Interview!

just arrived after driving home for 3.5 hours without heat :( to a pleasant phone call from human resources at work to schedule an interview for a NURSING position on the transplant unit :)  wahoo!!  appt. set for january 13th @ 10:30am.  

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

I am so thankful for all my wonderful friends and family.

Thank You Everyone!

...for the well-wishes and support.  I am FINALLY done with school and so far loving it.  I have a busy holiday season ahead of me with work and travel and then it is on to studying for my boards.

So Excited!

Enough Said

MoTiVaTioNaL CRiSiS

Everyone has heard of seNIOriTIs (not to be confused with seNOriTAs) but it was not until recently that I have had first hand experience with it. I have never been one to jump on homework too early but this past couple quarters have been TeRRiBLe! I am currently working on my LaST PaPeR of my undergrad right now to be turned in ToMoRRoW complete with 10 minute PReSeNTaTioN on dengue fever. The end is so close it just doesn't seem like I should have to do anymore of this crap! Despite this, I am neck deep in World Health Organization articles on this resurgent disease and just hoping the words come easily.

On a more pleasant note...
Countdown [3rd edition]:

10 more hours of work on 6B
1 big paper to compose
1 10-20 minute presentation to write and give
8 thank you cards to write
1 card to send
3 gifts to buy (1 birthday, 2 xmas)
1 exit interview to attend
1 gown to pick up
4 nights to sleep
2 celebrations to partake in
1 big messy room to clean

...all in the next 103 hours until graduation!

tis the season...

for cards and singing and celebrating and spreading christmas cheer! therefore i shall make a quick list to share ways in which i have experience such seasonal fun this week:

1. wednesday i recieved my first graduation card from my uncle mark and cousin ann! woot woot!
2. i've been listening to christmas music every chance i get


3. i read an ancient print of Dickens' Christmas Carol (circa 1925) that i checked out from the downtown library with my new library card in preparation for...


4. the Christmas Carol at the Guthrie thursday night with ryan


5. made beef and ale stew over mashed potatoes, with Newcastle, rye bread and figgy newton pudding parfaits for dessert to get down with our English selves before the play


6. saw (not really but i know lots of people who did and was just one floor above) Will Smith yesterday when he came to visit the sick kids at the University Hospital and gave them autographed DVDs to spread some seasonal cheer

making a list for one of my final assignments...

um why didn't more of college consist of making lists and calendars for grades?  I (and I believe Nikki) would have graduated with SUPER honors if this was indeed the case.

For all of those interested (read NO ONE but I don't care) here is the aforementioned assignment:

Six Week NCLEX Prep Plan!

following Graduation and Celebrations

Week One: Dec 22-28th

• work: Thurs & Friday days
• Christmas shopping
• go to YMCA
• acquire study texts
• clean out old papers and organize notes
• CELEBRATE Christmas at lake Sat-next Tues

Week Two: Dec 29-Jan 4th

• work: Wed & Thurs eves, Fri-Sunday days
• yoga with Kelli Monday
• play with nieces at lake
• make normal value flashcards
• begin individual review

Week Three: Jan 5-11th

• work: Friday days
• group study: Mon 5-8p, Wed 11a-3p
• go to YMCA
• individual study: Tues, Thurs, Sunday
• play/relax Saturday

Week Four: Jan 12-18th

• work: Fri-Sunday days
• group study: Mon 10a-3p, Thurs 1130a-330p
• go to YMCA (Andover on Monday & Elk River cardio kickbox Thurs)
• individual study: Tues & Wed
• reassess areas of need/take predictor test
• Dad's birthday

Week Five: Jan 19-25th

• work: Friday days
• group study: Mon 11a-3p & Thurs 630p-?
• individual study: Tues & Wed
• go to lake Sat-Sunday for Ice Fishing EXTRAVAGANZA
• quiz time with family

Week Six: Jan 26-February

• practice drive to testing center
• hardcore/"last chance" workout
• final review
• relaxation and sleep
• NCLEX!!!

Note:

Kelli- I am hoping you want to do yoga with me and will let me play with your kids

Mom- I hope it is okay that Kelli and I can come up for ice fishing again with our fishing friends and family

Mom & Kelli- Will you please quiz me out of my NCLEX books fishing weekend?  We can make a game out of it.

Everyone- Nikki is now a blogger too!  see Nikkita RN on my blog list

I almost forgot...

ALMOST!

Since I didn't work or have class in which I needed to write the date on anything it wasn't until this morning that I realized that yesterday was December 7th AKA Pearl Harbor Day AKA the day that Grandpa passed away. Despite my forgetting until today I think I would have done gramps proud.

Sunday Dec 7, 2009

• Woke up (slightly hungover) and watched the sun rise on Sugar Lake
• Watched as 3 ice houses were put up in the following 3 hrs and snow began to steadily fall
• Helped make a hearty breakfast for 10 with my cousin
• Made 3 beds and cleaned all the surfaces in the garage/bar area
• Gave 8 hugs goodbye
• Drove home through the woods in the beautiful snow listening to the Vikings game on the radio
• Commented on numerous ice homes, fish statues and smoke houses
• Went home and changed into my snow stuff
• Drove out to a tree farm, helped pick out a decent 9-footer fir and watched Ryan chop it down and tie it to the roof of the car with his dad
• Had some meat and twice baked potatoes for dinner
• Watched the Albert Lea episode of Extreme Home Makeover
• Took a shower and went to bed early

A decent day to remember if you ask me!

countdown [2nd edition]

as of this moment...

2 days of class to attend

1 big paper to write

1 ten minute presentation to give

1 journal to submit

1 NCLEX prep plan to prepare

12 hours of clinical to experience

4 days of work to show up for

1 belated halloween party to attend

7 thank you cards to write

16 nights to sleep

...until graduation day

Movie Time!

My DVD/VCR was discovered to be possessed by some unknown demon and only spits out DVDs since a little before Halloween.  Spooky?  I know, right.  Luckily this weekend I inherited Ryan's old DVD player that he no longer uses.  So in order to celebrate the new DVD player, the fact that I turned in my second to last big undergraduate paper today and that there is 1-2 inches of snow on the ground, I am watching Love Actually in my sweats and LOVING IT!  Jealous?  I know, right.