Middle of the Madness

Yep, I'm at that point…the halfway point of the semester, the 3/4 mark of the first year, the point where everyone is slowing down and stressing even more.  To be honest, I'm not too stressed.  I feel good about how I'm doing in college and what's going on outside of college.  To mark the middle of the semester, we get a week long break called Reading Week.  Yeah, as if I'm going to spend it reading.  It's college common sense that it exists because people get too stressed at this time of year so it's to help with the jitters of college life.
Two days ago was Valentine's Day and I spent it back home with my most favourite person and boyfriend, Teagan.  He got me a bouquet of Gerber daisies and chocolates.  I like daisies, they're much nicer and not as cliche' as roses.  He also wrote me a letter.  He's wrote me many letters and I absolutely love each and every one of them.  He took me to the Star restaurant (the fanciest one in our little town) and we had a four course feast that consisted of pesto bread with olives and cheese, a wedge salad, Rosemary chicken and dark chocolate mousse.  After supper the waitress gave us some champagne and a carnation to me.  It was so nice.  Afterwards, we went for some drinks and spent the rest of the night playing pool with our friends.
As for the rest of the week, I'm spending it snuggled up watching the Winter Olympics and maybe baking a red velvet cake…who knows.

Don't Try These at Home

So there I was, at noon today, sitting cross-legged in front of my fridge and trying to decide what to eat.  My selection was limited (as it always was) and I wanted to cook up something that was creative and delicious.  I had boughten some Pillsbury crescent rolls the other day and I decided that I would use those and stuff them with something else from my fridge.  Looking through my shelves, I figured pre-cooked chicken, Swiss cheese and orange peppers was my best bet.  Feeling like a cooking mastermind genius, I set to work making my creation (Please note: my cooking skills are VERY average at best).  I wrapped the crescent rolls up with my fillings and put them in the oven.  I made two with peppers, chicken and Swiss and two others with just chicken and Swiss.  I was getting pretty hungry by this point since my lunches normally only take about 10 minutes to make.  I looked in the oven and my crescents looked delicious with oozy Swiss cheese peeking out of the folds.  When the timer rang, I quickly pulled my crescents out of the oven.  
They smelled good.  
They looked good.  
There was no reason for them not to be good.  Until I tasted them.  They did not taste good at all!  The first one that I tried had the peppers in it and I thought 'Well, maybe it's only the peppers making them taste bad' hoping my cooking wasn't such a failure.  I tried the other one.  Still gross.  Dismayed, I put them down and threw them in the garbage, watching my attempt at a good meal go down the drain.  So, if you ever feel like chicken and cheese in crescent rolls will taste good, you are sadly mistaken.  
Needless to say, my lunch in the end consisted of a yogurt, the two crescent rolls I had made without any filling whatsoever and a glass of milk. 

Goodbye Break

Yes, my break is over and I already have homework I could be doing.  If the rest of the semester goes anything like my first day did, I think it'll be a good one.  My anatomy class just continued into this semester so nothing was new on that front.
Kinesiology is going to be interesting, that's for sure.  It's kind of weird because there's book and movie reviews to do.  I thought that class was all about fitness…?  The prof seems like a really deep thinker but he couldn't be teaching a course that was less deep than this one.  The lab for kinesiology is working out.  I'm with my good friend, Kayla, in it and I can only picture us just laughing at each other's feeble attempts to work out. :)  It'll be some sort of a gong show.
Micro-biology seems pretty intense.  My prof for that class insists on being called 'Peggy' even though her first name is Margaret and her middle name isn't Peggy…okay then Peggy.  She speaks at the speed of light so I'm sure her lectures are going to be a big panic.  But other than that, she seems nice.

P.S. - I feel like my posts end really abruptly.  Is a goodbye necessary?  Should I end it with a sentence that has an inspirational quote relating to what I talked about?  Is that what people do on blogs?  Probably won't do it anyway.


Bye, I guess. :P

Back to the Grind

So today marks the day before my second semester of nursing begins.  It's going to be chaotic and busy and probably full of reports I'm going to put off until the day before but I'm looking forward to it.  It'll be nice to see everyone again and I'm hoping we can all go for wings on Wednesday since that has yet to happen this year!  I start the day at 9AM tomorrow.  That's one hour later than last semester which is fine because it just means more Zzz's for me!

Top Notch Christmas Gift

I just want to talk about the Christmas gift I got from my Aunt for a moment.  I think it is my favorite one I received this year.  My Aunt and I went to the new Alice in Wonderland movie with Johnny Depp in it when it was in theaters together.  We had the best time and we both loved the movie.  So, she got me the original Alice in Wonderland storybook and a scarf that had excerpts from the book on it.  I just completely love this gift.  I'm a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland.  If you took a look at my past two Halloween costumes, you would understand!  Last year I was the Madhatter (the Johnny Depp version of course because it's just so much more crazy) and this year I was Alice (a creepy sugar skull version of her but Alice nonetheless).  Oh and I just love the Madhatter's rambling nonsense. 

'Why is a raven like a writing desk?'

'Why, sometimes, I've believed at least six impossible things before breakfast!'

Yup, this gift was just my cup of tea.  Or at least, that's how the Hatter would put it! ;) 

Seeing the World

Isn't it crazy, how in our one existence, we only see small snippets of the world?  Sure, we can go places and see things…but different things happen in those places at different times all the time and there's just so many places in this big world of ours.  No one can truly see the world.  You can go to each and every country on this Earth if you wanted to but I think the world is more than just locations.  It's words, traditions, people, food, 'remember-that-time-when' moments, smiles….everything that makes each and every place and moment unique.  For me, I want to see as much of those things as possible and to do that I can't just go on a trip and rapidly try to fit in as many locations as possible.  I have to stay a little longer in one place and just live in the moment and enjoy the now.  I need to have conversations with people, experience things and just live.  It's much simpler than it seems.  People who are always on the go never truly enjoy where they've been or what they're doing.  Those people may have been more places, but have not seen a lot of world.  It's a much better idea to go to one place and truly experience what the place has to offer instead of going many places and maybe only experiencing one thing at each place.  

And in the end, life isn't about where you've been or what you have.  It's about the experiences that you've had and what you've learned from those experiences.  

So, seriously, stop to smell the roses. 

Shrimp!

So, I pinned this awhile ago on Pinterest and I loved this recipe!  It's so easy and so good!  I love anything shrimp.  I haven't met a shrimp dish that I don't like.  This is really simple and quick to make.  I can make this in the amount of time I have between classes for lunch (which is usually only an hour!).  Pre-cooked shrimp probably wouldn't work for this though so I wouldn't recommend using those.  

Melt a stick of butter in the pan.
Slice one lemon and layer it on top of the butter.
Put down fresh shrimp, then sprinkle one pack of dried Italian seasoning.
Put in the oven and bake at 350 for 15 min.

And you're done!