Studying

I started studying this morning the for the technician exam, upstairs in the quiet of my room. It was cool this morning, the windows wide open after the oppressive heat up there of the days before. I had intended to study over the weekend but that went out the window quickly as I stayed busy with other things. Two small little Yorkie type dogs were lazy bones on my bed as I studied.

Friday I took off work not feeling the greatest, but I intended to get some work done in the yard...which I never ended up doing. Saturday, I ended up volunteering with D & S at a DNR event at a range in Winnemac for kids to learn gun safety and to shoot. I shot my first 22 rifle and a .308 also which was really cool. I was mainly a gopher to fetch things since I don't know anything about guns. D acted as a range officer and S helped with the cooking at the lunch station. It would of been a perfect day except for the mosquitoes and the rain. That evening we all went out to meet up with a bunch of other friends at Pepe's Mexican restaurant.

Sunday, again I found myself busy. S wasn't feeling good so she stayed in bed most of the day so I went grocery shopping with D after I got up early to work cleaning up the kitchen. We got some great deals on butter and cheese. We bought 14 blocks of cheese and 8 blocks of butter (saving $1 off the normal price for each one). I'm not used to buying up this much food at once. Before I was lucky to even afford one block of cheese and then the X would eat the whole thing in a day before I could get any. Its hard for me sometimes to watch them waste food. I can tell they don't have a shortage of it. I cringe when I watch S toss away rolls, just because it's the last one in the package instead of saving it to eat later. I mentioned to her that it could at least go into the compost pile...I am so used to going without food that the thought of throwing out a piece of bread just for being the last in the package is disturbing a bit to me. It can be frozen if nothing else to make bread crumbs or croutons for soup instead of tossed. And before you ask, I rescued that bun (it was still in the package) for my lunch today. They actually have food on the shelf that has gone past the sell buy date. That never happened when I was with X. We never had enough food to even get close to the sell by dates. I refuse to throw those out too. I will eat them, even if they are not the healthiest things in the world being mostly hamburger helper type boxed meals. Something I never really bought before since I couldn't afford the meat to cook up with them in the past.

I am hoping with time and gentle persuasion I can convince them to be a bit less wasteful. I am hoping that at least the waste can go into the compost instead to feed the soil for some good veggies eventually. I feel like it's less of a sin if it ends up being recycled that way.

Sunday night, I went over to my friend Joan's house and little Carley, and we had a girls movie night and dinner and some wine (for the grown ups only) and relaxed. Catching up on neighborhood gossip and making plans for next weekend. I went home intending to do some studying then, but S's brother came over to drop off two lil doggies for a few days. Of course that meant I was suddenly too distracted to study, having pups to play with. D isn't too much of an animal fan, so the dogs end up sleeping upstairs with me on my bed which is just fine by me. They are sweet boys (one is a bit prone to marking on things, as he's not yet snipped....) and I love petting them as I rest. I miss my cats and dog horribly and haven't slept well without their comfort. I slept well the last couple nights with dogs.

Monday, I walked and played with the dogs, and before I knew it I had to go to work. Work was supper busy and just about killed me. I was hurting bad. Today, I had time to study at last, I got the first chapter read in the text book before it was time for me to go to work and it hasn't been too bad tonight.

And through all of this, I managed to quit pop of which I am very addicted to. Its not healthy, even the diet stuff which I normally drink. I suffered through the headache and tiredness and now I am pop free. I intend to stay that way for now. This week's healthy habit I want to work on is to stop eating down at the cafeteria. Only food and leftovers from home, of which there are plenty, is what I will be eating. Yesterday was leftovers. Today was a nice salad with chicken that was grilled yesterday, shredded cheese, and dressing along with some fresh grapes. For a snack, I have Greek yogurt which I've never tried before and I hope it tastes OK.

Long post I know, but I had to catch up.

Added:
Looking at the ingredients list of the yogurt, there are black carrots listed! A quick google search reveals there are indeed black carrots. Who knew? :)