Brick by Brick.

It was really weird today.. I got an email from school stating that I need to come in as soon as possible and start my graduation submission forms. Wow. I can't believe that day is actually coming up. I feel like I just started school here. This road has been hard, but faster than I could have imagined. Kind of scary that I'll get to be a grown up soon with a grown up job and have to do grown up things like pay real bills and live by myself... But I actually get to graduate! I'll be walking in December though since you can't walk in the summer. Which I don't mind as long as I'm still here. Not sure how the job market will be by then. I'd like to stay in Vegas for a bit, but we'll see. I definitely could see myself living near a beach though...

Well, it's been a little rough getting back into the swing of things. But so far it hasn't been like last semester when I've had to study literally to midnight every night just to keep up. I actually should be studying now.... oh well.

This year so far has been great. I feel happy and I feel like I am starting to have some what of a balanced life even though it's a Friday night and I'm currently at home... but I'm playing tomorrow so that counts :)

The end.

TGIF.

I had an amazing spring break!! You know why?? Because I actually took a break! (For those that know me... surprise, surprise.)

I slept in.

I actually went out with friends.

I watched TV without staring at the clock.

I went running.

I went to other places besides school.

I only did school work one day out of the week. I was planning on studying throughout the week, but that didn't happen. Rodeos and movies happened instead. It was what I needed.

Unfortunately, Sunday was the first sign of a cold I caught which moved into my chest and made my throat swell so I've lost my voice (even as I write this I can barely talk). Coming back from a nice break has made it a lot harder to pick up my study habits again. And being sick doesn't help either. It has made it hard to focus, especially when you're trying not to cough up one of your lungs (Sorry, TMI perhaps??! lol).

Having a break so late in the semester is not a good idea either. I only have 2 more weeks til finals now! Weirdly enough I don't feel stressed about it. I'm at a point where a B or C will be just fine. I'm ready to move on.

Wish me luck the next two weeks anyways! Hopefully I'll be better by Monday.

Just a Thought.

Have you ever been sad and you know you brought it on yourself and you can fix it by making more of an effort, but you still wish they would actually make the effort first or at least not give up on you even though you probably shouldn't expect them to try anymore??

Yea.

That's a First!

I gave in and decided to start a blog! Mostly, because my friend Antonia has told me I should do one for awhile now and she believes that I have so many exciting moments in my life... if you want to count studying hours on end and not much else in my opinion. So expect many exciting blogs on complaining about test after test and study sessions! But I do want to record more memories and one of my goals is to keep a blog for when I finally get into nursing school and can record this new and hopefully exciting journey ahead! So if I start now, I'll hopefully have developed a good enough habit to keep it up by then.

I guess I'll start off a little bit about myself... I grew up in Utah and moved to Las Vegas of all places. My family moved here before me and I always knew in the back of my mind that I should have moved to Vegas with them, but decided against it because I thought "I knew better." I learned a lot during that time alone. I also learned what not to do. I decided I really needed to make my life go in a direction and decided to head to Vegas and start school at UNLV. I decided to go into nursing for many reasons, which I may list in another blog later on.

I'm not going to lie, it's been a tough road so far. Harder than I could have imagined. I thought that I didn't stand a chance in a lot of my classes going into this major. I gave up so many times and I've been so blessed to have gotten this far even though I've been pessimistic. I've learned to settle down and have more patience and optimisim throughout it all. Science was never an area I thought I could do or thought I was interested in. But here I am! Still on my way into the program and now I only have 3 more classes to face before I can apply and hopefully get in soon. I'd like to start by the Fall, but I can't predict that just yet. Too many variables right now. But it's so close that it's making me nervous!

Besides school, I spend my time with a lot of great friends that I've made here and I couldn't be happier regardless of all the obstacles I've had to face so far. I'm glad to have learned some of the things I've learned the hard way. I don't think I'd appreciate what I have if I hadn't. Plus, life wouldn't be as fun or amazing if you didn't have to work at it, right?!