Friday, June 28, 2013

Happy, happy day!

Happy Friday, everyone! Even though I work Saturdays I still look forward to Fridays. That's what happens when you love your job and the clients you have. I've wrote before that I'm trying to get into nursing school. I'm sure you think this is crazy when you  love what you do but unfortunately "hair" does not offer enough benefits. Yes I could depend on my husband for health insurance, retirement, but I don't want to and second I want to have a job that offers payed time off/vacation. I want to be able to be home through the holidays when there out of school and also during the summer. And this is something I've always wanted to do.....be a nurse. 

So I've been taking a summer biology class and is it hard!! An average two weeks for me looks something like this:
1.  Read 5-7 chapters (about 20-25 pages) of textbook. 
2. Read 3-5 chapters of Lab textbook.
3. Class from 6-8 every Monday and Wednesday.
4. Write Two labs each week
5. Every other Sunday is a textbook exam. (So hard!! He gave a 25 point curve on the first!)
6. Every 2-3 weeks a Lab exam.

So on top of this crazy class I'm still chasing kids and working Saturdays and keeping up with the house. And trying to get in my mileage! 
                 15 miles this week!
But I have to say, it's kinda nice knowing I'm half way down with it already. Lets just hope I can manage good grades on these next two test! 
   Me heading to class Wednesday night!
Btw- I love this tank! It's from gap and its just fits perfectly! I think I'm gonna order a couple more tonight. Gap is offering a 40% off with the gap card(the only reason I own one!) 

So, my weekend is going to consist of studying tonight and then a friends house tomorrow for a fish fry(I'm gonna need a little break) and my test Sunday. Please say a prayer and wish me luck! And I'm gonna leave you with a little school humor.... Because this is exactly how I feel. 

                        Later folks!
 
                           Angel

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

My Favorite Vacation!

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Hello everyone! Hope your weekend was great! Mine was good but nothing spectacular. Luke is moving up a class at school and because of this the director suggested we work on the most awful word/phrase in toddlerhood.....Potty-training. Yes, it was horrible, and no, we did not have much break through. I'll leave it at that cause I know you really don't care that I almost went bald in three days.

On to better things.Today I'm linking up with Holly @ Where we can live like Jack and Sally. She is talking about favorite vacations. I really don't know that I can list a favorite. Babes and I traveled a lot before we had kids. Our first trip together was before we were even married. We went to Miami for a week. A year later we were married and  went to Mexico on our Honeymoon. For our one year anniversary we went back to Miami. Since then we've gone on a 9 day cruise with family to the Caribbean,  a week in Jamaica with another couple and after Luke was born we went to Destin, Florida. I had fun in Destin but going on a vacation with a 5 month old is not really a vacation. He was still waking up once a night and getting up really early. I would have to say Miami or Jamaica are top places. But I don't know where I've put my pictures for Miami so were gonna go with Jamaica.
This is babe's and I enroute to the resort. We stayed in Ocho Rios and it was about 2 hours from the resort. But we bought a couple drinks before we loaded up and it made it fun. About halfway the bus made a pit stop at the little touristy/holeinthewall place, Loading up on more drinks. Apparently it was some moonshine that they used in the mixed drink. For the record, this is not wise. By the time we made it to the resort I was ready to pass out.

                                                               Some of our views!

babe's and I before going up the falls!

Going out for dinner!
This was our last vacay before having kids. The last vacation where we drank everything we wanted and didn't have to worry about tomorrow. The most we worried about was what our dogs were doing while we were gone. Funny looking back on that now. Kids really do make your life different. But I wouldn't change it. 
Now we are renting a lake house in August for babe's BD. We've done this every year since we've been married (same house) and last year was the first we couldn't having a new baby. So I'm really looking forward to it since it's the most vacation I'll have this year. 
Also, our ten-year anniversary is less than two years away. The babies will be 4 1/2 and 3. Not sure how I'm gonna fell being away from them a week but I'd love to go somewhere really amazing. 
 
This is my dream spot. Bora Bora
But considering I'll still be in school and we'll still be on one income and going to Tahiti and back in a week sounds horrible I'm gonna settle for this....
 
Hawaii
So that's it folks, one of my favorite vacay's and a fantasy vacay. Thanks for the fun link-up Holly! Until next time....



Angel