Long Journey Ahead

School has taken over my life.... and I don't like it one bit. 

All I do is study. Worry about studying. Think about studying. Anything to do with studying, I probably do it. Although I DO make time to spend time with my family, friends, and my sweet baby, Diesel :) 

Nursing school is great, but awful at the same time. I wonder if this really is what I'm meant to do for the rest of my life. I've always wanted to have a career in the medical field, since I was 5 years old watching a 7 or 8 year old having surgery on his eye with my dad. But what if it's something else I'm supposed to do?

I wonder this all the time. I HATE school. I hate listening to lecture after lecture learning about stuff - that I've been told my nurses - I'll never see once I have a job as a nurse. I have huge anxiety when it comes to tests. I'm just not good at it. 

But so many people have such high expectations for me. I can't just quit & start all over and figure out what I want to do. I worked so hard to get into nursing school. I just want to stop learning about everything from a book and get out there and DO SOMETHING. 

I want to take a child's temperature. 

I want to give a child their first shots. 

I want to see the look in a mother and father's eyes when they see their child for the first time. 

I want to wake up everyday knowing I'm going to have a good day, because I love my job and the doctors I work for. 

I know I can't do all that until I go through all of this hard work. But I just KNOW it will be worth it one day. I have to STOP thinking I'm going to fail at this. I have to stop thinking I should just quit. I just need to take one day at a time. 

Please pray for me & if you already are, continue. I need them now more than ever. Pray that I will stay focused. Pray that I will succeed in this. Pray that God will keep his hands over me as I continue on this long, hard journey called nursing school. 

XOXO, 

Tomorrow is the day...

... that I start nursing school!

Thursday, August 11, we had our orientation. We received TONS of packets to read over the weekend. I didn't feel this was actually needed, since we will go in detail over them tomorrow, but whatev!

Friday, I went to buy my books. Someone should have warned me! They were, I swear, 294895 lbs. Luckily, a sweet student offered to help me carry them to my car. (There are sweet, nice people left in this world, just hard to come across) 

Yes, those would be my books.

Saturday, I spent the day with my mother. We went and bought my stethoscope. I had so much trouble trying to find the one I want, but TC's ended up having ONE left in the back! Love it. Also got my nursing shoes because the ones I already had, I couldn't use because they were white with BLACK soles that needed to be white or gray soles. Nursing school is so picky.

After TC's we went to Borders, where I found this lovely sign.

Hilarious if you ask me! 

Anyways, I'm really nervous about starting school tomorrow. Once I get there, I'm sure it won't be a big deal but I'm nervous/excited/scared/ready to get it over with!!! 

Love y'all!

Christa Diane

Life is too precious...

Life is too precious to live in regret. Yeah, people do things they wish they hadn't.. But do you ever wonder where you would be if you WOULDN'T have done what you did? I try not to, but I do.

Life is too precious to stay mad. A quote I've always lived by is "Never go to bed angry. Stay up & fight." You never know what could happen during the day/night.

Life is too precious not to tell the people you love that you love them. I like to tell everyone I love, that I love them all the time. I know they understand and know that I do, but sometimes it's good to hear it.

Life is too precious to live in the past. If you can't let go of what happened in the past, then you won't make it to the future. Or at least you won't make it very far.

Life is too precious not to forgive. You may not be able to FORGET, but you can at least forgive. Or maybe you don't need to forgive. Maybe you need to apologize for something you've done or said. Do it now! Don't wait.

Life is too precious to keep a frown on your face. It's amazing what a simple smile can do for someone. And it's even better to LAUGH! "Laughter is the best medicine!" I'm a firm believer.

Don't take life for granted. You're here one day, but could be gone to next. Forgive quickly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. Also, get right with the big man upstairs. He's the best best friend and a great listener.

XOXO,

Eye Shadow Tutorials

This girl is amazing! Her name is Christa (what a lovely name!) I believe she is from here, but now lives in California! Her videos are so funny! Check her out here! These videos I posted are about 5 minutes long! Awesome eye shadow tutorials!

This one is a smokey brown eye. She uses mostly MAC makeup!



She did a video of herself lipsyncing Britney Spears - Womanizer and this is the makeup she had on! I absolutely love this!

TOP 3 SUPERBOWL COMMERCIALS :)

Budgeting

Okay, so I'm gonna start a budgeting project, that will hopefully work for the rest of my life. It's Dave Ramsey's envelope budget. What is it, you ask? Well I'll tell you four easy "steps."

One: Budget each paycheck. You must budget down to the last dime if you're going to successfully implement the envelope system.

Two: Divide and conquer. Of course, there will be budget items that you cannot include in your envelope system, like bills paid by check or automatic withdraw. However, you can create categories like food, gas, clothing, and entertainment.

Three: Fill 'er up. After you've categorized your cash expenses, fill each envelope with the money allotted for it in your budget. For example, if you allow $100 for clothing, put $100 in cash in your clothing envelope for the month.

Four: When it's gone, it's gone! once you've spent all the money in a given envelope, you're done spending for that category. If you go on a shopping spree and spend the $100 in your clothing envelope, you can't spend any more on clothes until you budget for that category again. That means no visits to the ATM to withdraw more money!

Dave Ramsey says to give it time. It's not gonna work wonders right off the bat. So I'm gonna be patient and see how it works. I need it!

My categories are: car repair, cell phone, clothing, entertainment, gas, restaurant, and savings!

I'll upload pictures of the envelope system in progress later!

XOXO,

Christa Diane