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Sunday, 02 April 2006

Where did I go? Ah, it doesn't matter, I'm here now

WOW, it's been forever since I've put something up here. I suppose an update is in order. I'm close to graduating. Just one quarter left. Actually, 9 weeks now, plus finals week. 70 days, to be exact. (But who's counting, right??) This quarter is looking to be a stressful one, very time consuming. I figure if I read everything I'm supposed to read, and do all of the assignments I'm supposed to do, and go to all of my classes, do all of my clinical time, and work only about 8 hours a week, I will be busy on school and work about 75-80 hours a week. Talk about stress! The only way I could lighten my load a bit would be to take fewer classes, but this is the number that I need to take to graduate this quarter, so... I guess I'm stuck.

Since my last post, Eric and I got engaged, moved in together, got married, had a baby (a girl!), and are attempting to settle comfortably into parenthood. Comfortably is the key word, since being a parent isn't so hard, but being a parent and not being stressed about it isn't so easy. It sounds like a lot in a short period of time, but we were engaged for about a year and a half before getting married. It's amazing how having a baby changes your perspective on anything relating to parenthood, babies, kids, schooling, eating, sleeping, politics, etc. I suppose I could elaborate on that more, but I know what I mean, and now it's time for me to go pick up the baby.

Tuesday, 14 September 2004

I can't believe classes are starting again next week! About a month ago I thought I was missing school, but now that it's so close, I know I'm not ready. I actually think 2/3 of my classes will be fairly interesting.. it will be nice to have some non-nursing classes. It reminds me of freshman year, when you learn the stuff for the sake of the class, but it's not that big of a deal. Before all the classes that mattered. Not that I don't like my Nursing classes, but they're so stressful, and damn it, they're hard. Never did I think they would be hard, but hands down, they're 10x harder than any other class I've had.

That, and with just my ONE nursing class, we have a 5 hour lecture mondays, and 6 hour clinicals both wed and fri.. and we only get 8 credit hours for probably 12 credit hours worth of work. It sucks major ass. We got an email the other day telling us that we have a med quiz on our first day of class, and if we don't pass it with 100%, it needs to be retaken, and they will cut 5% off our final grade. Holy shit, people, come on!

Anyway, enough with that. Eric and I are trying to set a date for our wedding, but it's a lot harder than it seems. My parents want me to wait 2 years, but we would rather do it next summer. My future-mother-in-law would rather it were sooner too, I think. The other day, she was hinting at wanting grandkids in the not-so-distant future. We're debating between this coming August or the following July or August, after I graduate. I don't know.. I think it's silly to wait so long, but when I brought up the idea with my parents, I got a far-less-than-enthusiastic response.. they want me to wait until I graduate.

Eh. We'll see.

Tuesday, 10 August 2004

Wow.. again, I find myself saying it's been forever since I've posted something here. Let's see..

Eric and I are adjusting to the apartment okay.. we've somehow managed to get yet another animal. I swear, we're going to end up like everyone in his family and have 6 cats/dogs. I hope not, but I mean geez, we got 2 in 2 months time.. how are we going to hold out for YEARS without getting more? I guess we had a good reason. We only planned on having Nero (the puppy), but then his mom was moving, and they couldn't keep the cats. That was all fine and well with two of the cats, but the third one was so old that the humane society couldn't keep her longer than 3 days. We couldn't let the sweet, fat kitty be put to sleep, so she's ours now.

Unfortunatley, it turns out our dog is a cat-shit-eater. Not only is that just digusting and unsanitary (he likes to sneak up and give people tongue kisses on the mouth! Come on now!), but it smells SO BAD that when I get a whiff of his breath, I gag and nearly throw up. Ick.

Also, I find myself looking forward to school starting again. I have no idea why. I will be flat ass broke (read: books are *expensive* and I have no extra money as it is.. and I will be working fewer hours during the year). I won't have any spare time, and I know that studying and having to read about 800 pages a week sucks ass (and I never do it). Why do I look forward to it? I dunno. Masochistic, I guess.

I seriously need a digital camera. Probably 3-4 times a week I find myself thinking "gee, if I had a digital camera right now, I could...". Oh well.

Monday, 31 May 2004

Wow, it has been FOREVER since I posted something here. We finally got the keys to our apartment, and have to go through and do our evaluation (list broken/stained/etc things so we don't get charged later), and then start moving some of the big items (couch + loveseat, dining table, so forth). We still need to look into getting internet access.. I can go without it for a week or two, but seriously.. I pay bills online. I check the weather forecast online. I get directions and movie times online. I've noticed, when at Eric's house (where there is no internet access) that there is SO much everyday stuff that I do or find online that it is extremely inconvenient to not have it for more than a couple days. I could go without the online games, IM, and surfing to kill time but it's those little, mundane functions that I really need it for. It's like needing to look up a phone number but not being allowed to open the phone book.

Ok, enough about the internet.. I am so unprepared for finals. It doesn't help that all next weekend (the weekend before finals) I'm going to be busy. That means I need to get in gear and study this week, but I am nothing if not a procrastinator. We shall see how this goes...