I GOT ACCEPTED INTO MY NURSING CLINCIALS FOR MY RN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!

All I can say is THANK YOU LORD!!!! HE IS WORTHY! THANK YOU JESUS!!! I am soo happy that I FINALLY got into my RN program! God is soooo good!
:)

oh yeah and I just came back from Florida last night! I had a blast with my cousin. We went to the mall, beaches, and drove around the area. It was so nice to reconnect with her after all these years.
We are planning another trip either me there or her here.. She really wants to come up north for the Winter because she has never seen snow.. So we shall see!

Next my birthday is Saturday and I will be celebrating my 30th (and also my acceptance letter!) then the countdown to our 5th year anniversary and surprise trip....well surprise for the hubby ;)

What I found out today....

So since I had not received a letter from my possibly future school for my ADN program so I called today to find out that I was not one of the first picks for this program. I do feel a little disappointed in that but I know that I was planning to apply again in the Spring if I did not get in. Everything happens for a reason and maybe it is just not the right time for me to start the program. As much as I would want it to be, God said that it is just not the time for me yet :(

They say that they will contact me if one of the first set of people decline or fail to complete the packet details that they will start on their back up waiting list, but I will not get my hopes up for this list.

My plan is to possibly either take the summer off and take some classes in Fall to "keep busy". Or suck it up and take some summer classes. I am also thinking about retaking one clinical math class to get a better grade.. and also retaking my entrance exam test (the NLN'S) to get a better score to get more of a higher score on my rubric. I pray that all things are happening for the good.

My mother is talking about moving away come this fall to winter of 2011 and I really wanted to start clinical so that I would be half way there by the time she was moving. Now I have to wait it out and do this on my own. It is scary. I have never been really far from my mom before other than one state away. She is talking about moving to Florida.. I want to be happy for her and I am.. I want her to be as stress free as possible so I will not let her know that I wish she would stay. I do not want her to feel obligated to stay here. I am scared to be alone. Although I am married I am my mothers eldest daughter and I am scared not to have my mommy close enough for those "just in case" moments.

So as I always do ask of whoever reads.. just please keep me in prayer as I will do for you. I know God will lead my steps and keep me within his reach.
I am thankful for being of sound mind and my health is increasing.. I am thankful that I have a healthy family and God provides for us all. So this is by far a big problem or issue but its still good to know that God has my back on all things. He knows my heart and knows what I want. I want to work for children in either a NICU or PICU. God loves the children and I would love to nurse them back to health as He would. So I know that He will bless me I just pray that it works out to praise and glorify Him in the end.

I will just stick with my "plan" and stay encouraged! :)

Soooo I took my NCLEX PN boards today!!!!

I am soo nervous.. here we dont really find out our results for technically a month but I am anxiously checking my status on my boards website to see if my license has been added..

The minimum of questions you take are 85 and the max is around 245.. BUT I STOPPED AT 85!!! I felt okay on some questions but on others I had no clue!???? ERR!!! Sooo Im still praying that I am okay and that I passed.
I did the "Pearson Trick" and got the "good message". So I am just waiting.. ugh this wait is killing me! :D
I pray I dont have to take it again! PLEASE Lord, please let me pass so that I can move on to my ADN!!!!! Thank you! :D

Graduation DAY!!! :) ... What I'm listening to now...

Staying pumped this morning while working until Pinning later on today.. Listening to Black Eyed Peas!! NICEEE!!!!! :D
Some of my favorite songs..
Boom Boom Pow (Track#1)
Rock That Body (Track#2)
Imma Be (Track #4)
Alive (Track#6)
UGH!!! Just the whole darn album!!!haha!!

Finishing out.. 1 more day and 1 more final to go!

So we are finishing up!! :) Although my journey isnt over for nursing school, I am glad to have accomplished one small step towards my ultimate goal :o)
(well its not that small the amount of time/studying/stressing/tears/sweat that has gone into these past two semesters!)

