Back in the saddle

After a week of hacking up a storm and feeling like an elephant was sitting on my chest I am finally coming back to life. There are a few things that have made this last week a pain! Not only was I finding it difficult to breathe, sleep, stay awake and work out. I was also finding it difficult to teach, knit, take care of my duties as a wife (the cooking, cleaning and such) but also keeping up with my most difficult grad school class to date. Now it is bad if you can't breathe, sleep, get your house work done or stay awake. Sad if you can't work out or care to knit. Terrible if you are having difficulty teaching or getting your homework done for grad school!!! I am slowly returning to all  of the things that I am needing and wanting to do.
I worked out with Jim tonight. He didn't kill me but I am sure I will be sore! I also got caught up on one paper tonight (only 3 more to go to get caught up! sad, sad, sad!). Sleeping, staying awake, and breathing have returned to almost normal. House work has been helped by the wonderful hubby, although now he is sickly. My desire to knit is still at the blah level but I can't do it all!

Additional thought.... I have been very frustrated that at 5'2" 130 lbs I have not lost any fat weight since I began this journey of working out. I actually have lost muscle mass recently. Scary!  I have done some thinking and realized... Maybe it is stress or maybe it is my birth control. I began to do some research and found that I have been on a birth control that many women my age (with similar lifestyles and even similar heights)  have had really crazy side effects.... many of which I am experiencing but had chalked up to other things in my life. Such as, weird episodes of intense hunger or intense lack of hunger through out the month. Irritability. When I say irritability I mean I can't handle the pencil tapping, the whining, the inability to find page 21 in our book even though I have told  the child it is "THREE MORE PAGES FROM WHERE YOU ARE. NO! NOT BACKWARD, FORWARD." (this is when I realize I am yelling about a flipping page in the book and calm down) "Here, let me just find it for you." Thinking to my self, even though you are in 3rd grade and completely capable of finding it on your own...... Then of course I turn to the next kid and his book is closed and he is staring at the wall and the kid next to him... is on page 12..... (Commence: banging head on the table). Here is the thing.... I very well know that these kids have special needs. I can usually just keep my cool and get my self undercontrol and them on the same page, however..... not recently...
 Ok back to the side effects.... hair loss - thankfully no, acne - yea a little bit but not enough to make me crazy, still it is a pain, lowered sex drive - well you don't need to know my answer here. :) and lastly weight gain, or the inability to lose weight that has come on since beginning birth control.... to this I say... SON of a GUN! I knew I was eating right, working out right, not imbibing too much, praying (although I don't know if that helps... maybe I should fast...) and trying to live the right way without going over board... Turns out maybe it is stress.... and a bc that keeps the weight on... To which I say... just another reason to get off bc and start having babies. :) HA!

Last parting thought. If you are a believer, pray for my hubby and I. In March we plan to have the house on the market, meaning this loveable guy (pictured above) goes to stay at grandma and grandpa's for a while. We have to figure out how much we will be approved for (scary!!) and find the house of our dreams, or that will work for the time being.
Also, hubby has applied for a job in which he is 1 of 129 applicants. He happened to be fixing a lock for a person that is on the board for said job application and mentioned that he had put in an application. The parting words from that guy to  hubby.... I will have to dig through the stack and find your application. (He also said that all applicants will hear if they are still in the process or have been declined for interviews by the end of this week or next week....) keep the prayers going!!

Such a happy old guy! :)