Rants, Recipes, and Running

In the next few weeks we're heading on a mini-vacation. Because of that - I decided it was time to treat myself to a little retail therapy. I used to love shopping. I could've done it for an entire day. Yesterday, it was overwhelming & almost stressful. For the following reasons: I am so out-of-touch with the "fashion world". I don't even know what is "hip" or "in" these days. My time is most spent with a 24 year old male (my husband). When I'm not with him, my time is spent with predominantly geriatric clients on a cardiac floor. I wear "Galaxy Blue" scrubs to work every day. My method of "spicing" up my outfit is to wear fun styles of socks with my scrubs. (My favorite is my orange argyle plaid socks) Malls are irritating. Period. That's a blog in itself. My favorite outfit to wear is running shorts and a race-back tank paired with a nice pair of Mizunos. While some people refer to media such as mag...

We are on the house hunt....again. We have been in this "limbo" for about 1.5 years now searching for the right home. We get aggressive for a while..... Then we get frustrated & take a few months off. We even started building a house a year ago. But the builders screwed that one up. (PS...that house is still on the market! In fact...every house in that development is on the market. Yep. I sure am glad we went with our guts and got out of that money trap!) May I also say that I feel like I know every home for sale in the Oro Valley area? Which there's a lot . Like...hundreds. I also feel like I can know within the first 5 seconds of standing in a home whether it's a foreclosure or not. The indicator? Weird paint colors. Seriously! It seems all the foreclosures we look at have "multi-colored walls". It's like people turn their home into a rainbow when they get that letter from the bank...... In 2 weeks, we have looked at 26 homes. The ...