Rants, Recipes, and Running

Tomorrow we are headed for our first camping trip together! This shall be the first of many. We've been looking forward to this for a long time! Well, a few months. But that's a long time in our life -- which how crazy things have been! We hit the road tomorrow, are stopping at a hotel 3/4 of the way. Then Friday morning we will be heading to our campsite to get our lines in the water, tent set up ASAP! This will be a short little vacation (just Thursday-Sunday). But it will be well worth it. Here is a photo I found online of the area we will be. It's called the White Mountains! More details to come in my "recap post" after this fantastic weekend! Ahh..just looking at it calms my soul! Tomorrow, I take my final test in Critical Care. Talk about a fast 8 weeks. Seems like I was just stressing out about this class.... Hopefully my next 8 weeks can go this fast! It will be busy. I will have my practium clinicals, Capstone project, and a Nursing leadership class...

Greetings! Being this allergy season (here in Tucson, anyways) has been especially "present" this summer...one of my most frequent "Google searches" has been allergies. I have spent more money on varieties of eye drops this month than I have in my entire LIFE. So I figured I do a little post on managing allergies! I did some reserach, and I found some "dietary" changes we can make to help this. And I threw in a few other tips. Some of this may be "no-brainers" to you guys....but here it is anyways ;) Been outside much today? Rinse off in the shower and wash that hair! Your hair is just a nest for all those nasty pollens and allergens! Drink, drink, drink fluids to flush as much crap through your system possible! Apparently, historically, the "Crete" Mediterranean islanders had less allergies. They found a link to their Mediterranean diet high in grapes, healthy fats, nuts, olives, tomatoes, and apples protected them against all...

So this is a little late in terms of the Holiday, but I'm not the world's greatest blogger. ;) But, this is my ode to my hero - My Dad! You can also check out a very touching and true Ode to him on my sister's blog! (in bullet points..of course) On the worst day possible, when I feel like the entire world is on my shoulders - my Dad has the ability to say just the right thing to make me realize "Maybe things are that bad" How does he do this? -- With words of kindness, with just a good warming hug, with a simple hand on my shoulder, just his strong words say "Everything will be alright, Abber" I bet my Dad gets his work done in much more PEACE and quiet now that I don't live at home: Growing up, I would always find my dad buried in the shop, up at the office, out in the back yard working And I would talk, and talk, and talk, and talk. Probably until his ears bled. He never told me to go away, go inside, or be quiet. His patience ins...