Rants, Recipes, and Running

My sister Lisa posted this on her blog, and I love doing these things. Especially when I am extradinary distracted from studying! :) 1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT? Giant lacerated scars on both knees. A few summers ago, I was staying with my sister Lisa and decided to go for a job around Bloomington, MN. Coming downhill (quite fast), I completely tripped foot-over-foot and went straight into the ground face first. I still have a slight scar on the side of my eye (when I get really tan), and giant keloid scars on my knees. So lovely... 2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? Nothing as of it, and it was very sad and echoy! However, we have some frames and shelves we would like to put up soon! 3. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP? Do I ever talk in my sleep!Poor Ryan has a rough future of "pleasant sleeping" cut out for him. I talk, laugh hysterically, and laugh some more in my sleep. Realllly creepy. 4. WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? I love v...

The wedding in approaching us so quickly, and finding focus on anything else that is not wedding related has been a real challenge! This week is a big one. In fact, there are about 300 things I should be doing right now other than writing a blog. I have an Operating Room clinical Tuesday, Exam on Wednesday, a 4 hour lab simulation Thursday, 3 hour lecture, and then I leave at 6:30 am Friday to go home for the big day!!! However, I cannot help but reflect on the past year, and all the astonishing, new, blunt, and peculiar, and sometime wise nuptial advice Ryan and I have received. Maybe some of you will find these good pieces of advice? Some may laugh. Some may cry. I often walked away feeling very confused. For in my experience, when someone has told me that they are engaged to be married--my response has always been a positive one saying something like "Wow! Congratulations for you guys! When is the big day? What wonderful news you have!!!" Instead...here is some of the ...

Wow, does this sound familiar?!?! Indeed it does. I think I need to change my blog to a theme along the lines of "Young, upcoming,destructive wife becoming domesticated". Any ideas for a title page, guys?! Ryan is having a very stressful week. He has had annual training for the Air national Guard for the past week, so missed out on work at Raytheon for a week. He returned to Raytheon today...and was swamped with work! On top of that....he has found out a pilot spot is opening with the guard. Therefore he is doing last minute hard-core cramming for the "Air Force Officer Qualifying Test". Plus he leaves 1 week and 2 days to go home for our wedding....... So I decided tonight I would greet him home with a delicious home-cooked meal. I made my own recipe of oregano-herb grilled chicken on tomato-herb rice....very delicious. :) So the rice is slow cooking/simmering on the stove, smelling marvelous. Ryan is in the living room studying for his test. I go outside, turn on ...

Let me tell you something. Mostly every kitchen built in the past 10 years has this "great thing" in which we call the Garbage Disposal . Very convenient and exciting. We can put our food we don't want, don't eat, don't need and completely grind it to nothingness. How great. This is something I have taken for granted. Because LET ME TELL YOU....it does NOT grind just ANYTHING So let's give some background information. First of all, whenever BAD THINGS HAPPEN...Ryan just happens to be at work or school or something else. On top of that..my future mother-in-law in visiting for the week.... Now I am to be married to Ryan in 3 weeks. His mom has come to visit for the week, and I have tried and worked so very hard to impress his family. I have so badly wanted them to see me as the domesticated wife that will be an excellent woman for their son. That is all I ever wanted....However.... My garbage disposal decided to act up. And I have learned mt lesson. ...

As the wedding is approaching, Ryan and I have began making it a weekly tradition to practice our wedding vows. You know, the traditional "For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health until death parts us"...... So these words are often on my mind lately as I prepare for 08/08/09! Well....... In concurrence with our wedding plans, nursing school, Ryan's finishing of the semester....we have been in the process of a move. We have officially moved into our home, painted, set up a swimming pool, and deck-building is almost finished. This week the lease of the apartment ends. So I offered to clean the apartment since Ryan has finals all week. Today I had to finish up with the carpet cleaning, a job that should've been simple and painless. However..this "painless job" turned into a fearful, anxiety-raising, dreadful experience...... First, let's go back in time to the day we were moving and packing up the U-Haul. There was a tote fill...

So it's 11:00 pm, about an hour past my usual bedtime. Because I am up right now, I really should be studying the drugs effecting the autonomic nervous system, or working a write-up on my patient from clinicals....but I'm taking a break because I have finally been inspired to jot down some thoughts into the blog. Tomorrow, we get the key for Ryan and I to move into our first house. Tonight I returned home from class, got some quick food in our bellies, and packed up the last boxes for the big move. As this was going on...it really hit me that I have been here for almost a year. I tried to return myself to the shoes I was in about 11 months ago and was truly in awe of how much I have grown........so a walk down memory lane........................ Last year at this time, I was packing up to move to Tucson, AZ. I was battling pneumonia and was more sick than I had ever been in my life I think. I remember during that time pretending that I was 100% prepared and fully aware of what ...

On Friday, February 27, 2009 I turned 21. I also finished my first semester of nursing school. And I also was blessed with the most amazing surprises I could ever imagine. My 21st birthday was the best one I have ever had, and even ranks up there with one of the best days of my life so far! Just because it was perfect. :) My day began with the best breakfast ever--Honey Bunches of Oats with bananas, and a BIG, strong cup of coffee. It doesn't get better than that in my terms of breakfast :) I was then off to school for my Final exam for Nursing Assessment, where I had to do a full body assessment on a classmate. I was shooken up with nerves being my week was needless to say...crazy. However, it went really well--as I entered the test with an odd feeling of calm. Success! After my test, I headed home and was expecting to come home to an empty house. However, I was surprised as I walked in the door and Ryan had skipped his classes, stayed home and cleaned the house, baked a cake, and...