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Sometimes I think it would be amazing to have honey bees in my backyard. The garden would be beautifully pollinated with local honey at your disposal. And then I get realistic and remember I have no real desire to tangle with potentially perturbed bees. Instead, we’ll enjoy honey from a distance with this week’s Friday Favorites.  Lavender Honey/ Honey Dispenser/ Pewter Bee Pin/ Bee House/ Wooden Honey Packaging   As another part of this week’s Friday Favorites, I’m loving this picture from a dinner I had earlier this week. This is most of the girls I did…

I strongly believe in giving back to the next generation of whatever your profession is. Take what you’ve learned and help students follow their passions, even if it’s not the traditional path within the career. You’ll never know how much they appreciate it. While it’s time for the page “Kernels of Wisdom” to be removed from my blog header, you can still find the same information within this specific searchable post. For the full background on the project, read the  original post about Kernels of Wisdom. Here’s the 101 version. What is the Kernels of Wisdom…

I’m excited to share that I passed my Registered Dietitian exam last week and am now Carlene Thomas RD! It was a very suspenseful two hour test since I  knew I would find out my results immediately. So after four years of undergrad, a nine month internship, and a two hour test it was time to celebrate everything I’ve worked for. I’ll share my celebration through Instagram: I took my exam wearing power colors: pink and green. I  passed the test, fell for the packaging of the ‘Pink’ champagne on the way home, and then…

It’s official, I’m a Virginia Tech Dietetic Internship alum! All seventeen interns from the DC site and the Blacksburg site, spent Friday at Virginia Tech for graduation. Here are a few choice photos from the afternoon, as well as the best road trip detour sights we’ve ever seen. Northern Site Interns All celebrations require a jump shot.  This is much harder than it looks. On the way back north, the husband decided we needed to finally stop and see Natural Bridge. After driving by for years, I’m glad we took a central Virginia detour. It is a massive sight….

Well guys, this is it. The last real dietetic internship update. I am done with my nine months and 1,299 hours of internship. Then it’s graduation and sitting for the RD exam. Nine months of dietetic internship is a labor of love. Some days you feel like it’s mostly labor, but I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am to be that much closer to becoming a Registered Dietitian. Let’s dive in, shall we? The last time we caught up with my culinary road trip endeavor, I was just starting at site number…