Two Week Notice

We're in the home stretch, baby. 

In two weeks, life will begin again. 

School will be over until I want to go back again for higher education.  Days will not be split between homework and eight-hour nursing home shifts.  My desk can be used for creative writing and occasional craftastic projects.  I will see my fiancee again, because he too, is in the home stretch, and will not be split between jobs and classes. The dog will run more and there will be spontaneous cuddle sessions on the couch, while I finally finish books that I've wanted to read for the last year, or two. 

And, finally, finally, I will finish The Good Rain.The book that I've been trying to find time to finish for over two years.  The book that I told K, "Oh, let me read it first, then you can have it.  I'll get through it fast."  The book that started at my bedside table, then moved to my work bag for those slow nights that happen maybe once a quarter, and now it's by the couch, just waiting.  Filled with sticky notes that keep record of the best pages, and the most beautiful references to my mountains.  Yes, its a book about Washington.

You know what else I'm going to do?  Pick up where I left off.  With everything.  Especially our wedding.  I took a much needed break from wedding planning last month.  Around November 2nd, and then especially on November 4th, I had nothing to give anymore as far as planning.  I have to-do's to cross off and magazines waiting to be cracked open, but I just lost heart.  Burnout I guess.  So, in two weeks, we'll kick things in high gear again, reorganize, and prepare to ring in 2011. 

And, I'm going to do some crazy things too, like plan the next year's garden, and spend a good chunk of time in Seattle come January.  Watch out! 

Life without nursing school. 

A transitional time.  A time for soul-searching.  A time where I can take my time.  To concentrate on what I want to do with my life, career-wise or not.  It's exciting. 

Too bad that life will begin again in the freezing beginning of winter.

We compensate though.  The family will be out in two weeks and we'll suck up the season together, in the form of Hershey ChocolateWorld, and Christmas movie watching.  We'll play with puppies and bundle up to take walks, and just be.  Without worries, without drama, without things that we have to do.

I feel like we're coming out of a long, hard, bitter winter, and the snow is starting to melt around our world.