Back in school...

.....and already way behind!!

Seriously more than 400 pages behind! Amazing when you think school has only been in session one week! Do professors really think you can fit it all in somewhere...not just the time but the brain space?!! Honestly!

I am seriously the master of procrastination! In the first week I left an online exam til the night before (and SOME reading too!) all this despite all my lofty goals and good intentions for a new semester.
This is the last semester before graduation....it is sink or swim time and I have come too far now to sink! Let's do this!

where did it all go?

So I got a statement in the mail today that reads:

Capitol Federal Savings Annual Loan Statement for 2008

So as I glance it over I realize over the course of the entire year with all my on-time-monthly-mortgage-payments (which FYI are over $5oo/month) I have one knocked the principle balance down by $935.16 in a whole year!!!!! Don't even get me started on the fluctuating escrow balance....what ever that is!!!! Incredible....what happened to all that money?

I blame the government!

the obvious and the not

the obvious....so the mortuary came to pick up a body last night.... nothing usual but this mortuary employs... the grim reeper himself.... tall 6'6"-ish, lanky, old, smelled of years of chain smoking, long black trench coat, black hat, gray/white hair and beard....it was if it wasn't already obvious enough what he was there to do. God bless those people.

...last night I lived an episode of ER....true facts too graphic for public blog but saving a life did indeed happen....twice.

the not.....people's reactions, emotional status, and expectations.

forgiveness

Why is the hardest person to forgive yourself?

AND

The hardest thing to do is change?

I passed!

I updated my facebook status to shout my praises at passing my master's level Comprehensive Nursing Exam! Woot! Woot!

However I feel I should explain more to those that care to read about my endeavors to be a nurse practitioner.

I have passed WSU's comprehensive exam...like a dissertation or theists of sorts. It was a four hour all essay exam and it focused on nursing theorists, research, and advanced practice issues. (All my absolute favorite topics! NOT!) I still have my remaining classes, finals, and clinicals to complete.... I am far from done. After graduation (May) and then completion of clinicals (July)...I can then proceed to take the national board certifications. So many more prayers still need to come my way.

This semester is close to ending and I look forward to Christmas break. I feel that I have learned so much but there is always so much more to learn. In January my new clinical site will in the ER and I am very excited about it!

So any questions people? Clear as mud? That about sums up my program!

season opener

This site at Dillions today makes me soooo happy!
I look forward to one of these in my stocking every year!

Today I was more "house-hold" productive than ever...clinicals all day...then grocery shopping..then mowing the backyard and then mowing the front yard...making Birkey style rice. yummy!



Amazing what all can get done to avoid homework! Ha!

NON-

I got a NON-flattering and NON-fixable hole in my favorite jeans!

STINK!