one and a half weeks of school

and one final left.

I am almost done with my first semester of nursing school!

that's one-fourth, people!

just three more of these and I will be GRADUATED!

because I get stressed easily, I like to make to-do lists:

things left before I am free:

poster presentation tomorrow

study for ebp exam 3 next monday

study for pharm exam 3 next thursday

study for pharm final on the 14th!

is that it!?

I can't believe I'm actually going to survive first semster!!!

things I want to do over my month of freedom:

christmas shopping!

try out different recipes!

crafts!!!! (this is all I can think about!!)

painting!

ati practice tests

get fish for Jeremy's finish tank!

get my massage that Jeremy got me for my birthday!

buy new textbooks!

be involved in a surprise of some kind!

see all my friends!

have a house-warming party!

lay in bed and sleep in everyday!

bake cookies!

so much more!!!!!!!!!!!

On a different note,

for my health promotions class, we had to draft a personal wellness plan.

it was super tedious; 5 pages long, 10 point font, single spaced kind of tedious

and it was worth the bulk of our grade so... dun dun dun...

anyways, I had my super smart friend Austin edit it for me

and one of the parts was my goal to be less stressed out by the end of the school year (haha)

and I had to write interventions for it ie. make to-do lists, appreciate myself, yoga, etc.

and sweet Austin types in:

Also, I need to just realize that all of the small things I stress about really don’t matter that much in the long run. I have an incredible and supportive husband, ... and I’m a part of a wonderful nursing program. What more could I ask for?(You really don’t have to put that. Just pointing out how lucky you are!)

(I omitted a couple of personal things)

Anyway, it's true!!!

I am the luckiest girl in the world!

because:

I have such an amazing support system!

-all my best friends I've met throughout the years who love me and don't judge me for my decisions

-all my nursing best friends that just support me endlessly and help me get through the day without crying

-my parents who always have my back and cook such good food!

-my other parents (randy&julie) whose home I can just go to whenever I need to

-my INCREDIBLE husband who listens to me cry everyday over the dumbest things, who thinks about me so often, who has been picking up my slack the last couple of months because I'm so tired, who plans out great date nights when he knows I need them, who went and secretly bought christmas lights because he knew I wanted them so much!

I am so lucky to have a home of our own!

I fall more and more in love with it everyday! Jeremy works so hard everyday to pay for all our bills, and sometimes I can't believe we're grownups!

My education!

This is pretty self-explanatory. I can still feel the excitement when I opened my acceptance letter! This is the hardest thing I've worked for my whole life and I am so thankful that I can be a part of such a great program. I know of at least two different stories where a nursing school applicant didn't get accepted, and events happened throughout the next year that made them realize that they weren't meant to be in that cohort. Those two stories are of two of my closest friends in the program now, and they tell me everything happens for a reason (and seriously, I would be lost if they weren't in MY cohort).

I got accepted the first time around because I was meant to finish.

this picture cracks me up! we are total goofs!

there is so much more I have to be thankful for!

I've had a rough couple of weeks because of random things and pure exhaustion. I am so sorry if you had to reciprocate any of that crankiness (esp. Jeremy). There is a lot of room for my patience to grow, I think. Thank you to everyone who has helped me stay positive and who keeps loving me even though I am pretty much crazy!

remember remember the (1)5th of november

it's the middle of November, and I haven't blogged in over a month.
but it's okay, because I've been stressed like crazy.
Also, I've caught something I think. I'm sick with a stuffy nose and I don't want to do anything too intense. lately getting out of bed is a stuggle for me.

and today, I have the day off.
perfect time to catch up/get ahead on all my huge assignments due and study for tests in the next couple of weeks.
naturally, I have efficiently used the last two and a half hours of my time on facebook, pinterest, blog, online shopping. I really did try to start my ebp assignment due thursday, but my laptop won't connect to the internet. Hence, forcing me to use Jeremy's laptop, and therefore I can't do anything educationally productive.

so here I am.
and I am going to share with you some wonderful quotes I found:

"There are some people so poor, that the only thing they have is money"

"You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it."

"Can't sleep? Instead of counting sheep, try talking to the shephard"

"The Lord will fight for you, you need only be still."

"Don't ever worry about things that don't worry about you."

"You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be."

"It's never too late to be where you might have been."

"Happiness is a moment with you."

"I once read that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way to move against me while you sleep... and there are no words for that."

