It's been a whirlwind of a time and I think the blog is finally due for an update.
First of all, I got into nursing school!! This is something i'm incredibly excited about. Just to think in two short years i'm going to have my RN. It's amazing to think that i'm finally getting somewhere professionally. Speaking of profession, I also signed a 6 month contract with Kaiser about a month ago as a CCA through my agency, Aerotek. It wasn't the dream situation being that the employment was through an agency, but the more I think about it, it's the perfect scenario and job description.
Next, the debt.. I don't even know how to sort the madness I wrote out for my Day 5 post, but to sum it up I started off by splitting the money, I gave some to my mom, some to jeremy, and some to myself to pay of my debt nearly $2k debt. Needless to say I didn't have enough, but i'm working full time between Maunalani and Kaiser to make the rest of the ends meet.
Now, speaking of making ends meet.. I was in line to, but then I made the last minute decision to splurge and take a trip with Chas to Portland/Seattle, and I couldn't be any more excited! Super unlike me, but I was just so sad thinking about Jeremy going on his trip to Japan without me. I don't know, I knew of course that he asked me but I didn't have the money and I wanted it to be our trip like we mentioned before. I was also bummed to think that this is my only summer before nursing school really begins, I just got in, and i'm not doing anything or rewarding myself. I'm still trying to figure out if i'm a psycho girlfriend or if i'm justified. LOL.
Regardless, there are so many things i'm looking forward to! It's crazy, when I was in high school it just felt like Portland would be a mecha, the place where I belonged and now that I look there aren't much things to do. It's crazy how much a person can change and mature in just a few, but crucial years. It's alright though because the things that I am truly looking forward now is wearing red lipstick to dinner and doing normal, healthy things with one of my best friends, Chas. My goal for the trip is to be happy and not think about Jeremy having fun without me because he deserves all the happiness he brings to himself as he has brought me so many. I know how i'm supposed to feel but sometime my body takes a while to process. I deserve to make myself incredibly happy too. In a sense, this is better for me because I need to learn how to do things for myself, for myself.
With all this being said, i'm about $-600 short of reaching my goals of saving enough for nursing, mom's CNA and getting Jeremy's debt to only $1k, but hey, it's about time I start investing in me.
