December 17, 2011

Hey! Ok So it's December 17 and it's 10:50 pm, This is going to be an akward first blog but here it goes. I'll start off by saying that i'm Melissa and i'm 18 yrs old and a first semester LPN student (so SPN). Being a nursing student is definitely secondary to making this blog, so I can look back in a year and see how far i've come. As of this very moment i've survived my first semester exams, including 2 mid-terms and a final, my first clinical rotation in acute care and now i'm advancing onto my second semester in January next year in 2012!!! I would have never made it past exams if it wasn't for my classmates though, they've stressed to everyone how important it is to stay positive through the rough times, and we've become closer these past 3 months.
For now though the positive is Christmas break!!!!!! So i'm going to stop talking about school until next year!

As for my non school life I live at home with my family. My sister, mom, the other one, and my beautiful boy Bo (dog) and my two gorgeous girls Penelope and Pashmina(rats). As for the story behind the other one, I don't particularly like talking about him but he's my father. Alot has gone down the past year with me and him and our relationship has been thrown away like trash. Which had alot to do with my eating disorder, which I was diagnosed with in april. I'm better, but there was a lot of conflict and uneasiness with that subject around him. But I'm not going to let that stop me from trying to overcome this anorexia stuff! Besides anorexia i'm type 1 diabetic which i've had for almost 4 years. These past few years have been tough! I'm constantly learning day to day about becoming more trusting, to become more assertive, and to complain less and listen more :P I am shy, until I get to know you then I have a bit of a problem only talking about myself, I think so anyways. I'm aware of it though so thats another thing i'm working on improving abit and also to become more aware of my non verbal actions, which have gotten me into some crap with people.
Well I think this is a good starting point to branch off of in my future blogging moments! Hope I haven't bore'd any poor soul that is reading this but if i have then I'm sorry for the therapy you may have to recieve, just kidding. The countdown to Christmas begins...7 more days :)  Ciao!