Keeping Track

Today is the last of 2021. The last few years have been uniquely busy. Finished a nursing program. Began a career as an OR nurse. Completed a new nurse residency. Mastered Periop 101. Traveled to London for 6 weeks. Downsized and moved to a townhome. Took a travel job on the central coast of California. Lived in our RV for 6 months. Experienced two Jeep Jamborees. Seeing two children graduate high school and go to college. Having one child enlist in the military. Have three children learn to drive, two licensed so far. Bought our forever home on 15 acres in middle Tennessee. Obtained a Master's in Nursing. Began to teach nursing. Considering a terminal degree. Experiencing life changes. Health challenges with loved ones. Losing loved ones. Moving loved ones. Having loved ones live with us. Keeping track.

2022 is an opportunity to improve. Realistically, any time is an opportunity to improve. 

Born out of a desire to do more of what I like to do, I will take this new year as an opportunity to log my reading. Having spent much of the last few years working through school, reading has not been the pleasure I would like it to be. This desire to change began with a Christmas gift less than a week ago. An autobiography by Dave Grohl, gift to me by my thoughtful husband. I finished it too quickly for observers here. . . I devoured it. The book was well written and an absolute pleasure to read.

Following that book, which my 15 year old has started, with a notebook to capture the F bomb count as well as to prepare for a book report, I read a cheesy romance light book on the kindle app called "Kiss Me Now" by Melanie Bennett Jacobson. I love to read. This morning while on my laptop I read a blog post on Facebook by Joel J. Miller from miller book review.substack.com. This post struck me at the right place and right time. It is my desire to read more this year - and not just cheesy romance books. I would like to read, or listen to more non-fiction, autobiographies, biographies, business, leadership and thoughtful books I would also like to keep track. Kind of like I kept track of the types of cases I did in the OR.

Happy New Year's Eve! 

Here's to keeping track.