Remember when...
Ha, remember when we were in high school and used LJ as our own little virtual emo-outlet? Yay, right?
I'm pretty sure no one really uses this anymore, but whatever - I'm bored and if anyone does, it seems to be a little more personal than facebook, etc... This way only my closest friends can actually read my thoughts and I don't seem quite so bad on there :) Plus this is much easier to me than a physical journal... (I suppose a little bit of emo-ness as well :) although I will try to keep that to a minimum.)
So my life in a nutshell at the moment: one year of nursing school left at EC, just completed an externship at the Mayo Clinic this summer (which was amazing - Neuro ICU), Ryan and I are engaged (YAY!! July 3rd is the date for anyone who cares), he's away in Alaska for grad school in statistics for the next two years, yes, that means I will be joining him after I graduate and get a job there for a year or two. In other words - many emotions right now. Sadness to be done with my externship, yet happy for the freetime, finally. Sad that that freetime happens to coincide with Ryan leaving for AK so I have WAY too much time lol. Even sadder that I won't see him for at least 99 days (assuming I can manage to visit over Thanksgiving). Ready to be done with nursing school, since I was practically doing the real thing anyways this summer - It will be tough to go back to merely clinical one or two days a week. At the same time not ready for real life - glad that it will start with Ryan though. Stressed about planning for starting my life with Ryan and all that wedding stuff. Even more stressed about finding a job in this market, especially since my choices are limited to basically one hospital in Fairbanks. That is still topped by the stress of dealing with my future mother-in-law -- imagine that. I'm very much trying to avoid the stereotypical relationship there, but I can't do much about it if she doesn't meet me half-way. Maybe more about that later I guess.
Anyways I'll probably be like really compulsive about updating in the next week or so and then get into a groove elsewhere and forget about this thing for another two years :) But we'll see...
I'm pretty sure no one really uses this anymore, but whatever - I'm bored and if anyone does, it seems to be a little more personal than facebook, etc... This way only my closest friends can actually read my thoughts and I don't seem quite so bad on there :) Plus this is much easier to me than a physical journal... (I suppose a little bit of emo-ness as well :) although I will try to keep that to a minimum.)
So my life in a nutshell at the moment: one year of nursing school left at EC, just completed an externship at the Mayo Clinic this summer (which was amazing - Neuro ICU), Ryan and I are engaged (YAY!! July 3rd is the date for anyone who cares), he's away in Alaska for grad school in statistics for the next two years, yes, that means I will be joining him after I graduate and get a job there for a year or two. In other words - many emotions right now. Sadness to be done with my externship, yet happy for the freetime, finally. Sad that that freetime happens to coincide with Ryan leaving for AK so I have WAY too much time lol. Even sadder that I won't see him for at least 99 days (assuming I can manage to visit over Thanksgiving). Ready to be done with nursing school, since I was practically doing the real thing anyways this summer - It will be tough to go back to merely clinical one or two days a week. At the same time not ready for real life - glad that it will start with Ryan though. Stressed about planning for starting my life with Ryan and all that wedding stuff. Even more stressed about finding a job in this market, especially since my choices are limited to basically one hospital in Fairbanks. That is still topped by the stress of dealing with my future mother-in-law -- imagine that. I'm very much trying to avoid the stereotypical relationship there, but I can't do much about it if she doesn't meet me half-way. Maybe more about that later I guess.
Anyways I'll probably be like really compulsive about updating in the next week or so and then get into a groove elsewhere and forget about this thing for another two years :) But we'll see...