Finished with College!

I've officially completed every assessment, research project and clinical obligation for my undergraduate degree! I finished my last night on the Labor & Delivery unit at St. E's this week. A special thanks to Nicki... you were great! I learned so much, I probably won't even realize everything until I get back to the clinical setting. Thanks again!

Julie & Julie (another UNMC student), me, and Nicki

Now, it's on to my last class session next week, picking up Cody and Elysia from the airport, graduation and commissioning... 'formal' announcement with details to come...

Cody's Rite of Entrance

Cody made his commitment to continue with his pre-Catholic learning this weekend. His ceremony was held yesterday during church (to Cody's surprise, he had to stand in front of the congregation and everything). It worked out better to go with a sponsor from that area, so they matched him up with an instructor from the classes. He'll continue to have classes every Tuesday evening until he'll (hopefully) join the church at the Easter vigil Mass. Congrats, Cody!

Please keep him and I in your prayers as he gets closer to joining the church and we continue our marriage prep!

Update from Florida

I finally have a computer! Well, I have actually had it for a couple of weeks now so hopefully I can keep everyone a little more up to date on how life in Florida is. It was not easy to find the computer at such a great price. Emlyn and I were running all over town, back and forth from store to store. She finally got lucky at best buy and snagged the last one (with everything already installed)!

Work is going well. I am finally starting to remember all the members names, all 100 of them that ever stop in the golf shop.  We have another big weekend these next couple of days. It's the annual Member/Non-Resident Member weekend, which means long hours at the course and not much time to talk to Emlyn since she will be working nights for the next six days. I wouldn't consider it work however, since we get to play golf and enjoy cocktails and dinner. The weather down here has been amazing, 80 and sunny for the past couple of weeks(a high of 62 today though with a low of 40). I do love it but I also miss the snow, who knows, maybe I will get to see some snow down here...

Emlyn and I have been talking about me coming up to Alaska this May instead of in September
 and it seems as if the prayers have been answered. To make a sort of long story short, JT met the golf operations manager, Jeri, at the Anchorage Golf Course http://www.anchoragegolfcourse.com/golf/proto/anchoragegolfcourse/ when he was down here visiting and put in the good word for me. The position sounds like it would be a great opportunity and for the most part seems as if the job is mine if I want it. I have been talking with Jeri via E-mail and she is talking with the GM and they are puting together a compensation package! I will be posting more often now that I have a computer so I will keep everyone posted on the job hunt. Also, I can't seem to upload any photos this time...

Congratualtion Ethan and Tracy! I cant wait to meet Rory! I hope everything is well back north!

Thank You!

A special thanks to Darci and Kayla for braving the Black Friday crowd and meeting me in Sioux City for some dress shopping. We accomplished quite a bit in the way of Christmas shopping, but I'm only more conflicted as far as a wedding dress... hopefully I'll be able to make up my mind here soon!


And Happy Birthday, Rory! (I'm an aunt x 2 now!)

Monthly Ticket Price Update

Looking at a week's stay, lowest roundtrip price possible (usually includes at least one plane change/layover):

Minn- Anc = $536
Columbus- Anc =$567
Omaha- Anc = $559
St. Louis - Anc = $570

Chicago - Anc (direct) = $436, still the best deal, although I don't know who would actually fly out of CHI

However, since Denver has cheap flights out to Anchorage ($360) it might be most cost effective to say, get a flight on Southwest from Omaha-Denver for about $79, then hop a flight to Anchorage from there (I believe with Delta). Just something else to consider. 

Hoarder No More!

Home for the weekend, I dove straight in to tossing old shit (for lack of a better word) out. I realized I was quite the hoarder for many, many years. I found oodles of old math notes and homework from high school, about a million strips of negatives (I've probably spent over $1000 on developing pictures and photo albums), and random notes, straps, and receipts. I suppose now that I'm graduating and getting married, I should throw some of this old stuff away. 

My progress thus far... you should be happy, Mom!

My "To Keep" box... funny to relive all these memories: Tweety, the elephant Elysia and I gave a 'haircut', beanie babies, hippo with babies, bunny from Easter, and of course, Max

Dad and I are hoping to catch the Nebraska game at the bar in Wayne, woot woo! Hopefully it's not too packed.

Cody update: I haven't heard much from the boy lately. This weekend was the first major event for the club. Cody's been working 0645-2200 yesterday and then again today. Although I can't rationalize cocktail hour and dinner as 'work'. Cody's been pretty tired at the end of the day, but has been meeting a lot of people. Anyone from the midwest that finds out he's from Iowa is always excited to find a midwesterner working at Mountain Lake. Cody's been enjoying getting paid weekly, and is really looking forward to his check after this weekend. The temperature was only 40 degrees this morning, which made for a chilly shotgun start. Who knew Nebraska's high temp may end up being higher than Orlando's?

Go Big Red: Beat ISU!

Officially Done with College Classes

I can officially say I've completed all my college classes. I took my last college final yesterday. I probably didn't prepare as much as I should have, but I have self-diagnosed severe super-senioritis. It all turned out ok, though, says my alter-ego that doesn't care about grades and GPAs. We has took a predictor test for the NCLEX.. the bogus test predicted I have a 99% chance of passing the NCLEX. That means I don't need to study, right? ;)

Anyway, now all I have left until graduation is 174 hours on the Labor and Delivery floor at St. Elizabeth's here in Lincoln. I'm working nights (which I prefer) but my preceptor works quite a few in a row... I'm hoping I'll get some good sleep on those days or else I may be pretty useless.

I have a few more requirements for ROTC (fitness test, Dining Out), but that's about it. I'm in charge of the commissioning ceremony, so I'll be working on the program, script, slideshow, etc. It's always something, it seems. Althought, today marks a historic grown-up event; I purchased my mess dress uniform (had to cough up a handsome chunk of change to do it, too). That's just one step closer to 2d Lt!

Hope you all have a good weekend. Go Huskers!