Life to date

I'll try to do a brief sum up of life to date. I know it's been a while.

Last week: Went home on Wednesday after arguing with the DMV some more. Finally got my license, registration, insurance and plates. Also managed to get my school id in their somewhere and finish up everything I needed to do for school.

Home: Yay Russell is home! We kept the bickering to a minimum and only got snippy when installing appliances (which we were in no way qualified to do, but we managed.) Went swimming, played chess (I got massacred,) but I whooped mom's rump at Mariokart (although I have more than a decade of practice, I was at an advantage.) Jim and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary as a couple while there and managed to be nice to each other the whole weekend even though we were stuck sleeping in a double-sized sleigh bed that was surely built for someone 4 foot 9 not 5 foot 8... it was an experience not getting snippy with the blanket stealing and bedhogging we both thought the other was doing. All in all, it was a pretty mellow visit. Got to see Dan Lorino, Danny McCarthy, Bobby B, all the boys basically. It was good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the rumors Russell has heard about his deployment are going to be true and that he will get to come home from Iraq around Christmas and not in March. I also got to visit with my grandparents. Grandpa is doing really well with the Radiation treatments, granted they just started, but he seems in good spirits. He is 85 years old, as long as he's in good spirits and feeling decent and able to do the things he wants to do, I'm happy.

School:
Started my online child psych class last week. Still kinda getting the hang of an online class but I think I've got it under control. Nursing classes started this week and we had our first clinical today. It was pretty basic stuff. Mostly introductory info and safety and hospital policies and the like. My only hiccup right now is that my group of six is doing our first clinical rotation on the oncology floor (which also caters to Hospice) so it's kind of difficult keeping the emotions under wrap all the time. But we seem to have a very nice instructor and a good group of people to work with so I'm keeping optimistic.

Alright, I've got to go write up a quick child psych 'paper' and at least try to do some reading for class next week. Working the next four days... keeping my fingers cross that I get a decent assignment.

It's been almost four months since Dad died. It still hurts. I miss him. I hope I'm making him proud.