Day 246- Fill in the Blank Friday

1.   If my house was on fire and I could only grab 3 things I would grab umm....lets see....my purse, my birth certificate  (why you ask?? apparently because I was born in Germany my birth certificate is unreplaceable....imagine that), and my cat....whom at that point in time i am sure I will be unsuccessful in catching. 

2.  A smell I really like is   fresh cut grass, rubbing alcohol, and garlic

3.  Something you might not know about me is      i enjoy a challenge. Tell me something is hard and that I cant do it and I can pretty much prove to you I can. Been doing it most of my life.

4.  Some of my favorite websites to putter about on are   facebook of course. I also like looking on my favorite clothing stores and looking at clothes I cant buy at the moment.....those darn emails they send me. I give in every time

5.  This weekend I will   doing pretty much what I did last weekend....sleeping and working....I know....I am COMPLETELY WILD!!

6. Nothing makes me happier than       getting out of town!! I love it. 

7.  A bad habit I have is      laying/eating in our bed all the time....most spend their tv time in the living room...I spend mine in the bed. Therapist say that the "marriage bed" should only be used for sleeping and love making....but I use it for other purposes too. But during football season it's either watch football 24/7 or what I want to watch in the bedroom....thank god football season is almost over!!

Can you believe that January is almost gone!!! It might sound crazy but I just took my Christmas wreath down. I bought a real one this year and it was soo pretty I had a hard time taking it down. But I finally got around to taking it down and bought a heart wreath the replace it with. Man how time flies!! Hope everyone has a great weekend! 

Day 234

The past few weeks have been crazy!! I haven't seen Eric in like 5 days. The funny thing is people assume that since we are married we see each other all the time. Sooo not true. By time I return from work Eric is gone :(. Then he comes home and fixes dinner and I am off to work again. Plus sometimes he has consultations in the evenings so I dont even get to see him then. It's crazy. It didn't expect this. The great thing is I work with about 20 people who know exactly what I am going through. I thought at first I was going to be at a disadvantage by being the youngest on my floor, but it turns out it was a blessing because they are able to give me advice on how to make things work better in my marriage. I dont think they realize how much I look up to them and are striving to be like them and respect them.
So I decided today that I was going to tough it up and try to learn to sew on my own....with youtube videos  I looked up some classes but they only offer them at night....when I work.. I am going to try it out and see how it goes. I have two girls having babies at work and I am going to try to make baby bibs......it should be interesting. I foresee frustration and redoes....and redoes.....and redoes. I am a perfectionist when it comes to giving something as a gift. I hope I can figure it out.

Day 217- Happy New Year

First Happy New Year to everyone!! So as I am sitting here after my 12 hr shift eating my Lucky Charms I would like to reflect on 2010 and how it was such a huge year in my life....I had many life altering. First off I passed, and graduated from nursing school, got married, started my dream career, and got my license and became not just Dara Crouch, but Dara Davies, RN....yeah I really should take care of that.....I am such a procrastinator. It was a big year. I never thought I would be able to do it all....at the time I didn't think it was possible for me to still be sane by time I finished all of it. But if there is anything I learned this year it's that anything is possible with God by your side. I am not saying it was easy....or it wasn't stressful......because all of the above was hard and stressful. But in the end all of it was worth it. I also learned what the true meaning of a friend is. I have learned that I am not perfect, despite CSU's school of nursing teaching me that I should be. I have learned that marriage is work. People tell you it is but its one of those things that you dont really understand till you have been there.  I hope that this year will bring much happiness and learning opportunities.
So my next goal was to delivery the first baby of the New Year at our hospital....well I got beat....but thats ok.
So to reveal my second goal is to be closer to the Lord. When I was finishing up my last semester in college I all of a sudden started failing....talk about being scared....I was terrified. It just would have ruined everything....I ad to pass. I learned that I was trying to take control of everything going on...school, work, the weeding, money, everything. I had to learn to surrender my control and give it the Lord. I knew I wouldn't make it if it didn't. I became in tune with my relationship with God to the point where it was almost like I could hear him keep reminding me to let him take control. Funny thing is when I did it all turned around. Imagine that. Anyways my point is, I think so often as christians we only surrender control when something goes wrong, when we need something, etc. I have since drawn farther and farther away from that relationship and I want it back. I used to be real good about praying and reading my bible but now that my life has picked up with work and everything I have just not been doing it. I miss it and hope to get better at it. Forget exercising!!!
My third goal is a joint one between Eric and I. We want to buy our dream home!!! We tried to make it happen sooner but it just wasn't working out and I was not willing to live on beanie weenies and PBJ for 6 months to make it happen either. But I can tell you that in side our head......we already bought it. We decided together that we were ok with waiting so we are going to save, and pray and try to make it happen this year....it's going to happen.