A weekend recap

We had a great weekend, which is always a fabulous thing after a long week of school and work. Friday night we watched the movie "The Queen"; I would recommend it. It seems like good movies are harder and harder to find so when I actually enjoy a movie, I feel very satisfied.

On Saturday we visited Apple Annie's with our friends Brian and Alia. It was little over an hour drive to get there from Tucson. We have never actually driven that far east from Tucson before so it was unconquered territory for us. We enjoyed some delicious apple pie, a fun corn maze and picked pumpkins for Halloween. I should point out a fun fact about our friendship with Brian and Alia. Brian was with Troy on the night that Troy and I met. Also Brian and Alia came over to Troy's house on their first date to watch a movie with us. We happened to be in the same married ward at BYU and now they live in Tucson. What a small world, but we sure are grateful to have friends like them!

After our afternoon adventure, I was trying to be a good girl and do some homework. I was studying in the kitchen when I happened to look at the floor. There was a scorpion about 3 feet away from my feet. It was Arizona Bark Scorpion, which happens to be the most venomous one. 

On Sunday we enjoyed a fabulous dinner with Kat and Michael. There something wonderful about enjoying good food with fun people.  Many of our friends are not huge fans of Tucson (just like we aren't); however, I am glad that we have them to share our lives with and make the best out of this dirty, I mean desert place.

We also did try out "Zinburger" for the first time this week. Fabulous burgers! I highly recommend!

What a Wonderful Day (Minus 3.5 hours)

Today has been so enjoyable with conference. I feel like there has been so many things that apply to my life and I am very grateful to have the opportunity to listen to our church leadership. This week has been exhausting in many levels so I felt rejuvenated by the reminder about what really matters in life. I also loved the fact that we have more and more international general authorities. Though I did have to pay more attention to the French (at least he sounded French) speaker. Did anyone have any favorite talks so far?? I just love Jeffrey R. Holland's talks; he has a way of touching my heart every time he talks.

The excitement of general conference kind of died as I got home and started to take my literature class exam online. It is my last GE requirement so I have to take it. I have not had time to read 200+ pages of Whitman or Emerson etc as they are not light reading nor are they a genre that I enjoy. This made my test very difficult as it was 16 essay questions...let's just say that I hope she is not a hard grader. I spent more than three hours on that test...what a waste of my precious time. I should have been studying for the psychiatric nursing test that is on Monday. 

My healthy life style is going well so far--1.5 pounds down and few more to go:)

Slight change to Our Plan

Thank you everyone for your words of wisdom! I have to admit that it feels like forever since I started my new way eating. Yesterday as I went for a run, I thought "wow I'm so proud of myself for not eating anything sweet" and then I realize it's only been two days. Those two days were very busy and pretty stressful and usually I would have rewarded myself with something sweet. 

Since most people said that moderation is a good way to go. Troy and I decided that we can have something sweet once a week. When I was a kid (as opposed to being such a mature adult now), Fridays were candy days.We were allowed 5 finnish marks, which is equivalent to a dollar, for candy. So Fridays will be our candy days; of course there will be moderation in how much we can eat that day too.  We also noticed that we had some Skinny Cow ice cream in our fridge and Troy is like "it's not gonna be good in two months". :)

I woke up this morning without any desire to go for a run. Hopefully I can find some before the day is over. This is one of the pit falls of running by yourself;it's too easy to not go and run. I so wish I could find a group to run with.