Some time to rest, more time to think…

Hello to the internet universe! Just a quit stop to keep you up to date. The school quarter had ended and now I am waiting for the next to begin. I passed both of my classes, one with an A (thats the management course) and one with a B (nutrition). Most of my problem in Nutrition I believe was the math, I haven’t taken a math course in at least ten years, and most everything I learned back then went out the window a LONG time ago lol. Either way I passed, and that is what is important. My next classes are Purchasing and Western Civ. These are going to be eleven weeks long as opposed to the 5 1/2 weeks my last classes were. Makes for much less stress I hope.

We recently found out that my husband has a Gluton allergy. I have found that this is not the easiest allergy to cook for. Still in the learning stage, we found that breads make him sick, Gatorade makes him sick, noodles, barley, crackers, chips, all of these thigns make him sick. The poor man has lost so much weight. He can’t even eat Tortillas! Anything that has wheat or barley in it and maybe a few other things as well. I have loads of research that I printed out to read and I’m learning more as I go, but so far we have had at least three days without making him sick! I’m so proud! If you have any recipes for gluten free, please post them in the comments! It would help so much!

For now I am off to do the many other things that require my attention, so much to do so little time lol have a good one!

 

“If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.”  ―    J. R. R. Tolkien

Goodbyes, Discussions, and StReSs…

Hello to the internet world! It has been a couple of weeks since I have updated you all. Not much is different and yet so much has changed.

I would first like to say Goodbye to a wonderful girl. Her name is Heather Sullivan and she passed away the first day of June 2012. Heather is my best friend’s sister, and while I only met her once she was a nice person and loved her family dearly. You will be missed Heather.

My first set of classes are almost over and I have yet to lose my “A” in either class. I could be doing better in Nutrition, but some of it I just don’t understand that well, I keep going over and over the material and it just looks like math to me. Maybe when I take my math classes I’ll understand more. I can only hope.

My Management and Supervision and Career Developement class is going wonderfully. I think I may have surprised my Instructor with the plans I have already been making for my future restaurant. He seems to be impressed with my ideas and the firm grasp I have on the curriculum. This is in part due to an old friend who is also taking the culinary program through the same school, though he is much farther along in his degree than I am. He hits two years (I think) later this year. He took me through some of the stuff that he had done for the same class and it really helped! Thanks again Richard!!

This whole week starting Monday I have been hanging out with the Hubby and Daughter on the football field. My Hubby’s Brigade is having Iron Horse week and the Hubby was on the football team. The daughter and I went to give out support. It was fun and nice and it got us out of the house and she got to play with the kids and dogs that were there. We debated taking our little guys, but decided against it as it was too hot and there wasn’t any shade. Not to mention we are not sure how one of them would handle all of the people. She seems pretty shy, which bothers me, but we can’t have her getting antsy and biting anyone. I think we have decided to slowly start getting her to interact with others. It won’t be easy, but we’d like to be able to take her places, especially when the other little girl gets picked up by her Momma. Hopefully that will be in or before August.

We are looking for a house to move into so that we can get out of this neighborhood. We just don’t feel safe here anymore. We’ve had two homicides in the neighborhood since we moved in last November. I don’t feel safe letting the daughter play outside by herself and I certainly can’t let her play with the other children in the neighborhood. The language alone is horrible not to mention they constantly have fist fights in the middle of the street! So we are working on moving as soon as we can. I certainly wish we had known about this when we moved in, but I guess hind site and all that. We are hoping to get a house in the neighborhood where the daughter’s school is. It’s a really great school and we want her to stay there for as long as possible. We are even thinking of asking for orders to stay here longer, so that she can stay in this school until High school or at least Middle school.

I did my frist round of shopping at The Whole Foods Market. It really wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. I had to dig through old, wilted, and dirty produce to get some decent lettuce. Their green beans left something to be desired as well. The meat was over priced and while it may have been “organic” it didn’t taste any different. There were some good things about it though, I found where I could buy barley, and when we tried it we found that it wasn’t a bad taste or texture. It will hep us get more fiber in our diet. Then there was the apple juice. You haven’t lived unless you have tried this organic apple juice. It is a bit pricey, $7 for a gallon jug. But so delicious that we plan on going back for the juice again and again plus I take the labels off of the beautiful glass jugs and make them my own. I have one filled with tea now already. There are a few other things we’ll go back for, the pure cane sugar, the dried fruits the hubby loves, and the Tilvee which is helping so much with my psoriasis. Other than that I think we’re going to go back to the regular grocery store and I’ll just be even more picky about what I buy.

Other than that my dear followers, there is nothing new to tell. But here is just a little food for thought…

 

Food is our common ground, a universal experience – James Beard