anatomy of a school lunch

Haha… Anatomy…get it?? I have a test in my anatomy lab tomorrow afternoon and I have NO IDEA what to study… Seriously, we’ve done almost nothing so far and there isn’t a text (miraculously). I’ve been looking over what little we have done… (AND I’m currently watching Grey’s Anatomy–that’s like a TRIPLE pun for me!)

Check out the cute lunch box grandma sent me! She sent one for each of us girls, even before I signed up for school, so it was incredibly well timed. Thank you grandma!

It looks like a lot, and I typically don’t eat it all, but I like to over-pack so I have a snack on the way home if I need something. I eat lunch at either 11 or 12, then have a lab until 3:30, so it’s time for a snack by then, anyway.

An apple, half a sandwich (with natural peanut butter), veggies, homemade hummus, half a banana (the other half is currently mashed and mixed in the fridge with overnight oats), a piece of cheese and two Dove dark chocolates.

On school nights, I pack our lunches and prep my breakfast (which is usually overnight oats) so I don’t have to worry about it in the morning. I would lay out my clothes, too, if I could decide that far in advance…

I have a GIANT biology test first-thing tomorrow morning–wish me luck!

something i learned today…

I’m amazed at how much I’ve heard about things like glucose and carbohydrates already, and I’m not even in nutrition classes yet! I’m only two weeks into school and both my biology classes (one is a principles/cell genetics course and the other is human anatomy and physiology) are mentioning them all over the place!

Like, for instance, there are these things call “trisaccharides.” You’ve heard of monosaccharides and disaccharides before; they’re the simple sugars in things like fruit and milk. (Actually, it all starts with glucose, but I don’t feel like typing all my notes here…) Well, humans don’t have the enzyme required to digest trisaccharides, unlike mono- and disaccharides, which we DO have the “matching” enzymes for. What are trisaccharides, you ask? Things like BEANS, BROCCOLI, CABBAGE… THAT’S WHY YOU GET GAS!

HA! Never really understood why that happens…

Oh, another thing I learned: my next couple classes (Organic Chem, Statistics and Microbiology) are the hardest ones at ECC. Great. Just great.

hello, stranger

It’s been awhile.

Well, not really that long. What, a day or two?

Gosh, it feels like forever. I don’t like not having time to blog.

Unfortunately, I’m going to have to get used to it. Or not do my schoolwork. Or work on better time-management skills. Or all of the above. (Except for the not doing my schoolwork part.)

So, working on better time-management skills it is! I still want to do all the things (and more!) that I used to, like working out, blogging, writing, cooking, reading, having some sort of social life…not to mention fixing-up whatever fixer-upper of a house we decide to buy…

…AND I still HAVE to do all the things I HAD to do before, like walking the dog and laundry. And grocery shopping, but I LOVE grocery shopping. It’s therapeutic. So is cleaning.

I digress.

Bottom line: This girl is gonna be BUSY! I just keep telling myself that if Pioneer Woman can homeschool four children, feed her family and myriad other people made-from-scratch food, manage her enormous “blogging empire,” write two books and two cookbooks AND have some semblance of sanity left, then I can SURELY handle a husband, a dog, and school.

SURELY.

Say a prayer for me, folks!