wrapping it all up

The semester is FINALLY over...and I have all of 24 hours to recover from what has been the most challenging semester ever. After my exams on Friday I worked all weekend and now finally have today off ... and while it sucks that I have to spend it getting ready for my summer class (that starts tomorrow)...I'm remaining positive ... trying to focus on getting my stuff together so I can rock out this Anatomy class and get back on track.
I realized alot over the past few weeks...my classes started frustrating me and I just starting getting really down on myself...being very negative....and it seemed like the more negative I got in my head...the harder everything became....until finally (for a about a week) I just broke down.....to the lowest point I've been in quite awhile....but David, my friends, and fam have helped me realize alot....and I finally feel like I can get back on track and do what I've set out to do....
So I thought I would wrap up this semester with a blog of the things I've learned....I want to write this list...take the lessons with me....and put the rest behind me.....so here it goes....the things I've learned this semester.....

• When you set out on a larger than life adventure....don't get so far ahead of yourself that you  forget your survival kit....your friends, your fam, and the love of your life....you can't survive without them...my support system will be what gets me through this. period.
• Life is about living in those awesome moments and making the most of them---it gets hard/stressful waking up, going to work, going to class, studying ...etc etc etc......and it can seem never ending...but when you have special moments with the ones you love....those are the moments that make life worth living for. Live for the simple things that make you smile.
• When it all seems like its too much to handle.....you simply have to put one foot in front of the other. You can't get caught up in thinking about all you have to do or you'll drown....you simply have to plan...write things down....and take things as they come....one day at a time.
  When you think you can't...you can....and when you think you won't...you do.....
• Quitting is the easy way out....any one can quit....it takes true perseverance to push through and win. The best nurses are the ones that inspire...and I want to be the best....which means I have a lot to learn......and the only way to do that is to push through the hard times and make it to the good times.......nothing in life stays the same forever....something else is always just around the corner....
• Getting side tracked and going down roads we're not meant to go down is in our nature....but finding our way back to where we're supposed to be is what counts. If everything we set out to accomplish went according to our plans .... if everything in life were so predictable... think of how boring things would be. It is in the mess ups....the failures...the whoopsy daisy's ... and the skinned knees that we truly learn things about life...and those are the lessons that will get us through the next great mess up, failure, whoopsy daisy and skinned knee.
• I miss home....I miss my friends....I miss my old routines....I miss my fav foods that can't be found here....I miss everything about my life before now.......but to get back to everything I love...I must get through everything here now.........life. goes. on.

I'm so thankful for David, and for my fam, and for my friends....and most of all...I'm thankful that this first semester here is behind me....now I just hope and pray that it will remain behind me (and not come back to bite me in the ass later)....so I can get back on track and stay there.....

(thanks stacy...this is one of my many "motivational" songs)