I find it ironic that the first official day of fall doesn't come until late September and yet the "fall semester" begins in August. I officially start the nursing program next week, which means that this week is reserved for jumping through the hoops of orientation and a skills test that I am having slight performance anxiety over. I'm sure I'll be fine, particularly once it's over. Patrick tells me I have a great bedside manner...apparently that will take me far in this profession.
My position at the doctor's office here in town officially came to an end on Friday. Bittersweet though it was, it will be nice to only have one job for a while. Fortunately I learned a lot in my position there and those skills will serve me well in the years to come.
We recently had a garage sale and cleared out a lot of junk that we won't use and, in all honesty, don't need. Patrick's mom made over $800.00. Patrick and I made about $260.00, which is great because now we can use that money to pay for our storage shed for a couple of months.
We have been getting a lot of rain the last couple of months. Normally the NM rainy season is late July and August, but the amount we have been getting is ridiculous. It's rained more in the last three months than it normally does all year. Albuquerque actually flooded. And, in true New Mexican style, on the news this morning were two men in Albuquerque throwing bucket after bucket of rain water over their walled yard. A walled yard that had a wrought-iron gate, where a lot more water was coming through back into the yard. A perfect example of an exercise in futility. I guess, though, when you are faced with the unknown even the most inane action is at least action on your part to control the situation.
My grandmother came from Chicago to visit a couple of weeks ago. She is getting on in years my father wanted her to come out here to see her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Unfortunately, she has been having a hard time with her memory and is developing a "touch" of dementia, which makes her comments fairly interesting. She told my 14 year old sister that she is an excellent mother and that she has a handsome husband. She asked Patrick and I if, now that we are married when were we going to try to have children. When we told her we weren't married and that we haven't tried to have kids yet (school comes first), she said that was okay that we should just keep trying and it will happen. All in all, an entertaining visit.
