first!

this'll be the first post of 2008. wow, it's been a while since i've written in here... so what's new? a lot. honestly, i want to write a huge update but it would take forever and i need to work early tomorrow. anyway, i'm sure most people are like me and have short attention spans. so a brief update:

1. spent new year's in houston with nik's friends and family
2. studied like a madwoman for the nclex
3. passed the nclex (yay!)
4. went to thailand, met nik's parents for the first time and had an awesome time
5. started work in the good sam nicu
6. went snowboarding for the first time with nik and his friends (painful, painful..)
   

and that's the basics.. there've been a few visits down to l.a. sprinkled in there, as well as a few visits from nik up north. big thing right now is work, of course... working with teeny-tiny babies has been a completely new experience.. nursing school doesn't give you the specialized knowledge that you need for nicu. also, although i work three days a week, 12-hour days are long.. and those extra four hours make a huge difference. i'm still getting used to being among the ranks of the income earning and employed.. weird transition.

a few projects here and there. i'm still knitting. i finished my first knitting project a little before the snow trip, just in time for nik to have a cozy scarf ready and waiting. i'm working on learning mandarin via pimsleur. there are a total of 90 30-minute lessons.. i'm on number 10. ouch. still running too. actually, i just registered for my first marathon which will be in december. one would assume that i have plenty of time to train, but i'm still trying to figure out how to plan my training runs around work and visits with nik.

ok. so that's my life in a nutshell... also, as you can see, i'm ditching the rest of my web site since it never got updated and facebook's better for that kind of stuff, anyway.