Still Here

For all of you who have been concerned, please rest assured I am still alive. I have just had a crazy whirlwind of a last month or so. In fact, I think its almost been exactly a month since I last updated you all on life and so here is the long and short of it.

I spent most of the month of October orienting full time at Eaton Rapids Medical Center where I was hired per diem on their med/surg floor. Its a very small community hospital in the the town of Eaton Rapids, but everyone there has been super welcoming and helpful with aiding me in transitioning back into nursing. This week I started at Allegiance Health in Jackson where I will be working full time on a cardiopulmonary med/surg floor. I have in class orientation all this week from 8am to 4ish pm every day which can be more exhausting than working on the floor. Next week, I start my orientation on the floor and then I have one more week of classroom and then back to the floor for good. I will be orienting on days till mid December and then I will be transitioning into my full time nights position. So between working 36 hours a week at Allegiance and picking up extra days at Eaton Rapids, I will be kept very busy which I will not complain about as that's all I wanted for the last several months. 

On top of starting two new jobs, I also moved into my very first apartment in the middle of October. I really love my apartment and feel super blessed to have gotten it. Its a two bedroom second floor apartment in Mason, MI. It has two bathrooms, a spacious living room/dining room, a kitchen, and even a small laundry room with my very own washer and dryer - no laundry mat for me! The best part about it is that I got the apartment for the price of a one bedroom because there was a special when I signed my lease. Its almost too big for just me, and because I don't have much furniture its pretty empty. My living room is probably the worst as I don't own a TV, a couch, a coffee table, or really any decorations. In fact, right now its mostly full of the packaging from my bed which just arrived this past weekend. Up until that point, I'd been sleeping on my mattress on the floor with a milk crate for a night stand. The milk crate lives on, but I have now upgraded to sleeping on an actual bed. I'm not too concerned about my lack of furniture, I'm sure that I will eventually acquire more than I need but until then the floor works just fine for me. It is different to live all by myself, as I've spent most of the last few years living in community or the dorms where there's always someone else around. However, I am enjoying it and its giving me some time to work on some projects from my 101 list which I will hopefully be posting pictures of soon.

Speaking of pictures, I'm sure you all are anxious to see what the new casa looks like, but my camera has not made a miraculous recovery so I will have to borrow Kevin's camera some time soon and then post the photographs here for your viewing pleasure. 

Well, that's my life in a nutshell and its almost my bed time as I have work tomorrow at Allegiance from 8am to 4pm and then at Eaton Rapids from 7p - 11p. Working makes me an old person that goes to bed at 9:30 or I'm useless the next day. 

Goodnight!