I think I'm a tree hugger

So, its been a while since I gave this whole blog thing a shot. *sigh* here goes nothin'!!

So really its been a crazy few months for me. I think maybe I'm having my mid-life crisis a little ahead of schedule? Although, everyone always tells me I act like I'm 40, so despite the fact that I'm only 27 maybe I'm right on time for this crisis. So its been a rough year to say the least. My father got sick and had a mini sized alien cut from his body. 17lbs of alien to be exact. By some crazy yet grand twist of fate my dad is TOTALLY fine (well physically anyway). My husband hurt his arm at work, had surgery, and off to work he went? Nope. Surgery didn't go as planned and 6 months later he is still trying to raise his pinky for ,"tea with the queen" as the doctor calls it. Tea with the queen? how about turn the wrench for a bleeping paycheck? and really did one of my fellow nurses at work really tell me how great it must be for my husband to not work and still get a full paycheck? Because last time I checked it was more like 1/2 a paycheck !!! Did I mention I bought a new car about a week before this all happened? Life is such a bitch, isn't she? And to top it all off, I'm the farthest thing from pregnant a girl could be, and the closest thing I have to the dog of my dreams is a cat who eats table scraps!! As you can see I have had a lot of life altering events in the last year or so. All of these things have really made me re-evaluate my life and what I want from it.

But where was I? oh yeah, I'm having a crisis and I think I'm a tree hugger.
I have always been sort of a hipee. I do shave my legs though cuz that's just sick. So the last few months I have been making a giant effort to go green in order to decrease my impact on the planet. I have quit smoking, which means I am no longer flicking a pack of smokes a day out of my car window. I got a recycle bin and we're actually using it! I even started a compost pile, which took our household trash from a bag a day to a bag a week.
Going green for me also means taking care of my own body. I quit smoking (almost at 1 year smoke free now).I tried to be a vegetarian, but it turns out I just like meat too much. I have decreased my meat intake to about two days out of the week. I have started buying mostly local and organic vegetables, bread, and meat. I have stopped using all artificial sweeteners. I have switched from coca cola to water. I also started going for walks on my day off. Last week I even tried to go jogging. I say tried because I apparently still have smoker lungs despite having stopped almost a year ago. Plus I really need to get a better bra before attempting the whole running thing again. So I've been making a lot of changes. I do feel better over all. I still have this huge urge to sell my house ( in this market? yeah, right!) and move to the country. Maybe start a dairy farm? or grow blueberries? onions? lettuce? am I nuts people? Could this just be that clock ticking thing inside me that people talk about? I mean, wtf ???
Today my husband and I went to the Farmers market and it was awesome. totally awesome. but as I was leaving I found myself feeling soooo jealous of all those people working and selling their own products. Living the simple life. maybe thats all I crave, the simple life?
Thats it. This is nurse chessie, signing off from insanity point.