Welcome Friends! I fell of the blog train but I am back! After my seperation with the shelter I spent a year licking my wounds trying to figure out what direction life was taking me in. I finally figured it out and immediately starting working towards it. That direction was nursing school. The first job that I ever really enjoyed going to was working in longterm care as a CNA. Although after that I started rescuing animals and that is what I was sure I was gonna do with my life. I was fine with living paycheck to paycheck and barely sliding by as long as I could save animals. To say I was burnt out on rescue after my seperation with the shelter is an understatment but I didn’t think I would ever fully walk away. During my seperation and the year licking my wounds I realized it wasn’t the animals I missed the absolute most. It was the people who I missed the most. Who knew? This whole time I thought I very much disliked people. It was the impact we made on the individuals that walked in those doors whether it be for community service, to volunteers or the people seeking our help. It was the grateful faces when we treated people with respect. It was the love we shared with the community that they gave right back. It was the volunteers whom showed up on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day when you were cleaning the entire shelter alone so your staff could spend sometime with their families. It was the young man that showed up EVERYDAY to wash our dishes and help fold laundry for the past nine years of his life. It was the PEOPLE I missed. So after some pondering on what the path I should choose for the rest of my life and being so tired of living paycheck to paycheck, I watched a friend graduate nursing school and it hit me. Everything made so much sense, every thing that had happened in my life up until now was teaching me what I needed to know to send me on this new journey. I’ve spend the last year taking pre-requisites and gen eds and this week I will successfully complete my first semester of Nursing School! (and I can say that safely as I have given myself enough cushion to bomb the finals, haha) Sometimes we must just trust the process of this thing we call life. We don’t always know the answers, but we don’t always need to.