Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Tuesday Anticipations - July 24, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

  • my clinical shifts - I'm enjoying them more all the time.  Loving my postpartum rotation!
  • going out for Indian food with a good friend from school - her first experience with Indian!
  • adding "Jesus Calling" to my nightly wind-down routine
  • gathering as a house church to watch "The Way"
  • taking time to do some non-school related reading
  • lunch with a friend from the days of my first university degree
  • gathering for a belated father's day celebration combined with a belated celebration of my dad's birthday.
What are you looking forward to this week?

Monday, July 23, 2012

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 336

Today's Daily 5:

  1. an awesome nurse pairing
  2. having expectations shattered
  3. butter chicken and naan bread
  4. introducing N. to Indian food and laughing our way through an awesome meal
  5. having a rental car to do errands

Bookish Thoughts

On the weekend I went to both the library and the one remaining local Christian bookstore.  With several titles from each place, I can now confidently assure you that we must be near the end of the semester.  It's near the end that my thoughts begin to wander from dedicated text book reading to thoughts of novels, and books that touch the deep places of my soul.  I'm excited to dive in (even before the semester officially ends, and especially over the break and on the airplanes to and from Florida) to some of the titles I bought, and I thought I'd share a few that I'm excited about with you, and ask for your recommendations for good reads.

Some of the titles I'm excited about:

  • Jesus Calling - I like how short the readings for each day are, and I've heard nothing but good things about this little book.  Can't wait to incorporate it into my bedtime routine.
  • Love Does - again, I've heard nothing but good things about this book by Bob Goff, and I can't wait to read through all his stories and mine the truth and beauty they contain.
  • The Jesus Storybook Bible - So I'm not a kid, but I thought a really beautiful, highly recommended kids Bible would be an awesome way to mix up some of my nighttime reading, and maybe even some of the teaching and studying we're doing at house church.
  • The Lost Girls - because what could be better than a travel memoir written by three girl-friends, with the subtitle: "three friends, four continents. one unconventional detour around the world."
Okay, those are a few of the titles on my list for my time off.  What have you been reading lately that has inspired you, made you laugh, caused you to think, or just that you genuinely enjoyed as an awesome escapist beach novel?  Leave your suggestions in the comments!

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 335

Today's Daily 5:

  1. sleeping in
  2. Chinese dumplings
  3. a ride home from mom and dad's
  4. finishing up a paper that's been hanging over my head
  5. an invitation out for Chinese food
  6. freshly painted toenails
  7. wearing really cute shoes
  8. skinny jeans
  9. a gift of hand carved pencil crayons from Florence
  10. curling up in bed to sleep nice and early

Daily 5 - Year 3, Days 331 - 334

So, this week has been just a bit challenging and in the interests of going to bed early so that I can get up early and not fall asleep in every class at school, I haven't exactly made it to writing daily 5 posts.  Instead, let me leave you with one longer list covering days 331-334.

Daily 5 - Days 331-334:

  1. quiet evening at home
  2. getting through the longest day of the week, and finishing just a bit early
  3. spotting the big dipper on my way home from work
  4. catching up on emails that I was way behind on
  5. a trip to the library
  6. another trip to the local Christian bookstore
  7. shopping with a friend and her two boys
  8. "My do it!" my favorite little guy's current favorite phrase
  9. the fun of anticipating the reading of some new books
  10. counting down towards the end of the semester
  11. really smooth work shifts
  12. little boy cuddles
  13. quiet time sitting in the sunshine
  14. watching "How I Met Your Mother" on Netflix
  15. comfy pajamas, perfect for summer
  16. coconut oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
  17. fruit salad
  18. the feeling of a shower after a very sweaty work shift
  19. word games on my iphone
  20. weekends at mom and dad's, and letting mom feed me