Rants, Recipes, and Running

I must say there are many good things I have to be happy about right now! I am in my psychiatric-mental health nursing rotation right now. I originally chose nursing as my major beause from the time I was like 12 I wanted to be a psych nurse. I love it so far. The clinicals are incredible. I am finding I am more organized and ahead of things in this class than I ever have been! Now, if I could be this motived with Critical Care and my Capstone this summer......:) Ryan and I got an entire day together yesterday!!!! This is rare. My spring break kind of sucked. He would leave at about 6 a.m., and not return until 8 p.m. The poor guy is spread too thin! So I cherish a day like yesterday! Which consisted of............. Spring Training baseball!!!!!! Diamondbacks vs. Oakland Atheletics. It was nearly a close-out. 10-1. We met his bosses wife at the game and she insisted we ditch our seats & sit in the seats in front of them that they had purchased . So we were FRONT ROW BEHIND HO...

Do you have a daily routine? Structure is such a great thing to have in life. In my opinion, if you have a basic structure to each day -- you'll get more accomplished. If you have a task scheduled in for your priorities of the day, it'll get done. However, if you just say "I'll get to it if I can...." -- chances are we'll find a way to * not get to it *. ;) I'm quite talented at this when it comes to studying some times..... However, I think I've found that my life has become a little TOO "routined". I have 2 types of "days" in my week. Days where I have clinical super early in the morning lasting all day, and days where I have night classes. So depending on my day, that sets up my routine for the day. I do everything the same on these days. Down to the HOUR. However, when a Saturday comes around that I'm "free" from my routine, I would get excited. I'd say, "Oh yay! Tomorrow I am free to do anything ...

1. Of your current hobbies, which would you choose to spend more time, money, and effort on? Why? Gardening. First off: I need soil. We have all rocks & sand in the backyard. I also need more patience. And I need to go ahead and just buy a load of "gardening materials". When we get a real house, I'm determined to have a garden! Why? Because I think it's therapeutic and accomplishing, and I love to cook and would like to can! Also, as a child I wanted to grow up to be a horticulturist (sp?) 2. List the two other hobbies/habitual activies (not chores) besides the one listed above that you regularly do now and didn’t choose in question one. -run -cook 3. Why are you spending time on the above two hobbies/habitual activies at all if you really wanted to spend your time on the first one you chose? …or to put it another way, what are these two hobbies/habitual activities fullfilling that the first one doesn’t if you don’t want to put all your effort into the fir...

Living in Tucson, we have the beautiful Sonoran Desert. It is the desert straddling the US-Mexico border. It is the only North American ecology that hosts Jaguars! With all the hiking we've done; and the adventures we have encountered -- Ryan and I have come across snakes, gila monsters, many lizards, a black bear, deer, wild turkeys.....but not yet a jaguar. Let's hope that never happens.... So we get a lonnng drought during the spring-fall that makes our desert go from this:..... To this: We get a monsoon season in the late summer that gives heavy rains daily. And then our second rain season comes in late January into February-March. This year we have gotten record-rainfall; which is amazing for our ecosystem here in AZ! This is obviously a different view (it's the mountains by where Ry & I live)....but as you can see the mountains are snow-topped from all the moisture! I absolutely adore hiking in weather like this. Yesterday morning it was a foggy day; with ...