Yup, that's me - a slacker. Here I promised I'd be better about keeping this blog up to date and I haven't posted anything for three months plus. Can I plead insanity? I know as a Hall and as a Nielsen, I'm prone to insanity anyway, but seriously, the last few months I have felt more crazy than usual.
My life feels like a roller coaster, but not your typical Disneyland ride. Strangely, it feels a lot like we're going up a very steep slope waiting for life to get going, or something to come along that gives us a boost. Dustin had night shift capstone hours for his nursing program this semester. I think this is what made it the hardest three months of my life. He's been done for two weeks, and he still has trouble coming to bed before 4 or 5 in the morning. I suppose it's better than 8 in the morning from the shift. But we're anticipating his graduation this May! Hip hip hooray! But this also means that he has to find a job, we have to find a new apartment (we're in student housing so when he isn't a student anymore, we'll be kicked out) and depending on where the job is (we're looking at a few places out of state) I have to figure out how to transfer my credits somewhere and I'll have to find a new job. So, there's a lot of uncertainty going on right now - hence the upward slope of the roller coaster.
On a lighter note, life is good! Dustin is pretty much done with school. He only has one class on Wednesday and an online class he has to take a test for on Tuesday nights, but other than that - he's got tons of free time! He is really looking forward to getting a job in the medical field. He's looking at five different Critical Care internships he wants to apply to. Two are here in Utah, one is in Vancouver, Washington, one is in San Diego, California, and one is in Dallas, Texas. We're rooting for either the ones in Utah or the one in Dallas. Texas has a lot of great hospitals and they pay the best for the profession Dustin is looking at. He is hoping he can get in to TCU for their graduate program in nursing anesthesia.
My life is still VERY busy. Especially for these next couple weeks. I still have school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights, but on top of that, General Conference is coming up, which means a lot of hours at work. I normally wouldn't mind hours at work - I like getting paid. But on the other hand, I've kinda gotten used to this 20-25 hours of work per week thing and how it allows me some time to breathe and get some school work done. Oh well. I'm looking at 35 hours of work this week and probably more next week. To top that all of, I just came down with a nasty cold. We all know how long colds last, especially when there is no time to rest and recover. I'm looking at a miserable next two weeks. Beyond two weeks out lies the unknown. I've been trying to find a way to transfer my credits to a college that offers an associates degree, but I'm finding that anywhere I go, I lose a lot of credits. I can't really stay at BYU, though, because if we move out of state, I lose all those credits anyway. Even if we stay in state and find a place here in Salt Lake, the BYU Salt Lake Center doesn't offer courses for a Bachelors degree - I have to be at the Provo institution to get my Bachelors. Any way I look, I feel like I'm stuck.
