Y'all... I think I'm MIA

April must not be my month for blogging!

I just haven't been on the blog train all that much recently... and I have tried to do a few updates.. but only 5 updates in April is horrible!! I think school needs to jump off my back and let me have a little free time!! (That won't happen anytime soon... FYI.  I don't think I get a real break until...December! I think I may cry until then.)

I actually have had some free time... hee hee.

But, I've been spending it doing this....

Riding with multiple friends, above is Jacyln.

and with him...

.....  :)

and I even did this!

Do you SEE what my life has come down to!! I have to study everywhere I go...

But, I must say... I did VERY well on that Med Surge test. :)  I think I should start riding and studying more often... haha!

Now, I shall get back to studying for Pharmacology. Yuck.

Bananas

Today it rained. It rained a lot.

I had an important date, too. I was so stinkin' excited about it! Then the rain ruined it.

It's been almost 2 weeks since I rode on the back of my beautiful steed.

Hopefully I will get to ride Saturday!

Also, It didn't help that today was one of the most stressful days that I have had since I left Auburn. I love nursing school, but this week has been a huge slap in the face. It's not as hard as Auburn Physics was... but it is pretty hard!

I've never been a huge test taker. That is a large problem for me. Ask me a question, tell me to teach you about the pathophysiology of Chronic Stable Angina and I can tell you anything you want to know... but do not put a paper in front of me and tell me to pick the 'best' answer out of all 4 answers that are right. It stinks.

Oh well. I guess I'll get it at some point!!

Until then, I'm trying to lower my blood pressure and looking forward to riding my horsey.

I'm also looking forward to meeting The Pioneer Woman. Like I had to put a link there.... you all know who she is, don'tcha!! ;)
I am so. stinkin'. excited!! (I like the word stinkin'.)

Josh and I are going up on Friday morning to pick up tickets at a bookstore that I have not yet identified. Then we are going to walk around Atlanta and pick up dimes and quarters off the street to buy us a hotdog or hamburger from the Varsity. I am broke y'all! But, I gotta go see Pioneer Woman. I just gotta!
I have to give credit to my sister Linsey for bringing this fabulous woman into my life. I started off reading Ree Drummond's 'horse' stories on her blog about the wild mustangs that they keep for the government. That was all I would read. I'll tell ya.... I thought this woman was crazy for letting her 2 and 3 year olds ride in rodeos! ha!  But I love her.

Thank ya linnie :)  Meet us up there?!?

Also, I made a new riding buddy friend the other day. She's been my neighbor for a while and even went to high school with Josh, but I never had met her! Well, her 3 horses decided they wanted to come visit my horses. They somehow got into my mares' pasture and were visiting! I was on the way home from Subway when my dad called me and said that the neighbors were out in our pasture trying to catch their horses. It was so nice meeting them. They are a nice family! I'm excited about riding with Lexi!  I'm so lucky to have people to ride with now. I use to always be looking and looking for people to ride with! Finally I don't have to search! Between Jacyln and Lexi, hopefully I'll always have someone to ride with. I'm just now starting to get Josh to ride a little more and that makes me excited too!

Enough talk for today. Hope everyone has a great rest of the week! I'll be working, pioneer womaning, and riding my horse.

PS. Giveaway that's precious!
At love stitched!

2 things

1.  This is what I wish I could be doing...

2.  This is what I should be doing (if I wasn't working)...

This sunny, warm, delicious weather is not helping one bit. 

Potatoes

I promise that I am going to come up with something fun to write about.

Once again I have been studying my life away!  It actually paid off this week.  98 on my medication administration and drug calculation test!

 (Thank you again Auburn Chemistry Department for giving me that horrible teacher Mrs. Baker that actually did teach me things! Too bad she got fired for failing too many students the semester following my Chem 2 class. She didn't fail me, obviously!)

On a another good note......

AUBURN PLAYS GEORGIA TODAY!!!


WAR EAGLE!


I wish I could go, but I  have to work all day. I will be off to watch the game though. Just in time.

And I am wearing my Aubie shirt to work! :)

Oh and this post had nothing to do with potatoes. Except that I ate one on Thursday night. I just liked the title! :)

Dumb Chemistry.

I hated chemistry. I hated organic chemistry more than regular chemistry. I hated biochemistry more than organic chemistry. I hated physics as well. I did like physics more than organic chemistry though.

Auburn's Chemistry department had the hardest teachers... ever. Physics department too. The average on most of our physics exams was 50. One time it was a 40-something. I made a 60-something on that test. I'm not gonna lie... I did bad in physics.

Chemistry was a little better. The average test grade was usually a 70. I did o.k. in chemistry. But I still hated it.

My point is...

Did you ever have a class that you absolutely HATED?! I always always always said "I am never going to use this stuff! Why do I have to take these ridiculously hard classes!?"

Now, today, I would like to say "Thank you Auburn University for making me take those ridiculously hard classes. Because today in Clinical Therapeutics, I understood Drug Calculations! So, thank you for make me learn how to convert Moles to grams... even though I don't have to do that... it's more like mcg to mg. I never thought I would see that annoying t-box, as I call it, again. I saw it today and I flew through those 10 problems. The class only got to number 3 and I felt accomplished!"

