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I have finally finished!!!

Graduation was back on May 29th and it sure felt amazing to finally hold my Bachelors of Science in Nursing diploma in my hand. I have spent the last several weeks working on even more applications, job interviews and studying for the NCLEX (state boards for licenser). 

I moved back to Corvallis in February, not sure if I ever posted that on here. In fact as I read down on my most recent posts over the last year or two there are very minimal posts on here from me and every time I say that I will try to do better. Maybe this time it will come smoother for me and I will be able to get back into the swing of posting on here. Well at least for now I need lunch, I have been doing practice questions for a few hours and then took a short break on here and just looked up at the clock and see that I missed lunch. 

Shameless plug...

I am starting up a new blog with the specific purpose

of showcasing my adventures in the kitchen.

Please check it out.....Roonie's Kitchen

Happy Cooking!!

~Steph

Fresh Start

Welcome back to the blog arena! Again I have gotten so very busy with nursing school that I have not had a chance to update my blog in Months and Months!

But this is going to change. I have really missed being able to write and express myself. I am going to try to get back into the blogging world again. It will take a long while but I am going to try and catch up on all the events of the past months, everything from my labor and delivery class, my time in an oncology clinic, the med surg clinical on a neuro/ortho post surgical floor, time in a cath lab with pace makers, and hmmm what else, I guess that is a good glimps of what has happened with nursing school.

I am on Christmas break now, I will be home for 2 weeks and then I will be going back to Portland for the month of January where I will be working full time in the office. Then I will be moving back home. Yes I have been out for 6 years but I think moving back home with mom is going to be a great experience. I will be able to save money and mom and I are really looking forward to catching up. Being able to spend time with grandparents will be a huge bonus as well. I have really missed spending time with them over the last several years of college.

Well I guess this is all for this post, it is mostly just an FYI type of post, but I will be putting more up soon, this one will catch everything up and then I will go into the more detailed ones :D Yes I am blabbing but oh well, it feels really good to be at a place where I will be able to start sharing life things again.

Tootles Blog world!

Caio for now

Update on me...

Well it has been around 10 months since I last updated anything on here. Life has been a roller coster for me, a lot of downs but some good ups as well. Currently I am still living in NW Portland and I am loving the life in the city. Being able to wake up to a sun rise over the city is so amazing, I have a wall to wall window in my bedroom that looks out over the west hills so sunsets from my room are fantastic. I am also now pretty darn confident in my driving around the city, I sure do not get as lost now as I did when I first moved up here in August.

I am over half way done with nursing school now! Woot Woot! In fact I have a final tomorrow for the first of my two summer classes. This course has been great, we were finally learning more of the nurs-ie things like IV push meds, hanging IV fluids, catheters, wound care and all that fun stuff. Last semester I had a wonderful course in Psych Mental Health that at some point I will try to put up a post up about my experiences on there cause it was sure a life changing experience.

On the whole I think I am doing better now than I was this fall, for those of you who knew what was going on this will be good news for you. But for those of you who don't maybe some day I will be able to share some of the experiences with you. Once I was finally strong enough to be able to reach out for help I know that road took a split and I was able to start traveling uphill rather than the plummeting path I was on before. The uphill road has been hard and a slow journey but now that I am able to start looking back with a clearer head I can start to see how far I have traveled for the better.

Now I am trying to keep doing small steps of self-betterment to help me stay on the right path. I started working out a while ago and then last week I finally splurged and bought a gym membership. I am absolutely LOVING being able to get back into a pool, the world spins right when I am in water!!! And now that I am starting to see a difference in my appearance it helps with my self confidence and overall self-perception all of which will help keep me going uphill and hopefully not start spinning down again. And drum roll please...I am down 17 pounds! I am supper stoked about it. I still have more to go, but I sure feel good about it.

Well I guess I should post this and get back to studying for my final tomorrow. I thought this would be a good study break and I was right, I am going to have to start this blog up again. I had forgotten how therapeutic writing my thoughts down can be. And who knows, I doubt anyone is reading but at least for me it is helpful so yes, I am going to try to be better at posting things up on here.

Satisfied

A good friend gave this to me a few years ago and as I was going through papers I found it again. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone-
To have a deep soul relationship with another-
Be loved thoroughly, and exclusively.
But God, to a Christian, says:
I want you to be satisfied, fulfilled, and content
With being loved by Me alone-
With giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me-
With having an intensely personal and unique relationship
With Me alone.
Discovering that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found,
Will you be capable of the best human relationship
That I have planned for you.

I want you to be united with another after you are united with Me-
Exclusive of anyone or anything else,
Exclusive of any other desires or longings.
I want you to stop planning, stop wishing,
And allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing-
One that you cannot imagine.
I want you to have the best-
Please allow Me to bring it to you.
You just keep watching Me, trusting Me-
Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I am.
Keep listening and learning the things I tell you.
You just wait.
That's all.

Don't be anxious.
Don't worry.
Don't look around at the things
Others have gotten or that I've given them.
Don't look at the things you think you want.
You just keep looking off and up to Me,
Or you'll miss what I want to show you.

And then, when you're ready, I'll surprise you with a love
Far more wonderful than any you would dream of.
You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready,
(I am working even at this moment to have both of you ready at the same time),
Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and the life I prepared for you,
You won't be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with me.
And this is the perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have the most wonderful love.
I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me,
And to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty, perfection, and love
That I offer you with Myself.
Know that I love you utterly.
I am God.
Believe and be satisfied

I am back!

I have not been on in ages...why....well I moved to Portland to start nursing school and found out that the building is wireless...great for those with laptops but not if you have a desktop. I try to use the computer lab but it closes at 5 p.m. which makes it so I only use if for homework and not for fun things like blogging. But my grandpa was AMAZING and offered to get me a macbook! It arrived today and I am loving it so far. Now that I have internet when ever I want I will be able to do homework and do the fun little extras.

Hopefully soon I will be able to catch you up on all the fun things that have happened in the last 3 weeks, but for now know that I am loving school so far!!

Tootles

Steph