Gossamer

Uh huh!

Because it DOES matter!

 

Grammar geeks UNITE! I'm sorry but in my head full of marbles rolling around, there is one surefire way to send your credibility with me, out the window:

Butcher a sentence, misspell a word or use a word inappropriately.

God help me if I jack up a sentence in this post, because I KNOW who my audience is!

I am so cognizant about my writing (unless autocorrect helps me jack it up), that if I am unsure of how a word is spelled, I will look it up! Which reminds me of something...

Squirrel! (because we are getting sidetracked and who knows if we will get back to where my thoughts originally were)

My niece is also a huge grammar geek. We take great pride in pointing out horrendous mistakes on Facebook posts. Imagine if you will my pure enjoyment when she meant to say the word spelled, but said "spelt" instead! Of course I could not let that one go for the longest time until one day this arrived on my Facebook wall;

spelt

² /spɛlt/ Show Spelled [spelt] Show IPA

noun

a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta,  native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption

 

True! She did not use the word in the right context however it was still a word and I learned something from it.

 

Now back to what I was saying (I think the Ginko Biloba is working) -

 

I am working on nursing homework and had this awful teaching assignment I had to complete. In writing the assignment, I wanted to use the word "Cognizant" but really wasn't sure if it was spelled with a Z or S.  I looked it up and SQUIRREL! I found this! Have you ever heard of a gossamer? I haven't and I am so excited to learn what that really is! I just saw one the other day and it turned into a lengthy conversation with a classmate on how strong they are.

Looking through the slideshow I have linked for you (up where it says I found this), I learned a new word and am "cognizant" of what it actually is!

Another thing I have come to realize this week - Being a nursing student must be the same as how someone with ADHD must feel. Everything is done at Mach 1 and you never have time to finish one thing before you are onto another and you aren't really sure you comprehended the first thing in the first place!

Happy Friday!

Tried and True

This evening as my hubby and I were folding clothes from the dryer, we were talking about how old some of our sweatshirts are. This one from Hard Rock Café is older than my marriage of 16+ years! In fact dear hubby bought this on a trip to Orlando when he went with his cousin in.... 1993 I think. Lol!! Yep. That makes it a solid 20 years old and it is still holding its own. Not like we wear it for a night on the town, but when you are snuggled up with pandora on your earbuds, it makes for super comfy gear. 

What garment do you have to top that?

When Life Gives You Peaches...

You make peach muffins!!

 http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/74658/peach-muffins

Omg.... Not at all healthy!!

Stay Tuned

Wrapping up the first four weeks of med-surg which has been hell, so unless you want to read about colonostomies, cirrhosis and gall bladders, sit tight my friends. :)

Sunflowers

I'm so glad I threw these seeds in the bed behind the grill. I'm going to plant them the whole way down the fence, next year. 

Nothing Can Happen

I LOVE Sentsy candleless warmers. I recently picked up the Hatteras warmer for my kitchen. Which makes three that I now own. 

It sits beautifully on my kitchen counter and casts a spell over all that enter my house. My #1 favorite scent is Coconut LemonGrass. 

I love leaving it on all the time. We also have another in our bedroom that refreshes the senses with a spa scent. It's appropriately named Just Breathe.

It is incredibly relaxing and melts stress away. 

Now I can get to the meat of this post. Yesterday we were about to leave the house and Dennis (my dear hubby) turns off my kitchen warmer. 

Me: "What are you doing?"

D: "Turning it off. We are leaving."

Me: "Leave it on. It's fine. It's a light bulb. Nothing can happen."

D: "I respond to 'Nothing can happen' all the time!"

These are the days of my life, as a Fireman's wife.  

FYI, if you have the opportunity to attend a Sentsy home demonstration, I highly recommend it and NO, I'm not a consultant. I'm just a groupie. 😘

The Slippery Slope

They say it's a slippery slope when it comes to breaking bad habits. My friends, I'm at the bottom of it. I have been eating like crap, feeling like crap (because that's what I'm eating) and the weight is coming  back on. :( 

Its so hard to "restart" what was a really great thing. I need to look up clean eating again because that is clearly not what I've been doing. The first week back to school, I craved salt so much, I gave myself sinus headaches. My eating was off the hook and when I checked around with other students, I was not in the boat by myself. 

Time to get my act together. I figure if I start working out slowly again, hopefully the endorphins will kick in and it will assist me in getting my act together again. 

With that, I'm hitting the gym with Emily when she gets home from school and we are having grilled chicken salad for dinner.

It's time I clean up my act! Plus Beaumont is running a stellar deals on the Fitbit. I'm super tempted to get my hands on one. Hmmm....

Roasted Tomato Soup!

Check out this awesome recipe by Tyler Florence! http://m.foodnetwork.com/recipes/35368

It's super easy and the fresh flavors will knock 

your socks off!! Take advantage of your garden

or local farmers market because this soup freezes

well! Side note: I used a blender, not an immersion

blender.