Home Sweet Home :)

I’m finished with school FOREVER! Completely done…no more clinicals or projects…and only one more test–the NCLEX. I will probably be taking that sometime in January though. I have to wait for the school to send my transcript to the board of nursing in Montgomery, and then they have to send me an “Authorization to Test” number before I’m allowed to schedule a test date. If I get a job (fingers crossed) before I take the NCLEX, I can go ahead and start working with a temporary license as long as I take and pass the NCLEX within 90 days, I think. I took an NCLEX review course last week, and it was a good review of a lot of the material I learned in nursing school, so if I can just motivate myself to go over that before I take the test, I think I’ll be ok.

On the job front, I actually had an interview yesterday for a PRN position at Huntsville Hospital Women and Children’s on the 3rd floor med-surg unit. I think it went really well, and I liked the nurse manager a lot. She said that she will be interviewing a few other people for the position, and she wants to decide something by the end of next week. If that doesn’t work out, I guess I’ll end up working in pre-op where I worked the past 2 summers, which would be fine with me. I already know everybody there and am familiar with the way things work, so that part would be easier at least. We’ll see! At least things are looking more positive than they were about a month ago. For a while there, I never thought I’d get an interview!

Right now, we’re spending time with my family in Trussville. It’s great to be home for more than just a day or two at a time. I’ve pretty much been a bum the past few days, and it’s been really nice. I guess once I start working I’ll wish I could be a bum again! Travis has been working really hard to help me set up my new laptop. It’s got Windows 7 on it, so we’re having to learn that together since my old laptop and his laptop have XP. I’m really really hoping that we can get my pictures, emails, and documents off my old hard drive, but it’s not looking good. Travis tried to use an external hard drive to get everything off, and it wouldn’t work, so now we’re going to have to take it somewhere and pay someone to try. It’ll be worth it though if I can get those pictures back….it’s pretty much all of the pictures I took since I’ve been in college…or, at least since the last time my hard drive crashed!

We’ve also got a big trip to California planned for January 5th – January 8th to see the football team play in the national championship game. We’re going to stay in Long Beach which is on the other side of Los Angeles from Pasadena and take the metro everywhere we need to go (hopefully). I’ve been having a lot of fun researching cool things to do while we’re there, and I think it would be really fun to try to get in the audience of The Price is Right one afternoon. It’s free, and we could end up being contestants! Even if we don’t get to do that, there’s plenty of other stuff to do in L.A. and Long Beach….so much that I’m sure we won’t have time to do everything! It’s going to be so much fun though….we can’t wait! :)

Here’s some pictures from the past few weeks: