Thank you all for your prayers! My score converted to the equivilant of a 99.99%! Whoa! I am so very blessed to have all of you guys praying for me!
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Pre-HESI
I thought I should document for you guys what I've done with the week that they gave us for studying for HESI:
Everything but study for HESI.
I thought this would be important for you all to know so that when I fall apart after failing it, there is proof that I did not study.
I've rationalized that not studying is a good plan. I will now explain why.
(1) I have done well on all 4 so far and I only studied for one (which was my worst score).
(2) I get another chance to pass it before graduation (April 21st. That date will soon become much more important than it seems at this point).
(3) I think I needed to come home and relax while enjoying family time instead.
It's mostly that last one. I have had the most wonderful week. After giving a talk to the Nursing NET floor on Tuesday night (or I guess I should say part of Wednesday morning), I traveled home. One day, I worked out twice. I have done Zumba with my mother three times. I have slept in every day. I have been eating lots of fruit. I got to spend all of yesterday with my Sister & we drove around looking at houses for her & met her dream builder who will hopefully be building her home. I got an eye exam and more contacts & found out that despite my high pressure in my eyes, my optic nerve looks "Beautiful" per Dr. Eubank.
You see, this week has been wonderful. And if I fail on Monday, I have 3.5 weeks to get my act together & pass it the 2nd time! Yes, friends. I think it is a very good plan.
So, if you happen to think of me around 8am Central time on Monday (through 1pm), throw up a prayer that I have learned enough through nursing school to be able to make an 850 or better on the exit HESI. And please throw in there that if not, I have peace enough to know that it will all be ok the next time.
Everything but study for HESI.
I thought this would be important for you all to know so that when I fall apart after failing it, there is proof that I did not study.
I've rationalized that not studying is a good plan. I will now explain why.
(1) I have done well on all 4 so far and I only studied for one (which was my worst score).
(2) I get another chance to pass it before graduation (April 21st. That date will soon become much more important than it seems at this point).
(3) I think I needed to come home and relax while enjoying family time instead.
It's mostly that last one. I have had the most wonderful week. After giving a talk to the Nursing NET floor on Tuesday night (or I guess I should say part of Wednesday morning), I traveled home. One day, I worked out twice. I have done Zumba with my mother three times. I have slept in every day. I have been eating lots of fruit. I got to spend all of yesterday with my Sister & we drove around looking at houses for her & met her dream builder who will hopefully be building her home. I got an eye exam and more contacts & found out that despite my high pressure in my eyes, my optic nerve looks "Beautiful" per Dr. Eubank.
You see, this week has been wonderful. And if I fail on Monday, I have 3.5 weeks to get my act together & pass it the 2nd time! Yes, friends. I think it is a very good plan.
So, if you happen to think of me around 8am Central time on Monday (through 1pm), throw up a prayer that I have learned enough through nursing school to be able to make an 850 or better on the exit HESI. And please throw in there that if not, I have peace enough to know that it will all be ok the next time.
Monday, March 21, 2011
DIY Invitations & Showering
Wedding Invitations = Done!
The Do-It-Yourself invitations were extremely simple & easy to do! I was able to do them on my parents' printer at home & used probably less than 10% of an ink cartridge. Probably around 25% of them were reeled into the printer a little ahead of themselves (the type started closer to the top than I had hoped), but all-in-all I was very happy! So, if you won't be anal if the printing doesn't go exactly on the paper where you had hoped then this might be for you! I hope to get a picture of the wedding invitations & our Save-The-Dates because I am so very happy with them!
Our first wedding shower was on Saturday. It went well! It was a little awkward at times as I wasn't sure what do/say.. But the shower hostesses did an AMAZING job & everyone seemed happy! The cake and punch was wonderful! We got far more than we would have ever imagined and I had a blast catching up with people I haven't seen in a while! We are so thankful for all of our friends & family! I can't wait for the next one which is with Seth's family on April 2nd! His Aunt Becky is doing a bridal brunch in her backyard & I know it will be delightful!