One more day, which is Monday and we take our last Med-Surg test, our final.. Which I pray is going to be easy for me and I pass with flying colors.. Its not time for me to loose focus because the final is worth 20% of our grade! :o
Sooooo.. I will def. be studying (which I normally dont really do for finals, because my grades are usually good not to) but I just want to make sure!

I PASSED HESI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU LORD!!!
I took my HESI today (second attempt) and passed with flying colors!! School wanted an 850 and I got a 909!!! The first time I got a 788.. I passed and I am thrilled! Its bitter sweet.. I have many friends who didnt make it and they wont be able to walk at graduation nor get pinned :( I wish them the best of luck on their 3rd try which they will have sometime in June..

Nursing School...

Well Its only 2 more weeks to go until the end of my semester.. With one exam pending that I graduate which is our HESI exam, which I am praying that I pass with flying colors! I know God will see me through this exam. I know that I have the intellegence to pass this and the education to back it up, I just have to apply it to the exam! Its only 110 questions and I plan to score tremendously well1 :) I am staying positive because nothing begots Negativity! :D

We have the last of our exams for our regular Med-Surg and specialties classes lined up for the next upcoming week. So this is the last week we have officially of class time to learn any new material.. WOW! Scary looking at it like that I guess! LOL! Just excited because I can now spend some quality time with my daughter and husband.. I plan to just take some classes to go towards my ADN/BSN this fall and spring and then applying for an ADN or BSN program for next Fall 2011! :) I am completely happy with this decision and cant wait!

Oh yeah, cant wait 'till our trip to JAMAICA!! all booked and ready to go.. Just waiting on the date to get here!! YAY!!! :D
I CANT WAIT!!!!

~Vacation~

My DH and I have booked a fabulous vacation getaway to JA after this semester of school and I cant wait!!!! 7 more weeks BAYYY BEEE!!! :D
We have to work on getting our passports in order but other than that everything is ready to go!

Right now I'm trying to stay focused so that I can graduate with no problems by passing my Exit exams... ( HESI) I'm soo nervous but I'm still trying to remain positive..
IS it weird that the Exit exam gets me more nervous than the actual boards right now????
I'm thinking its because the Exit exam is in like 3 WEEKS! EEEEEKKK!!! My heart is pounding just thinking about it!
Right now I'm preparing by just studying and getting into all my comprehension study books for more and more questions and reasoning's as to why and how... Its just very scary to me..
On top of all of this I have to make sure that I am getting everything done for school as far as passing all my courses! lol!
I will REALLY appreciate this vacay when I am done! REALLY!!!!!!
Please pray my strength and pray for my mind to be at ease so that the information will be retained so I will have success!!
Thank you soo much and may God be with you always!!!
xoxoxo!! :)

Its a Beautiful Day :) ... and I am soo tired! :(

Today was one of my clinical days at school.. Had to be at the hospital by 6:45 am, which means waking up at 5am and leaving my house by 5:45am.. Then I work every night until 10pm.. Needless to say I am BEAT! lol!! I am exhausted. I am used to this cycle but being that we had a week off for spring break and also the weather is getting nicer its really draining the energy out of me.. Then again I did start working out and that could be where some of my energy is being depleted from. I know it takes some energy from you when you just start but you start to gain energy shortly following.. (kinda like pregnancy! hehehe) I know the sun has good properties and is good for Vitamin D but it takes my energy out of me while I'm driving to work for the night.
I thank God for my job and my supervisor.. Been here for 2 happy years! :) And I am grateful that I have a sit down/computer job.
I am thankful because I was able to spend time with my daughter after clinical today too.. along with my mom and one of sisters. Working full-time and being in nursing school full-time it gives me and my DH limited of time to really be with our baby girl. It really doesn't seem that bad though because we have a wonderful support system and the time that we do spend with our baby girl we cherish every Milli-second of it! :D

Im SOOO Exhausted... LONG HAUL :)

