It's finally summer time! I'm definitely in need of a break . I managed to study my life away..BUT...it paid off . I managed to work hard enough to get all As. It was a pretty close call, but after all that bad luck, I got a dose of good luck just in time .

You would think with two straight A semesters in nursing school, it would be easy to find another nurse tech position...but alas...hospitals are such political places. I'm sure someone knows someone and got the job. I'm still hoping that someone will call and get me away from surgery .

This summer it seems like everyone is going somewhere . I went to Europe last summer when it seemed like everyone I knew stayed home. I'm not going anywhere this summer, so everyone is going somewhere . I just keep looking forward to next summer though. I'm going to graduate, take the NCLEX (state and national boards for nursing), PASS the NCLEX (hopefully), and then go on my trip . I'm planning on going to Italy and staying at a beautiful Tuscan farmhouse that makes their own wine and olive oil...and I'll also be riding their horses around the hills of Tuscany! yay! :




It's near Florence, San Gimignano, Siena, and Volterra. I've heard that San Gimignano has the best gelato in all of Italy. I'll have to see if this is true! It was also the seat of an Etruscan village in 200-300 BC.



I'm also going to take day trips to Venice, Milan, and Rome (of course!).

I can't wait for 2009!! Bring it on!!

I've always hated the phrase "the luck of the Irish". I've always found it pretty ironic actually. I heard a story on the History Channel about an Irish woman that came to America and in a 2 or 3 month period she lost all of her children and her husband. They said she had the "luck of the Irish" because after all of this she created some kind of organisation that helped others and made quite a bit of money doing it. So...after all that has happened to me in the last two days (obviously nothing as drastic as that woman )...I'm expecting something great to follow . It can't get any worse...right? (famous last words )

Everything was going alright on Monday until the nursing class wanted to get together to talk about who gets what schedule for next semester. There were only three to choose from. Two of the schedules were normal and they were pretty much the same. The third schedule (the dreaded schedule C) was awful and no one wanted it. The people who get schedule C will have to be at the hospital until midnight on Tuesdays and until 10:30PM on Wednesdays. It also has five Saturdays in which students have to be at the hospital from 6:30AM until...7:30 ..PM! The class decided that no one was going to volunteer for that schedule so we all had to pull numbers out of a hat to decide who got first pick and who would get last pick. I knew that I was doomed. I've never been the luckiest of people. My sister got the "lucky gene" and left me none. I turned to Morgan and said "I don't want to do this...I'm going to get the last number...I just know it" . As you can probably guess...I got the VERY LAST number. So...I got schedule C . Did I mention that everyone that goes through this nursing program (including the professors) say that the 3rd semester is the worst semester ever? I have been warned about 3rd semester failures since 1st semester. That means I get the worst schedule for the worst semester ...lucky me!

The next day I was promised that I would get to start training for the nurse tech position. I walked into work on Tuesday feeling a bit better because of this. Well, they decided that they wanted to wait until the middle of the summer to train us . I was also promised that since this was my last summer for the rest of my life, I would get to work part-time all summer. I bet you can guess what happened next . I was told that I would have to work full-time all summer . Greatttt...I get to work full-time this summer and look forward to the worst semester ever.

The only think I can look forward to at this point is graduation. I have also been talking to Morgan and we're actually really wanting to go on a trip after we graduate and take the NCLEX (nursing boards). We've been looking at some college tours around Europe (Italy and Greece to be specific) . So hopefully we get to go and we'll have an awesome time. However, just to be sure that I would in fact be going somewhere for the summer of 2009...I made my Mom promise that she would go with me or make my sister go with me if plans with Morgan fall through. So, I think I'm pretty much set for that summer...unless I just happen to get another bout of luck again .

It's almost spring break...almost spring break...

That is the only thought that gets me through the day .

Nursing school is no walk in the park. I think I might enjoy it if they cut out all the crap (crap=pointless paper work). I'm really enjoying mental health. That's not a big shock to me since I've always been interested in psychology (I used to want to be a psychiatrist until I realised I did want to have a life at some point) and everyone I've ever talked to about the nursing program here has said that they love the mental health clinical. The secondary care clinical on the floor is awful. It includes a massive amount of paperwork the night before even going into the hospital and then I'm in the hospital from 6:30am-2:30pm or 3:30pm. Thank God I only have it every other week .

Unfortunately, this is not the hardest semester. The third semester is supposed to be the worst and the busiest. So...I have something to look forward to in the fall! Yay!

It's not 100% for sure yet...but I'll probably be going to Canada this summer to ride horses and visit Quebec . Andrea will also be coming home sometime in July. So, hopefully it'll be a great summer :).

 

In other news:

My hero, Brett Favre, retired today . I'll miss him