Hungry!

I am SO hungry today! I ate breakfast and lunch, but I just want to keep eating!! :( My stomach keeps on growling! I'm trying to fill up on some water for now. Must...resist...temptation....

More School!

Ugh! I cannot wait to be done with all this! It seems like I have been going to school forever (even if I have been out for the past 5 months)! I never had that sense of relief with finishing up my ADN program because I knew all along that I was not done, but would need to keep going to get my BSN.

So, the past couple of weeks, I have been doing a lot of research into the different RN to BSN programs out there. Right now, I have it narrowed down to the school I went to for my ADN (as they just started a BSN program) or Ohio University. I checked out several other programs besides these 2, including OSU, Grand Canyon University, and Indiana Wesleyan (to name a few), but it comes down to these for the following reasons...

If I go to my previous school: 1) I don't have to worry about courses not being transferable and having to re-take courses. 2) They already have all of my information, making this process that much easier. 3) It is 100% online. 4) There are no clinicals involved.

If I go to OU: 1) It's cheaper. 2) People have heard of OU, making it more respectable.

Cons of my previous school: 1) It costs more 2) When people ask where I went to school, the most common response is "where's that?"

Cons of OU: 1) Possible issues with transferring courses. 2) Science courses are not available online, so I will have to take those at another school (CSCC) and transfer them in. = Pain in the @$$.

So, all in all, I am hoping for the OU option. In the end, it is going to come down to whether or not my classes will all transfer in. I refuse to retake a bunch of courses. One or two, I would consider, but any more than that, and I will likely go with my previous school.

Fingers crossed!

PS: Filling out FAFSA sucks!! :(

ONEderful!

I don't really blog about this subject on here (I have a separate blog for it), but today I weighed in at a weight that I have not seen since January of 2010. In this case, that's a good thing! Still far from where I want and need to be, but it is an accomplishment. One that is still in progress, but this happens to be a decent mile marker, so I thought I would post it here since this is the blog I use the most.

Now I need to keep on keepin' on! Go me!

Road Trips!

My 2 friends and I had a good time working yesterday. Even more so after working when we stopped at some outlet malls to shop on our way home! It did, however, make for a very long day. I had to leave my house at 7:45 am to drive to a friend's house, which, with traffic, ended up taking me an hour! We left there around 9:00 to head out on our 2 hour journey to work a health screening. When that ended at 4:00 pm, we stopped and ate dinner then headed to the outlets. We shopped there until around 8:30 and I finally got home around 10:00 pm.

Today, I worked an event from 7:30 am - 12:30 pm. When I got home, I got a call basically begging me to switch my event tomorrow (about 45 minutes from my house) to an event that's 2.5 hours away. I will again get extra money for drive time and mileage, and someone else will be riding with me to make the trip seem to go a little faster and split gas money with. Bring on the road trips! Nothing like getting paid to drive! :)

Yay!

After not working any events last week (not for lack of trying on my part), I have 2 events scheduled to work this week so far. Tomorrow, I'll be working at an event a little over 2 hours away. Fortunately, they pay extra for drive time as well as mileage. Even more fortunately, I'll be riding with 2 friends from nursing school who also work these events. Today, I was asked if I could work an event in my area on Wednesday. Of course I jumped on that! Seriously, this is the easiest money (not to mention the most per hour) I have ever made! Bring it on!

Can't get this song out of my head...

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing for the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead
Yeah

Aww

Bella laying with me this morning! :)

Trick or Treat

My babies in their costumes tonight:

Zombie bride


Darth Vader


Not-so-thrilled "pup"kin

Ew...

Ever cough and have snot fly out of your nose? No? Just me? Ok, well, that's the kind of day I'm having. Blah!

I wish I could just get over this nasty cough already! My chest hurts. :(

Loelsh, RN

This came in the mail on Saturday. Looks good on paper! ;-)

Long Week!

First thing Monday morning, I took the nursing boards. I thought for certain I was failing and left feeling very much less than confident. As of Tuesday, however, my nursing license is now active! I am officially a registered nurse!

A friend of mine started working for a health care company that goes around to different companies all over to do health screenings(height/weight/BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose readings) and she gave me the information. So, after finding out my license is active on Tuesday, I sent out an email. I heard back from them immediately and was able to go in and work a health clinic on Wednesday! How crazy is that?!

It is per diem, as needed. So, not a full time job, but it is something! And, it gets me some experience to put on my resume. I worked again this morning, and am scheduled to work 3 days next week, so far.

I have been working at a major financial institution that has several different large locations around the area therefore requiring my company's services over several different days and weeks. I'm pretty sure that we will be working at one particular location through the end of November. So, hopefully, I will be able to work it several days a week and save up some Christmas money and some good work experience!

Know what I don't like?

When you go into Subway, even if just for 2 minutes, you leave smelling like subway and the smell sticks to you for the rest of the day. It really doesn't smell as good as it tastes!

Crackle!

I bought some of this crackle nail polish I've heard so much about. It is actually really cool! You paint your nails any regular color you want, then you paint the crackle polish over it and it separates and dries like this:



I'll have to buy some orange polish to wear under it for Halloween! :)

:o

Oh, dear 8 pound 6 ounce newborn infant Jesus, they have it in CHOCOLATE!!!

Yummy Treat!

I heart smoothies!

I'm sure you've seen these advertised, and maybe you've tried them. If not, I totally recommend them! Yoplait fruit smoothies. You add a cup of milk with one package and blend them together and make 2 very delicious fruit smoothies!

On top of their deliciousness, you get calcium and a full serving of fruit (and a little vit C, fiber, and protein as well!). They aren't terrible on sugar either, (10 g/serving). I could seriously just drink these things all day long. YUM!

Picture and info found here: http://yoplait.com/products/yoplait-smoothie-yogurt

Face Palm!

My iPhone charger often comes up missing. I usually end up finding it attached to my oldest daughter's iPod touch. The following conversation occurred this evening:

Her: Can I borrow your charger?

Me: Uh, no, my phone is charging.

Her: But my battery is about to die.

Me: It's not my fault you lost your charger.

Her: I didn't lose it.

Me: Oh? Then where is it?

Her: I don't know.

*Sigh* At least she asked first this time...

Homecoming Weekend

Just a couple of pics of my beautiful baby girl!

Here she is with one of her besties at the football game last night:


And Getting ready for the dance tonight:


It's amazing, seeing as she was just born!! :/

Conflicting feelings

I have been having a lot of these lately. I am really not a fan of it. While there are conflicting feelings going on in my head about other things as well, at this very moment I am dealing with this particular set of conflicting feelings: I am very hungry, yet nothing sounds good, and I feel a little nauseous.

I'm not sure what my deal is. I generally like salad. Granted, I need to have dressing on it to enjoy it, but I like it. I usually try to get by with as little dressing as possible. Well, recently, I have just not been able to eat salad. I have tried, on more than one occasion, to get a salad for lunch and end up having to force myself to eat it. I have been getting about half way through before I simply can't stand another bite of it. This makes me very sad. :( Hopefully, this is just a phase that will quickly pass.

Where did Bella go?

Oh.

Snotty

I had a little bit of issues with my sinuses yesterday, but I woke up this morning feeling like all the mucus is about to make my head explode and I seem to be losing my voice. Stupid sinuses!!

On top of feeling miserable, I'm still freaking hungry! All. The. Time. Seriously, stomach, I just fed you. STFU! Tell me this will eventually go away!!! Arrrgh!