three way calling

remember back in high schoolwhen you were always on three way? it was like the "in" thing to do. well, last night i totally had a flashback to high school. i was talking to cristina when reg called me on the other line. i was going to relay the information back to reg anyway so i decided i would use my three way. i first had to ask cristina how to use it because it had been so long, but we figured it out. then we started talking and talking and talking .... for 3 hours! yes, 3 hours! it didn't seem like it though because we engrossed in such great conversation although reg couldn't hear for the last hour because she was delirious and we wouldn't let her get off the phone. anyway, gals, thanks for great conversation on my Friday night!

oh how He works

so this past weekend was our retreat. thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers and especially for your presence. it really made a difference. I think all of us felt Him there, working through all of us and through others and of course through Fr. Mel. Weird how so many things just seemed to fall into place this weekend; all because of Him. We are in for the long haul guys, but it is a beautiful thing. we need to be in the present and get updated in our walk. There's so many words that I would love to say but I think you'll be able to see the love in the pictures. I love you all and hope to see you at the next batch.

So here are some of the pictures from this weekend:

and they were all making fun of me because I bought the headlight ... look how they laugh! but, it really did come in handy... ask Ang

Jerome purposely blinks in my pictures ... I don't know why
and then he gets Pia to do it too ...
look it's Gracie, Cheryl, Lovette and "lil Kim" aka Larahere's our first girl picture of the night ... look how Dorothy lay

a couple of people switched around for this one but Dorothy still remains in an uncomfortable position
headlight to headlight ... I look like a mushroom head
I told the guys to turn around and this is what I got ...
Here are their faces: Brian, Leo, GB, Mike, Jei and Jerome
My, me and Reg before My leaves back for Vegas. Thanks for making the trip out my dear!
Day and me ... we usually have little eyes and big eyes together so we just covered them with sunglasses
Day and Cici are so good at their position ... give them your fees ... NOW
pleasure to announce the vice rec for Women's Batch 33: Ms Cristina Maaba
Eileen, me and Day in the back somewhere. I miss us!
Group shot before Anna leaves ... Margret, Franny, Cristina, me, Reg and Anna
The women of Batch 32 and Fr. Mel : Jelyn, Sarah, Kristin, Reg, Fr. Mel, me, Dom, Kirs& Cressa
We did it Reg!!! I love you my rec!! yes we were a wreck this weekend but it was all worth it ... the long nights, the lack of sleep, the exhaustion, the tears ... all worth it because it was so beautiful. basta. always














Cristina!!! You scared the crap out of me when I was eavesdropping on your conversation on Friday night... boy was that scary. I thank Him for your "okay" and I am so excited to go through this with you by my side. and yes, we are very much alike. scary. Go Batch 33!
This was on Monday when we decided that we were going to drive Reg back to Palmdale. We needed to eat and ended up at Zankou chicken. I'm showing the hummus and it's dripping all over my fingers. bleh but yummy in the tummy.

Ang is excited for the garlic butter but Reg doesn't look so excited. She thoroughly enjoyed her zankou experience. Thanks to you girls for keeping me company on the ride back up to Palmdale - for letting us stay at your place, for all of the wonderful conversations and words of discovery, for letting me practice healing touch on you, for being the beautiful girls that you are. I see Him in all of you and for this I am grateful. Until next time, basta.

transition

what a weekend! so much to say but too tired to say it because today was a long one too. i'll write about it later but just wanted to say that God is good and shows Himself in mysterious ways. amen Lord amen.

retreat

if you could just send a prayer out for our days retreat this weekend that would be awesome! thanks guys!

my belated happy birthday!

I'm so terrible. I forgot to greet my Rec a happy birthday! Happy 25th birthday Reg!!! Next time, make sure that you're bringing someone in because you're 25, not the other way around! just kidding. Love ya! Spoons: be careful, it could be hazardous to your health!
To many more years and many more memories - caught on film!

Happy Easter

He is Risen Alleluia Amen. Happy Easter everyone! It was so beautiful to see all of the color in Church today. And of course, we saw loads and loads of people. Joey and I got there while the other Mass was still on, but it was a mad rush once Mass was over because people wanted to sit. The homily was awesome and it kind of made me think. St. John referred to himself as the other disciple and he let Simon Peter go inside the cave before him although he was the one that ran there first. Interesting. Anyway, it was a beautiful Mass. After Mass, Joey went to work and I went over to my brother's place to have some Easter eggs. They always come out in reverse order.

This is the aftermath. Jayden doesn't know what to do with all of his eggs.

Lucas got lucky - he found the ones with all the money.

