Joy over Stupidity

Heyo,

I am feeling ironic. I don't particularly mean this very seriously. I keep so busy and yet whenever I stop I can't help but think that these are the parts of my life that would be skipped over in a biography. Or covered in one sentence "She strove toward earning her license as a Registered Nurse."
Nothing fancy, nothing dramatic, yet so much work is summed up in that one sentence. I am busy with nothing and yet I am tired by everything. There are little stories that happen all the time, but I can't keep them anywhere because patient confidentiality AKA HIPPA. This is good and yet where does it leave me?

It leaves me boring. Also if I could share those stories only a small portion of the world really wants to listen. Either it is interesting only to me, because only my unique perspective can enjoy it. Or it is something medical. And even though every human has a body, most people deny it, don't understand it, and act all bossy when they need help.

I enjoy this, nay I love it. Call me sadistic, but if you break your bone, you'll want me, not some person who hates the sight of blood. While I am learning this analogy may not work so well, because if you broke your bone I may flip out (due to lack of knowledge of course) anyway. Still I become overjoyed through overs and my own stupidity. It is all about finding the silver lining, right?

Just rambling per usual on here...mainly just trying to write more. I have found that I am completely out of the habit. Hopefully, for any of my readers at least, quality will follow the habit.

<3 Lissa

Back to New Opportunities AKA Panic It's School Time

Heyo,

Happy to say 'hi', but that is almost all I can do right now, because as the title states school is starting. If i barely blogged all summer I don't know who I am kidding to think that I will keep up any semblance of regularity with posts, but I will pop on every now and then. Tomorrow I have lab all day, which will be fun, but tiring. All about Intravenous catheterization...should be fun!

Haven't been writing too much. I started a new novel this summer when I was really into White Collar, but it tattered out at about 20,000 words (if I am being generous). So that is a big pause. Editing TAGD, but so. slowly. it. is. slowly. killing. it. Anyway looking forward to NANOWRIMO, because i just really need more things to do ;)

Hopefully I will 'see' you soon!

<3 Lissa

Pushing and Pulling

Heyo,

Recently I have been reading the Mistborn series (per recommendation from little sister). In the book some people are born with the gift to 'burn' metals, each metal has a different action. Anyway because it is science fiction it talks quite a bit about the mechanics of it all...leading me to thinking about pushing and pulling. Part of the power of certain metals is the ability to push off of coins and then opposing pull the coins toward them. Mistborns use this to fly and fight. However I begun to attach the concept somewhat more concretely to the reality we live.

All of  life we are pushing things away or pulling them towards us. What am I reaching for? What am I running from? It has a great deal to do with life purpose and the actions we take. Mistborns train and practice, taking a great deal of thought to their plans, but here, we push and pull not altogether thinking much at all. Certainly never practicing.

I want to be trained in the gifts I have. No matter the level of hardness involved.


Keep reading.

<3 Lissa

Problems with Lists

Heyo,

Been into creating lists and been pretty vocal about it on the blog, so I have been thinking a lot about their purpose lately. See if asked I often say I dislike them, but I continue to use them. Thus I am conflicted, are they good or are they bad?

Con                                                                                  Pro

Lack of flexibility                                                           Organization
Remember what you need to do                                     Remember what you need to do
Guilt                                                                                Motivation

This is all I could come up with, but I have the feeling there are more. See evaluation of a tool is essential in understanding it's importance. Are lists extremely valuable or only mildly helpful. One could say if you don't know what to do, how are you going to do it? Other would say you should do more and you wouldn't have to worry about remembering?

What pro's/con's can you think of?
                                                                                                                                                             

<3 Lissa




ps. as much as I dislike lists I have a terrible memory soooo until I find a substitute the list stays.

Out of Practice???

Heyo,

There are so many things I enjoy doing and many, many more things that I want to do. Time management is important, still no amount of planning allows me unlimited time. Inevitably there are things that get cut.

This is painful

For the last month I have been trying to take care of family and chill. I would like to say "rest" or "have fun" or better yet "figure life out", but it is just care and chill. That was all I could manage. I am trying branch back out now. School left me burnt and I having trouble knowing what to do and what to pause on for the summer. I have no slow speed; it is all stop and go in my book. I want to do things, but I am not always doing the right thing.  Because deciding the right things for me and the wrong things take time and thought and a lot of help. In other words it is hard.

Last week I started taking small steps, I took a few more today and I hope to take a few tomorrow. Although in my head 'tomorrow' is always the day I get all the things done. Writing this is making me think of all those things, guess I should go make a list.

Blogging is therapeutic and yet I paused for awhile, not something I planned and truly I would have liked to considered it more than I did.

Wow. There has been awhile between posts here. Hope you are doing well!

<3 Lissa

Song on the Screen

Heyo,

There is this thing that I love that is working hard all day and then crashing on the couch or my bed. I live for that crash, because it is beautiful to be that exhausted happy.

Tonight I watched a movie with singing in it and loved every minute of it. I love music and dance. I love the freedom and happiness that comes with it. Music directly relates to dreams. And promise. And hope. And beauty. And pretty much anything, but this was a movie, so good things this time. I love singing.

All the plans, not quite all the time. Tomorrow is a fun happy day. Anything could happen, but probably mostly cool things, like big cities, church, writing, reading, walking and possibly if I can get up early running.

I love summer. I certainly hope tomorrow is sunny.

<3 Lissa

PS the cake pops have to stop being their own post series, because the issues never end. I left some of the cake+icing mixture in the fridge for thirty-hours and it was almost rock hard. Why? Why? I just wanted cake pops and I still have none.

Melissa Makes Cake Pops---Part Two

Heyo,

Since I had all the ingredients today I got up and decided to finish what I started. Cake Pop time. Today I finally had all the ingredients. So I baked a cake, which made the house all birthday-ie. Meanwhile I did some cleaning. Then I blended the cake up. It was all gooey deliciousness. Next I added the icing, put the dough like consistency into molds, stuck them in the fridge and ran off to work.

I got home into and checked them. The dough was stuck to the mold...and thus the plot thickens.

On another note, I feel like my summer is both crawling and speeding by...and I don't know what to do about it. How is your summer?

<3 Lissa