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It is indeed...! And YAY today I went to the studio again! I am so happy I did it!

Hi again - sorry, I did not answer until now. one of the beloved, bugging friends paid me a visit and I spent live very day with her *lol* @TheLonelyWolf thx for your welcomes! <3 Feel free to visit any time - we have a guestroom! @deathbyshiny yeah, our timetable changes every term as well... It can me excruciating to not know what's coming up - but it is totally worth it!

@deathbyshiny I teach age 10-16, that is class 5-10 in Germany. I love my job, so I like putting much work into what I do. I guess it will help everyone to understand why my day is so packed, when I describe a typical one: 5:00 AM - get up and have breakfast (I like tot take my time, because I think breakfast is important - plus I usually do not get anything until lunch break *lol*) 6:30 AM - leave for work, drop off my boyfriend first. 7:15 AM - arrive at work, make coffee for me and the other teachers (this is vital to all processes during the day, NEVER run out of coffee! EVER!), then look into work-email-account, answer the telephone, write down important info. 7:30 AM - talk to children/parents/more phone calls/emails... usually everything is quite a hurry then... 7:45 AM - lesson 1 9:15 AM - breakfast-break with the children (have coffee - and some fruit, if I did not forgot it at home/in the staff room) 9:20 AM - 1st break for the children, more talks for me (if I am lucky, someone made new coffee...) or school yard duty 9:40 AM - lesson 2 10:55 AM - 2nd break, usually someone wants to talk about a pupil or a problem or a parent has questions that need to be answered. Or it is time for school yard duty again. Sometimes I have an actual break (if I am lucky there is still some coffee in the machine... *lol*) 11:15 AM - lesson 3 12: 35 PM send down table duty children to lay the table. lesson goes on until 12:40, then we all walk down for lunch at 12:45 PM - lunch time with my class 1:15 PM - after-lunch-break for the children, lunch-time-courses by the teachers (art, music, theatre...) or school yard duty - or BREAK (this is my favourite break... <3) 1:45 PM - lesson 4 3:00 PM - school ends, bus duty/school yard duty until 3:10PM 3:15 to 5:00/5:30PM - orgastuff, phone calls, emails... the usual. Afterwards: pick boyfriend up (if he is not finished with work yet...) do the shopping, dinner, TV. This is a normal day for me. Except Friday - on Fridays school ends at 1PM and I am out if the building at 3. Hopefully... I guess it is now clear what my friends are complaining about.

There are hairless rats? I did not even know those existed! O_O

Oh no! My boyfriend is not so much in love with my cats as I am, but he likes them. I need to say that I would never want to live with an allergic person. I would miss my babies too much...

Yeah, it is not my favorite thing to do either... *sigh* Today is our second appointment with the vet, because one cat seems to be not able to stomach the antibiotics he got. We will see... Hopefully at least he starts eating and drinking again... The other one is just fine. *lol* Some mothers can be monsters... I am sorry you can relate to that as well... But we can do better than they did. Always remember that! I do not drink lots of beer - believe it or not I prefer Gin Tonic or Martini. *lol*

Hi there! Nice to read you two! @Guzzi Thx for voting "in" - all that Brexit-stuff took me really off guard when I read it... I'd never have thought... Well, we live in interesting times I guess. I really liked Scotland when I visited it in 2014. Your countryside is amazing! And Edinburgh is really lovely as well. I did not get to see the Highlands and stuff though. I really need to come back. It took me quite a while to accept myself the way I am. It is a complicated relationship my body and I developed over the first 23/24 years of my life (thx mom...). Now I am at a point where I like my size no matter if I lose 5kg or put them on again. Thing is my knees and stuff are kind of not really well. They hurt a lot and I get back aches regularly. So I KNOW that I need to lose weight anyways to make that get better - so why not mention it, I thought. No, I have not had a closer look at the forum yet - my two cats are ill so today cleaning up puke and poop had a higher status. Hopefully they feel better tomorrow, I really worry ATM... *sigh* So I guess I gonna do that tomorrow! Thx for the links, I gonna have a look at them tomorrow as well (at least I hope...). @Igaduma I won't wait until I break. Or my health does. I do not like not being fit. I do not like that I cannot ride a bike as fast as I'd like. I do not like that I am not really good at running anymore and that warm weather makes me sweat like hell. I do not like that I need help with carrying heavy bags, when others are able to do this alone. I guess you get the picture now. I really like my curves though (as I said above; THAT took me some time...) I think if I do not want to be too dependent on others when I am old, I really need to change a bit of my lifestyle and improve my health. Thx guys!

Hi there from Germany! Guess what - I am new here. I found this forum and page by accident. We do not have pages like that in Germany - at least AFAIK. I am 30 (going to be 31 in a few months), female and have to cats and a boyfriend. My weight is currently too high to mention *lol* no seriously - it is somewhere around 83kg and I my height is about 171cm give or take one centimeter... I started losing some weight a few weeks ago but as I got older since the last time I tried (I was 16 back then and lost about 18kg withing like NO time...) I just realized it got harder as well - not only is it harder to stick to my diet but I have something called a working-life as well that tends to fuck with my goals regularly (I am a teacher and there is LOTS OF CHOCOLATE and stuff lying around in the staff-room) *lol* I wanna be honest - I need some encouragement to stick to that goal of getting back to about 70-72kg... Especially because I actually LIKE myself the way I am - I just do not like how unsporty I am (and the fact that every kilo I put on makes the motorbike suit fit worse and the motorbike slower!). I did running a few years ago and I loved it - but my knees are giving up on me, so I am afraid I will have to stick to short distances here... I might need to find another sport to do here... Another goal would be to create something like a work-life-balance. I tend to work A LOT (talking about 10-12 hours a day here...) and my friends started to complain about that months ago - but I did not listen. It did not do me any good. The next year will not be the easiest one, because I was asked and so am going to become class teacher of a really difficult class - what means even more workload... I need to learn to focus on relaxing again or I am pretty sure it will burn me out one day - just because I love my work that much... I don't know if you know what I mean...? TL/DR: My goals are... ...getting fit again ...create a work-life-balance Cheers! Mieze