Ghosts, Bacon, and Breakfast.

Recently I decided that going to gym is a good idea. I’ve been going twice a week when I can and starting slowly so that I don’t hurt myself or die. I am starting to feel really good about myself, but I can’t figure out why I’m always so tired. Shouldn’t working out make you feel energized? I am drinking lots of water and eating lots of fruits and vegetables, I even take Flintstones vitamins everyday. (Yes I realize that I am an adult, and I realize that those vitamins are for children, but I can’t take the one a day vitamins and I refuse to take 20 pills a day just to get everything that my body needs to stay healthy, so Flintstones it is! Besides they taste much better than adult vitamins :P) If you have any suggestions about being so tired all of the time please feel free to comment with your suggestions and ideas!!

Well anyway the other day I went to the gym before school, my plan was to shower at the gym and go straight to school. I go to take a shower and realize that I have forgotten a vital part of my undergarments. So I pack everything up and head home. I get home find the missing undergarment, hop in the shower and get dressed. So far so good I’m still on schedule to leave and get to school on time without having to speed like a madwoman to get there. I grab my bag with the rest of my uniform and head out the door. I get just outside the door and reach for my keys… Oh damn I must have left them in side, I try the door and it locked behind me… Oh great! I then have to dig out the back yard gate from the things that we have blocking it and run up the back stairs. I wiggle open the sliding glass door, thanking myself that I forgot to lock it before I left and run through the house (unlocking the front door as I run out) to make sure that the gate again gets reburied. Then I run back into the house in search of my keys. So far I’m still doing ok time wise, but I’m getting close to making myself late. I check the place beside the door where my keys should hang and they’re not there. I run down stairs check my room, check the bathroom, run upstairs check the kitchen, the living room. Nothing!!! I run outside again and check my bag, still nothing! Just for kicks I check the car, even though I KNOW that I couldn’t have gotten inside the house without them. Nothing! I then calmly walk back into the house and turn my head to the right… where my keys should have been hanging… and what do you know? There they are!!! I couldn’t believe it! I had checked there already, at least twice, and I know they hadn’t been there before. My only conclusion is our Ghost Steve is back home and knows how important it is for me to get to school. Thanks Steve!! I get to school on time with no worries and I didn’t even have to speed (all that much lol)

The next day I get home from school to pick up Daughter at the babysitter’s house. Things are going pretty well, but I’m exhausted. Daughter had already had dinner which helps me so much. We get home and I start thinking about what I want for dinner. lord knows we have things in the house to eat. So I decide that a BLT sounds amazing! Daughter is nine and wants to help so much so she pipes up with “I’ll make it!” Which helps me out tons because I can get a head start on all of the homework that I have due. I get started on my vocabulary words and she gets started making me a sammich, about half a hour later I here a sheet pan hit the floor and she starts crying. Oh dear… I go into the kitchen and see that the pan was indeed the bacon from the oven and the crying is because she burnt a finger on that pan when pulling it from the oven. *Sigh* the pan was upside down on the floor thus the bacon was ruined. I cleaned up the bacon and the floor, had her run her finger under warm water to ensure there was no blister and sent her to bed. I wound up having leftover chicken from the fridge. Sent the kiddo to bed and gave up on the homework. Decided I was going to veg out and just relax after the hard week I’ve had. Went to bed at 11 and I was so tired I didn’t get up until late the next day. I was going to go to the gym that day but the sitter’s baby girl was sick. Think I might go anyway, just to keep my routine going.

I did wake up the next day to breakfast being made by Daughter, I got bacon (So happy she didn’t get scared from the last time she tried to make it) and scrambled eggs and even French toast! I have taught my daughter well!! lol So proud of her and the good job she did making breakfast for me. It made me feel so loved 😀

Almost a year and Almost done!

Holy Moo Cow!! I did not realize it had been so long since I had posted anything and I feel terrible! Everything has just been so hectic and out of whack! So we’ll start from the beginning…

October – Started taking lab classes (Those are the ones you actually cook in!) and had a blast! I was the first person to get cut in my first lab class ever, but it broke the ice and we all had a nice laugh about it. I loved that class and the instructor was amazing! I was also taking Concepts and Speech. All of those classes I passed with flying colors and had so much fun! I really enjoyed the instructors and it paved the way for me to continue in my lab classes. I also passed my ServeSafe Exam which means I can hoist my foods on an unsuspecting public lol

November- The hubby came back from training and things went back to normal for a while. We were getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were supposed to have a LOT of people come for Thanksgiving, but alas no one showed so we had this huge turkey and stuff, wound up only cookin the turkey to get it out of the frige.

December- This is where I passed those classes I was talking about and then we had Christmas, our Anniversary, New Years. For our anniversary the hubby gave me the most thoughtful gift. He and I are pretty big gamers (or we were until WoW brought in Panderia, then we got sad and rage quit.. still looking for an MMO that we an both enjoy, so far the search is at a standstill cause I’m always busy with no time for play) and he went out and bought me a couple of knives and had them engraved. It was the most beautiful and thoughtful gift he has ever given me. I cried lol Big sopping wet tears rolling down my cheeks as I read the engravings. God I love that man. Christmas was fun and a wonderful time spent with my little family.

January- My birthday… we didn’t do much. Just spent some time together. I started new classes, Latin Cuisine, American Regional Cuisine, and Basic Math (cause I suck at math). Interesting lab classes and math is just math lol but I love the instructor. He was pretty awesome.

February- I hated this month. This is the month that hubby deployed. Have no fear he is safe, but still not home where I can stuff him full of good eats and cuddle. I miss him.

March – Also not a great month, We lost hubby’s Great Grandmother. She decided she was done and wanted to go home so she went. My own Grandmother had a couple of strokes and is still in the hospital. Things are not looking good. AT ALL… I passed the classes I had been taking but the joy wasn’t there.

April – Little one’s birthday, I made sure she had a great day, I surprised her by coming home from school early and she and I made her favorite dinner together. Started new classes this month, Food and Beverage Operations Management, Asian Cuisine, and Garde Manger.

May- This month was horribly hectic I couldn’t even think straight. I got a job at Hilton Garden Inn. Everything was going pretty good, just hectic.

June- Finished those classes, Got the stomach flu for a whole week, it was horrible. Got better and the following week got it a little again. Still passed the classes I was taking and was doing fairly well at the Inn but then they didn’t put me on the schedule for two weeks.

July- and here we are! The hotel still hasn’t put me on the schedule, I have no idea what’s going on, I thought I was doing really well and getting faster in the kitchen. Guess I was wrong since I haven’t been on the schedule for three weeks. My Grandmother is not doing well at all, it does not look like things are going to pick up either. I applied for a job at a café and they never called me back after the demonstration interview. Guess I wasn’t up to par. Makes me sad, but I’m going to have to wait to continue looking until the hubby gets home, childcare is just too expensive. I started new classes this month, Baking and Pastry Techniques, College Algebra, European Cuisine, and World Cuisine. Yes you read that right… four classes this quarter! As long as I pass them all I will only have three classes left and I will graduate with an Associates in the Culinary Arts! I’m pretty excited, but its been a loooong hard road and I know that its just getting harder. The hubby will come home eventually and I will find a job that will show me patience while I learn what I need to learn to succeed. I’m going to have our Grandmothers smiling down on me while I walk that graduation line and accept my degree. Through all of this I have to thank my wonderful family and friends for all of their pushing and support. They know that I can do this and have been pushing me to do this for a very long time. I will not let them or myself down, I have less than 6 months until I walk that graduation Aisle and I am not backing down now. I am going to make this happen or die trying!