When I first decided to write this blog, I was hoping to document my young adult experience of being poor and working in a dream job. That went to hell in a handbasket after about 3 weeks.
As it turned out, I was in a pretty bad place. My boyfriend, Agox, and I rented a house we fell in love with waaaay outside of the city, which stretched my already tight budget. On top of that, my "dream job" turned out to be a nightmare. I came home crying most days, and I was desperate to get out. Then, the "dream rental" burned down while we were out one night, so we returned to a smoke-filled house and a dead cat.
Since then, life has gotten a lot better. We moved to a new rental in the city that was much closer to our jobs. I also transferred positions within my company, and as a result got a pay raise and a new, much nicer boss in an area that's much more interesting to me (psychiatry). After an appropriate healing period, I adopted a new rescue kitty, Abigail, AKA The Grey Lady. Life is finally starting to level out.
I'm also making new plans for the future. After years of trying to make my family happy at my own expense, I've decided to pursue what I want: nursing. Specifically, being a psychiatric nurse practitioner. This will involve going back to school part-time to complete prerequisites, and then full-time to get my second degree, but I think it will be worth it. Agox and I want to travel, to see the world, and nursing will give me the money, the flexibility, and the mobility to do that.
I decided to revisit the old blog, and start anew. I'll probably write about some of the period between my college graduation and now, but this will mostly be my musings, political learnings, new experiences, my progress toward nursing school, and links to science articles that I find interesting.
When I first started this blog, I kept asking myself "what the hell did I sign myself up for?" I guess the answer is life. Here's my journey.
