2nd Wedding Anniversary, etc.

Scott and I booked a room last night for our 2nd wedding anniversary next month! We will be spending one night here. I'm so excited!! It looks SUPER nice! I'm mostly excited about the pool area because most hotel rooms are all the same but this pool looks really cool! If we like it there we're going to go back this winter during the Marriott "employee tradeout", which is when the Marriott lets their employees stay at participating locations for free for 2 nights. You can go to as many places as you want, so essentially you could just "hotel-hop" for as long as you want staying in each place for 2 nights...and for FREE!! Not every location participates, but most of them do. In January '07 we went to the Tucson Starr Pass resort for 2 nights (it's BEAUTIFUL!) and this past January we stayed in Flagstaff for a couple nights. It's like a little mini-vacation and all we have to pay for is the gas and food!

It hardly seems like we've been married almost two years. It feels like MAYBE one year. I guess it's becasue we're so busy. Seriously 2008 is going by SO fast! I told Scott yesterday that it totally doesn't feel like September. I feels like it should be about June right now. I mean, I want it to go fast so I can hurry up and graduate, but I don't want time to just keep flying like this! And every time I think about my age I don't believe that I'm 22. Not because I think that's old (it's SOOO not....whoever says they feel old at 22 is nuts) but because I FEEL 18. But I've been married for almost two years, I'll be an RN in another 8 months...and 18 year olds can't say that....and I'm a heck of a lot more mature and responsible than 18 year olds (at least that's what I'm told)....so I guess I'm not 18. But it sure feels like it inside. I guess it's like my grandpa's favorite baseball hat that says "You're never too old to have a happy childhood". It doesn't matter what "number" you are, but how you feel inside. I hope I still think this in eighteen years when I turn forty!! Yikes! Lol. :-D

Yesterday I took advantage of the Labor Day sales and went shopping to fill out the "business casual" part of my wardrobe, which was sadly lacking. We really don't have money for spending right now, but we decided to make an exception and "borrow" a little from our savings account for this because I will be required to dress "business casual" for my Psychology clinicals in school for all of October....and I literally didn't have anything that would be appropriate for that (the "business casual" type clothes I had already I really would not have been comfortable in all day in a patient-care setting). I figured the best sales between now and then were the Labor Day sales, so I got permission from the hubby and took advantage of the sales. We do the same thing when he needs new pants or dress shirts for work (hit up the sales, I mean) only this time it was my turn! :-) I only spent $150 for three pairs of dress pants (that fit amazingly well! I was SO happy!), a short-sleeve "jacket", a white sweater top, four other dressy tops, two camisoles to wear under a couple of the tops, and two pairs of heel sandles (one of them was $3.99!). All in all I have four or five complete outfits for clinicals (which is perfect) and didn't break the bank to accomplish it! Let me tell you, finding pants that fit perfectly would have been worth the entire $150 themselves, but they were only $19.99 each PLUS an additional $10 off my entire purchase....so I paid roughly $53 for 3 pairs of PERFECT dress pants. Okay, I may need to hem them, but they aren't too snug or too loose (often times I am RIGHT in the middle of two sizes...super annoying) and they don't pull anywhere--they just slide right on and lay perfectly in all the right ways! JC Penny is officially my favorite store for two reasons: I continually find things that FIT me there AND the prices are unbeatable (see this post for another great bargain I found there last month!). In the end JC Penny, Kohls, Target, Wet Seal, and Charlotte Russe all contributed to the great success of my day. :-)

I need to go read my IV Therapeutics book for a test I have this Saturday. I have a psychology test on Friday, but I'm devoting Thursday to study for that one (it was supposed to be LAST Friday but it got postponed due to a testing-center mixup, so I'm already prepared for that test I just need to spend some time reviewing for it). And now on to Advanced Pain Management, Blood Transfusions, and Total Parenteral Nutrition!!

OH!! And for those of you who read my last blog and know about our stupid cat's hair-tie-eating-experience and subsequent surgery will be excited to know that we made our LAST vet payment on Friday!! YAAAAY! Now there's only $400 still on our credit card from the initial Emergency Clinic visit that needs to be paid off...but we paid back Scott's parents a couple months ago for helping us out and now we've paid back the vet, so now we don't owe any "people" just the credit card. Which DOES need to be paid off, but it's not quite the same as owing family or other individuals. I feel much relieved! (is that a proper sentence?? oh well)

A crazy nursing student who needs to study,
~Abigail~