Today marks one week until HESI (deep breath)... I'm nervous/ready for it to be over.. I'm hoping it goes well & that I find out in one week that I will indeed be graduating on May 13th (of this year). If I don't pass it, we get one more chance to pass & still graduate in May. The 3rd chance to pass it puts you graduating in August. If I don't pass it at that step, I either have to take the class over again (graduating in December) or have to start the nursing program over again.. I'm not sure of the rule if you don't pass after 3 and hope that I don't have to know it EVER.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Let the wedding festivities begin!
Today is our first shower. I'm nervous. My mom only ever did family birthday parties so I've not been the center of attention around friends & such very often. Seth is here, but refuses to go with me. He says that showers are for women. He is going shooting with my Dad instead... Thanks, bud.
It seems unreal that it is actually time for all of these things to start happening. We had our 4 years of officialness on Tuesday. Neither of us realized it until that evening when someone mentioned that it was March 15th. Weird, I know. It is because we're not really sure at what point we became exclusive. We had our first date on February 18, 2007 after having been friends for a year and 8 months and after sharing our first kiss in the beginning of December 2006. Sometime during Spring Break while sitting on his tailgate in my parents' driveway, we shared "I love you"s and decided that probably meant we were 'going out.' Neither of us happened to look at a calendar for a while and could not remember what day that was... So we picked the day in the middle of Spring Break that year, March 15th, and decided that would be our anniversary. Hopefully we'll be more attentive to our wedding anniversary.. :)
So today, let the wedding festivities begin. I really wish people wouldn't buy us things, but that is the way American's do weddings. And we will need some stuff to start off our lives together. So I will receive these gifts with a welcome heart and try not to think of how many mouths could be fed or good could be done with the money that was used to purchase them. I'm a better gift-giver than gift-receiver.
I hope you all have a very blessed last Saturday of Spring Break. This is my last Spring Break ever.. Weird.. I might be able to convince my first employer to give me a whole week off next year to properly observe this sacred holiday... ;)
It seems unreal that it is actually time for all of these things to start happening. We had our 4 years of officialness on Tuesday. Neither of us realized it until that evening when someone mentioned that it was March 15th. Weird, I know. It is because we're not really sure at what point we became exclusive. We had our first date on February 18, 2007 after having been friends for a year and 8 months and after sharing our first kiss in the beginning of December 2006. Sometime during Spring Break while sitting on his tailgate in my parents' driveway, we shared "I love you"s and decided that probably meant we were 'going out.' Neither of us happened to look at a calendar for a while and could not remember what day that was... So we picked the day in the middle of Spring Break that year, March 15th, and decided that would be our anniversary. Hopefully we'll be more attentive to our wedding anniversary.. :)
So today, let the wedding festivities begin. I really wish people wouldn't buy us things, but that is the way American's do weddings. And we will need some stuff to start off our lives together. So I will receive these gifts with a welcome heart and try not to think of how many mouths could be fed or good could be done with the money that was used to purchase them. I'm a better gift-giver than gift-receiver.
I hope you all have a very blessed last Saturday of Spring Break. This is my last Spring Break ever.. Weird.. I might be able to convince my first employer to give me a whole week off next year to properly observe this sacred holiday... ;)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Lent
I was planning on observing Lent. Not as an actual suffering observance. More so, I was going to observe it as a convenience. I was going to give up eating meat because I'm not a big meat person. My roommate is Catholic & she wanted something that would cause a lot of suffering for her (meat).
This morning at church, we studied Matthew 16:23-17:23. We talked about the suffering of being a Christian and how it is essential and very necessary. My pastor referenced Matthew 19:23. He made a very big point that I think everyone else may know but that I never realized.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
In this passage, Jesus is not talking about money. Most people I've heard talk about this have referenced it to money. He means if you are rich with the things of the world; if you indulge yourself with the ways of the world & do not long CONSTANTLY for the Kingdom of Heaven, you will have a hard time getting there. Suffering the ways of the world, facing sin every day and forcing yourself to not seek the pleasures of the flesh, is inevitable in a Christian life.
In order to know Christ, you must know the cross.
So for lent, I am giving up complaining. Some may look at this sacrifice & say that I should give that up anyways. I need to stop complaining everyday. But it is my comfort. When I'm having a hard time, it is a comfort of mine to complain. It is for this reason that I will be giving it up for Lent.
If you are around me hold me accountable, please. :)
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