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.