Blog One

In light of recent events, I have decided to start blogging once again, thanks to my cousin Jamie. So, this first blog will be pretty much an update of everything going on in my life at the moment. I will warn my readers that this blog will most likely be very intimate as to the thoughts that go on in my head. Feel free to give me your input, or just enjoy my sarcastic life as I write it.

I am currently working as a cocktail waitress at a bar and grill called Good Company. Although serving drinks isn't necessarily a passion of mine, it does pay the rent and I do get a few good laughs at the drunken retardedness of the patrons. It is, however, great motivation to do well in school so I will not be stuck asking the question, "What can I get for you to drink?" for the rest of my life.

I am currently going to school at Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences which is a part of the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Anyone who knows Beth-El knows that the program is no joke. It is without a doubt a difficult program and my summer course I just finished up this last July made suicide look extremely enticing. I have never pulled so many all-nighters just to barely keep up with my school work. Nor have I ever craved sleep so badly in my life. It was a class that without a doubt pushed me to my absolute limits, however I never before have learned so much from an instructor than my clinical instructor. On the plus side, I also found out that I love patient care and nursing. It would have really sucked to come all this way and realized I hated it. This fall I will be doing Mental Health clinicals down in Pueblo, Colorado which is about and hour south of me in the Springs, which is about an hour south of Denver (for those of you not familiar with Colorado). I am really excited about graduating. I am not entirely sure of what I want to do when I graduate. I am looking at 3 options.

Option 1: gain experience working in the ED (Emergency Dept.) and Critical Care and try to get into flight nursing, which is being a nurse on a helicopter for flight for life.

Option 2: continue schooling to go on and get my Physician's Assistant (PA) so all my friends and family can have me at their discretion for medical advice and prescriptions.

Option 3: become a travel nurse and conquer the world's health problems.

I think with any of these I can do well, it is just a matter of where my life is at the time.

I am currently a member of the 14th ward which is a singles ward here in Colorado Springs. I do like it a lot. I am planning on going to the Family Home Evening tonight after which I have scheduled a meeting with my bishop to make sure that my life is on track and I am heading in the direction in which I should be heading to make it to my goals. Although I have always frowned upon the singles ward feeling like I was a package of ground beef sitting on the shelf at Walmart just waiting for someone to come by and check my expiration date and decide to take me home, I am really enjoying getting to know the other members. It is nice to have a support system at my home away from home. Not to mention the guys there aren't all that bad looking, so Kenzie (my bff here in Colorado) and I shamelessly enjoy our eye candy.

Well, I think that about covers it as far as an update on my life goes. There will not be any specific time frame in which I post blogs. Therefore, if you don't see a post for several days to several weeks, I most likely have my head crammed in a nursing book or am carrying a tray of drinks to any given table and not chopped up into little pieces buried in a ditch off some highway. So don't worry too much. I will make up for my absence by posting so many blogs you will be sick of me and my thoughts. I hope everybody enjoys this. Just take it for what it's worth.