Garage sales offer interesting goodies!

Got some stuff to get rid of this season? I found this amazing blog that lists where your goods can go, for the good of someone else.

My favorite places are usually the Salvation Army or a local place I volunteer at, the Catholic Worker House, depending on the stuff I’m getting rid of. There are some other great places out there willing to re-home your goodies.

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Every podiatry school has a unique curriculum regarding rotations during fourth-year. For DMU students, it’s fairly straightforward but is ever-changing year to year. Here’s how it went for the class of 2011.

In the middle of your third-year, you select where you want to spend your rotations and you need to fill 11 months, leaving you one month for vacation (any month you choose). Fourth-year rotations start in June 2010 and end in May 2011. Most people will also have all of June prior to residency off too so some will choose to do an elective in lieu of vacation.

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My best friend just told me he thought I was in residency…I wish! But that was my own fault for not clarifying what the path to podiatry really is. He’s in a different field and I forget how confusing medicine can really be for others, even my closest friends. Here’s a quick break down of the D.P.M. timeline:

1. You are born.

2. You decide to go into medicine. (roughly, age 0 to 100)

3. You complete undergrad degree/ pre-med prerequisite. (4 years)

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Can anything be more satisfying than making your own bread and mayo that does not contain high fructose corn syrup? I think not!

This is my go-to bread recipe, but I cut the recipe in half, didn’t use water for the egg white wash, used the Kitchen Aid stand mixer to mix and knead and only used my hand to shape out 4 small loaves. No bread maker, just standard oven. Egg white is used to make the bread shiny and darker but is not necessary, it doesn’t change the flavor much. I used organic unbleached flour and added two heaping tablespoons of milled flax seeds for fiber content.

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The D.O. matches (how a student knows which residency program they’ll be going into) were out on valentine’s day and my husband got the wonderful news that he matched at his #1 choice program for general surgery. I am so excited for him! Of course, part of it was his grades, another part was his great personality and a teeny part had to do with luck. I have friends that didn’t match and it wasn’t because of their grades or personality. It seemed it had more to do with the specialty they chose, in some areas only half the applicants matched. This is where luck did play a role. This entire matching process is so stressful because there isn’t really a recipe to do it all right! Perhaps if you do the best that you know how to do, you can’t look back with any regrets, right?

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After making this dish, I spent little time thinking about taking a picture and instead scarfed it down in a matter of minutes. I’ll try to get a picture next time, but I promise this is easy-breezy poultry that you have to keep handy for last-minute meals.

Ingredients
1-2 Cornish game hen (or whatever poultry that fits in your crock pot)
3-4 small potatoes, largely diced
A handful of whole garlic cloves
1/2 white onion, chopped
1 whole lime/lemon, juiced
1 can chicken broth (this is optional – can use the leftover juice for gravy or as a soup base at the end)
Salt and pepper to taste
A touch of butter to your liking

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