Here goes nothing....

While I was working the other night, I got to thinking...I'm starting nursing school in less than a week, and I should journal about it as I go along.  I mentioned it to Michael, and his suggestion was to start a blog instead.  Of course he would say that, he's a techie geek.  What the heck do I know about blogging though?  I decided to give it a try - we'll see how it goes.  But, I have to ask, why in the world am I deciding to do this for the first time right now?  Well, I want to be able to reflect back on things later, to vent, to just have another project added to my plate, I guess.  I know my life is going to change dramatically starting next week with a pretty intense semester of school for myself, so that sounds like the perfect time to try something totally new and foreign, right?  Who knows how long I'll keep this up for...but I'm gonna give it a whirl.  Hopefully this doesn't end up being my only post.

For starters I want to touch on how I got to this point....

For a while I was so busy raising babies, I didn't give much thought to my life in general.  I just went along day by day trying to stay afloat with some sort of sanity and dignity.  Who had time to think about goals?  There were diapers to change, mouths to feed, and chasing to do!  I ended up changing jobs two years ago, which turned out to be awful and wonderful all at once.  The job itself sucked, for lack of a better term.  But I appreciate it so much now.  If it hadn't been for that crappy job, I wouldn't have reconnected with a friend and I wouldn't have decided to go back to college.  I am incredibly grateful that I took that wrong turn in my career, because I ended up finding a better road to take after all.  I think I would have just continued living life day by day and not really paying much attention to the big picture.  Now I get it though, I have goals again and I am not losing sight of them.  I have been working hard this past year and a half, almost two years.  I still have a ways to go, but it really won't be that long before I accomplish some big ones.  I can't wait to see what my life is going to be like in just a few years.  I have visions of what it will be like and I will do whatever it takes to make it happen.  It feels good to be working towards something, and not just "working". 

OK, I'm not sure how to end this first post without it being awkward....so I'd like to thank Michael for suggesting that I give this a try.  Also, I'd like to point out that my cousin Jen has inspired me to do this through her recent venture in the blogging world.  Hopefully this will prove to be more fun than work......