...they could have split it 12/12.

Then started madly Trying to Claim My House Back. Tomorrow is recycling day, doubled with gomi-pick up because Monday's gomi pick up was cancelled. So I have, like, 10 bags of recycleables (including all the paper and cardboard) that needed to be gathered and put together, then I collected all the trash. Then I got a bunch of stuff out on Freecycle. Good for Mommy. House is cleaner. I can see the floor of my office again...haven't seen that in weeks. Needs to be vacuumed.

Got class scheduled for noon as opposed to 10 tomorrow. The kids can have some computer time while my students are here.

Made linner. Just heated up leftovers so it really didn't count, but still counts for providing the chickadees with basic nutritional needs. Yes, they have to have fruit, too. Fortunately we just got a bag of fresh Florida grapefruit from P's parents on Christmas Eve, and grapefruit just does not last around these kids.

Then what? Cleaned up the classroom for tomorrow, adecuately trashed following almost a week of no classes. Finished the polishing of my translation of this transcription, edited some spelling errors in the English version, and sent both off to Vodium so they can finish that leg. I will go downtown to do the voice-over dub on the 4th. I can picture it being like one of those old Japanese samurai flicks that are dubbed in English: "I will die first!" ...and the mouth of the actor continues moving in silence for 10 seconds after the English voiceover has finished the 'translation.' I'm looking very much forward to seeing/hearing the final version's webcast.

Had a prospective new student contact me, hopefully can get a new series of beginners going at the end of January. That would just be peachy.

And last, but not least...

The three of us, Christmas Eve. Mamacitas extraordinnaires.

Now isn't that what it is all about, ladies? What a wonderful picture...and perhaps the only one of myself that I will permit be taken this year!