NCLEX!!!

My NCLEX exam is tomorrow!!! I'm so nervous and tired at the same time!! I need to get through some more reading so I can take some practice tests. I have to be there at 7:30am!! and really who wants to take a test that early?!! I can't wait for it to be over!! I hope I pass because I don't want to have to study anymore!!!

It will be exciting to officially be a nurse and have my license!! Hope it goes welL!!!

Boyfriend!

So I bet you all never thought you would see the day when I got a boyfriend :)

Well I do... and he's great. So sweet and kind. He treats me like a princess and it's so fun to hang out together. I'm not sure what will happen in the future, but I am glad that he is in my life and I know that God is going to teach me a lot through the process. Please pray for us and for him.

He won't let me post any pictures on facebook.... he is very self conscious. I'm not sure exactly where it stems from, but I can add a photo for you... I'm not even sure if anyone reads this. :)

His name is J.R. :)

Anna's getting married!!!

SO I'm pretty darn excited because my friend Anna is getting married in a few weeks. :) I'm soooo happy for her!! I've known her for 8 years and from the very beginning she has always wanted to be married and now it's happening!! I know it has been worth the wait and she had found the person she will be with for the rest of her life! I couldn't be more thrilled!! I am super excited I get to watch as they become man and wife! :) I'm up for a road trip with the Grubbs!! :) how exciting!! :) I'm also just excited to see Anna period! Twice in one year?! How blessed am I?!! :) considering I've seend her a total of 3 times in the last 7 years. :(

She's a missionary and Chile and before that moved back up North so not easy to visit. She is such an amazing woman with a big hear for God. I couldn't be more blessed. :)

to make a difference

Someday I'm gunna do big things

I'm gunna be known for something.

I feel like a lot of time I do a lot but it all goes unnoticed... people take me for granted. Not that I do things to be noticed, but sometimes it's nice just to have someone come along and encourage you. Let you know that what you are doing has made a difference. 

Today one of the teachers that I have spent the least amount of time with told me how hard I work. and it was very nice to hear, especially since I don't know how she really could have known that. I got a B in the last class she taught and there are so many that are doing better than me. My goal was to be the best and even though that isn't going to happen, even though others are going to get better grades, my goal is to make a difference. Its not about who gets to be team lead the most times or whose so and sos favorite, what matters is that we make a difference, we go out of our way to help others. and even though it may go unnoticed by everyone you hope to matter to, there's always someone watching... it may even be the person you least suspect, but they encourage you to keep at it and it makes you think for a moment that its not all in vain, that someday it will matter to more people and you'll be more. 

So stay strong and keep pushing... someday more people will see how much of a difference just a single person can make. 

Difficult Tasks

"Dear God
Please remind me that I can do anything for a little while
I can do repetitive chores
I can do unpleasant things
I can do difficult tasks surrounded by difficult people, under the most unpleasant circumstances
I can do all things that I have convinced myself that I am afraid to do.
Please remind me that I can do anything for a little while.
I can feel uncomfortable
I can feel inadequate, unworthy or ill equipped and still move forward in a positive direction until I feel better.
I can feel unsure
I can feel my faith waning and my strength draining and still accomplish something good, something great, something worthwhile.
Please God, remind me that I can do anything for a little while.
When I feel like running away or turning around, please remind me.
When I am whining and complaining, please God, remind me that no task is too small, unimportant or insignificant. Remind me that all I do for you today will be rewarded tenfold tomorrow.
Please, God, remind me that I can do anything for a little while. and while I am doing all that has been given to me to do, remind me to give you praise for the ability to do anything at all.
For the presence of your peace in the midst of all of my duties, I am eternally and humbly grateful."

Anna makes her return!

Sooo I finally got to see Anna again. :) It was wonderful. I went to Tara's house monday after school. Got there about 3:40 or so and Didn't get home til 12:40! They decided to shut down the 57 freeway... It was wonderful to sit and hang out and hear all about how God is working in her life and about the special man in her life. It all makes me so happy and I am so blessed to have her as a friend. She's been there for me and helped me over the last 8 years with so much. Honestly sometimes I wonder how she could ever even put up with me. But I am just so very thankful that she has. She is such an amazing person and has such a heart for Christ. I hope to live my life for Christ the way she does. We hung out with Tara and her 4 kids and her husband and also another friend Dave. We took the kids for a run around the block! Lol I am definitely sore from all of that tag. :) and yes it does bring me pleasure knowing that I'm faster than a 7, 5 and 3 year old :)
There are many people in life that make a difference in so many ways. People that go in and out of your life and people that make their return. people you've lost touch with for no reason at all but then get reconnected with.
I use to have a lot of people enter and leave. It was hard for me b/c I get so attached to people. Anna and I really only had one year together. When I was a wee freshmen in HS... ;) and then she moves back home about 6 hours north. Then she has been a missionary for the last several years. since at least my Senior year of HS i believe. but we have been excellent pen pals. :) I saw her about a year and a half ago. Summer 2007. She was passing through on her way to some foreign country so i hung out with her during her lay over at the airport. :) Each time I see her it is always very emotional. Our time is short but sweet and I don't know when the next time I will see her again and I haven't seen her in so long... plus I'm just an emotional person anyway. But I think the biggest thing is... she's never given up on me. No matter what. She's stuck it out, she's been there she has no judgment. she just has the biggest heart and yet admits how human and flawed she is. and that is why she is my hero :) What a blessing to have people like her in my life :) always and forever! I hope to be like her!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Well I definitely started the New Year out right... lol making money... :)

haha I never do anything for New years... I worked with one of my manager's patrick all night> he's awesome. We had fun counting down even though we weren't sure the exact seconds lol. but it was like little kids on christmas or something. it was fun. :) He informed me that I am more boring than him! lol since he just turned 19 and he's a full time student and assistant manager. lol but hey I got a lot of homework to do. speaking of which.... I need to start getting to bed at a reasonable hour so I can wake up early and do it. I plan on getting a lot done tomorrow. I just have one more friend I need to hang out with. And another one of my friends is going to be getting a divorce. So please pray for her. Her name is Jessica... I call her Jessie. So I've been trying to help her a lot too when I should be doing my hw... but hey a friend in need right?

I'm definitely excited for this year. I will be a nurse in 9 months!! Well at least have graduated from Nursing school. then it will probably be another 2 months to take the boards! but I know God has a great thing planned and I'm not in a huge rush to graduate. Although I am definitely excited to be doing so... I'm enjoying the process of learning and going to school and clinical and building relationships with people. So I'm not ready to give that all up yet!

I've reconeccted with some amazing people... because Facebook is fully awesome!!!! :D 

Seriously!! 

And I am excited to be seeing Anna in 4 days!!! :) :) :) :) :)

Katie is home!! and that is exciting

I hope this year there is less fighting. I'm going to try to do my best to keep a good environment. So pray for a lot of patience and strength. 

I look forward to the nursing life. I'm excited to be a traveling nurse someday too. I don't think anyone will miss me too much. I'm usually super busy and don't have time to hang out with anyone and I've always been a homebody. Don't really get too many invites to gatherings and things so I don't feel tied down anywhere. The whole world is an open opportunity and I can live all over it! and I don't have to worry b/c I'm super good about keeping in touch with people. :) and when I do come home then everyone will want to see me. 

But I will be having a graduation party!! so Be ready!!

I graduate September 19, 2009!!! at like 6pm!! so save the date!!! :)

here's to 2009 and fulfilling my dream of becomming a nurse :)