See... you never know when you may use something that you learn in school!

but... I really doubt I will ever need to know just how fast that ball rolls across the floor... or how fast the car goes down the hill in neutral... or when exactly the boy needs to jump off the branch to fall on the back of a horse running underneath it at a certain speed.

So, thank you Fundamentals of Chemistry. Physics, you are still pointless.

Requested Update.

Josh said I needed to update. So I'm updating.

My life has been swamped the past 2 weeks. You're lucky you got rainbows!! haha
My life has actually been swamped the day I started nursing school!

I have had tests and more tests on top of working for my dad and at the pottery place. I'm doing something everyday except for Sunday. Wait.. I study on Sunday. Yep, I doing something everyday.
Yesterday was the first day I didn't have anything to do...

I took complete advantage of it and did nothing when I got off work at 6:45. I went to Josh's, we built a fire and I ate smores. Then we sat by the fire until it wasn't warm anymore.

I have zero tests next week. Hallelujah! Well... not really. I have my clinical therapeutics lab midterm. I will be 'checked off' on two skills. So far we have learned about 20 skills including blood pressure, vitals, Nasogastric tube placement (and removal.. and feeding), Bathing a client, making a bed, Tracheostomy care, Trach suction... the list goes on.  Oh and my favorite- IV's!
They will mainly be looking for sterile technique. We have a sheet of paper that has the step by step process on it and we have to know it without having the sheet. If we miss 3 'small' steps we fail. If we miss 1 'big' step we fail. A 'big' step as I call it is either something that you do (or don't do) that would hurt the client if you did it (or didn't do it). It can also be sterility (gloves, not touching a specific part of a specific tube, etc).

I've been practicing my skills a lot at school so hopefully it goes well!!

Now, on to enjoy my weekend!

The Georgia National Fair is coming tomorrow!!! One of my best friends from Auburn, Anna, and her boyfriend are coming on Friday!!! My precious niece, Blair, turns two on Saturday!! So glad to have a weekend off from everything but fun!! Birthday party, Fair, Fair food, Josh Turner Concert, Fair food, horse riding, Fair food and fun!! Did I mention Fair food?!?

School...

Well, what do ya know. I'm super busy with school again. I have all these blog drafts saved and I can't get them finished. I'm going to try to finish up my trip and get my pictures up and complete my life story! I just don't have time right now!! I've only been in school one week and I already have a test tomorrow and lots of assignments due!
As I mentioned before... I had to be at school at 8 in the morning the day after I got back from Europe. I also had to be there at 8 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Please don't forget it's an hour drive! :) Well, I just now caught up on my sleep this weekend. Now, It starts all over again! I have to be there at 8 in the morning and the next and the next. I'm sure it will be worth it in the end (18 months from now)!

On a positive note, I am house/dog sitting until Friday, so I'll be getting up a few minutes earlier than I usually do to take care of these three weiners. I don't think I realized that 5:45 came twice in a day... ;)  But at least I'll be able to afford driving to school for a while!
I am also keeping some kids this weekend while their photographer parents go out of town for a wedding! I get to be mom and take them to school on Friday, cross country meets, and whatever else moms do. I'm moving up quickly in the world... from dogs to kids all in one week!! I think that's a big step for me!
So don't wonder where I am this week... I have lots of dogging to do. I mean studying to do. Babysitting too.

For your entertainment... Some of my Favorites!!

Budapest

Me and Maggie

Locks in Cologne 

Cologne Cathedral

Budapest

Ice cream in Nuremburg

Regensburg

Congratulations, you have been accepted to...

Nursing school!

I have finally chosen my life path.

Who would have thought it was going to be becoming a nurse?! not me! I thought for SO long that I was going to be a veterinarian. I would LOVE to be a veterinarian, but I'm am just as happy.. if not more happy with my decision on nursing school. I interviewed with them this past Monday and found out Tuesday that I got in.

So, on Monday (yes, this monday) I will be joining my sister in the accelerated nursing program (sort of). I have to take my pre-requisites first and then I start the real nursing classes in the Fall. This summer I am taking Concepts of Nursing, 2 history courses (dread!), and Human Pathology. All are online except the Concepts of Nursing. I only have to go to campus one day a week! I'm pretty pumped about that! I thought I was going to have to be there tues, wed, thurs.. but now it's just thurs.

Why did I choose nursing?
1) it will be more flexible when I need it to be in the far off future.
2) I like taking care of people just as much as I do animals. I prefer younger people to older though.
3) I can make just as much if not more money. I'm not really worried about money... but hey, it's nice to have!
4) There will ALWAYS be a job. People are always getting hurt. Animals get hurt a lot too, but Veterinarians just can't up and move from location to location as easily as a nurse can.

What kind of nurse do I want to be?
A nurse anesthetist- unless I become more interested in something else along the way! I was interested in the anesthesiology part of my 2 surgeries back in 2003 and I am still interested. I would love to be a nurse anesthetist. It will be just as challenging as studying to become a veterinarian.

and that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!