update in list form

Hey friends, I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve last blogged. Honestly though, let’s not pretend you’ve been biting your nails in anticipation of my next off-beat attempt at writing. We’re better friends then that, right? 

Here is a short list of things that have happened since we’ve talked last. I love lists!

• Applied to and have since been accepted into Piedmont College’s Nursing program.(Starts June 1st!)
  

  My School Uniform! Pajamas

• Made up my mind to live on campus in Demorest, so for the summer I will be residing in a house with 8 other nursing students. (Emotions are undecided on this bout of change. It will definitely be a new experience, so I’m looking forward to building lasting bonds with what I know will be truly unique and wonderful women…hopeful?)
• Stopped watching TV(I’ve decided it’s a complete waste of life)… ok, except for NCIS.
• I’m praying about & planning on joining either the Army or Navy Nurse Corps afterwards to pay off student debt.
  (estimated cost…$MoreThanICanMake.InALifetime).
• I have found that I am a runner at heart, even if it doesn’t look like it on the outside YET.(#1 and #4 have influenced me to take better care of myself so I’ve been going to the gym frequently now. I can run 3 miles, do 100 pushups, lunges, squats, weights… basically I’m really pumped and proud of myself!)

I am SO excited about everything I’ve listed above. There’s also a somewhat sad feeling that accompanies my eagerness for change though; I feel like my life is changing it’s course and choosing a channel to follow that doesn’t permit room to return. Yeah I know, welcome to life. Hey, did I mention I am now 23? That’s 2 years before 25 which is one quarter of a century! Ehh, tomato tomoto.

I don’t know if I’ve ever told you, but my mom’s brother’s family (The Daly’s) are some of the dearest people in the world to me. They are the best people I’ve ever known, bar none. My Aunt Margie is an incredible nurse and I hope to be as skilled as she is one day. She doesn’t know this, but I plan to bombard her with questions regarding everything clinicals. Hey, everyone’s got to have a mentor! I’ve never had any kind of the sort before, so I figure since I’m getting one late in the game she really doesn’t have to agree to it, and she kind of can’t say no since she’s my Aunt Let me show you THIS though! For my graduation/birthday present Uncle John & Aunt Margie presented me with what I believe will be that item that keeps my head in the game during nursing school…

That’s right guys- I’ve got the most BA stethoscope on the market today. Somehow I feel like this is divine reassurance… I was meant to be this BA in nursing school. I plan to be as downright fly as this Littmann Cardiology III with outstanding accoustics, versatile adult & pediatric sided chestpiece, patented tunable diaphragms for monitoring low and high frequencies, two-tubes-in-one design, and patented Littmann soft-sealing eartips. If that’s all too much for you to draw metaphors on, just know that as far as epic goes, I own and embody it. Be assured. MOVING ON!

I’m really trying to use these last 7 days at maximum enjoyment. I want to be able to look back at my short break and feel satisfied. Therefore, as intellectual types tell me is proper to do, I am reading A LOT! The idea that these books (Everyone Communicates Few Connect by J. Maxwell, DeRailed by Tim Irwin, Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Shack by William Young, and finally Silas Marner by George Elliot) are meant for enjoyment, but I’m reading them at windblown page-flipping speeds is somewhat of an oximoron, but that’s a faux pas I’m willing to commit. Add to that brushing up on my Anatomy&Physiology recall and you’ve got yourself a bona-fide hermit! What would happen if I didn’t have friends like Michelle, Stacy or Leanne to pull me out of these of torrent acts of solitude? Easy asnwer – nothing! Anyway, it’s good to know I have sweet friends who truly do care haha.

So that’s it right now. Wish I could give some assurance that I’ll be back sooner than the last time, but really? Nursing School is about to start and I’m pretty sure it will own every second of my life. So have an awesome summer for the rest of you who get to have one! (No bitterness here). Think of me every now and again. Picture me with my face buried in some obscenely large textbook with highlighter markings on my face, post it notes falling from my fingers, and 3×5 cards stacked castle high around me… and when you do this, decide to bring me some coffee in hopes to resuscitate me in that one day, I will be able to legitimately return the favor… should you ever need me to do so

LOVE YOU!

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