Hair Cut.

New thing number 7: Cutting my own hair.

So lets be honest, I haven't worked in a couple months (I was in nursing school, and then after I am PRN, so they aren't obligated to give me hours... and ... yeah.) and I DESPERATELY needed a hair cut. So yeah. I didn't do too badly. It looks pretty much the same, just slightly shorter.

Pics?? Not right now, sorry.

ALSO-- Trivia Night!!! Its so fun. We ALMOST won tonight, and we half-won last time.
       I must say that I must go back again so we can get the full win.

Tomorrow morning I have my pre-employment physical and I start my paperwork. My new job is under way!

--NCLEX studying. hooray.

Things Are All Sorts of Good.

I'm awesomely happy with 92% of my life right now... which is pretty dang phenomenal.

I mean, look at what I have done/am doing!! I...

1) graduated

2) registered for boards

3) attained a highly sought-after, fantastic opportunity/job

4) had my Doctors Without Borders Webinar last night

5) hanging around some PRETTY FANTASTIC people.  [what an understatement!!!]

6) have time to climb out of my social interaction deficit.

so could life be better??

I'm always gonna say yes! but I don't really know how...


Side note: New thing number 6 is doing the Big Brother Big Sister program. My interview is Monday!!

Here is the scariest 5 minutes of any young child's life right here




Well, it always freaked me out when I was a kid... 

and you wonder why there are so many crazy people around!!

Jennifer Harmon, [almost] RN

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

I've spent 5 years getting a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. I have a ~very~ sought-after job: I am an RN Intern at UAB. I start orientation on the 13th. These past 5 years have been *absolutely* insane. These years have been the both the BEST and WORST years of my life. I have made amazing friends; these friendships will endure for years to come. These people have supported me in so many incredible ways. My friends have been SO very important to me these past 5 years because they have helped me learn to grow when crazy things happened to me and whatnot, rather than me not meeting the challenge.

This Friday, I will not just celebrate graduation from UAB with a BSN.
I'm celebrating:
--the incredible friendships I made, and the amazing old friends I've kept.
--my family that supports me in what I do.
--the fact that I worked through some difficult sh*t. you have no idea.
--the individual successes all along the way in nursing school.
--hitting all the important nursing career milestones. giving REAL chest compressions, having a patient die on me, starting my first IV, getting blood when the person is a REALLY hard stick, having so many "firsts"...
--the fact that I don't have to wear that heinous all-white uniform anymore
--not dying from mono. or another something something I won't mention here... or even yet another something... or when I totaled my car.
--that I learned how sometimes you have to just let people go out of your life. Its better for you and better for them.
--wearing out my first pair of nursing shoes.
--that I can genuinely love people.
--that I love who I am.
--my compassion.
--that I LOVE what I do.
--I will have time do more things that I love and spend time with people I love.
--that I have a job in this rough economic time!!!
--that I learned to use a planner.
--I learned how to learn. I learned HOW to think. I learned how to REALLY read.
--my appreciation for the arts, music, singing that I gained.
--my emotional, mental, spiritual, and social growth.
--what is to come.

Bad Things.

Bad things happen to me at the end of every semester of nursing school.
--Last semester: got my car nice and totaled!!
--semester before: I was in the hospital.
--semester before that: grandpa died during finals, and I hydroplaned on the way to the hospital and seriously almost died myself.
--and the semester before that: too bad to say/ ended a friendship that was pretty important to me at the time. for some reason.

So excuse me as I get ULTRA nervous and stressed the next few weeks as the semester draws to a close....
as i don't wanna get in another wreck or go to the ER or have someone die on me...

on another note: i have tried new thing number 5: dying eyebrows.
1 time it looked good and the other---well if you see me, you'll know!!

Some Things You May Not Know

I've been in a pageant. I've never been white water rafting. Yellow is subconsciously my favorite color. If money was no object, I would be a "life coach". I <3 photography. I've been spending ~40 hours a week in the hospital this summer for "work". I miss playing guitar. I miss my best friends. I think some people you are MEANT to meet, and some people you just happen to meet. I used to be a pescevegetarian.... for 4 hours. My favorite sport to play is basketball. I love traveling. I love trying new things. I do not like hotels. If it didn't matter that I ate all that sugar, I would eat FrootLoops every day. I think I used to be more funny. I like ultra girly-girl stuff, but I'm not "high maintenance". I prefer sleeping 8 hours a night. There's this TV show that I LOVE to watch, but I'm not gonna tell you what it is. I try really hard not to be such a darned people pleaser. I like giving advice. My favorite part of my job is not having anybody tell me exactly what to do. I'm terrible at drawing. I want to go skydiving. I want to be more of an outdoorsy-type chic when I get done with school and go hiking and camping and mountain biking and stuff. I'm not naturally athletic, but I can get good at a sport if I practice a lot. I REALLY like reading. I can't wait until I get to buy my next car. I'm fairly patriotic. I want to be one of those people that get up and exercise every morning before work, etc, but I am SO not a morning person.... I'm think I have been subconsciously scared of success. I'm not a cry-er. The end for now.

Health

I would like to tell the world that YOU are responsible for your health. There is no health without mental health, so get off your crazy, jacked-up arse and fix it.