Today I Graduate!

Well its finally here, in 4 hours i will graduate from nursing school! too bad this weather really sucks and my mom can't come. She got two feet of snow where she lives and i just got done scraping my ice cube of a car! It took me an hour to scrape the 1-2 inches of ice off my car! Ira finally felt sorry for me and came out an helped. After graduation i will be heading to sioux city for symphony rehearsal tonight. they are doing the nutcracker ballet this weekend! It is my first time playing this music which is exciting. I will be staying at my dads tonight and coming back home on saturday late evening. I hope the weather holds until i can get home!

Thank you everyone for your thoughts today! i appreciate all the cards and words!

Graduation

Well, graduation is finally this coming Friday (19th) at 3pm. I am so ready to be done with school, tests, and homework! I enjoyed my last 7 weeks of preceptorship and learned alot from my nurse. I'm still scared to do it all on my own but am excited to start this new career and to at least get paid for my work.

I am excited that it is the holiday season, this is one of my favorite times of year. It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I now need to decorate our tree that has been up for a week and get the rest of our apartment decorated too, even if its only for a few days. I glad to have some time off and enjoy this holiday with my family and friends.

If anyone has some free time next week and wants to have a celebratory drink with me give me a call. This week is pretty busy for me as i have class wednesday through friday and then have rehearsal most nights this week with sioux city symphony. I am subbing with them this week and last week which i love. Its nice to play again, i miss doing it everyday just not the unsteady pay! (ha i rhymed)

Its been awhile!

Well i realize i haven't written in a while but its been one hell of a few weeks. I am now officially done with the class portion of the semester and YES i did PASS! those 4 tests were rough! I now have next week off before i start my nursing internship (or as we call it our preceptorship). I will be working at creighton on the 5th floor. I'm a little nervous but am looking forward to this last chapter of my education. We do this for 7 weeks and then graduation Dec 19th. This also means that christmas is coming soon, holy crap i need to start shopping!

Actually this is my favorite time of year. i love the fall! i love the weather and trees changing colors and just the smell of it all. it makes me all warm and fuzzy!!! LOL

Ira should be happy too now that classes are over and hopefully psycho wife is gone. Maybe we will actually see each other at night too, theres a concept.

anyhow i will be free next week so call me. I will be working too, i'm starting to become poor, loan money is not lasting as long as i was hoping it would.

Update on the blog below....

My dad informed me that he is now starting a new company called "Blinds by Rishard" (with an accent as he says it, his name is Richard in case you didn't know). LOL....the man cracks me up sometimes.

My dad...

First of all you have to know my dad to enjoy this picture. He just bought a new house and didn't have curtains up yet. so he decides to put up a temporary one but doesn't want to put tack holes in the wall so this is what he came up with! LOL...it makes me laugh just seeing it. so i made him pose by his handywork. Notice the boards used to hold up the sheet. he did this in another bedroom too.

Half way!

I'm now half way through the class part of my semester. I only have three more weeks after this one, then a week off before i start my preceptorship (nursing internship). I will be working at Creighton for my preceptorship on a telemetry floor, patients that are on heart monitors for one reason or another.

This semester we have even more group projects/presentations so its been busy trying to coordinate time for it all, especially since i work still too. My free time doesn't always coordinate with everyone elses so i've had to be flexible.

I'm back to playing in the creighton band this semester. They are playing some good pieces but nothing i haven't played before. It's still nice to go and do something familiar. I am also teaching a clarinet student this semester through creighton which is fun. I always enjoyed teaching students one on one......i would have been a horrible band director!

anyhow i should get to my 1pm class.

In my defense to my sisters blog!

In my defense i was studying for a test that i was going to have that tuesday. and i was gone to her and my dad's house from friday to monday so i had to study. thats the loving sister i am that i give up my weekend of studying to see her. LOL!!! i don't want to be a nursing school drop out:) plus football is so boring i just go for the socialization!

in reality i'm a procrastinator so i probably wouldn't have studied much if i was home until the last possible minute. this is why i only got 3 hours of sleep monday night. but i did get a good grade on the test....procrastination can pay off some times. ha ha