Rants, Recipes, and Running

As many of you know, I am in a "loll" right now. Done with school, impatiently waiting to take my boards and start working. I got a test date for September 21, but that just wasn't early enough. So I started narotically checking the website and was able to reschedule: September 15 (Wednesday) is the big day ! This is a very very good thing. For, I am going........... Bananas!!!!! Stir crazy!!! I'm going LOCA. Tom Cruise style. I'm kind of used to being busy. Have clinicals, class, labs, more clinicals, clinical prep-work, silly meetings, more silly labs, 5 hour-lectures, papers to write, studying to do. Right now.....my responsibility is to study for NCLEX, search for jobs online, and studying NCLEX some more. Let me just tell you -- I know when a new job is posted at every hopsital in town. And I am well aware of the mottos and policies of every nursing home in Tucson. Today, I tried cleaning the house - and it was really easy. Then I realized......

The time has come. You know when you've been really good? You've been exercising, eating good portions, getting your 6 servings of vegetables.........and then the opportunity to go out for ice cream comes about. You do it. You deserve it. No guilt here! Well, I'm not giving you cyber-servings of mint-choco-ice-cream, folks. I'm giving you a rant . I know . So not as cool and exciting as ice cream. I try to ration my "rants". All because I don't want the world of blogging to think, "Wow, this girl is one raging b*tch!". I just like to see the world from a different angle sometimes. What's that angle? Fricking sarcastic and cynical, and sometimes irritated. So....brace yourselves - here it goes! *Disclaimer, this is just for fun! * What is my rant-o-choice this time? Yep. That's right. Grocery carts. You're all probably thinking, Why do grocery carts make this girl angry. Wow. She really is a "raging B*tch". No...

Alright, so for the past 5-6 months I have been doing the "monthly update" at the beginning of the month. I stole the format from my sister Lisa. She has gone and started her own format. Instead of being completely un-creative...and stealing her idea (again)...... I'm going to switch up the categories! Well, some of them . So here we go..... Current Book: -The HURST NCLEX Review Book, ATI NCLEX review books, basically anything that is going to prepare my frightened & scared self for the state boards test...... (which I will be taking probably next week!) -"Sh*t My Dad Says". I will be doing a little book review on this on a later date! Current Food items: (because I have some odd eating habits...this deserve a category) -Whole wheat english-muffin with Smart-Balance butter, Splenda, & cinnamon sprinkled on. It's my pre-run fuel! -Sauerkraut. -Watermelon (it's been on sale like crazy. I feel like I've been eating so much of this tha...

In most aspects of my life, I'm quite the little scheduler/planner. In fact, sometimes I feel like my brain is a constantly buzzing calendar. But many of our trips, get-aways are quite last minute. So we had one of those this weekend. We started talking Monday evening that it would be nice to do a camping trip this weekend ...... but found that the only open campsites in the area are "first come first serve" I'm not much of a "risk taker" -- and I wasn't too keen on the idea of packing up for 4 days, getting to a campground, and finding out there was no room for us! But, Thursday afternoon I made some calls around and decided it was "do-able". So I stocked up on some groceries and we packed our bags. Friday morning we were on the road to Lake Patagonia by 8:15 am! Our sweet little Honda Civic Hybrid was stuffed to the brim! Lake Patagonia is near the Mexican border. It's about 10 degrees cooler than Tucson, due to it's elevat...