Still waiting on the whole NCLEX/License thing, but I'm no longer a student nurse! My classmates and I graduated last Sunday. It was insanely humid and miserable sitting outside, we were beyond being the polite and classy ladies that we are and were fanning our hoo-haas and were cursing the speakers when they were taking for-EVER, but we graduated. It is still so hard to believe that I am done.
The next step for me is taking my NCLEX to be made legal, and job applications. I am sooooo scared about the job application part. If I were searching for another receptionist/office position, that would be easy, because I know how to sell myself because I am confident in my skills and qualifications in that area. I have no clue how to sell myself as hire-worthy as a newly minted nurse who barely knows anything and still needs training as I transition into practicing as a nurse on my own. I don't want to over-sell myself, but I don't want to undersell myself either.
Either way, chances are that my hospital will not be hiring any new graduate nurses this go-round, which is upsetting because I put in a year at a hospital I had no chance of being hired at, when my position was specifically open only for nursing students. Luckily, I still have my dental office to use as steady income til I have a nursing position with a boss who is completely understanding of my situation and has done so much to help me with my journey. No matter how frustrated I get with some of the office politics, I will feel extremely sad the day I have to leave this office.
In other news, Mike and I are moving in the middle of July into our new home!
I am completely excited about our new apartment! We will be on the 3rd floor, so less noise to worry about, and only one other apartment on our floor, which is nice. It's weird that we have 2 entrances to our apartment, but I'm sure we'll end up only using one for the most part. But that is nice in the event that my other boyfriend needs to sneak out quickly....haha j/k :) We have a fireplace, a washer and dryer, two bedrooms and two baths, lots of windows (which is a huge increase from our ONE window in our last apartment). It's also upgraded, so the cabinets are nice, the doors are six paneled, nice counter tops. The only thing that could make it better is it had a garage and driveway!
It's funny because when we went to look at the models, I expressly told Mike not to act super in love with ANYTHING, and to not act like we were already decided. Yet as soon as I saw the new cabinets model versus the old cabinets, I was done. OH, and the closets in the smaller floor plan was just NOT going to work. The rent was a little more than what we were aiming for, but when we walked into the upgraded Ashley floor plan, it just felt like home to me. We will definitely need to grow into it, as we really only have enough furniture for a one bedroom apartment, but that is just fine with me as we had too much stuff for our last apartment and everything felt cramped.
And I LOOOOVVE the french doors that open up to the patio! And all of the storage space we will have! And Mike is excited for the flat screen TV we will be getting to made the living room lay out work for us.
We are going to try to move as much of it ourselves, but we are likely hiring movers for our furniture because getting our couches into this room sucked. I am also trying to get ideas for decorating, too. Our kitchen will need LOTS of stuff, like curtains, a baker rack or bar/buffet table. Our old kitchen was so small the extent of the decorating was 3 little wall accents pieces we got as wedding presents. So I definitely have WAY more space to play with, and have no idea what I want to do. We can even paint if we want to. Luckily the dining table we bought when we first moved in together matches the cabinets from what I remember of it, lol. Hard to remember because I haven't seen it in 2 years.
A bit overwhelmed with all that is going on, but I feel so happy. We leave next Saturday to go see my family in Nashville. It's been way too long because of school and work, so it will be great to see them, and go to some of my favorite places like Centennial Park. :) Just 5 work days to get through!
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