Happy Holidays

I can't believe it has been a year since I moved home.  What a whirlwind of a year.  I can honestly say 2012 has been the best and worst year of my life.  The last few months have been better than some of my highest highs in life, but the first half was one of my lowest lows.  So, I guess you can say its a toss up :)

A lot has been going on the last couple months since I wrote last.  I decided to start school a little faster than I had originally planned.  I will be starting in January and have 3 pretty hard semesters until I can apply for the nursing program.  I will be a nurse by the time I am 31.  I can't wait!!!  Being a nurse has been my dream for a long time, and because of what I have been thru the past 2 years, it's been a little bit on the back burner.  Oh well, such is life.  Sometimes you never know what it's going to throw at you.  I am looking ahead though and excited for my future :)

I decided to move downtown with my sister.  She has a house on 900 E. 900 S., which is more like a triplex, so ill have my own entrance and space.  I can't wait.  It's been fun living at home, but it is also time to have my own place.  I am so grateful for my parents though that they have let me invade their space and helped me through the past year.  They have truly seen me transform myself into a different person, a happier person.

I still work at Rocky Mountain Hospice.  My year mark is actually coming up in a few weeks!!  I can't believe it, it seems like I just started yesterday!  It has been absolutely amazing though, and I wouldn't trade working for hospice for the world.  I have met some irreplaceable people in my life, people I wouldn't trade for the world.  It can be hard at time, but so rewarding at the same time.

I am still dieting like a maniac.  I have lost about 60 pounds this year.  When I see that number I can't believe it.  People ask me how I did it.....I guess this quote pretty much sums it up....

That pretty much sums it up.  I look at pictures of myself last year and I want to vomit.  At some point I need to come to terms that it was an experience I had and that I have changed and learned from it, but right now I am still just mad at myself that I let myself go like that.  At what point does someone do that to themselves?  I can't imagine looking or feeling like that again.  Hell no!

Anyway, thats pretty much it in a nutshell.  I love you all, here are some recent pics :)  Happy Holidays!