Anticipation...

     There's a lot of things that I have been anticipating for as of late...

• My grades from this semester
• Next semester
• The fate of my grades next semester
• Spring Break
• Getting proposed to (hopefully)
• Graduation
• Passing the NCLEX-RN/State Boards
• Etc.

     But most of all, I've been waiting so desperately for this Holiday season. For some reason there's something about this time of the year that just gets me so happy inside. Not just because of the expectation of gifts, not because I get to have a break from my vigorous Nursing classes, and DEFINITELY not because I'll be working at Target once I get home (even if I am getting a little extra money on the side). For some reason I just become a little bit more...content (I suppose) than I am compared to the rest of the year.
     One things for sure though: I absolutely can't wait til I take this last final exam tomorrow. I've been stressing about it all week, even though I really don't need to. I mean really...it's an open book exam--I really can't complain about that. I just wish it was scheduled a little bit earlier in the week as opposed to the last day of finals week cause I would have been way off campus by now and chillaxing comfortably in my home in NJ.
     Though it's unfortunate to say this break really won't be much of a "break." My break will probably look more along the lines of this:

1. Work
2. Study for next semester classes
3. More Work
4. Possible chill time with friends and family
5. Study
6. Work
7. Boyfriend visits (while I continue to Work and Study)
8. Study
9. Sleep
10. Study
11. Work
12. Return to Campus

...Yeah...This is looking to be an uneventful Holiday Break. But you know what? I'm still gonna feel content, not just because my boyfriend will be coming to visit, but moreso because it may be the last time the state of New Jersey will see me in a long, long time. I finally get to leave the small, backwards little town that I grew up in, where it seems as though generations and generations of families were born and raised (seriously, I've had high school teachers who were teachers to my friends' parents...it's wierd). Don't get me wrong...I'm going to severely miss my friends and family, but it's time for me to be independent and start fresh. I almost wonder if I would have felt this way if I stayed in-state for school as opposed to going out of state to Virginia.
     After I graduate in May 2012, I intend on moving in with my boyrfiend (hopefully fiancee by that time), and beginning my fresh new career as a Pediatric RN in a state that is NOT NJ. It's a much needed change that I think I have been looking forward to my whole life and I am very much so looking forward to this coming new year.