Book club or dork club??

This weekend I had a first.  I went to a meeting of a book club or as my sweet hubby called it "dork club".  I was very excited to go, as I left my brother, husband and 2 best friends sitting on the couch watching football to go on a Saturday afternoon.  Excitement?? dedication??  I think so!


This is the book we were discussing.  If you haven't read it, I absolutely recommend it, regardless of your beliefs. I have really changed my outlook on life and death since reading this book.  Discussion on this book is a blog post itself which I will save for another day because I am here to talk about book club.

My sweet friend K was kind enough to invite to join book club and I am very grateful.  There were 8 other ladies.  I only knew K and one of her friends.  I thought not knowing everyone might keep me from participating in the book discussion, but those of you who know me..........well, we all know that would never happen.  Shy??  Who's shy??  Not me!  It was so interesting to hear different points of view and the different expectations everyone before reading the book.  I think most of all I enjoyed the fact that such a controversial issue (Heaven, religion, God, etc.) could be discussed very pleasantly without a heated discussion (you know most times people talk about religion and politics things normally get heated) and there not be a wrong or right answer.  I guess as you can see, I really enjoyed myself and am super excited that I am welcomed back (I really hope I didn't assume that I was).  I can't wait to read the next book.  Call me a dork, I don't care.



In other news, my big brother came to visit for a long weekend.  I can't tell you how much fun we had with him.  I haven't had fun with him like that in a while, normally we don't have enough time.  I am so thankful to have such an awesome big brother!  Here's a few pictures we took at the Panther's game on Sunday.

I'm not a _________ kind of person.

I was listening to the radio while driving to school yesterday morning and the radio show posed this sentence.  Some examples of theirs:

I'm not a buffet kind of person.
I'm not an after 11 pm kind of person.
I'm not a Dancing With the Stars kind of person.  (we all know this is not me!!)
I'm not a fishing kind of person.

I was trying to figure out what kind of person I am not.  I am having a really hard time with this.  I can only think of things that I like, but that's not the sentence. 

The only one I decided on; however, I know there are so many more.
I'm not a scary movie kind of person.

So, ask you to fill in the blank......................I'm not a ________ kind of person.

Is it bad?

Is it bad that I was a little disappointed that I didn't feel the earthquake from Tuesday?? 

I know you are probably thinking I'm crazy and I can't really argue that point because most times I feel as though I am crazy.  However, I would like to know what it feels like to be in an earthquake. Let me clarify.......not one of such magnitude that there is massive devastation, as in Japan, Haiti, etc. You do earthquake drills all your elementary, middle and high school career. I just want to be able to use my earthquake drill skills.

Meatloaf or Banana Bread???

I am a frequent baker of banana bread.  I really enjoy cooking/baking and giving my creations to others so they can enjoy.  Who am I kidding??  I normally have bananas that are too ripe to eat and hate to waste food, so I bake banana bread.  Last night was one of those nights.  There was a potluck in the PT office where I am doing my clinical rotation, so what a great time to bake some banana bread.  The bread takes about an hour to bake, so I normally catch up on a few things while it is in the oven.  Well, last night was the season premiere of Bachelor Pad 2 (if you don't know, I love trash TV and it was 3 hours long.......who wouldn't watch??) and so I might have forgotten about banana bread for a bit.  I might have overcooked it by about 10 minutes.  When I took it out of the oven, only the top looked to be a little black.  My hubby reassured me that it wasn't burned to terribly bad, so I decided to go ahead and take it to the potluck. 

Fast forward to the potluck the next day.

Someone asked if my loaf of banana bread wrapped in aluminum foil was meatloaf????  Really??  It wasn't that bad and it really did not look like meatloaf!!!  Of course I was the laughing stock of the office..................

It's the last week at clinical. I guess I might as well go out with a bang!!!

Valuable Lessons

A good friend of mine recently reprimanded me for not updating my blog very often or at all.  I told her I didn't think we lived a very exciting life.  She adamantly disagreed, so I told her I would give my full effort.

I am currently doing a clinical rotation at the hospital here in town and it has been a very eye opening experience and one that I have absolutely enjoyed.  While at the hospital today I learned two very important lessons.

1. Never, ever buy cheap deodorant!  During a recent grocery store trip, I realized that the deodorant I was wearing was almost $4 a stick. I just really thought that was outrageous so I went for the cheap $1.75 stick. Not a good choice.........

2. Effort intolerance is a diagnosis. I reviewed a patient's chart at the hospital and a doctor had diagnosed a patient with "effort intolerance."  What a clever way to say someone is lazy?! I totally put that in my pocket to use at a later date.

I know I sound like a broken record, but I'll try to be better about blogging........maybe we'll become more interesting and I'll have something to actually blog about.