too much vs not enough

After 2 weeks of being off and my test being over, I have come to the point where I am excited to get back to the hospital.  Isn't that just like my sinful, human nature.  I beg for time off, for rest, and have found myself searching for activities, projects, and things to keep me busy.  I am hard to satisfy.  I guess there is always a place for balance in my life.  I have enjoyed my time off and now find that I am extremely grateful to be starting back in the hospital on Wednesday.
I mentioned that I was going to start trying to cook.  Well... I have made exactly two full meals during my time off. Pathetic. However, I got a really cool 5 Ingredient cook book at a wedding shower and had pretty good success with my second meal.  Maybe there is hope in that really simple book of recipes! I have decided that I do enjoy cooking if it can be done with relative ease.  Complicated recipes with lots of ingredients are not for me.  They kind of stress me out... I just look at all the ingredients and think, "Yeah right. No way this is going to turn out well." The good news, I've got a lot of time to get better.
Other fun changes around here, I have a new floor! The carpet is gone!

 It looks AMAZING and have Daniel and his family to thank for it.  They did such a good job, and it has started some fun house projects, cleaning, and decorating to prepare for October!  It really is just around the corner and I can't wait!

finally a break!

After the past 5 weeks and three years of studying non-stop or being in the hospital all day, I have taken my Step 2 CK and have 3 whole weeks to take a break!  In Meg language... I will be watching a LOT of movies and I trying to learn to cook.  October 6th is coming soon and currently all I know how to make is spaghetti.  Not promising.  Here's to the first day of my break and cooking dinner.  I am sure it will take me way too long to cook and I will probably apologize a million times to the unfortunate souls that actually have to eat it.

As for what I have already done with my 4 days of break: one of my sweet college friends came in to town and we were able to spend the weekend catching up and visiting.  We also got to go see one of our sweet friends that is having a little boy in October.  So fun and she was so stinkin cute with her baby bump.  I love when I get to spend several, undistracted days with my college friends.  I miss them so much and value their wisdom and grace. I realize how extremely fortunate I am to have been entrusted with their friendship.  I look forward to having all of them stand next to me on one of the biggest days of my life.  They are wonderful!  Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of all four of us from the weekend or the cute baby bump.

                     (Picture from college of the three of us.  Clearly I should take more pictures!)

Well... off to the store to get the needed ingredients for the dinner to be tackled! Wish me luck!