Day 3: A book you love.

I love ALL THE BOOKS! Okay not all of them, but I really love to read. As evidenced by the fact that I have four bookshelves full of books in my room alone and then a kindle full of even more books. So it's a little hard to pick just one that I love, so I'll just go with the one I'm reading right now:

Northanger Abbey!

I watched the Masterpiece movie adaptation of Northanger Abbey a couple of years ago and totally loved it.

And not just because I was a little bit in love with Henry Tilney:

(Hottie!)

But also it's just a cute story and a great movie for when you're in the mood for Austen-y romancisms. So I saw the book in the kindle store and decided to give it a shot since I liked the other Austen books, and so far it's one of my favorites. It's been a long time since I had read something by Jane Austen and I had forgotten how snarky and sarcastic she is. She interjects a lot of notes to the reader in her chapters about character personalities and they crack me up every time. Her works are very insightful in regards to different facets of human nature, and it's funny how people haven't really changed much in the last 200 years or so. I almost always know someone who reminds me of all of the characters in her books, (except Henry Tilney, if I knew someone like him we'd be married by now :).

In any case, I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for a fun read with a cute love story 

and a few laughs. :)

Day 2: Something you feel strongly about

I feel strongly about education. I think that education is so so so important and everyone should have the opportunity to get one. I have been so blessed in my education to be able to go to college to learn how to be what I've wanted to be pretty much my whole life: a nurse! Now that I'm almost done with my Bachelor's degree it's pretty crazy to look back at how far I've come. I remember going kindergarten as a little kid and being so excited to go to school and eat snacks and sing songs and whatnot. And now 16 years later I get to go to school and learn things like what to do if someone starts bleeding all over you. Still exciting but very different :)
So even though I probably whine way too much about homework and teachers, I'm still really excited to be going to school and learning how to do my dream job. Like I said I've been very blessed the whole way through and I'm very grateful for the opportunity :) I think education opens a lot of doors for people and helps you grow a lot and it would be pretty great if the world decided to focus less on fighting over things and more on teaching people.

Day the first: 5 ways to win my heart

Not gonna lie it would probably take a lot of work to win my heart, and honestly I'm not entirely sure what it would take because no one's ever succeeded before, but here are five things that wouldn't hurt someone's chances:

1. Be nice to people. Not just to me, but people in general. This is such a simple thing but it can be hard! And I'm not talking just being polite to people, though that is important. But I mean true-blue-deep-down kind-hearted niceness. Like when you see someone stop on the side of the road to help a stranger change a flat tire, or give up their seat to an old lady on the bus, or let a mom with a bunch of crazy kids pass them in the grocery store line so she can get out of there more quickly. Even simple things like holding doors for people or smiling at strangers. Chivalry doesn't have to be dead!! People should definitely not underestimate the attractiveness of being nice.

2. Be a nerd. I am such a nerd all the time. I love science and math and nerdly activities like watching Doctor Who and Star Wars and Star Trek and Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and probably a bazillion other things, and I read as many books as I possibly can without neglecting my schoolwork. Of course, in saying this I feel the need to point out that it's important to find a good balance of nerdism. I like to think that even though I probably spend too much time on nerdy things, I'm still going to be a somewhat productive member of society...but seriously if a guy wanted to show up at my house and just watch Star Wars all day, I would be down with that.

3. Be happy. I like to be happy and I like to hang out with happy people. So it stands to reason that if I was going to fall for someone, they would probably need to be a happy person. And a sense of humor definitely ties into this. I think that if anyone is going to spend any sort of time with me and not run screaming, they need to have a hearty sense of the ridiculous. Or else they would probably end up thinking that I'm a total nutcase... which may or may not be true, I'll leave that up to you guys :)

4. Work hard. This might sound hypocritical of me because as you know I can sometimes I can be a lazy bum, but I also work hard to accomplish my goals and finish what I start. It's definitely okay to make time for fun, but it's very important to me for someone to be willing to work hard for what they want in life, whether it's to build things or to teach or to become a rocket scientist or to have a farm. Work is important in any capacity.

5. Be good with kids. Lets get real, is there anything that melts your heart more than a guy making faces at a toddler to make them laugh? Didn't think so.

So there you have it, five surefire ways to melt my stone cold heart. :)

Blah.

So lately I've been thinking about how nursing school pretty much takes up all of my time and sucks up my life like a vampire that feeds on research papers and cardiovascular exams. Which, don't get me wrong, I'm okay with because it means that in three months I will GRADUATE and have a BACHELOR'S DEGREE and be a NURSE!! Which is the bomb. But I also think I need to start making time for some things that I like to do outside of school and maybe start having something resembling a life-type substance. And one of the things that I like to do is write, so I thought hey, why not write on my blog so I can torture everyone!?! So I decided to do another 30 day blog challenge, because hey, why not? So here is the first one I found on Google:

:)

Update

Hello all, guess what? In three weeks I will be done with my first semester of my SENIOR YEAR! Which means ONE MORE SEMESTER TILL GRADUATION! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you didn't notice, I might be a little excited... :)

In other news, I joined a gym!!!! For the first time ever!! For more details, see: http://runbonsterrun.blogspot.com/ in which I discuss exercise and whatnots.

In other other news, life is pretty good right now, school is crazy as always and pretty much takes up my whole life, but now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel it's not so bad.

And that's about it. So here is a picture of my adorable dog, Freddie.

:)

SUMMMMMMMMER!!!!!!!!

Hey guess what?? My classes finally ended for the semester, which means today was officially my first day of summer!! So crazy. It also means that I am now a SENIOR!!!! Which is weird for me because it feels like I was just a senior in high school, and now I'm a senior in college, what? So crazy. Anywho, basically I'm just super happy right now because I passed my finals and I have a whole 4 months off! Hopefully someone will hire me so I can spend the summer earning some money, but other than that I'm going to spend the summer catching up on all the random things I don't have time to do during school like reading books for fun and catching up on TV shows and running and swimming and actually seeing my friends once in a while :)
So excited!

Psych

As of last week I am all finished with my adult health classes (and I passed my finals, woo!), which means I get to move on to Psychiatric/mental health classes. I'm still not sure how I feel about this, I don't really feel like psych is going to be my thing but you never know till you try it right? And even if I don't like it it's okay because I just need to get through it and then I'll get to go to pediatrics (working with kids) and OB (pregos and babies!) next year :). Also I'm pretty thrilled that after this rotation I will only have a YEAR of college left. Where did the time go?????? I really can't believe I'm almost done with my Junior year in college, it's freaking me out. But really it's not that big of a deal because I might just jump back in and get my Master's shortly after I get my license, but I still haven't decided on that one yet, we'll see. But either way at least I'll have some sort of degree and I can finally get a job as an RN, which will be exciting :)

While we're talking about psych, let's talk about how Psych is coming back tonight!! The show's been on hiatus for a while and the new episode is airing tonight and I'm going over to my buddy's house to watch it and I'm pretty excited. It's probably the best way to kick off a psych rotation ever :)

Man I've missed these guys!