Somewhere Only We Know...

Jeez, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been super busy with school! And, obviously, school means limited reading time. To be completely honest, I haven’t been reading much at all. Seriously, classes always make me feel guilty when I’m reading and not studying. But, whatever. I just got done with midterms, so I plan on getting some reading in this weekend. And Spring Break is coming up soon, so yay! Reading time for me there.

Right now, I’m still not done reading Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, but honestly, this book is so completely boring, I have half a mind to let it go. But then I’d feel bad, since I’m already halfway through the darn book. I’ve been at this novel for a month and it’s seriously not getting anywhere. I’m starting on The Fault in Our Stars by John Green tonight, and I have a feeling it’s going to be tons better. We’ll see.

Despite my not being able to read as much as I want to, everything else in my life has been going pretty well. School is school is school. Statistics is kind of tricky (I blame this on my severe lack of any special math skills past the algebra I level), my Principles of Communications and Public Speaking classes are going great. I’m learning a lot of good information. My Issues in Nursing class is providing some general information about the nursing career that’s pretty interesting. And Ballroom Dancing I isn’t going too bad — I’ve learned basic swing, tango, and cha cha steps. In general, school’s not going so bad. I’m enjoying my semester!

As for everything else in my life? Awesome. Nursing school is still in the future and I’m getting ready to turn in some documents to the Nursing college (immunization records, etc etc). I’m getting ready to move down to the city to be near to the Nursing college, too, which is going to be a new experience and I’m so excited!

All in all, life has been great. I’ve met some new people this semester in my classes, and I’ve met one person who’s made me so incredibly happy. I’m so thankful for everything that’s going on in my life and I like to think my positive attitude is helping things go along smoothly. Here’s to more happy days living life and reading, reading, reading!

Happy reading!

If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.” And she’s going to learn that this life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by Band-Aids or poetry. So the first time she realizes that Wonder Woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried. “And, baby,” I’ll tell her, don’t keep your nose up in the air like that. I know that trick; I’ve done it a million times. You’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place, to see if you can change him.” But I know she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boots nearby, because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks that chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything, if you let it. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind, because that’s the way my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this. ♫ There’ll be days like this, my momma said. ♫ When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment. And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you. Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. You will put the wind in winsome, lose some. You will put the star in starting over, and over. And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life. And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn naive. But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily, but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. “Baby,” I’ll tell her, “remember, your momma is a worrier, and your poppa is a warrior, and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.” Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things. And always apologize when you’ve done something wrong, but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. Your voice is small, but don’t ever stop singing. And when they finally hand you heartache, when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.

—Transcript taken from Sarah Kay’s performance at TED.

Of changing my major to Nursing, anyway! Not really sure when the exact date is, but I’m certain that it was around this time last year that I was dropping classes left and right, getting paperwork to enroll into Nutrition/Developmental Psych for my nursing pre-reqs, and officially changing my major at OU. Crazy times. But it’s definitely been a good year! And now, on to nursing school in the Fall!