Ooooh! Can I come over and play!? Hope you had a great day.
You bet! Kids (big & little) are always welcome to play around here!
Put this toyboy on the dizzy list too
You know - I have been pretty good, for oh, two, three days now
hey M have a great night and a good tommaro as well..............nighty night don't let the bed bugs bite!!!
STAR
Star, if there were any bed bugs - I'd MOVE
What does a DI Appraiser do?
That looks like a fantastic place to be though.
Destination Imagination is truly an AMAZING program for kids.
It's Nationwide, and mostly groups from schools (there are some homeschool groups) program where kids break into teams and decide on one of five "challenges"
They spend from October to February trying to meet the specifics of their team challenge as well as working on Instant Challenge skills to come up with a solve for their challenge.
Then they go to Regional Finals (As an Appraiser, I'm going to "judge" for lack of a better term - what these kids have spent the last 4-5 months creating.)
The process is FABULOUS in that these kids must sign an Independence Declaration - where they ensure that there has been NO outside advise/instruction/input and that all parts of their Challenge has come from the team.
What they come up with is mind boggling.
Two years ago, we had a team who had to solve a locomotion challenge - create some sort of mechanical device that would go around an indoor gymnasium (remember, the focus is on CREATIVITY - so you're looking for off the wall answers to the challenges), our boys created Hover Crafts, that actually worked and were able to give the Appraisers Rides.
What these kids are able to come up with is like McGyver (US TV show), but with lots of duct tape
Each aspect of their project has a total of a certain amount of points - an appraiser must determine how closely they were able to meet the requirements of the challenge.
I was a Team Manager last year - where I worked with 7 boys for 5 months as they prepared their challenge.
And it is a challenge. Get 7 kids to agree on ANYTHING! Get 7 boys to STOP moving for 22 seconds
AND not be able to contribute ANYthing specifically to their challenge.
My job was to try and keep them focused, help them to get what they need, and pretty much - to simply herd cats.
That being said - DI is absolutely worth being involved in
Just saying HI & glanced at your ticker..... seems we might have to be kicking you out of the 180s Club very soon!
I don't know - I've been sitting at 180-182 for two/three weeks now.
I started raising my calories about 3 weeks ago - and I immediately gained 2 pounds - each week I've been adding more calories (and the weight has been staying the same). I plan on continuing to up my calories until I start seeing a steady weight gain - then, slowly, I'll start dropping my calories again.
I need to see where my "maintenance" calories are - there is NO way I should have gained weight on 1300 calories a day - but I did. That tells me I had been eating too few calories for too long. I don't want 1000-1100 calories to be my maintenance.
So I have no plans on losing any weight for the next 4 weeks or so
As hard as this is for me to be sitting at the same number, not lose weight AND upping my calories - I know it's important to my body in the long run.
So I'm eating fairly clean, I'm up to about 1450 a day and like I said, maintaining 180-182
