One more day of peace...

Bright and early Monday morning the duct cleaners payed us a visit and successfully eliminated the dead mouse stench from our apartment. We are very happy to be breathing clean air again. I took a trip to the campus to get my parking permit and ID card. I explored a bit...and there are 4 libraries on campus...one of them is a health sciences library! I almost peed with excitement. Practically every book was something that peaked my interest.

I had a lot of extra time on my hands this week, so I decided to start studying for my class next week. My first class is two weeks long, and we have a quiz every day and one exam each week. All of our lectures are online and we have to listen to them before class. We have about 2-3 hours worth of lectures to listen to before each class. I got most of my books this week too. My books have amazing pictures in them...I wish I still lived with Kia so she could share my joy over graphic pictures of diseases. I showed her some of them over video chat today!

Fortunately Anna decided to purchase Knight Rider...so David Hasslehoff never ceases to entertain us.

Yesterday we had a nice little snow storm. It was a good change to have some precipitation! I met some students from my class at a get together at a bar last night. It was a very different group from the Fox students I'm used to. I was caught in a huge circle of gossip within the first 5 minutes. Hopefully I'll find some good, wholesome friends in the program...if not, I always have Anna! =)

Today Anna showed me the Old Marketplace of Omaha! I had a blast exploring the town with her! She's like my own personal tour guide. Anna treated me to lunch, because she's the breadwinner in this relationship. We went to the river and walked across the suspension bridge into Iowa! There were huge chunks of ice floating in the water. It was a beautiful day for exploring. For once, I didn't mind the blue sky.

I have one more day of peace tomorrow, and then the madness begins on Monday with orientation! I am SO excited to be a nurse. I wish I could just skip all the school and go straight to work. My patient's probably wouldn't appreciate that much, however.

Ridiculous things that happened to me this week:
I got miserably lost multiple times. Once I printed out directions that led me into the middle of a park with practically no way out. Once I had to call my dad, who is amazing and knew right where I was after remembering the city from when he was here last week. Once I got so angry that I just drove back home.

I looked at the map on the Creighton website to find out directions to the right parking lot to. Unfortunately the font was size -10 and I thought it said right on 27th. It didn't. I confidently turned right on 27th without surveying my surroundings. Unfortunately it was the off-ramp to the freeway. I wondered who the three idiots were driving the wrong way. Then I realized I was the idiot. I gracefully flipped a U-turn and then got stuck at the light next to the people I wrongly judged. Of course. Thankfully God was protecting me.

I went to Jiffy Lube to get my oil changed. I already feel like an idiot at those places, because it's obvious I don't know what I'm doing. The helpful little man ran out to greet me and I slipped on the ice and got lodged between my car and the car next to me. I was so embarrassed. After the oil change I was excited because they cleaned my windows and vacuumed the floors. I had a bullet in the floor of my car leftover from our shooting practice in Montana. It was carefully placed on the console. I drove to the store and bought some groceries...and when I got back to my car there was a huge bird poop on my nice clean window. I haven't even seen a bird in this town!

We got a washer from Anna's parents last weekend. We borrowed a dolly from Ted, the maintenance guy to move it. I was running low on warm socks, so I stuck a load in. Because of our lack of a dryer, I filled two clothes drying racks with my wet clothes. The one towards the back of the room had jeans and shirts on it. The one in front had all my cute little socks and colorful underwear hanging in straight little lines. That was the day that Ted decided to come back and get the dolly. He walked in and stopped and looked at my display. I hate it when my underwear is on display for the maintenance guy to see. He said, "I thought you got a dryer?" I said "Nope....just a washer...um...here's your dolly!" Embarrassing moment number 47 of the week.

I bought 7 of my books from a Creighton student that graduated last month. I went to pick them up at her house. She kindly put them in a big box for me. It was heavier then I expected. I was walking back out to my car with my awkward load and I tripped on the sidewalk. I desperately tried not to fall down and took three huge, unsteady steps, lunging forward and slammed into the side of my car with my big box, ripping the handle off. I felt pretty victorious for not falling flat on my face.