Saturday, May 26, 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

I was once given the advice to do nothing when I was unsure about a certain situation. "When you don't know what to do, DO NOTHING." I'm not really sure where that phrase originated, but I'm sure a google of the phrase would answer that in a matter of seconds. Nonetheless, it has worked in many precarious social settings, when things were just simply awkward.

I was recently asked by a coworker of mine, to sign up for a class. It was being held at a local restaurant with a complimentary dinner. So I did, and I received an immediate confirmation to my RSVP sent by e-mail. I arrived on the said date and time and was escorted by a friendly hostess to a banquet room filled with, what looked like business men and women. A gentleman asked me what hospital I was from and I told him where I worked and he smiled and thanked me for coming. He then proceeded to seat me in the middle of the room directly in front of the speaker.

It only took about 15 minutes into the powerpoint presentation for me to realize that I was in the wrong banquet room. Not only was my fellow coworker nowhere to be found, but the subject of the presentation was not at all what I had signed up for. The slide presentation included graphic photos of diabetic ulcers infected with MRSA. Yummy, when is dinner? It's a good thing I am desensitized to viewing wounds before a meal or this whole scene would have played out a little differently.

I didn't want to be impolite by getting up in the middle of the presentation, nor did I want to eat a free dinner that was not meant for me. If I didn't eat I would just draw attention to myself, so I ate the dinner and ordered a cappuccino afterwards and then tried to slip out the door without being noticed. I felt as though I had just committed a crime.

I made it out of the door and quickly walked to the valet to retrieve my car, when another guest of the presentation approached me. He wanted to know if I was a physician and I told him that I was not a physician. He then asked if I was a drug rep and I answered "something like that." I drove off thinking this could only happen to me.

All I wanted was a FREE dinner and some FREE nursing CEU's .... next time I'm taking someone with me. :)

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

One of my favs :)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Love this song...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

May your dreams stay big and your worries stay small...

If one door opens to another door closed

Keep on walking till you find the window :)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Pumpkin Fun

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Language of Flowers

Flowers and their meanings

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Dinner For Two

♥ Made with Love ♥

Thursday, June 30, 2011

My favorite song...

Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Beach

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Road to Happiness...

I haven’t written a blog in so long, and I recently deleted all of the blogs that I wrote over the past few years. Graduating from college seemed like the perfect time to begin again. It is time for a new beginning to a new chapter in my life, with new hopes and dreams for my future. Blogging was a great tool for me to focus on the positive aspects of my life during a negative time. Because as I went back to read previous posts, it was easy for me to identify my strengths and also my weaknesses.

One of the blogs that I wrote before has recently played out in my life and I wish I hadn’t deleted it. I wrote about how I was going to try to experience life in a new way. I compared my life to driving, probably because at that time I spent so many hours on the road commuting to school. It was one of the few places I could think clearly without any interruptions.

I compared my life to driving on a highway. When your life is going by so fast without any delays it seems comfortable because everything is predictable. At one time my life was busy and for the most part it was comfortable. It was as if I was on cruise control and I was truly happy or so I thought. Then unexpectedly I ended up on a detour off of the highway of life and it was filled with many one-way roads, congestion, and potholes and all of those inconveniences that slow your life down.

When you leave the highway of life the experience you make of it is completely in your own mind. You can either choose to turn up the music and adjust to where you are, or you can go into a road rage and become bitter. I think I must have done both of these scenarios many times throughout the detour until I found a different road. You know the saying about “taking the road less traveled” well that road is the road that led me to a whole new life.

When your flying down the highway of life everything is going so fast that you don’t take time out to enjoy life’s luxuries. You miss the beauty of the day to day joys that enrich our life in the healthiest ways. Everything is a blur, and even our memories all seem to fade into each other. Detours in life are inevitable, but they lead to those beautiful winding country roads that you would not otherwise experience if given the choice to stay on the highway.

Going down that bumpy road makes you go slower and it allows you to have the time to see the beauty in the here and now. The pleasure of enjoying the simple things in life is equivalent to picturesque fields and blooming trees on a pretty country road. It makes the detour seem worthwhile and you start to become thankful for that detour experience. It provides that internal understanding that things really do happen for a reason, and that reason will be unknown until you get further down the road.

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”