If I could go back in time I’d probably change a few things,
like eat healthier, exercise more and take my catering course twenty years ago,
when I was young, healthy and spry. Unfortunately for me Doc from Back To The
Future is not going to be pulling up to my house in a DeLorian to take me back
to 1988 so I guess I just have to deal with taking courses in this decade.
Lately I seem to be taking more and more time to get through
each page of my text books. I’m constantly putting things off just so I can get
some rest. There are times when I know I should be studying, yet I’m sitting on
my tushie watching TV instead. I just can’t seem to get motivated.
I love cooking, and I’ve been making sauces like crazy. In
fact I made some sausage and gravy with biscuits yesterday from scratch and
that gravy came out so darn good I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t follow a
recipe, I just remembered the things I’ve learned so far pertaining to sauces.
I started off with a roux, and then slowly added some heavy
cream, then some whole milk and black pepper. I let it get thick then added the
browned sausage and let that cook for about ten minutes. The next thing I knew
I was serving up a plate of my husband’s favorite breakfast.
The cooking for me isn’t the problem, I can get in that
kitchen and go to town, but the learning has been a difficult road for me to
follow lately. I watch my husband diligently studying every night and I wish I
could have that kind of willpower, but I don’t. As he sits up until 1am, I’m lying in bed with the dogs watching
Lifetime (I love me some Army Wives). If I could have just one fourth of his determination,
I’d have been finished with this course by now, but next month it will be a
year that I’ve been working in this and I’m so ashamed of myself. I thought I’d
be a caterer by now, but I didn’t stop to think about illnesses, stress,
holidays, birthdays, or plain old laziness and how they would hinder my
education.
What do you do when you just feel too blah to study?