Good morning! 

I have the day off!  I never have the day off unless it’s a holiday, flying to California, or the power is off at work from a summer storm.  I am planning to spend the day cooking and cleaning.  My day might be highlighted by having lunch with Aaron.  The boy who has disappeared these last few days. 

dietitian business

It was a diabetes kind of work day.  I had 2 snacks of these:

Loves me some carbs! 

I spend most of my day teaching patients how to have 45-60 gm carbohydrates at most meals.  For my own meals, I make sure that I  have that minimum amount of carbs at a lot of my meals lately.  Interesting how we are all in different situations.  No?  Right.  It is frustrating to most. 

I had time to get caught up on charting before leaving for my 3 day weekend.  (I actually have to go to work today to drop off a few beer fest tickets to a nurse.)

clocked out

I met up with Aaron to get said beer tickets for nurse at the beer fest location.  As we parted, I gave him a heads up that I was going to steal his garden sage.  That stuff grows like weeds. 

And while I was there I snagged tomatoes and arugula.  Homegrown arugula is peppery-spicy! 

Conquest of the night: squash gnocchi.  I had never made it before.

I knew the issue with gnocchi is that it can end up really dense.

And that’s what mine was.  Note to self: leave scratch Italian dishes to Sicilian boyfriend.

After watching a few more season 8 Grey’s episodes (sshhhh, don’t tell Aaron that I’m watching it without him), I began cleaning.  There is an after-beer festival dinner going on at my place which is a great motivator to clean that corner that hasn’t seen the light of day in 5 months. 

I found some great pieces while going through the pile on my desk.  I first found my new CDR card:

Translation: proof of RD card.

And then I found 2 things that I may cherish more than my undergrad diploma.  First, I found my dietetic internship certificate (printed on Dunder Mifflin paper!).

This was SO much harder to work towards than my undergrad! 

And then I also found my certificate declaring that I am in fact a registered dietitian by the American Dietetics Association.  It’s already a piece of history since ADA is now Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (still trying to remember the new name!). 

Must get going on the rest of my cleaning.  What will I find next?