Food Adventures In My Free Time

   One of the great things about being on psych is that you get evenings and weekends off.  I was lucky to be able to get Mother's Day off, so BF and I went hiking with my mom and sister.  As one of my presents for my mom, I made rosemary pineapple sorbet from scratch.  (And yes, I do in fact love putting rosemary in everything).  

My beautiful mom!

Me, mom, sister

BF, me

   This last weekend, A (my "partner in crime") and I made a delicious fondue feast for BF and Y.  It was super gluttonous, but sooooooo worth it.  I don't know if you can see in the picture, but I made some delicious rosemary watermelon lemonade from scratch with my juicer.  Like I said... rosemary all up in errrryyything!  

Good things come to those who wait

I just got one of the best Christmas presents ever today!

My friend ordered me award-winning lobster pot pies from Maine.  OMG they were divine!

This was my contribution to the meal: garlicky spinach and mushrooms (tryin to make it a tiny bit healthy)

Oh yeah, and this weekend was the 31st annual UCD SOM Wine Auction to benefit the free student run clinics.  I bought my mom a ticket as her Christmas present, and we both had a wonderful time.  There were lots of wonderful wines, everyone dressed up all classy, live performances, and cool stuff to bid on.  It was really fun!  I definitely hope to go all four years!

We have our first quiz on Friday.  I'm not really looking forward to it.  So far, I haven't really liked the stuff we have been learning the first week back in class.  Lots of boring, detailed, stuff.  I like Pharmacology so far though.  It's cool to learn about the drugs and how they work.  Next weekend I am off to LA to visit my friends and my bf.  Look out for a post from that!

Great Day

I was having a little trouble earlier this week, but things have been really looking up in the last couple of days.  Today was an absolutely fabulous day!  Even though we had a long day of class and lab, lectures weren't too bad and lab was pretty fun today.  Our instructor even told us we had a "beautiful dissection" of the axilla!  Then, after class I went to the Ob/Gyn student interest group potluck.  I brought stuffed bell peppers, which actually turned out quite good, even though I totally improvised on the recipe.  I had a really good time, and met some more new people that I really like!

I saved the best for last... my mom called saying that she had landed safely in the US!  She won't be back home for another couple of weeks, but I am so glad to at least have her back safe.  I can't wait to see her.

After such great news, and a very long, but good day... I decided to take the rest of the night off :)  We all need a break sometime, don't we?  Looking forward to this weekend despite the fact that I am going to spend most of it studying.  I'm still going to try to be social by studying with friends and eating with friends on breaks.  I am actually feeling a lot less stressed about Monday's quiz.  It's so weird... just a few days ago I was having a mini-breakdown.  Well, I guess I am still getting used to med school haha.