Im starting to slack off again!! lol! Last post was almost a month ago. Its just a little hard since I started my semester of 23 credits plus working a full-time job.. On top of that a mother of an infant and wife.. You ever feel so tired that you feel all funny and delirious! LMBO!!!! (maybe I shouldnt be admitting I feel like this!) LOL!! I keep reminding myself that It is only temporary and the end is closer than what I think .. It will ALL be worth it in the end.. IT BETTER BE! :0D

GNC FOLLOWUP

Soooo.... as far as my GNC follow up.. I am soooooooo bad.. I mean EXTREMELY BAD, at following a steady regimine.. I only did like 3 out of the 7 days of the body clense.. It was just too much for me to keep up with.. There were just too many pills to take and some were just big 'ol horse pills.. Then the powder that I had to mix with water/juice was HORRIBLE!!! yuk! (im gagging just thinking about it now):~
I quit! My DH says that he will try the 5 days left of the product.. so I will see how it works out for him. I would give it 3 out of 5 stars as a rating.. While it did work (due to the fact that I was regular for those 3 days and im normally not, it was just nasty tasting and too many pills)


DIET
Since this didnt work for me I decided to try my good old ACTIVIA.. I love this stuff.. It really works for me and gets my digestive track moving.
I also wanted to try some sort of diet pill, just to jump start my metabolism.. After careful consideration and research of Ali and Quick Trim (the one Kim Kardashian endorses), I decided not to even try either at this point.. Ali just scared me with the loose stools and you have to decide when to take it as far as with a high fat meal.. and QT had just too much of a regimine I had to stick with.
So, I decided to go cheaper and with something more natural... I chose, MEGA-T Green Tea. The bottle claims to burn belly fat.. (which is my biggest problem) This is just twice a day.. one mid-morning and another mid-afternoon. Been doing this for about 3 days now.. not really noticing anything drastic but im going to try to give it a month and see how everything goes.

HAIR
Today I decided to stock back up on some hair products and buy some that I have been wanting to try..
What I purchased today at various stores was:
Silicon Mix by Avant
Kids Organics Shea Butter Detangling Moisturizing Hair Lotion
NTM Deep Recovery Mask
Henna 'n' Placenta Dual- Action Pac
Castor Oil

What I purchased online was:
Herbal Essence Long Term Relationship Split Ends
NTM Silk Touch
Burts Bees Pre-Shampoo Avocado Butter

I am VERY happy with my purchases and cant wait to use them!!!! YAY!!!!!!

TRAVEL
So DH and I have decided to take a mini vacation between Spring semester and Summer session of school.. We are both in school but seriously need some sort of break.. We are either going to JA or FL.. More info to come on that as to which one to go to.. but for now Im just excited to be going SOMEWHERE!!! ANYWHERE!!!! :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Year and a new beginning. I plan to stay updated on my blog and able to post as frequently as I would like. Being in nursing school and having a small child and husband is not as easy as I thought it would be to update my blog.. As you can see my last entry was in September, basically around the time school started! tee hehe!!!! ;)

Anywhoo.. a new year, right?!?! so I'm going to try to start off good this year! YAY!! :) I've changed up since its a new year, deleted a blog that was really unnecessary because I can just use the tag system. I changed my background and basically changing the concept of my blog to be just about simply ME!**

I am planning a lot of things this year.. (oh how I missed blogging) okay, okay... back on track!! haha!!

1st- Graduate from my LPN program, then get right back in to complete my RN
** my school is a 1+1 program where you can get your LPN so you can work while finishing your RN**

2nd- TRAVELING!!!!!!!!!! There are MANY MANY places on my agenda, I just have to figure out financially what I can do and how to get there.. but I'm definitely not going to let anything hold me back from this!!!

3rd- Get credit back under control and increase money flow in our household!** I am VERY excited about this. We should be able to still knock out some debt while still being able to travel! :)

4th- Plan my baby girls 1st BDAY PARTY!!!!
*I'm starting to plan now because Ill be in my nursing clinical until May, I don't want it to creep up on me and I have no idea what I'm going to do :)