School is my excuse....Happy Pre Thanksgiving Race!!!

It has been a while but school and work are to blame. Today we have a pre Thanksgiving race. And we will also have a pre Thanksgiving dinner for the racers and this is my first time using the convection oven and I am cooking a sweet potato casserole. So this is an adventure for me today.  I have a few more weeks to go in school January will be here very soon and I will be going to clinicals in the hospital setting. For anybody thinking about going into respiratory therapy do not take that decision lightly this is very hard. Not everybody that signed up and started this program will be going to clinicals. I hope we don't lose any more people especially myself. So I bring my books with me to the track and I study in between rounds. This weekend I'm going to focus on making my flash card so that I can quiz myself and my husband can help with me as well. I guess that's it but I'm going to attach a picture of my convection oven cooking casserole covered in Reynolds Wrap but you get the idea.

Sorry its been a while, School started back......

school has started back.....full swing in Respiratory school and I am working on becoming SCUBA certified as well. During the summer Phlebotomy clinicals were at the VA hospital and went by very quickly. I still have yet to take my test, the program head for some reason doesn't put the students first and has been dragging her feet as far as making sure we have our letters needed to take the test.

We are at the track this weekend for a Raiders Race and I have set up a nice little area for the vacation station. So in between racing i have been studying so many tests and hands on testing for these classes. I like it. Hubby has been doing really well in racing, hopefully he will take home a championship this year :)

Too hot....

It has been so hot lately, that I haven't taken my camera or my video camera to document the events that have happened at the racetrack. I have been in two ladies challenge since the first one semi final and 1 and running up in another.
The days when it's beautiful enough for the guys to race has been ridiculously hot. its not comfortable for anybody even with the fan going it just makes for a miserable day. Seems like from that you get up in the morning you're like a robot just walking around and doing what you're supposed to do to get day done to make sure that my husband drives as safe as accurate as possible.
This coming weekend is my birthday and it marks in age from me that is all most difficult for me to accept.
I have thought about it and decided that I need to get my butt in gear and start eating correctly from my health if I haven't ruined it already. So my husband and I have been walking every other day at least two miles or more. we have been choosing the right things to eat and so far he has lost 10 pounds and I've lost 6 & a half. We both have many more to lose but instead of just losing weight we are going to start building muscle gaining endurance and getting healthy at the same time. This was a challenge this weekend in the RV. we had to make sure that when we took food it wasn't just your normal slap on the grill and hurry up and eat it and go food.
I took cut peppers and fruit for when I was feeling snacky. he mixed up a big huge bowl of tuna fish.
And for our first night of dinner we had a recipe cold Chipotle bacon chicken. which I was able to make in the crock pot. I got the recipe of a website called paleopot.com. I have eliminated grain pasta flower rice and processed food from our diet. so its not that easy when you go to the drag strip and the concession stand has nothing but processed fried and marinated in whatever they can find food.
   My ultimate goal is to be healthy and feel beautiful and feel comfortable in comfortable clothes and not has to worry about what blubber is showing beneath the clothes when I walk when we go to Punta Cana Dominican Republic next year. we have saved up for a number of years a little bit each month and we finally got enough or we can go pamper ourselves on the beautiful white sand beaches of Punta Cana. we have been there before so we already know we love it. More on that later.
hubby made it down to six cars yesterday and as we were packing up to leave it started to rain. and it brought in some wonderful cool air. so on the way home we open the windows in the RV and it felt beautiful.

Another great weekend at the track, but this weekend ...I'M racing!

Usually when we go to the track my husband is the racer, but this weekend, it's my turn to play.....
I will race my car. It's all stock - a 2012 Chevy Cruze.

My best friend said she would come out and take pics of me while going down the track. I will post those  this weekend.
We plan on taking the RV and my fur babies :)
This weaken end will be pretty relaxed only one day in the vacation station. The previous weekend we learned a valuable lesson....well a couple.
1. Dump the gray water before you go
2. Turn off the power to the chassis when you have the generator running so it preserves the starting power and charges the accessory batteries.

We found ourselves with an RV that wouldn't start b/c we left the chassis power on. Luckily we have some great people who race with us that are keen on the workings of RV/motorhomes :)
Here are some pics of the race cars....

The top one is Hubby's Dragster - Yes that's me just driving it around :)

This is my car I will be racing this weekend.

I have 3 weeks before I start gearing up for my clinicals in phlebotomy.....Then i will probably start a new job. I have a lot of things going on this summer :) So getting our and enjoying the RV is a priority. 

At the track in the Vacation Station!

Its empty now but in a few hours this place will be crawling with alcohol fueled cars and hungry competotors, waiting for their chance at the 1320.
It is a brisk day i would estimate the temp to be about 40 the expected high today is 56-60 so it will be nice and cool and clear blue skies.
My husband went a few rounds yesterday. Hopefully today will be better. He's driving someone else's car and not his own as he is experiencing motor problems. But it should be back together pretty soon we hope. The vacation station is operating at peak performance. I just finished cleaning up from scrambled eggs and sausages that were made by my husband.
Yesterday was a hard day for the dogs I had to leave the track and take them to go to the vet they had their yearly physicals and had to get blood drawn and my little girl Yorkshire terrier Dolly had to have a shot. So she's pretty stiff this morning. Just to be clear we are at Richmond Dragway www
Richmonddragway.com for the Collision1- 10 K Grand Slam.