I’m here still! Just majorly overwhelmed w/ being a student for the first time in 24 years. I became a student & started a blog in the very same week. Now I can’t keep up w/ myself. But I was looking for the light recently & remembered it was at the end of the tunnel. The first tunnel is at the end of May when I will be done w/ my first quarter of Culinary classes at Metro. I love it but I can’t wait to be done. I get overwhelmed really easy & ended up crying in an advisor’s office this week. Just a few days later & things are looking better so now I feel like a fool. Oh well, that’s the story of my life. Attempt something, get overwhelmed, over-react & look like a fool. At my age, it’s a scenario I’ve become quite familiar with. However, in the midst of all this drama this week, my mother is always there for a good laugh. Interject ‘My Mother’s Musings’ which may become a regular part of my blog, because ya know how they say “Kids say the darndest things”? Well those kids got nothin’ on my mother.
So anyway in the middle of this crazy week, I decided I wanted to drop a class & not take any more classes until I was able to take a study skills class and learn “how” to go school & “how” to study first. My Mom’s always right there to back me up. So here’s the convo:
Frustrated me: “I’m dropping that class & not taking any classes this summer!”
My Mother: “Ya Vicki, I don’t know why you just don’t do something with animals instead. You love animals”
My thoughts: Are you kidding me? You want me to quit this, start something else, so I can quit that? And other than my own dogs, what animals do I love? I learned years ago while working at doggie daycare that I don’t love ALL dogs. And that’s why I gave up the idea of opening my own doggie care. So check that one off the list, I have already started that & quit.
Confused me: “Well I love music, so maybe I should do something in the music field.”
My Mother: “Ohhh Vicki, you don’t even play an instrument”
My thoughts: I don’t. But what about a few years ago when I wrote my own song & sang it to her? I thought it was pretty good. I even got the courage up to sing it on stage. Oh ya, that’s right. My Mother said: Why can’t you sing something like “You light up my life?” by Debbie Boone? Are you kidding me? She wasn’t kidding.
Me: “You don’t have to play an instrument to work in the music field, Mother”
My Mother starts to say something but then stops herself. (She’s famous for this)
I ask: “What?”
My Mother: “Nothing. Just forget it”
Me: “No, what were you going to say?”
My Mother: “Well, it’s just every time I try to talk to you about American Idol you don’t seem interested”
I’m not!! What can you say to that? How can I argue that point when I am clearly the only person on the face of the earth w/ a working television that DOESN”T watch that show & LOVE IT!! But that’s okay. I’m used to being the odd man out. Maybe that’s why Fletch is hiding in his office every Tuesday & Wednesday? And yes, I know these are the days it’s on because every week my Mother informs me “American Idol is on tonight!”
I do give my 75 year old Mother a hard time about her eating habits. Cracker Barrel, Applebee’s, Keno….the gravy list goes on. But I’ve never heard of someone getting in trouble for preferring a healthy diet. Every Wednesday in my 8 hour Culinary Foundations class, we make a bunch of food & eat it. One week the lesson was frying. Fried Chicken, French fries, fried okra, fried, fried, fried. I thought I was gonna die. The week we learned about poaching & made 2 different kinds of Salmon was my kind of week. But this last week, the lesson was Braising & Stewing and we made a Beef Bourguignon Pot Pie with lots of bacon, veal stock & a whole bottle of red wine. It was good for about 2 bites, but it was so rich I could feel my arteries clogging. As with every week, my Mother asks how it was. I told her it was good, but it was too rich for me.
My Mother: “Well Vicki, a lot people like that kind of food! Not everyone wants to eat healthy!”
Confused Me: Speechless!(I know! This doesn’t happen very often) I just got condemned basically for wanting to prolong my life? Huh?
In case you stumble on to this my dear Mother, please know that even with all of our differences I do still love you! So don't attack me with that Italian temper of yours. This is just my funny way of looking at it & laughing. It's all in good fun!
Well I wanted to update you all on something since Fletch pointed out last night that I was slacking on my blogging & said I was going to lose my audience. Do I even have an audience? This blog stuff is all new to me. I’ve still been going to shows, I just haven’t had time to chat about it. I will try & post a quick catch-up of some of those shows. Plus summer is coming with all its wonderful festivals, Jazz on the Green, the Taco Ride & the great shows at Stir Cove!
