Five days OFF work :-)

I have been very bad about keeping my blog up to date this week.  I guess there is just too much going on right now.  This was my last week in classroom orientation.  We only had to sit in the classroom for three days and I was glad.  They have given us so much information and I have been so overwhelmed.  Now I wish I would have taken my NCLEX before I started working.  It has been so hard to study for NCLEX with all this other information going through my head. 

Yesterday was my first day on the floor as a RNA.  I was excited, but nervous.  It had been a while since I had done a 12 hours shift...and the first one is always the hardest.  It wasn't to bad & I SURVIVED!  Now I have 5...yes 5 days off!  I am ready for a break.  This month is going to be crazy, busy.  We are fixing to leave for vacation, I still have classes I have to complete for work, the kids are trying to get all their visiting in before school starts back.  So I am just holding on tight....and enjoying the ride.  That's all you can do....right???

Anyway, the kids are still with their daddy.  They are supposed to come home today...but we will see.  They were actually supposed to come home last night when I got in from work, but decided to stay one more night.  I am MISSING them!  I am ready to see them,  but I want them to be able to spend time with their daddy while he is off work.  Tomorrow they will be going to my mom's to spend the weekend.  They are excited about going to the Hot Rod's game Sunday night to see the fireworks.  Then Monday they will be going to my dad's for a couple of days.  They will be taking them to the lake to spend the 4th.  I may have to sneak over there and spend some time with them since I will be off work.  I can't believe we leave for the beach in 1 week.  I am so excited.  We haven't been to the beach in seven years, and we have never been to Myrtle Beach...so we are ALL excited to spend a week by the ocean :-)

I am missing my car really bad this week.  This truck SUCKS the gas.  Every time I have to stop and fill it up....I wish I had my piece of crap car back.  It is BREAKING me slowly, but surely.  The last two weeks have been especially hard because I have had to make so many trips to BG.  I probably should have stayed with my mom, but I just wanted to be at home.  Sometimes I just want/need to be by myself.  It seems that I function better alone.  I am the only person who truly understands myself and sometimes I just have to sort everything that is going on out in my brain.  Hopefully soon this overwhelmed/confused feeling will go away! 

I am thinking about boarding my dog while we are on vacation, but I am completely CLUELESS on everything about it.  If anyone has any suggestions/recommendations/referrals...they would be greatly appreciated.  Peanut has never been around other dogs before so I don't know how he would adjust.  I just hate to leave him home alone for a week and then have to ask/depend on someone to feed him & take him out a couple of times a day....just another thing that is heavy on my brain.

Back to NCLEX....I still have to schedule it and take it.  So far everyone who has taken it has passed....I don't know if this is a good thing for me or a bad thing.  I am happy for all of them, but it puts more pressure on me.  I stink at taking test so this terrifies me.  I am going to schedule it in the next few weeks...but I WON'T tell ANYONE when I am going.  I will make arrangements for the kids & I will go take it....NO ONE will know until it is OVER.  I don't want to stress anyone out...so just keep me in your thoughts and prayers....PLEASE!

I guess this post became "Randomness".  Just have a million things on my brain...and needed to let "some" of them out.  Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL 4th of July weekend.  BE SAFE!