dew diet

I've heard that if I would just give up Mt Dew that I'd lose weight. Well, we shall see. What prompted me to do this at this time is that during my personal financial literacy class I learned that I spend approx. $553.28 a year on Mt. Dew. So perhaps I can save money and lose weight. During a normal 7 day period I consume usually at least 140 ounces of Mt. Dew. This past week I've only have 78 ounces. Almost a cut in half.

new game

Today I learned a new game. Mallow Ball where you use a marshmallows instead of baseballs.

I passed

Today I found out I passed the SPED test for mild-to-moderate certification.

in school again

This week and next I'm taking a Personal Financial Literacy class for teachers at UCO in Edmond. It's designed to help teachers meet the requirements of the new graduation requirement Passport to Financial Literacy.

inspiring

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." --Lee Iacocca, American industrialist

"Wars against nations are fought to change maps; wars against poverty are fought to map change." --Muhammad Ali

"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." --Mark Twain

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." --Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." --Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist

"It is never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise." --Nancy Thayer, novelist

Be big: Think big. Act big. Dream big." --Conrad Hilton, hotelier

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." --Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer and speaker