oh! darling

I have never studied more for a test. This test is comprehensive over my entire nursing school career. I have taken six 60 question and one 90 question practice tests in the past three days. I'll re-take the three I got less than a 70% on tomorrow. The test is Tuesday. It determines if I graduate this program or not. It has more weighing on it than any test I have taken so far. I'll take another one of those in the next couple of months...the NCLEX...but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

I'll find out the results of my interview with Mercy on Tuesday, also. That should be a big day for me, right? Could be really good or really bad. I would really like to get this job at Mercy. It was my first choice hospital and one of the jobs is in pediatrics which is my specialty of choice. I am extremely nervous about getting a job. It is probably my number one stressor right now.

In other news, this week, my roommate made some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from scratch that may have been the best cookies I have ever eaten. It is an interesting type of cookie (I think a lot of people have never tried it!), but this recipe is so delicious! They baked perfectly, and I ate them compulsively the day she baked them. Here is the link to the recipe she used: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies They are amazing! The next cookies she's trying are white chocolate caramel. Can't wait! :)

This section I am writing for my boyfriend's benefit :) He made fun of me for blogging (even though he does stuff more worthy of poking fun at which I will detail shortly) and said I was writing about him, so of course, that's what I'm doing. He has a chat channel on geekshed.net that has scripted bots and lots of other nerdy kids that talk to each other on it. I'm on it, too, so I guess I can't make too much fun of him :). We use the chat room to promote his tech blog and website. The blog currently is taking every day to post about one great technology gift for Christmas. Today's gift is the iPhone 4, and tomorrow's will be a Neato Room Vacuum (like a Roomba). I follow him on here, but the link to his blog is here: The Underground . I'm also on his website which he uses to manage his chat channel and sort of advertise some services (hosting server space, making Flash stuff for websites, making logos, etc). He's still working on that, but it's coming along. I'm on there listed as his CFO :). Novice Productions . Fun, right?

To close, here's a little life lesson: cherish your closest friends. When people wrong you, cherish the friends you still have even more. And let them know it. :)


"please believe me, I'll never do you no harm"

firework

This is an update just to update.  Not much is going on except school right now.  I still don't have a job which is increasingly worrying to me.  There is not much I can do about that, though.  I do have a new graduate screening interview with Mercy on Thursday.  This isn't for a job, but "it is so when there are jobs available we know who to call."  That's what they said.

I finished critical care today.  I'm pretty sure I passed that test.  Not by much, though.  I didn't get enough studying in, I think.  I have a test tomorrow that should be easier and a paper due by the end of the weekend.  Then I have the end-of-program comprehensive standardized test next Wednesday.  That should be interesting.

There was one thing that happened last week that, I guess, can be classified under life-lessons learned.  I found out just how hateful and low people can be when they hold a personal grudge against you (or someone you care about).  When it is some of your closest friends who do it to you, how do you respond to that?  How do you know who to trust.  We're still figuring this situation out, but it definitely shows you how many of your friends know the true meaning of friendship.  It's the people who tell you when you're about to be stabbed in the back (even though they were told not to or else suffer consequences) because it's the right thing to do.  But I digress.

Corey and I made another adventure to Das Fort (aka Fort Smith) yesterday.  My mom bought everyone in our family tickets to see A Christmas Carol which was put on by my home church.  I thought it was great!  I love A Christmas Carol...it's usually a goal of mine to see it once a year.  I have a few Christmas season traditions and that is one of them.  Here soon it will be high time for me to watch It's A Wonderful Life for the first time this Christmas season!  It is my all-time favorite movie, and I am going to try to persuade Corey to watch it with me.

"ignite the light and let it shine, just own the night like the fourth of July"

now my feet won't touch the ground

Today was my last day of clinical in nursing school.  It's surreal to think that what I've been working toward for four and a half years is finally almost complete.  All that stands in my way of getting my undergraduate degree is two tests and a paper.  I'm not sure I'll know what to do with myself when I'm done with school.  I've been a full-time student since I was five years old.  We'll see.  :)

In other news, I've been in a baking mood lately.  I love to bake cookies and pride myself on being able to bake them well.  I baked the most perfect sugar cookies with Christmas colored sprinkles yesterday.  I made them for the school nurse I worked with in clinical, the office staff and the CBI staff at the school.  They turned out perfect.  I mean, perfect.  Perfect crispy golden bottom with a pretty white sprinkly top.  I impressed myself.  I'm going to try to do it again, but we'll see. :)

"you wait a lifetime to be found"