There they go ... crazy kids.

Aren't the cute? This is where they had to wait while the eggs were being hidden. Happy Easter again everyone!

I forgot - congratulations!

Congrats to another newly engaged couple! can't wait you two!

too strong

so yesterday we went to pick up Joey's prescription at Costco. they had originally told us 7 - 14 days and yesterday was day 14. I went to the bathroom as he picked them up. When I got out, he was standing there talking to the guy with no glass case in his hand and he said let's go. I asked where his glasses were. He said that they had already tried to make 2 lenses for him but that because his prescription is so strong (he has a really bad astigmatism) the lenses have broken when they tried to put the anti-reflective coat on. They're on lens try # 3 and then they'll hopefully be here by next Thursday. How sad huh?

first saturday

here's saturday in a nutshell ... all the other pictures are posted on my site. if you don't know it, it't http://kay.gbox.org

pia and kiana after Mass. Too cute.
again in Pia's words "the 4 kids" Amaya, Paolo, Jerome and Annika

practicing for Mass - this is a story in itself

This is Jerome's reaction to Pampy's drawing. Yes, you ask, what the heck is that?
Girl picture sans Pia (she was collecting Music books for us)
This is the girl team reacting to the guys. Sorry, Edvin's in it too so it's not all of the girl team.
This and the next go together. Both are trying to portray a word that none of us have ever heard of ... maybe you'll get it the next time so I won't say it at this moment.

This is J.P and Jeremiah - Aimee Jade and Bryant's kiddos. Aren't they precious?

So these were our first Saturday activities. Next time come out and join us and have a good time!

the engagement party

not my engagement party, but grish and steph's. here are some of the pictures.
this is us gathered in the hallway. everyone in pink is a bridesmaid, steph and grish, bianca is the flower girl and joey's a groomsman and ray's the best man.

this is our traditional first pineapple kamikaze.

this is the entire wedding party. one groomsman is missing (J Mo in Hawaii), the other flower girl and the ring bearers so there's plenty more people to add.

and this is the engaged couple - grish and steph. wedding date: may 19, 2007 - wow

airports and breakups

i just talked to my friend on the phone this morning. her man broke up with her last night. he went away on vacation and didn't ask her to pick him up from the airport. when he arrived on sunday, he didn't even call to tell her that he was in. then it got into a whole thing last night that he didn't think that his feelings were growing. in any case, i was talking to another friend a couple days ago and she was like "isn't that when you felt it too before? when you didn't pick up your ex- from the airport?" I thought about it and was like, yeah, actually, it was. He had left for a two week vacation and I did not drop him off or pick him up. That's when I realized it was over. maybe the same thing happened. weird.

quotables ...

I have a daily nurse calendar and I thought this one was interesting ...

"Never get into an argument with an idiot. They only bring you down to their level and then they beat you with experience."

haha

vegas

so this was our vegas trip ... these are all out of order but this is us visiting my and danny in their new pad. we were in the room watching NCAA basketball.
we had just come back from Massage Envy - this place where My is a member and can get people in for a good price. Joey, Cel and I got half hour massages for $21!! What a steal!

this was the end of friday night ... after all of the drinks for Cel's bday and St. Patty's day, we were all pooped out and ended up in the tub! this is Cel and the guys on her bday ....

Us being hams outside ... we were getting really warm and so all the girls went outside to get some fresh air and ended up in pictures ...

this was Round 2 or 3, I don't remember which one ...

I'm just holding Joey's drink in this shot ... we have 8 eyes between just the two of us!

this is how we partied... 6 out of 10 threw up - I wasn't one of them - yay! and two of the girls didn't make a full recovery until 5 PM on Saturday. Anyway, I think everyone had a good time.

courtesy of Day

Here's my info:

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. server / waitress - never again
2. cashier / customer service
3. FDA public affairs
4. Assistant administrator at a SNF
then I have my current job - w0w I didn't know that I've had 5 before

Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Lord of the Rings - all three - ask Dana
2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Simon Birch

Four places I've lived in:
1. Diamond Bar
2. Anaheim
3. Baldwin Park
4. Irvine

Four TV shows I like to watch:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. American Idol
3. The Sopranos
4. Laker games

Four bands/singers I'd love to meet:
1. Coldplay
2. Green Day
3. U2
4. Dashboard Confessional

Places I have been on vacation:
1. Australia
2. Hawaii
3. San Francisco
4. Las Vegas
5. Yellowstone National Park
6. Vancouver / Victoria

