The weekend is over

The weekend is over and I don't get the luxury of knowing that I still have tomorrow to finish what I didn't get done. Training for general labor, with driving a forktruck, starts tomorrow at 6am sharp! Well, actually maybe a tad earlier because of catching up with updates from the general labor person tonight.

Morning is going to come very early! So, what did I do? I laid down for a little while this afternoon and dozed. Couldn't help it, I couldn't hold my eyes open. I can't help it I'm on night schedule. Then I'll just get used to the day hours and then finish my training and go back to my night shift.

The good thing is that tomorrow is A shift's last day of the work weekend so I'll work tomorrow and then be off until Thursday and work it and Friday and then be off for the weekend again. Tomorrow is the start of the new pay period so mixing up the weekends off won't bother my check.

The other day I bought my mother, and myself, the book Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes. Somehow I have the feeling that I'll have to hound her to get her to read it and that she'll definitely put the book down when she reads that the program calls for a vegan diet. I can be really sure that her idea of a balanced meal includes some type of meat, even if it's in small amounts.

I hate to say it but I wonder sometimes if she really wants to get rid of her diabetes. She says she hates having it and wishes she didn't but she also uses it as a topic of discussion with everyone she talks to, no matter who it is. Even the stock boys at the grocery store. It is a way for her to get attention and I am just not sure she'd want to get rid of it, especially if it means going against every bit of nutritional knowledge she has, even if it's wrong.

And she doesn't cook anymore, doesn't even have the gas turned on to the stove and oven anymore. Everything is either eaten cold or microwaved. And Dad gets those little dinners-in-a-package things, I think by Hormel, that sit on a shelf and just get microwaved. And since he's been eating those types of things his blood pressure is a little on the high side. Mom takes medicine for high blood pressure, though I'm not sure how high hers is. They also eat out a lot! Like Applebees, though that's more of a once-a-month treat or so, and a couple of the restaurants in town and the next town over, which is at least home-cooked stuff, and Subway. Occasionally a pizza.

I can't see her going vegan but I do see her fighting even a vegetarian diet. I'm hoping to be able to help her along as I've been thinking of becoming vegetarian for years, for the most part. I don't eat that much meat but just wasn't totally sure what all to fix as a meal in order to make sure all the needed nutrition was there. I've been studying up some and getting some healthy cookbooks, especially Italian which I love. It seems as though beans is the good way to go, I just have to get used to making them. I do now have a pressure cooker so I won't have to soak and cook them for hours.

I wish I'd grown up seeing good cooking. By the time I really remember watching and helping Mom cook she was working so pretty much all meals started coming out of boxes and cans. And I also have worked nearly all my adult life so I didn't take much of an interest in cooking. I'm still trying to find the love of cooking. I do love to bake though.

Graduation is coming very quickly. Just a couple months away and I still haven't gotten Chris' senior pictures printed out or the announcements done. I will definitely have to take some of my days off and just concentrate on that! And I haven't found out any final details about the graduation party, as it is pretty well set that about 5 of the grads are going together for a combined graduation party. Another thing I need to get at. Graduation is on my shift's weekend to work and I would imagine I'll be back on the shift by then. There was talk of everyone just bringing one or two dishes, or roasters full, and it would be enough. I hope so because Chris already put his order in wanting my 3-bean salad. And I'd have to make a big roaster full.

Arrgg, it'll be here before I get it all done, I just know it!!!!

Ok, it's now after 9 and, of course, I'm not the least bit drowsy. Maybe if I get off the comp and watch tv or read maybe it'll hit. Otherwise....I wonder if I'll be excused if late. Probably be taken off from personal time.

Wish me luck with the first stage of my training! Please!

Have a great night, happy blog readers. I may pop in tomorrow night and let you know how Day 1 went. Thankfully, as I said earlier, after tomorrow I get two days off!