"The recession won't be over until we raise a generation that knows how to live with what they've got."

"There is no testimony without the test."

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"I love you to the moon in back."

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky."

"I love you so much, I'm willing to make funny faces in public just to see you smile."

we are so cool.

I'm in a sick lovey mood. don't judge me.
hopefully I find something great to blog about, before my rest day is over!
or before I realize I have more things to do than I have time for.

I know my call despite my faults

today,
I was driving and this song came on the radio and I started bawling my eyes out.
isn't just great to have someone who always believes in you,
and tells you it's okay to be scared,
and that you can do anything under that sun?

sometimes I'm terrified that I can't do a lot of things...

a few weeks ago, I almost started crying in the middle of my nursing simulation

(where a couple of nursing students perform nursing cares on and talk to a mannequin for about 10 min.

oh ps. they film you, and your whole clinical group watches you,

then you rewatch it and get debriefed).

They made me the head nurse,

and I was shaking so hard afterwards;

I told Jeremy I was quitting nursing school.

he told me that I would be fine.

that it's so scary, and it makes you want to quit

but that's what makes it worth it.

the next week

I got a 98.5 on my assessment passoff

without even looking at that damn cheatsheet.

my husband is so positive and loving and excited and

he refuses to let me get down about myself.

it's great to have an advocate in your life.

to get a hello kiss everyday,

to know that someone will stand up for you even if you're wrong,

to know that you're not alone

when something scary happens.

i absolutely, completely, entirely love jeremy ray bodtcher.

to celebrate 52 weeks of marriage:

if you didn't know, this october 8th was our 1 year anniversary!

Jeremy and I went to Moab to celebrate

it was also where we went on our honeymoon,

where we lost all our honeymoon pictures,

so here's what we came up with to make up for it! :)

dark night driving out. :)

isn't the sky just gorgeous????

we went to the monticello temple. :)

it was such a small temple,

but with such a great spirit!!

of course we went hiking.

this is the turn right before you see delicate arch.

here we are. :)

it's gorgeous isn't it?

it's easy to feel so small when you see beautiful creations like this.

haha someone yelled out

"OH THEY'RE SO ADORABLE!!!!!"

when we took this picture.

it's true, we are!

yep, I married this goofball :)

we got these ginormous slices of pizza for super cheap!!

and we ate at pasta jays,

and it was the best expensive meal I've had in a while :)

we walked up and down this strip every night after dinner.

window shopped and actually shopped

we had to do a sunrise hike.

one of my favorite pictures. I love the sky!!

north and south window.

together by north and south window. :)

our trip was so nice and so relaxing.

just what I needed, as most of you know i stress out so much.

this was such a perfect anniversary

because as they say,

there are specific moments that are defined by

how much things are never the same after you pass through them.

so cheers to us for making the first year

and cheers to starting round 2.

and things will never be the same anyway. :)

Lamp of Learning

The College of Nursing hosts an annual induction ceremony

that's comparable to the medical students white coat cereemony

above is diana, christie and I in line to get inducted :)

thumbs up, always :)

and Diana is always such a goof :)

these two individuals put a really nice inducation pin over me :)

note about this pin:

my husband is super bitter about it! haha

this is what he says:

"I pay so much freaking money for that school

and I get a cheap plastic pin for graduation,

you are getting paid to go to school

and you get a METAL pin for STARTING!!!!"

hahaha

you can ask him about it,

don't worry, he'll be just as bitter :) 

Mikyla and I!!!

the sweetest girl in the entire world!

we were chem partners way back when I was a freshman!

now we're both in nursing school!

and also, she's engaged!!!! :)

diana, christie (and her little nugget, dylan) and I

hottest girls that night!!

xo

my cute family and I at the induction

randy, julie, jeremy, liana, mom, wan-yu, and dad :)

ps. note how handsome Jeremy looks???

and also how Jeremy and Randy match??? ha

in the car.

I kinda felt like we were going on a date

with our parents driving us, chaperoning. haha

cute parents at dinner :)

oh, and believe it or not?

we are moving out of this storage unit in t-25 days.

or less.

calling all supporters/fans/stalkers!

The 5 of you who read this blog probably already know that I'm in nursing school. What you may not know is that my cute little clinical group has started a blog of our own.

Follow us to stay updated! ...or just to show us some support and love. There's mostly just a ton of fun pictures, because you know us nursing students do crazy things!

xoxo,
Liana :)