Big Test

Tomorrow is my first (and hopefully only) HESI test, which we much pass to graduate. We are given three chances, I know I won't need it, but hopefully I will pass the first time. So, please pray for me that I do well. I have this desire to go dancing this week. Not club dancing, but something close to ballroom with tyler. Except I don't know the first thing about ballroom. It is also the most beautiful time of year and I want to spend every waking moment outside. I want to go fishing, not because I love fishing, but because Tyler enjoys it and I just really enjoy being near the water. So, it works for both of us. He likes to fish, I like the water.

Last week, I had an unfortunate accident on a teeter totter. Some how, while trying to dismount said teeter totter I landed up on the ground after what must have been some impressive aerials. Anyhow, I landed very hard on the ground and hurt my wrist. It was swollen and it is still a little bit bruised and it was tender to the touch. A week later, it is still bothering me. I'm trying to decide if I want to go have an x-ray done. I can do it at the school, but it will take a week for the results to come back. By then, it will probably be all better. But, what if it is fractured? I don't know. I need to do some more investigating with my insurence.

Mission Trip

Well, the mission trip came and went. It was ok. We stayed in Gueydon, LA, which is half way between Lafayette and Lake Charles. From what I understand, the Lake Charles storm relief office is closing and, well, they didn't have much work for us to do. We ended up painting a dining hall at a Christian camp in Lake Arthur. I still don't understand how this camp works, because there were more privately owned houses on the camp grounds than dormitories for campers. Emotions were up and down on the mission trip. We had a young man with us who has one of the more minor forms of Autism. That in itself made for trying times. It was very difficult to deal with him and his idiosyncracies for 5 days straight. There was just a feeling of tension from start to finish. I don't know if it was just me, or if others felt it. It wrecked havock on my stomach. I was sick more days last week, than I had been in the last two years. I prayed to God so hard the whole week before to let this week be a good week, and it was in a lot of respects. But, what I was trying really hard to see the good in was still not good. It's hard when you want life to be roses and it's not. If you are reading this and you are of a prayerful nature, please pray for my sister. Please pray that God speaks to her heart about the decisions she has been making lately.

It's been a while.....

.....since I've last blogged. I am so sick of school at this point, that I've all but stopped studying for tests even. Not good, but hey! All I have to do is pass.....because......I GOT A JOB YESTERDAY for after graduation! I will be a Cardiovascular ICU Nurse a Baylor University Medical Center! Woo Hoo! Tyler is also taking me on vacation after graduation. He said it was for graduation and just because he loves me. How sweet! I love him so much! Last week we hit the six month mark. It's hard to believe that it's been that long!

In other news, we sent Jake off to war last week. He is currently in San Antonio doing convoy training. In a month he will then go to Kuwait. My great-uncle Stanley "Spinner" Krumm died two days ago. My dad is leaving for South Dakota tomorrow for the funeral and will be back on Tuesday. His boss is really great, because not only is he letting him off but he is paying for him to go. My good friend Jared's dad has cancer and is not doing well. It has moved to his bones. I have just been through this with Jen, I don't really care to do it again. But, I will. I must. Let's see, what else is going on.......

I am going to a town semi-near Lake Charles, LA for a mission trip in two weeks. It should be fun. But, you never get away from the studying. When we get back, I will have to take the HESI exit. Hopefully I pass it the first time. Well, I should get off this thing. I have a test tomorrow and I need to study. Ick.