Year in Review: 2017

My only “big” New Year’s Resolution for last year was to post a pic every day on Instagram, and write a blog post once a week. I stopped blogging consistently back in March, but surprisingly, I was able to keep up with Instagram. I hoped feeling the need to post a picture every day would help motivate me to go out and experience and do more things, and it did! It helped that I took two bucket list trips this year, which provided me with a TON of new photos to post.

I did a story on Instagram (follow me here!) with some of my 2017 highlights, and I decided to post it here! Enjoy!

10 Thoughts after living in Baltimore for 6 Months

Life updates

So last time we talked, I was halfway through my original contract here in Baltimore and had just signed an extension. Now I’m less than a month away from the end of my extension!

This summer in Baltimore has gone by SO QUICKLY, I can’t believe we are already nearing the end of August.

Click through to read what I’ve been up to the past few months!

#Maddie2017Challenge: Week 11

Seriously this past week has been hectic. Packing, driving, moving, staying in sketchy hotels, and a whoooole slew of crazy once I actually got to Baltimore.

I’m too exhausted to post anything substantial but here’s all the photos I posted over the past week. Hopefully next week I can entertain you guys more.

Chillin like a Nashvillain 😎

Happy birthday to one of my best friends @angiemclarke 🎈 thanks for always being down to adventure with me, from tent rocks in New Mexico to waterfalls in Iceland and everywhere in between ❤️

First stop on the road trip to my next travel nurse assignment in Baltimore! ❤️

Well I wish *I* was this comfy and relaxed during our 10/11 hour road trip today 😒

First night in my new city has been an ADVENTURE to say the least. Involving unanswered phone calls, one way streets at night, a sketchy motel, and the kindness of one amazing stranger nurse opening her home up to me and Sunny for the night. Long story short — I made it!

Home sweet Maryland home 🏡 #maddieinbmore

Traditional first day of my travel assignment pic featuring Sunny strategically hiding my awful ID picture 😉 First day of contract #3 dunzooooo

#Maddie2017Challenge: Week 10

Happy Monday! This post is a bit late coming up.

Travel Nurse Recap: Austin

St. David’s South Austin Medical Center
in Austin, Texas

The details: 20-bed mixed/medical ICU in a 266-bed hospital in Austin. Level IV trauma center (trying to get their Level II, so operating as a Level II). Floated to Cardiovascular Recovery Unit. Meditech used as EMR. On assignment November 2016 to February 2017.

#Maddie2017Challenge: Week 9

As cliché as it is, time really moves SO fast the older you get. I can’t believe we’re already nine weeks into 2017, it’s about to be March, and I’ll be starting my THIRD travel nurse contract in just two weeks!

So this past week, Aaron and I were supposed to be in Puerto Rico, but cancelled because of how sick he was feeling. I still enjoyed having time off with Aaron to just hang out at home all week, since most of the year he has maybe a weekend off here and there, and we still managed to get out and about during the week — like on a quick hike to Enchanted Rock!

 

We may not have seen the Northern Lights when we were in Iceland, but we still got to see some pretty amazing sunrises/sunsets/the sky just looked like this all day, basically. 🇮🇸

Aaron surprisingly was feeling good enough to suggest getting waffles this morning, so waffles were got. Also got: strawberry lemonade.

Adventures with Sunny yesterday ☀️ 🐾

Taught Emma the fine art of dandelion wishes today 🌼

That one time Aaron was feeling sick and ended up on the floor after we got home (still unsure why) and puppers went to cuddle up with him ☺️

“Babe, you drive for our date night so I can take selfies” 🌟🌟🌟

 

#Maddie2017Challenge: Week 7

So to further be tinkering with the content of what I post here on Mondays, I think I’m going to just take a single photo and expand on it, instead of just trying to sum up my week altogether…

Aaron and I don’t really go to the movies very often — I’m more of a binge-13-seasons-of-a-TV-show-as-quickly-as-possible kinda girl — but my friends have talked about Split, and I’ve seen people rave about it on social media, so we went to see it.

I honestly haven’t stopped thinking about it since we saw it!