A day in the life of a nursing student

Well, I can honestly say I am wiped out. Its 0130 am and while I should finally be going to bed, I am blogging. I must say that I am very ready for the summer. I mean, more than ready! The past few days have proved extremely difficult, but manageable. Let me give you a glimpse into school. This week and this week alone, I have read a chapter in history (not short chapters either!!! >.<) which has to be read in order to write out the terms, written 2 history blogs (need to do two more); I have typed up 3-4 page prep sheets of information on strokes, diabetes, and schizophrenia; I have wrote a 5 page paper on Congestive heart failure, a paper on what I believe the “heart of nursing is,” and a paper on death and dying. Sadly, three papers isn’t enough and I still need to write a paper on Iwo Jima and Okinawa for my history class. I have an exam on Monday, a clinical case study exam on Tuesday, and an online national nursing exam on Wednesday (ERI is what it’s called.) And I still have yet to do three practice tests for this ERI thing. I also need to answer 100 NCLEX questions on an NCLEX program (to turn in), do a few micro simulation studies (on nursing situations) and complete a few nursing programs at the Bivins nursing lab. PHEW!!!!! Sadly that’s not all, but you get the point. Question is where have I found time to study? Typing up the prep sheets helped for the exam on Tuesday, but tomorrow is cram day for Monday’s test L There you go, a glimpse into the life of a nursing student. Believe it or not, this is not stuff I have procrastinated to do. It is a typical week in nursing school! This is a week’s worth of stuff. See why I am ready for summer??!!?!?!?! This has been the most difficult semester so far and I know it’s only going to get harder. Despite the stress, God has his arms around me and is helping me through the end of the semester. Now if He could just take the test for me….. ;)

Palo Duro Canyon

So we went to Palo Duro Canyon yesterday with Kendra and Brandon. Kendra and Brandon, like us, are newly married and will be celebrating thier 1 year anniversary in May! It is awesome having another newlywed, young couple to hang out with ! We really enjoy thier company.

We had alot of fun yesterday but man are we all hurting today! We are incredibly sunburned! We were planning to only hike for about 2 hours but instead hiked for about 4. Texas sun definately requires sunscreen no matter what. Kendra and I are both miserable, as we shoot flames out of our bodies! I hurt so bad :( Lesson definately learned. You think I would have learned before, but evidently not. This time I did! Sunscreen no matter what!

Our dogs really enjoyed it. Luna became a mountain dog, climbing everything! She pounced into a paw paw cactus as she was after a grasshopper. I then had to dig out a couple spikes from her leg, but she didnt care ;) When we got to the truck, she was like "are we done?" she could have hiked for another week. June had fun, but came home with tender toes. They are not use to "canyon climbing."

Kendra and Brandon and Cory and I agree that our next outing will be somewhere out of the sun!

New blogger!

Hey folks,

I have decided to join the world of blogging. Hopefully it will be interesting. I have never had a blog before so this will be a learning process but I think it would be a fun way for Cory and I to keep everyone up to date with whats goin on. I will continue to post my pics and send them out as well. While I am nowhere near ready for children, I am insanely jealous of the Jacksons and the Landas with thier blogs about thier kids! How fun! My kids just are furry and have 4 legs ;) I think it would be fun to give everyone a peek into our lives, being newly married and all. And since we are so far away, it is a fun way to hear about whats going on in our lives and see through the pics as well. I hope that everyone enjoys it. I know I love getting on the Landas and Jacksons blogs , its so fun to see thier children grow and hear about what they are doing! But like I said, I am new at this whole blogging thing so it make take a bit for me to figure it out. Please feel free to comment cuz its always fun to hear from everyone =) So here goes, my first post, lets see if I can actually do this right.....