It's been a long time since I've written in here - almost a month! I've been so busy with finals and moving out of my dorm.

But now I'm here. For the entire summer. I get to see Phillip every single day if I want. We have spent a lot of time together already and will continue to do so for the rest of the summer. You truly don't know how much you've missed someone until you remember what you've been missing out on.

We're starting to talk more and more about our future together and it's pretty exciting. Sometimes I get a little nervous because it means we're getting closer and closer to starting our lives together, but it's exciting at the same time. I guess I'm growing up...

This is our last summer together before jumping off the deep end. :P We'll spend this summer together, next summer long-distance, and the next one we're getting hitched! I must soak up this summer with him. :]

Exciting!

So Phillip has decided to come down to College Station this weekend!! He'll be here on Thursday and will stay until Saturday night or Sunday morning. I'm so excited!! We weren't going to be able to see each other for another 2+ weeks, but now we get to. I can't wait!

23 Days and Counting...

This will be the longest we've gone without seeing each other since Phillip was at Mizzou. It's pretty depressing and I miss him already. You forget how much you need someone, how much you love someone, and how much you like spending time with someone, until you can't. May 14th can't come soon enough. And you'd better believe I'll be running to him as soon as I step foot in Bedford. I'm ready for a full summer with the love of my life. But until then, I must miss him a little more each day. :(

Just Hanging Out

So Phillip came in town last night to see me. :D

Today, we ate at Laynes (of course), went to the mall and Academy, and then saw "I Love You Man" before coming back here to work on his schedule for the rest of college and start watching the Rangers game. Pretty soon we'll be ordering Chili's to-go and eat it in the dorm. I love spending time with him. :]

Earlier today, we had to huddle under the same umbrella and walk all the way from my dorm to the Veterinary Sciences building, where his temporary parking permit is good at. It was definitely interesting and I got dominated (as Phillip said) by a car splashing in the runoff rain. It's been pouring down rain here all day.

So what's in store for the remainder of the weekend? Well, tonight we'll just hang out and watch some tv. Then tomorrow my parents and grandparents are coming up from Houston to spend the day here for Parents' Weekend stuff. There's a BBQ, craft fair, and maybe a concert that we'll be going to. Plus, I'll give the grand tour and show my grandparents the bonfire memorial once again. It'll be fun.

Sunday, I plan on sleeping in with the love of my life and lay around all day until Phillip has to leave that night. He was going to leave on Monday, but he has an advising appointment that day. After he leaves, it'll be another 3.5 weeks until I see him again. I'm not happy about that. It'll be the longest I've been without him since he was at Missouri. :( Look forward to sappy "I miss you" posts.

Nursing School = The Monkey Wrench

So about this time last night, I decided to start looking into different nursing schools' fast-track programs for after graduation.

I was floored by what I found out.

Well, first let me say that Texas Womens is probably my first choice for being a little more low-key than UTA (but still 98.7% NCLEX passing rate!), and for having a ton of impressive information about their post-bachelors-degree program.

But what I found out is that the program starts June of 2011 (more specifically, around the 6th if you base it off of this years date). And due to it being an accelerated program, it meets pretty much all day every day until August 2012. Therefore..... getting married in June or July of 2011 is most likely no longer an option. :(

So what is most likely going to be the solution? Well, it's still too early to fret and worry too much, but it seems like we will be getting married on one of the last 2 Saturdays of May that year. Meaning, I will graduate college, get married, and start nursing school all in the span of one month.

Crazy right!?

I know we can do it, and I would have no problem with getting married in May. I've already decided to do a little more summer school than planned so I can be a half-time student for both semesters of my senior year, giving me more time to work a second job, and plan a wedding. I think that's perfectly reasonable and would lighten the stress.

So I know what you're thinking: "why not wait another year and a half to get married?" Seriously? We've been agonizing over having to wait this long, and still have 2 more years to go... and you want us to wait even longer!? Yeah right!! Not happening!! I can't wait to marry this man, and I won't wait any longer than I have to.

Another thought you probably have: "what do the other nursing schools' schedules look like?" Well, it turns out that Baylor's fast-track nursing program would start 2 days after graduation. There is no way I could handle that - wedding or not. 2 days to pack up and leave College Station, move back home, and not have time to even breath before starting up again? That'd be more crazy than getting married 2 weeks after graduation! I also looked into TCU's fast-track program, and found out that theirs starts before I even finish finals in College Station!! Not to mention, I'd have to miss graduation if I somehow managed to be in 2 places at once. So TCU's will not be an option. And as far as UTA goes, they still have yet to post information about their fast-track program, though I've read online from other curious bloggers that if you call, they can give you info over the phone. Sounds kind of sketchy to me...

So where do I go from here? Well, I'm going to ask my career advisor (Kate) on Tuesday during her office hours if I can still do the traditional track after graduating. Nobody has ever said we could or couldn't with a degree, so hopefully she'll say I can go ahead and enter nursing school as if I applied after my second year of college. That would be ideal, and then we can scratch all of this post out and continue with the original plan of getting married in the summer and starting nursing school in the fall. If she says I can't do the traditional route, then I'll have to take it one day - and one decision - at a time. I'd have a lot of thinking to do...

I know I shouldn't stress over all of this because I have plenty of time. But I'm a planner and I would like to know what my future holds. It's exciting but scary. For the first time in a long while, I'm thoroughly confused about what/when things will happen.