So much fun....

NOT BEING IN SCHOOL!

1st semester is over with and I official earned a 3.74 GPA. I am perfectly fine with that!  I was able to have a little bit of a life, yet found myself hibernating a lot towards the end of the semester.  Next semester will be interesting, as I've heard mixed reviews on whether it's the hardest semester or not.

Onto better things, I finished my first project of the break!  And I am hoping to do a couple more, I just need to get to the fabric store and load up on some cute fabric!

I'm alive...

Well folks, nursing school has taken over my life... top text messages I receive from friends...
"Now you've gone MIA..."
"My text message bill has gone way down since you started school..."
"helloooo???"
"Are you ignoring me?"
"where o where are you?"
"I feel so distant from you..."

Please don't take this personally. Give me 16 months and hopefully I will return to my normal self. Nursing school is BUSY, but I am getting through it.

This is how I feel most days... Monday I have a test on putting in a catheter.  Seems simple but the sterile technique scares the crap out of me. I'm a little shocked at how much I've learned this term, it's pretty cool actually.  I am excited for next semester as I am ready to be in the hospital setting! I have med-surg rotation and psych rotation next semester.  Should be interesting! :)

I found this picture and it completely correlates with my life. I think I've gained a couple pounds since school started...If beer was included in there, I'd be really set.

I wish I could say something other than school is going on, but there's not.  Brian is taking an EMT course and he is busy studying as much as I am... He is doing well and I am proud of him. Although, I can't wait for him to be done because someone needs to take care of our house ;)

1 week and counting!

One week from now, my first day of nursing school will be complete!  I am almost ready to start, just tying up loose ends EVERYWHERE.

Here are the goods!

I have one optional study guide coming in the mail, but for the most part...this is it, my first semester of books.  Let's hope I don't have to take every book to class, because I may need a wheelbarrow to lug them all around! One good thing... I have read one of the books already!  (the shortest one) :)

My parents bought me a Littmann classic stethoscope, I wanted grey because it is neutral.  Best of all my parents engraved my favorite saying which reminds me of the late Walker Allen.

 

 I've purchased all the other boring junk like pen lights and hemostats... I also bought a second cheapy stethoscope with interchangeable diaphragms for adult and pediatric.

Lastly, my uniform... It's really giving me a headache.  The patches I need to sew on are haunting me! As I look at the patches sitting on my scrubs needed to be sewn on, I keep having anxiety of the dimensions and exact precise placing they must be to look perfect.  Although I feel I am a little OCD on the matter, I am the person who would spend two hours making it look perfect to find it crocked after I sew the whole thing on!  

I LOVE SCRUB MED QUALITY!

Sympathy Weight and other things...

2010 was a very good year.

Brian and I got engaged, married, survived a hip replacement, got into my top choice nursing school, and received the scholarship I tried really hard for.

That is a lot of things in a very short period of time. Not to mention the time taken to apply to eight nursing schools, the pre-req's required for UP, and working full time.

All in all it was a full year! But a very fun year!

2011 will be a very interesting year, as I will stop working full time as a dialysis technician and become a full time student.  At first I was going to quit entirely, but have since chickened out.  I like to work, and until the load at school becomes too much or my work can't accommodate my part time schedule, I will continue a day or two a week.  The anxiety of change and the unexpected has set in and I find myself laying in bed freaking out a little about the stress and busyness I will endure for the next 19 months.  I keep praying I can keep my stress level under control and my husband just smiles and hugs me when I've had a bad day!

Back to sympathy weight.  So my crash pre wedding dieted came back to bit me in the rear!  Also with Brian home from work recovering from his hip, I think we both overindulged on eating yummy food and vegging on the couch watching movies. :)

I feel large and NOT in charge!  It's time to go back on weight watchers and eat right!  Brian in able to go to the gym and do some low impact cardio....there are no excuses now!  So here's to 2011 and having a smaller self...for the both of us!  Happy 2011, I hope everyone finds joy in their life's this year!