Can someone please stop my head from spinning? I'd like to get off the ride now, please.

This blog wasn't ever intended to be a place where I constantly complain, but unfortunately that's kind of what it's turning into. Today has been crappy, for lack of a more inappropriately appropriate term. Most importantly, I caught news that a dear family friend was injured during a horse show yesterday and is in critical condition. Sending many, many prayers his way today, and I ask that you please do the same...

Also, apparently there are two nursing homes in Little Rock with nearly identical names, only one of them was the correct location for my clinical orientation at 2pm today. Yeah, I went to the wrong one, and ended up being fairly tardy. Not the best way to start out the semester in nursing school. To say nursing school is rough would be a gross understatement. It's not even that the material is all that difficult, but the constant juggling of a new schedule every week at different locations, projects, papers, tests, and a job (along with a personal life, or lack there of) is extremely difficult. As soon as I feel like I'm falling into a routine, a new ball gets thrown in the air.

With all of the 'bad' things going on right now, I constantly have to remind myself that even though things appear bleak, in all reality we are still very, very blessed. There are many people going through much more difficult things than I, and yet they still manage to not only cope, but also overcome.

On a more positive note, the long weekend was exceptionally nice. Trey and I spent most of our days together eating Klondike bars for breakfast and watching cartoons until noon or so (and yes, we are definitely of legal age to be married). The best way to decompress after a stressful week is most definitely acting like a 4 year old on the weekends. So with the weekend quickly approaching, go act like 4 year olds and enjoy it! Unless your in nursing school with me...then you better be studying for our test Monday!