The Big day...

Tomorrow begins day 1 of my 15 month sentence in nursing school. It truly is hard to imagine that it will only be 15 months and I will be out and about in my career. Its been a LONG road to this point, and I have heard that was the easy part...YIKES! Ready or not here it comes!

I spent my weekend relaxing and ignored the 'reading assignments'. Not a great way to start this adventure I know, but figure I have Tuesday and Wednesday to catch up and I wanted to have some calm before the storm so to speak. Schedule is Monday and Thursday 9-4 ( Pathophysiology & Intro to Nursing on Monday and Health Assessment & Adult 1 on Thursday) with a 1 hour lunch. And that's JUST for lecturing!  Lab will be every other Tuesday and Wednesday for 4 hours, either 8-12 or 12-4 depending on which group I am in. Clinicals will either be the opposing Tues/Wed of Labs for 8 hours a day OR every Saturday for 10 hours a day for 8 weeks. I haven't fully decided on which I am going to 'try' to get...but I a leaning towards the Saturday one. My husband proves to be quite the distraction, so if I do my clinical on Saturday, I can spend more free time during the week studying, while he is at work. Its all done on a chance, but we can put in our top 3 picks... So here's hoping.

Orientation was last week (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).....a bit informative, but overall was lengthy and boring.... The best part of all 3 days were getting my badge and parking situation figured out. It was nice to have some time to meet my classmates. We already have quite the group going. Its going to be interesting to say the least.

Other than the nursing school going on, my diet is in full swing. I had a couple 'cheat' moments...but I chalk it up to "easing" into the diet... Its hard to go from fast food and restaurants all the time to grilled chicken and lettuce all of a sudden, but I am down about 3 pounds, so it is a good start. I plan on getting on the workout train this week so  it should start to disappear faster.

That is all for now. Off to get my books, notes and lunch together for tomorrow. Its going to be the longest Monday I have had in a LONG time.