Four of my favorite foods:
1. pancit malabon
2. mango and sticky rice at Banana Bay
3. porterhouse at Ruth's Chris
4. crispy pan fried noodles

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. in my bed under my warm Korean blanket
2. in Joey's bed under his warm Korean blankets
3. on vacation somewhere warm
4. on vacation period

it's me

remember when i wrote about the cirque du soleil tickets for christmas and how i wasn't invited to go? well, i got a phone call on wednesday morning. it was my godfather. he asked what i was doing on thursday. i said i had class but i was free after. he told me not to make any plans because we were going to go to dinner with jenn and joan and then after dinner, jenn, joan and i were going to watch cirque du soleil - he was giving the ticket that they had bought him to me. i felt bad but he said that he had already made up his mind and that he already talked to the other two girls and they were okay with it so he wouldn't take no for an answer. i asked him when he had thought of the idea and he said the day after christmas. i asked why he asked me so late and he said that he was scared of telling jenn. i laughed and said, "you're scared of her too?"
anyway, so we all met up for dinner and for some reason i still feel uneasy around jenn (this is joey's ex-gf). i don't know why. she's the one that broke up with him. my other friend, joan, and i always tease each other because joan is going out with another guy that we think jenn had some sort of drunken encounter with so we call both of our men "used goods." but anyway, i still feel weird around her. jenn and i used to be best friends in high school. we drifted apart our senior year when she got with joey and i got with ray. then when her and joey were having problems, she would come to me for advice. six years later they break up and a year after that joey and i are toogether. i still feel weird around jenn and around ray. i shouldn't feel weird around jenn because she broke up with joey and she has had 2 boyfriends since him so she's good to go, but i still do. i have a complex i know. anyway, here's our pix:

picture posting

Reg taught me how to post up a picture ... wow ... how easy! these are my kiddos, not mine, my nephews ...

mina's story

so i had dim sum with mina on monday because she was in town. we're talking and she tells me a story.

Mina: "I can't pull off this dentist thing because people think I'm too young."
me: :why?

so she goes on to tell me how they have a class in which they teach young children how to brush and floss their teeth. They're partnered up and on one Thursday morning she was in her garage packing up the supplies while waiting her partner to pick her up. She's wearing her scrubs and her white coat while in the garage and the gardener approaches.

Gardener: Excuse me (in a heavy accent)
My (turning around): yes
Gardener: Excuse me
My: yes
Gardener: (pause ) ... is your daddy home?
My (confused for a second and then realizing that the gardener thinks that she is a child and it would take too long to explain) No
and then he walks away ...
My hears the gardener go back to the truck and all of his fellow gardeners start talking to him in Spanish and start laughing .... then the gardener comes back to the garage

Gardener: Excuse me
My (still getting her stuff and hoping that he won't ask if her mommy's home) yes
Gardener: Are you a dentist?
My: yes
Gardener: oh .... and walks away in silence ...

honking horns and coffee withdrawal

so today i honked my horn twice ... i usually don't honk my horn at all but one driver made a right hand turn when i was making my left hand turn on a protected arrow. that means I have the right of way! what the heck! and then this other car made a very fast left turn in front of me in which i had to brake extremely fast to avoid hitting them. arrrggghhhh....
i wonder if this has anything to do with me giving up coffee. maybe it's just making me cranky and i'm just noticing things more. i can't wait to drink it again.

superstitions

does anyone know if - according to superstition - it is bad to be partnered with your significant other in a wedding? my grandma once told me that because my uncle and aunt were partnered together and she didn't like it because it was superstitious not to. they ended up divorced :(
then i told mark that joey and i were going to be in the wedding and he said just to make sure that we weren't partnered up together because it's bad luck. those are two totally different sources but with the same advice. anyone else hear of this or am i just being paranoid?

more weddings

i forgot to mention that my other friends, grish and steph, just got engaged this weekend. they told us on Sunday and then they left a very vague message for me last night. I called them back this morning and they asked if Joey and I will both be part of the wedding party. I said yes for myself but I told them to ask Joey. I think this year is break year between weddings and then 2007 I get slammed again. and this time I can't use the poor student excuse!

meredith grey

I hate meredith grey! She's selfish ... how do you not know until after???? she sucks .... I do still love Dr. Burke though... everything he does makes me happy

I am ....

a REGISTERED NURSE!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOO!!!!

