hot sunny fridays are our favorite!

Just a couple cell phone pictures from our Friday... after a long week of work for Jeremy and my longest week of school eVeR, we desperately needed a couple Happy Hour beers! Luckily a restaurant right around the block (Stokes) had a semi-shaded patio, and specials on buckets of Corona! After some food and drinks there we went home to relax and decide what was next... We attempted to go to another local spot, The Drafthouse, but after a beer there we realized we were both exhausted and would love to just go home and relax on the couch. So we did! :)

Hope everyone has a fun and safe memorial day weekend...!

For love of country they accepted death... ~James A. Garfield

From Sunshine to Storms

We got back late Sunday night from an awesome long weekend in Las Vegas.  It was crazy hot there, and both Jeremy and I loved laying in the sun by the pool... with a bucket of beer of course! We also got to see Jason Mraz and Dave Matthews Band in concert on Saturday night; it was an amazing show!  Here is a short clip of Jason playing one of my favorites: "I'm Yours"

I posted pictures from the vacation on Shutterfly today, so go check them out and leave some comments when you get a few minutes! 

Back here in Omaha, its raining, cloudy, and full of thunder and lightning. Quite a change from over the weekend... And, I start my LAST SEMESTER of nursing school next week and I'm very nervous about it. We got our clinical schedule and it looks like I am in for some very very long days. 8-10 hour shifts two to three times a week. I start in Med-Surg for the first 3 weeks and them am in the ICU for the last 3.  After those 6 weeks, its off to try and be a real nurse in Portland. YIKES. Time is flying by... 

 

“Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover”

~The Eagles~

"Keep your face to the sunshine 

and you cannot see the shadow"

~Helen Keller~

winding down

With only 3 tests, and 1 mini paper left to go this semester, I am happy to say I can see the light at the end of this year long tunnel. I can not believe I am almost a real nurse!   Sorta anyways :)

 

*my clinical group w/ our Peds instructor, celebrating the end 

of the semester!

Not much new to report in either Jeremy or my l

ife - we've just been chugging along, counting down the days until our vacation in Vegas (8 days!).  Jeremy is still working both jobs, which keeps him quite busy - but he seems to enjoy most days.  We're not exactly sure what he will do come June when I have to move to Portland which is stressful, but not much we can do about it yet.  Everything is kind of just hanging, waiting to see what the next day brings. 

Oh & because I'm almost a nurse I feel like I should say: make sure you all are washing your hands A LOT - hand sanitizer is your friend, carry it with you in every purse or at least in your car (you know I have a mini bottle with me at all times!).

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, 

and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" 

World Health Organization, 1948

ONE YEAR.

Exactly one year ago today Jeremy and I arrived here in Omaha Nebraska... I can not believe how fast time has gone by - I only have about 4 1/2 months until graduation and only about 2 months until I move to Portland.  

Ah yes, I did not make that announcement on here, although most people already know :)  I decided to take the spot offered to me by Providence Hospital in downtown Portland, Oregon. I had a couple other really great opportunities and it was a REALLY hard decision... I hate making decisions as it is, and this was no exception!  Anyways, I'm excited to move back towards home and start actually "being a nurse"! 

Hope everyone had a great Easter - we did, I will post a couple pictures of us dying eggs soon!

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; 

we respect that of others, without fearing it" 

~Thomas Jefferson~

is it really spring?

As I had been told by many Omaha natives, we did have one final (fingers crossed) "storm" over the weekend - which only ended up bringing us about an inch of snow, but a lot of wind. Parts of NE did get hit hard with up to 10 inches in one day, luckily, not us. 

Today was long for me, but I turned in my big paper of the semester which is excited because that means its almost over :)  Just a couple more projects and tests and I'm that much closer to graduation in August.  First things first, this quarter ends in exactly a month YAY.

Last week I started my Pediatric rotation at Children's Hospital.... I love it!  Well, I can't quite say that yet because I only worked with one child for a few hours last Thursday, but I really enjoyed it. It is a whole different world in that hospital - it is SO obvious that it was expertly planned out, down to the nurses stations which are designed to be lollipops!  I am just amazed at how smoothly things run, and how much passion you can sense from all of the health care providers. It is more then adorable to hear a doctor explain to the med students that the kid "has an ouchie in his tummy"!  Observing the nurses and doctors interacting 

with the children patients was great, I feel like I have already learned so much after just one day!   This week we are there 2 days, so hopefully I continue to love it :) I'll keep ya posted! 

P.S... go Mariners, opening day today!

mobile food and drinks

recent outings...

*saw this truck as we were driving to Texas Roadhouse (a place famous for their BBQ)...

*Jeremy about to enjoy steak and mashed potatoes at Texas Roadhouse

*My HALF slab of ribs... amazingly tender.
*Thai Nachos @ Stokes, happy hour!
*"Sure Thing" Martini, nerds at the bottom.. yum! @ Coloseum Happy Hour

Tornado Season, back already? UGH.

Well the title says it all, today we had our first tornado in Douglas County... Pretty much with very little warning, okay, well maybe there was some but I was in class for 9 hours so I had no clue! When we walked outside after class, it was a little windy but sunny and blue skies. Within about 2 minutes a friend called me to say the radio said there was a tornado Watch in effect... and then literally about 5 minutes later, I was getting closer to my apartment and the sky was getting darker and it was getting windier (never good) and then the horrible noise came on the radio... you know that one that they practice on TV, the test for emergency notification system - yeah, it actually gets used here - so the radio announced it was now a Warning and that it was time for everyone to get to shelter. Of course I was driving, and still about 15 minutes from home! And of course I overreact and freak out - but I kept calm and made it to Vatterrott College which was where Jeremy was. I stayed there for an hour or so and watched the storm pass right around us.. we saw some funnel clounds about 10 blocks away, but I don't think any actually touched down. Fhew. Storm #1, done.... lets just hope there's not another one tonight!

Anyways, I got a couple cell phone pics below.

*Jeremy checking out the weather... mini funnel cloud forming, not so good...

*Hello dark clouds.....

*Ah, finally the sun is coming back out.... check out how shiny the roads are from all the rain and hail!