The First Day's Journey

Because everyone is beginning to do this whole blog thing, I thought that I would try it out as well...what is one more thing added on to Myspace and Facebook to distract me from the mandatory things in life right?!

Yesterday was Pat's 24th birthday and it has me thinking that I am growing up and I don't even realize it. I finally know what I am going to do with my life, am thinking about the future, how to pay for insurance on top of rent and living expenses on a limited budget and still know that there is so much more I will have to pay for when I become an official grown up with a big kid job. One thing I do know, though, is that I love the direction that my life is heading.

With the start of a new year, I have applied for nursing school and am now playing the waiting game with my fellow nursing applicants and this is one of the most stressful things I have ever experienced, however, it will be worth it once I get accepted...thing good thoughts until I announce my acceptance (only positive thoughts in mind). After that, I will have a year before I am actually in the hospitals working. I have the most amazing family, which provides the greatest portion of my support network, and a wonderful extended family including all of my friends and the most amazing man in the world, who I get to claim as my boyfriend!

As for things that I am doing just for me this year, I have signed up for martial arts kickboxing and am loving that. It is a little early in the morning (6am to be exact) but I am starting to grow accustom to it am actually waking up before my alarm every morning. Also, I am taking a phlebotomy class, which seems really interesting and I can't wait to be able to work with actual patients...if you know how long I have been looking for a healthcare job, then you know how anxious I am to get knee deep in the field.

We will see if I am successful in this whole blog thing...only time will tell right?! Until then, this is just a bit of an update on where life is leading me...it is a mystery that is slowly unfolding and I am so excited!