Crawling to the Finish Line

Okay it may not be the finish line exactly, but I am crawling towards Spring Break. Four more days, and ya know what? I think I'll make it!

Since I'm trying to catch up on this whole blogging thing, this might be a little scatterbrained (but, then again, whats new?)

Three weeks, start to finish, I can officially down with my thesis proposal! The weight that was lifted off my shoulders, I'm talking a freaking elephant, was a pretty euphoric feeling. The moment I pressed submit for my funding grant, I could see the confetti flying inside my brain, there were even those party poppers! I can't say I know a whole lot about congestive heart failure now, but hopefully give me a year and at least I might know something. Speaking of nursing, I learned how to start an IV last week! I'm taking volunteers for people to practice on..just kidding (well sort of). I'm sure the entire universe will hear about the first IV I start on an actual person...

Last Thursday was a great day to be an Arkansas Tri Delta! We had our annual Pancake Pigout philanthropy dinner, with all the proceeds (the pancakes were donated!!) going to the precious little kiddos at St. Jude. One of our cooks had to leave for the night so yours truly even flipped a few flapjacks! My first batch definitely didn't make the cut, but I got the hang out it after a few flips. The highlight of the night came when I finally got my chance to be Dolphy the Dolphin (and no that's not the mascots real name, I just felt like it needed a name). I climbed into the mascot suit and shook my fin like there was no tomorrow! I can't say being a mascot was necessarily on my bucket list but it is now (and crossed off I might add)

This weekend was a much needed break. I got to head on down to Little Rock to hang out with the brothers. Even Matt was off from her surgery rotation! We took the little nuggets to the zoo for the new baby tigers' welcome home party! I think I might have even had more fun then Marshall. The joys of staying in a gluten free household, Jason's Deli and P.F. Changs, um yum. Of course we couldn't not celebrate St. Patty's Day so we added a little food coloring to some champagne and voila, green drinks! I finally got to see Frozen, a perk of staying with parents of small children. I even got a few hours to be a total granola and try out my new hammock in the backyard! Overall, a great weekend, of course it's always great when I get to see my family.

A little blurp, I'm going to Honduras for Spring Break! I'm going with an organization called Global Medical Brigades. Basically, along with about 30 other students, we'll travel with some doctors, dentists, and pharmacists to rural Honduras and provide medical care to those who would not otherwise have it. Now this definitely has been on my bucket list!!!! I can't wait, I will for sure share when I get back.

Also coming up when I get back, BIRTHDAY PALOOZA!!!!! The big 2-1 is right around the corner!

Mmmm Mmmm Chicken

I bet you'd think this post was going to be about chicken by the title, hate to break it to you, but its not. It's more about the embodiment of a chicken, specifically a chicken with it's head cut off (a little morbid if you ask me). Picture it, me running around like a chicken with its head cut off (don't worry, I still had my head). That has been me for the past few weeks, hence the lack of blogging, or sleeping, or reading, or (insert any action here). Crawling towards spring break is an understatement!


I've been cruising along all semester than all of a sudden WHAM! So long free time! It all began with a snow day. Sounds great, right? Yes it was fantastic and much needed but a definite productivity suck. Not to mention it was the 10th snow day of the semester (tuition money hard at work!). A test I had got moved to the end of the week so everything was peachy (of course, I conveniently forgot I had another test on the same day). Then came the whole process of trying to figure out how to be in two classes at the exact same time (both were mandatory of course). After hours of emailing my teachers and researching how to acquire a time-turner device, one of my teachers decided to cancel skills lab-whew another crisis averted. Class ended up being super awesome, who knew an interdisciplinary healthcare class would be my favorite class this semester? I guess it's not hard to compete with "Nursing Research." Wednesday was when things started to snowball. I had 5 hours of skills lab, two tests to study for (and no time), and I promised a friend I'd go to a basketball game. Of course that is when I should have been a smart and stayed in to study, but the game rocked so I'm over it. Then came the day I never want to relive again…. It started with 4 hours of skills lab (during which I passed out so thats cool), then a random honors college meeting, then a race against the clock to get the Reidster from daycare by 6 (I may or may not have ignored just a few traffic laws) (ps, I got him at 5:59, BOOM), then a trip to halfway to fort smith to drop Reid off turned into a trip basically to Fort Smith, then came the hilariously weird situation of having to have a phone interview for my NSLC job in the parking lot of a gas station (I can hardly drive without getting distracted, much less drive and write). Back to Fayetteville by 8:30, just in time to stay up for hours studying for my two tests. Not  happy campers putting it lightly! Needless to say by Friday, I was exhausted, with no time for a nap (it's a rough life, I know). I had the chance to volunteer with one of my favorite organizations that Friday night, rEcess. It's basically a parents night out program for parents who have children with special needs. One of my favorite nights of the month for sure. It always puts it into perspective that, yes, my week may have been colossally sucky, but I brought a lot of that stress on myself. Some people have way more on their plate than they ever could have wanted, but they make it through, and so can I. And if playing with parachutes and trains and dolls doesn't make you happy, then you're crazy.

Before I go try to harness what minimal productivity I have left for the day, here's a little photo recap

A little baseball game fun

The house does look gorgeous in the snow, but I'm still over it

Fayetteville does have some of the coolest sunsets

basketball game with the gals!