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Wow, blogging has been on the back burner for quite some time now, I am currently 2 hours away from completing a night shift, call bells are quiet, and all my patients are asleep, so I am going to take this rare moment of bliss to blog. Where to even begin, my last REAL update was last summer more than a year ago, and life has changed so much - some parts good and some parts not great. To get the hard stuff out of the way, my precious grandpa Vyn passed away in October, to try and explain in a blog post how dear this man was to me is not possible. I am his eldest grandchild and we had quite the bond, there is a huge hole in our family that we are now filling with memories, laughter, tears, and a lot of get togethers. Grief is a funny thing, and it will hit me when I least expect it and not appear when I think it will. There are no text book metaphors to adequately describe the feeling of grief, no way to put it in words - but if you have experienced it, then you get it, if you haven...

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I love blogging, I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth - school started again. I felt like I had finally picked myself up and dusted my self off from first year and then it was September. Second year for the most part has been pretty good, there have been some external stimuli that have made it a bit difficult, but I will blog a bit about that in the future (near or far who knows). Today I just wanted to share a link to a post from Donald Miller's blog which I found to be so relevant for my life at this moment. Enjoy! I will be back! Soon! Maybe! http://storylineblog.com/2012/10/31/stop-thinking-its-about-you/

I was so tempted to just go to bed and not do todays photo so you better appreciate this!! I chose to take a photo of my closet door because of all the doors it's what holds the most meaning to me...as much as a door could. This door is located in my room, in a house where I have lived for 9 months - a small house with three rooms and four people, a house filled with love, a house where I have learned a lot about myself. I love this house, and I love the people who live in it! My closet contains so many pictures that so appropriately capture what is going on in my life - it has our photo reel from nursing formal, wedding invitations, Christmas cards from people who matter to me, pictures of some of the little people in my life, a commitment to the career I am about to start, thank you cards and a weenie flyer! I see that door and my heart is full, I think about the room where the closet door is located and my heart is full, I think about the house that the room where the clo...

Back on track!! June 8 - Six-O-Clock  This is me at six-o-clock, sitting at work and menu planning for the week! (Actually taken on June 10) June 10 - Best bit of my weekend  Well since I worked Fri-Sun nothing was really that great (it will feel great when I get paid on Thursday) So instead I'm posting pictures of my Calla/Kim day at Gage park since that was the highlight of my week! ( Taken with the nice camera pre lens disaster)  In other news, I went to Bell Arte today and a new lens for my Nikon will be 170$ which isn't as bad as I thought so after a couple weeks of saving I should be able to get a new one!! Hope no one melted today!!

I see a familiar pattern occurring here, one where I commit to doing a monthly photo blog and then I get about a week in and then I just stop doing it. NOT THIS TIME! I have a valid reason (maybe not) for the delay of the last few posts - I BROKE MY CAMERA LENS!! It's not a secret that I'm accident prone and things in my possession tend to break - objects not people just to clarify, that could be bad for my future career. ANYWAYS I have handled my new camera so carefully and then on Thursday I went outside to take some pictures of the impending storm, placed my camera onto my car seat, and then .... it fell off. It wasn't even a far drop I just think the way that it landed was the exact way to mess something up with my lens. Good news, I ordered a new one. Bad news (kinda), It's a telephoto lens which is great for far away shots but not the best for closer shots. So my game plan is to bring in my current lens to Bell Arte Camera down the road from my house a...

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