End of Week 3, Beginning Week 4

I just looked at the calendar earlier today, and wrote up on my whiteboard all of my assignments and just got organized for the upcoming week, and insodoing noticed that in one month, I will be just about done with this term!  It's flying right on by!!  I'm grateful for this, although the weekends seem to drag on.  I know I shouldn't complain, because once I start clinicals, there just won't be ENOUGH weekend.  But, I feel like I get up some good, time-killing momentum during the week allowing time to fly right on by, and then it fizzles in the weekend.

Oh well.  This past week, I got a care package from my parents and a care package from my boyfriend.  My parents sent me some good stuff--some healthy snacks, a shirt, some party lights, and a puzzle (I LOVE puzzles).  I've already reviewed some of the contents of the care package from my boyfriend (I'm still baffled about the "edible" crickets....), but I've decided to share one item with everyone.  The ridiculously huge, baseball-sized jawbreaker.  I figure it will be interesting to take weekly pictures of it to determine how long it takes to demolish such a huge piece of candy (unless someone is grossed out by it... please let me know, and i am happy to make arrangements so the picture isn't readily available for everyone to see).

Also, I wanted to share my cacti.  My boyfriend thought it would be good for me to have something to take care of while I was away.  Although, it escapes me why we thought sharp, pokey plants were a good idea for someone as accident-prone and klutzy as me.  It will be another challenge--to see if I can, in fact, keep them alive for one year!

And speaking of time, We are down UNDER 100 days until I fly home for Christmas!  If you didn't notice, I'm pretty excited about it  ^_^

So this is the monster jawbreaker....

See?  Baseball sized, roughly.....

This is one of my cacti; I love it, because it is multiple colors and just looks odd but cool

This is my three-for-one cacti pot; I love the way this is arranged!

And finally, my mini-saguaro (although I am sure that they are not actually in any way related to saguaro cacti...)

Back to classes tomorrow, although this week will be pretty light, since lab was frontloaded and is actually mostly done!

And, a quote to go:

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~Eleanor Roosevelt