Today is my last day at Georgia Perimeter College. I am waiting for my last final today at 5:30pm and then I will have a wonderful 8 week break. While I am happy to be transferring schools (to Clayton State), it is also sad. I have met some wonderful people while at this school, who are very close to my heart. I have learned a lot about myself: about my drive, my love for learning and what is most important to me: my family. While my studies often take time away from my family, it is very important that I do what I'm doing for the long-term goals for my family. Being in the nursing field, we will always have stability.
I have always wanted to be a nurse and I regret to this day that I didn't stay with that major in the 90's. Luckily, I found my way back and here I sit....taking in the beautiful landscape of this campus, enjoying people watching and happy to never have to eat at the bite and die (aka cafeteria) ever again!
The area my campus is in has two sides to it: the diverse, lower-class area and the older we've-lived-here-forever area. I ate in a little country restaurant today for lunch on the latter side of the two. I was by far the youngest person in this restaurant. Most cars had handicap tags and most patrons had canes or walkers. One couple in particular caught my attention. This little old couple was so sweet! They were both hard of hearing so they basically yelled their conversations so it wasn't hard to overhear their conversations. They talked about their children, the weather (of course!), how cold it was in the restaurant (I was quite comfortable) and their life together. From what I could get from their conversation, they had been on a road trip visiting family. I thought to myself: "Self....this is what me and hubby will be like when we are old like this. Still loving one another yet getting on each other's nerves!" LOL
Each time one spoke to the other, there was no response and then you'd hear "Did you hear me??" and the other would yell back "No, you talk too soft!" Ha! Ha! Ha! It was so funny and so cute!
While I do enjoy being back in school, I also miss being in the work force and worry all the time about this journey. I worry about getting into a nursing program. I worry about my grades. I worry about making the right choice school-wise. It's all fair game at this point so I just try to go with the flow.
On a more upbeat note, I am down 16.8 pounds today and I can really see a difference! I'm so excited about this HCG diet! The lunch I had today had something in it that I probably shouldn't have had (I'm not sure what....) as I feel blah and when I eat my cooking at home I don't have this sluggish yucky feeling. Hopefully it won't show as a gain tomorrow!
T-Man has been in Alabama getting his stuff packed to move with us and also has a baseball camp at Disney World next week. He's been gone about a week and I'm really missing him. He is such a sweet kid! I know he's missing me too as he calls me almost every day - especially this week!
Well....I guess I'll go review some things for my final! I hope you are all having a wonderful day and a great summer! My summer officially starts tonight around 8pm!!
Always be true to you!
Hugs,
Heather
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