One Fit Registered Nurse With Her License!

Well its official folks! I'm a BSN, RN (this is the correct way of order in case you were confused-your degree goes first, then your license, then your certification...Thanks Jed Nguyen). I took my boards last Wednesday, I didn't want anyone to know because I wanted to pass them for me and not for anyone else, or the stress of anyone else. I found out early Friday morning and just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw "pass" on my score. Ahhhh priority 1 complete. Now onto the job hunt. Any of you with contacts..send them my way ;)

I had a fabulous long weekend with Bricey with so many delicious foods. He really supports me and this whole health binge thing. Wednesday night we ordered out our favorite Chinese and I ordered the spicy hunan vegetables and a side of brown rice. Mmmm! For Thursday lunch, we had brown rice with baked chicken mixed in and for dinner we had grilled salmon, a 1/4 baked sweet potato, and pineapple.  We then took off for a date night at the drive-in. One of our favorite things to do 45 minutes north of the small town Bricey lives in. We watched the sunset which was absolutely beautiful before the movie started.  We saw Madagascar 3 and What to Expect When You're Expecting, both movies I've seen before. Totally recommend Madagascar 3 (again), without children this time, totally hilarious the 2nd time around when you can pay more attention to the movie and less attention to the amount of candy the kids have already inhaled.We munched on carrots and hummus, wasabi peas (YUM!) paired with water bottles.

 On Friday I found out I now obtain my Texas Registered Nursing license. So exciting..can't say it enough. No one understands how hard that test is unless you've been to nursing school. Bricey told me it was my night to celebrate so I could choose what we did for Friday date night. (side note: I've realized since we're doing this whole long distance thing that every night we're together is a date night). We called around and found a restaurant in OKC, Saii Asian Bistro, that serves brown rice sushi. SCORE! We headed out that way and found a farmer's market grocery store that we stopped at before dinner. Got Bricey excited about eating organic so we bought some rice chocolate milk, organic chocolate flavored and coffee flavored drinks, fruit twists, and brown rice chips. Once we got to the restaurant they had us seated immediately (thanks Bricey for the reservation ;)) We ordered edamame and 3 rolls (no tempura rolls of course) all substituted with brown rice instead of white. It is pretty awesome that this restaurant does ANY roll with brown rice.  The sushi was fabulous and I must say could not tell a difference between brown and white rice sushi. We headed back and passed out, so tired!

On Saturday, our lazy day, we slept in until 1:00, yes one o'clock peeee emmmmm. Did lots of chores around the house and just relaxed, I believe we ate chicken and rice again for lunch and for dinner Bricey and I made THE MOST AMAZING burger patties I have ever tasted in my life. With extra lean ground beef we made 4 thin patties added minced jalapeno (with the seeds taken out) and minced red onion) mixed inside the meat. Then we put a slice of pepper jack cheese in the middle and put another thin patty over  the cheese.  Grilled to perfection! Paired with sweet potato, baked beans, and pineapple! Fabulous dinner.

For dessert I decided to make something off of pinterest. I froze 3 bananas cut up into 1'' circles. A few hours later I blended the bananas in a blender (could use food processor) until creamy and served (mine plain, Bricey's with chocolate chips). He enjoyed, I wanted to barf bananas. It was good but for a regular at Braum's, I'd like to stick to my fro-yo

On Sunday, we got up and went to church. Something I always want to do on Sunday but for a late sleeper it is so hard! I really do love going to church (even in the crazy bible belt where most days they preach about who is going to heaven and who is going to hell). The topic today was depression. Interesting topic and I completely appreciate that they spoke on this because I don't think most churches would but there were a few things I disagreed with. All in all I'm glad we went. For lunch we made lettuce wraps. Southwest mustard, mesquite turkey, pepper jack cheese, tomato, and avocado! Totally filling.

We took a nap, or Bricey did at least, I pinterested. Long relaxing day and then for dinner I made BBQ baked chicken with  brussel sprouts and fruit salad. I adore brussel sprouts and this is a new addiction starting this past year. Today I bought 20 brussel sprouts (or 1 lb) and cut off the ends and then cut them in half long ways (down the white line). then just tossed them in a little olive oil and garlic salt until they were toasty brown on the bottom. So delicious. Paired it with fruit salad: strawberries, bananas, and pineapple! Both the strawberries and pineapple are AWESOME this season. Go getcha some!

I left town yesterday to come back to the city to babysit. I had Fuzzy's grilled veggie salad for lunch and cheerios for dinner. I was totally exhausted yesterday and took a nap for an hour in the morning and 4 hours when in the evening...may have to get that checked out sometime soon. Couldn't be good for me.

I had a bowl of cheerios this morning and a bowl of brown rice for lunch right now but I'm rushed to pick up the girls so I'll have to update tomorrow morning on everything else!

I weighed in and measured myself so the next post I'll let you know the results! Stay tuned ;)