November 10, 2009 Diet Blog

Lord it was an overwhelmingly busy day. Typically, busy at the front desk in court is a full page of clients, phones, filing, and miscellaneous items. Today we had nearly two pages worth of clients, three times the normal amount of calls- and THATS a lot, I've never seen so many files- I literally could not keep the bin empty and we were short handed in almost every department. Under the miscellaneous category, a man actually argued with me- yelling across the lobby because he was lost; needed directions and (how dare I) I was on the phone helping a real client that was upset and sobbing. I just pointed to the phone and put a finger up meaning wait one minute and I'll help you- but clearly his need superseded any others because he actually screamed at me! Mind you- this was with a line at the desk, each private booth full, 3 people on hold and it was only 9-ish. We open at 8:30am. One lost guy, who was supposed to be across the hall at another court came back in three times because no one was in the other court room. Clearly I'm at fault for that given that our court has nothing to do with that one- we are just located near by. Obviously- I need to drop everything and hunt for sombody to man their post and abandon mine.... My supervisor came away from a client on the third time and dismissed him sternly but politely. We were astounded at the audacity of some people.
I was too busy to have any snacks but for breakfast I had two slices of American cheese and coffee. For some reason I woke up with a sweet tooth, and cheeses is supposed to curb it. It seemed to work, whether psychological or real. Lunch was Smart Ones, grapes and carrot sticks, dinner was multi grain noodles in sauce and sausage.
On the way home from my exhausting day I grocery shopped. The tems needed included ones for the father-son bake off for cub scouts is this week because I had to purchase the materials to make a special kind of creative cake. We chose a spider. We'll use a bunt cake pan, pretzel sticks for the legs, yodel cuts for the eyes surrounded by ready whip, large gum drop for nose, gum drop cut to shape for the mouth and twizlers for the antenna. It should be cute and fairly easy to do. Still, I had to come up with a battle plan- as I am playing the role of 'Dad' for my nephew whose father passed away. My hubby usually does that but he will be with his students in Key Largo for the scuba trip. At least this way- it's not the mom.
The battle plan is chocolate- one point- weight watchers cakes. I will have a little cake while everyone else is having the fattening one. I will eat it slowly. I will send all of the left over goodies from making the spider cake to the cub scouts meeting with my nephew for the boys to chow down. It should go well.
That was supposed to happen Tuesday Night but my nephew is ill and we were able to put it off until Thursday so we are doing that. I don't need to get sick again. I don't seem to be able to shake illnesses as easily these days. Before he comes I intend to pump vitamin C into my body for protection.
When I got home I unpacked the food, cooked the dinner and had a much needed long hot shower. I felt better. We snuggled up on the sofa for about a half hour but I was so tired I went to bed after that. It was around 9pm. That's why I'm writing this blog entry on Wednesday morning. It's Veteran's Day. I'm off from work. I'm remembering all of the people that fought for our freedom. I pray for their everlasting peace in the kingdom of heaven. I'll write in later about today. See you next time.