Postponed :(

New news. My trip to Fargo has been postponed and I am mildly upset about that. But on the other hand, the reason why I am not going in January is because I have just been employed as a Nursing Student Intern at Rhode Island Hospital and have to attend orientation during that week which is very exciting! It looks like my trip will now be in mid-March but I will have a per-diem job at an excellent hospital. The *most* exciting part of this job is that they like to roll the interns over into RN positions! Perhaps I may hang around until the lovely Milford convention and then be able to apply to Fargo as an RN! Oh the anticipation.

I also feel that I should mention an upcoming wedding... These two cool people that I know, Austin White and Riley Court are engaged and getting married in May! Riley is the bomb-diggety and Austin is a pretty stellar lad too. So we are uber excited for the 15th to roll around!

Avoiding Homework

Oh yes. The struggle is real! I'm sitting in front of my computer actually writing a paper. However, the steam just ran out and my eyes are glazing over. My eyes are a story for another day though. 

Laying out for you exactly what I'm avoiding:

Sunday (tomorrow): a root cause analysis simulation to include 2 research articles.

Monday: Med-Surg exam on renal and urinary disorders; a 10 page case study on one of my patients this semester, also including 2 research articles.

Wednesday: presentation of root cause simulation, Leadership exam.

Thursday: PowerPoint (and handout) presentation on 10 page case study.

Friday: present PowerPoint presentation over 30 mins. (Dressed fancy and in heels. Yes ma'am!)

Next week I have 2 more exams, and the week after, I have 3 finals!

But on a brighter note, I just inherited an impala hide from my dear sister from when we visited Africa! And I asked a dear friend to create a Native American painting that looks great. I think it would be cool to have lots of culture in my apartment. When I get one. It will inspire me to continue to see the world. To take amazing vacations... Or mix work and play and just participate in Doctors Without Borders! Mom thinks I'll get Ebola. I'll risk it to travel.

As much as I would love to keep procrastinating, I think it would be more beneficial to get back to my work. So, as all you lovely people sleep like normal folks, I'll just plug away at my to-do list!

Impala are very popular in the African bush.

And this is just what needs to be done tonight...

Presents!

Oh my gracious! I didn't think my news would be the shot heard 'round the world! Nevertheless, it has been quite the topic. 

As excited as I am for the big move, I have been a little worried! When one moves out, they must buy so many things to live on their own. And I'm a list person. Not an A-list person, but simply, a list person. At work, I make lists. At school, I make lists. At my other work, I make lists. At home, I make lists. Get my point? Anyways, I find myself laying in bed at night making this list in my head of things I need to buy. And every night, the list starts over again. (Don't judge me, please.) Every list starts with the same thing: a vacuum. I'm not a neat person. My room is trashed, my car is a mess, my class notes are everywhere. (But ask me to find my work shirt or my class notes from 10/11 and I'll tell you under the desk to the left of the Anthropologie bag or to the right of the laundry basket underneath my Lit binder.) But I seem to be fixated on this stupid vacuum. Maybe it's a subconscious thing... (Psych people can have a hay-day with this.) So tonight, I'm telling my mom that I am really concerned about not having a vacuum. After she laughs her bum off because, "if you don't use one now, why do you think you'll use it when you move out?!," she so kindly reminds me that us kids pooled our money for a vacuum cleaner for her birthday when we were little (12 maybe. No, her vacuum wasn't broken. We just thought we should buy her a vacuum.) And moms news? It's mine if I want it! Oh yeaa! 

A photo of my vacuum. For you. I googled this, so maybe mine's not as nice...

She also said that she has some extra fancy dishes for me! Apparently, someone bought a few sets and its spread out among the family with some still left over. So come visit me! We can have takeout pizza on fancy dishes. 

Mother Update: She told me she was going to miss me. But apparently not enough to scratch the scrapbook room.

And for a little cuteness, mom and I babysat Addy and Teagan from southern Rhode Island this weekend because their mom and dad went to Hawaii!

And they were well-behaved ladies in meeting!

I would also like to show you my lock screen on my phone right now:

Looking forward to actually living here! :)

Visiting will suffice for now.

I'm An Awful Blogger

I really am! And I'm not proud of it. School has overwhelmed my life recently and I know that only accounts for the last 2 months, but dude don't make me feel worse than I do!!! 

So I recently went to visit a few friends in Fargo, ND. It's a place I have wanted to move to for a while now. I don't know why the Midwest pulls me like it does, but I have this wicked urge to up and move when I graduate. Anyways, I went with a few New England-ers to visit a few former New England-ers and we had a great time in Hunter, a small town about an hour away from Fargo. I totally fell in love with the state of ND! I bought another round of tickets today actually! Not my moving-tickets because that's more of a road trip... But I am headed out there to check out apartments, the hospitals, and get a general lay of the land in January. When I told my mom how much the tickets were, she said, "You DO know why they are so cheap right?! NO one wants to bear that weather!!" Well, this weirdo is gonna try!

Aerial of the best state in the country!

This makes my heart flutter.

Grain bins. The tallest structures of Hunter, ND.

Reminds me of that song, "She needs wide open spaces."

How many people can you fit inside a grain bin? We crammed 153 people inside I believe, and the singin' was just amazin'!

Amber waves of grain... Or not!

The gang! What a fabulous, way-too-short weekend!

 

Looks Like Summer, But Doesn't Quite Feel Like It

Ah! Spending the beautiful day visiting beaches with a dear funky friend! I was so glad she could come and visit last weekend. It was fridgid though! The wind had no regard for our agenda. We had a blast sea-side, and then spent a day Living Free Rather Than Dying with Riley-Sue. And Austin, but sadly to say, he wasn't the main reason we visited. This time, anyway. 

Her pictures are totes fab and way better than mine. The difference? She got sandy and salty. I maintained my cotton-y, fresh-out-of-the-dryer scent and grain-less appearance. 

Anywho, the following Friday night I had planned to go to the Body Exhibit in Boston with Riley. However, I told her to take a wrong turn. Then, she corrected herself with another wrong turn. When we finally got going the same way, whoops! Repeat disaster! So we arrived to Fanueil Hall approximately 41 mins late and had to admit to being local tourists. They reassured us that they could easily switch our tickets so we could return. Fine. So we headed to dinner at a HIGHLY recommended restaurant: Park by Harvard Square. Quite yummy! Although I will also recommend not admitting up front that you won't be ordering alcohol. The cute waiter with a cute beard, cute glasses, and a cute plaid shirt doesn't show up very often after that. :'( 

But then we met up again on Sunday and, with a few less wrong turns and absolutely no illegal activity (such as backing up on an off ramp), we arrived at the Body Exhibit. And how fantastic!!!

And I babysat this cutie, Nola!