As I've said before, every day/night before a shift at work I say a prayer mostly for a peaceful and thorough mind (the days/nights can be crazy insane) and to do God's work. But I also, sometimes, sneak in a little request for a quiet day or night if I'm feeling a little low on energy. Sometimes those prayers go unanswered but fortunately not tonight. Tonight I am almost too bored. I actually have a break for like two hours with no meds, no nothing!(plenty of time to blog and watch a show online) and I'm hiding out at a computer at the end of the hall to avoid being roped in to doing something else. I know that is a bad teamwork attitude, but sometimes you just gotta do it. Tonight I have about as much energy as one might after running a marathon and I'm feeling crappy. Alex has been sick and puked twice when I was trying to put her down for a nap, so needless to say, I am without a nappy today as well. Did I mention cleaning up puke is not a fun job (as you may know from your own experiences). Ok, enough about throw up. Gross.
I don't really have much to blog about, just the usual rambling. So hang in there it might get boring or incoherent since I'm very sleepy :) The pic above was a pic I found when I googled "night shift" images. Hmmmm....I don't get it, but it's still cute.
I get to start the weekend plan at work in two weeks! I'm stoked! This plan allows me to go to part-time and still make more than full-time money. Some people might think it's insane to work only weekends, but it works great for the fam and I. We get to spend all week nights together, I get to explore my cooking creativity, I have more time with the girl (she will be out of daycare), I get to be non-stressed more days of the week, Tim and I can still have dates--they just have to be during the week instead of weekend, Al and I can visit fam and have fam visit us during the week (as I will have 5 days off a week!), weekends are usually a bit more calm than week days on my unit and a whole bunch of other reasons. I can not wait! Three cheers!
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On a completely different note I am trying out a vegetarian diet. So far I'm loving it. Of course it's only been about a week but I do not miss meat at all, and I thought I would be craving it like crazy. In fact, after reading and hearing some disgusting stories it is losing it's appeal for me all together. I have not sworn off fish or eggs---yet. Haven't heard enough gross stuff about them---yet. Well, eggs go with chicken, but I still feel ok about eating them every now and then and if they are in things (like bready things, well, lets just say I'll never be vegan). I do love an egg mcmuffin and I'm hoping they will be just as delicious without the ham. Tim, at first, thought I was just buying into the trend, and I guess in a way I did. But with all the info out there about meat and the processes that happen to get that meat on our plates, you can't help but think the trend might not be such a bad idea, much like trying to be more green. I'm not saying I won't eat a filet mingnon (that my pops grills up--thought honestly it doesn't even sound appealing anymore) but I am saying, I am giving it up 99.9% of the time and hopefully 100% eventually--and if I do eat it I will want to know where it came from and what it's injected with. Anyone interested, I have found (thanks to ideas from pals Em and JIll) that MOrning Star has some amazing products that are soy/veggie based that I could swear are still meat and are actually WAy better. Alex doesn't even know the difference in her chick'n nuggets, and infact eats more of the non-chicken nuggets (and believe it or not, they are not that expensive!). I am, of course, not making her a vegetarian but I am being more aware of the meats she does eat, how it's raised, and where it comes from. I didn't realize how easy it actually is to stop eating meat. While the natural meats I buy the girl are more expensive I am able to cut costs elsewhere in my grocery shopping to make up for it. I also discovered I like beans. I thought I hated them, assumed, rather...but I don't. I enjoy them. Still a little weary with first bite, but then they are not so bad...
Another plus is that cutting out meat has made giving up fast food so much easier. Its just not even a want anymore! Amazing! Now, if only I could find
something inhame and disgusting about the way sugar was raised...The strange pic is a recurring type of photo I found when I googled "vegetarian" images. Yuck! I get that we are all culturally unique, but this, my friends, is a little---a LOT---over the top and just plain unnecessary and I'm not sure how it's "vegetarian".
Well, I think I've bored you all enough. Maybe I'll think of something really exciting to post in a few minutes from now. I wouldn't hold your breathe, though. However, I suppose by the time you read this I'll be in bed...unless of course you wild party animals come home and run to my blog after a wild night out at the bars...looking for some good night wisdom...well then, I guess I won't be sleeping in that case...but you are sure to be disappointed to find it's mere ramble ramble blahs.
Good night---here's to hoping for more inspirational or at least more funny blogs in the future.
Good night---here's to hoping for more inspirational or at least more funny blogs in the future.
3 comments:
Kudos to you for attempting to be vegetarian. Ever since working at Whole Foods, we are strict about buying natural meats (no hormones, free range, etc.), but haven't ever made the move to being vegetarian. With eggs we ALWAYS ONLY buy free-range. If you've ever seen the conditions for chickens raised in more conventional ways, it's appalling.
Hmm, what else was I going to comment on? ...
Your new schedule sounds great!
Sorry to hear Alex is sick, I hope she's feeling better soon.
Refined sugar IS awful. Do a Google search on something like "cons of sugar" and you'll be amazed at HOW bad it is for just about every part of us. Hormones, skin, organs, aging, and on and on. There is an all natural sugar-substitute called Stevia (can buy at Whole Foods for sure) that actually promotes healthy teeth, and is something like ten times sweeter than sugar---you should look into it.
Your post was not boring to read, by the way!
Good luck with the veggie lifestyle. Why not go to a RAW foods diet? I knew someone who did that once and got rid of their stove. Too funny. It did not last though. I have a cook book on RAW. :) I would never go veggie or RAW. Its all personal choice, I guess. Make sure you get lots of protein. We do buy horomone free milk and meat though. I will spend a lot for that. It is worth it. Especially with my endo. I don't want M or me having extra horomones.
It was so cute talking to Alex the other day. She speaks so cute. We will love being with her more through the week. I think working weekends and making twice the money sounds great! I am so proud of you with your nursing career and how hard you work. Picking up puke is no fun. Too bad hospitals don't have those little Sick Bear bowls for the kids. M loves hers. If you got to pike all the time you may as well have a cute bowl to look at. Those poor kids. I pray for you to have strength. I am sure it is very emotional and draining.
I hope your weekend goes well.
Oh, good luck with the weekly meal cooking. I just hate to cook. I try and I hate it. We go out to eat a lot still. Maybe being home all the fricking time is part of the problem for us. I do love crack pot cooking though.
Miss you and love you!
i'll have to check out that stevia thing, brookie. i think i remeber hearing about that once. i did not really think about buying free range eggs. good thinking. i know, i use to think i'd never give up chicken but really it is what is most appalling to me...and to think that europe has mostly banned our meats and things because of the way we treat/raise/kill the animals. sick.
marla, i could never go raw. no way. at least i don't think i could anyway. and i can't give up fish yet, though i've heard some very unpleasant things about certain kinds and very strange things being raised as certain kinds of fish...but really aren't? i dunno. nasty. those puke bear bowls sound cute. we should have those on this floor. but we'd go through too many of them, prob not cost effective. sometimes it's too nasty to wash out and you just throw the puke tubs away. anyway, gross subject. thanks for the comments and the good wishes with work. i need them. some days i think i've lost my mind and can't possibly do it again the next day...but i do, and it's usually not so bad.
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