I took my test on Monday and was freaking out. I went straight to Joey's house and started crying in his bed for hours. I couldn't concentrate for the past 2 days ... I couldn't fall asleep last night and I stayed awake until 2 am. When I checked the Board, there I was! WOOOOHOOO!!
I will now be able to blog and post pictures like a normal person again! Miss you guys!

happy anniversary and the first day

we celebrated my sister and Gabe's one year wedding anniversary and my brother and Katrina's seven year wedding anniversary this weekend. it was yummy with all of the steaks and sides. We got 2 free desserts because we put it we were celebrating special occasion(s). My sister-in-law turned to me and Joey and said "See, you guys have to get married in January too so we can have 3 desserts next time." Joey said that he wanted his own month. My sister suggested September because that's when my parents' anniversary is. I'll let you guys know when that happens because I am still ringless.

Anyway, Monday was my first day on the floor. It was cool. I got to see a cardioversion on my first day. First there was a TEE - basically, it's a scope that goes through the throat and down to see the beatings of the heart - it's like a really cool echocardiogram. After that, they did the cardioversion, meaning they "shocked" the patient's heart so that it would again beat a regular sinus rhythm. The process is very similar to when resuscitating a patient with a defibrillator when doing CPR. It was pretty cool because once the doctor had done it, the patient had a normal sinus rhythm - it happened after the first try. So that was the cool part of my day. Plus I got to do assessments and meds, documentation and all that jazz so it was cool. I work or have classes for the next couple of days straight - from Wednesday of this week through Thursday of next week straight - fun huh? anyway, please keep me in mind on the 20th. I've got a special test. Thanks all! Miss ya lots!

his "best" friend

so while at the hospital cafeteria today, i ran into an old friend from UCI, she used to work at the bookstore with me. it was very random. anyway, she asked what I was doing there and I said I'm actually in training right now because I'm going to be working on the 5th floor after graduating from nursing school. she's now working at the courthouse, across the way, as an atty for the parents who are trying to re-gain custody of their kids. so we got each other's numbers again and said we would definitely try to catch up.
as we're paying for our food (we're in 2 different lines),
she says "hey, kay, I'll find you a cute boy over there and you find me one over here."
I say "I don't think my boyfriend would appreciate that very much"
she says "are you still with that guy that you were with in college?"
I say "No .... I'm with his best friend"
she gasps and says "we definitely have to catch up now."
so then I start thinking, not really his best friend, just his oldest friend. but still, it sounds bad saying his friend at all. my other friend and i were just talking about this. in our little incestuous group of friends, we're all still friends - even though everyone has had some sort of relationship or connection with everyone else. in any other normal circle of friends, people usually don't remain friends with their ex's, but in ours, they do. the only one that doesn't is joey. i told joey about this conversation that I had with my other friend last week and he said "see, I'm the only normal one at of all the rest of you." I guess it's true.

81!

I can't be a Laker fan without blogging about Kobe's amazing performance last night! 81 points! seriously though, 81 points by one person! it was amazing ... and bet you he'll surpass himself one day. that's it.

the saddest anniversary

so I just went to Mass today and the homily began with today being the saddest anniversary ever. 33 years ago today, Roe v. Wade passed. and the statistics that our pastor mentioned were amazing:
40 million babies have died since the legalization of abortion
that's 1.3 million babies each year
and there are 157 each day in LA county alone
how sad.
they had a candlelight vigil at the cathedral yesterday and they had 157 people light candles for all of the babies that had died yesterday alone. then they had 157 seconds of silence. our pastor said that in the midst of the 157 seconds of silence, there was a little bustle of young children getting restless and some children starting to cry, but it was a welcome sound because these children were given a chance at the world.
another quotable he said was from Blessed Theresa of Calcutta. She stated "until the world is not afraid of children, then there will never be peace"
we can only pray for all of these children and their families. go life - all the way.

the bet

so my friend has been trying to get over her ex- for months, i would like to say almost a year now. they had decided last year, at around this time, that they were going to break up on valentine's day 2005. that was the set date. then, his job stability got shaken and he had to take a transfer - to honolulu. so that pushed up their break up because they were already on the verge of breaking up and it kind of set circumstances. they were together for 8 years.
since then, she's been trying to get over him. but, he always comes back to the mainland every 3 months to visit and we all get together because we're all still friends. but every time he comes around, they start hanging out again - just the two of them - nothing physical but just getting emotionally attached - again.
so after his most recent trip, they were talking and then she decided she was done. it had been almost a year and she wanted to stop getting strung along. so, i did what my sister did to me when she was teaching me and everyone else how to get over someone - I made a bet. My sister won herself $100, a snowboard and a trip to Disneyland testing girls on how they can't hold themselves back and speak to their ex-boyfriends (I lost the $100.)
anyway, so I made a bet. I said 6 months of no communication. It would be healthy for her so that she could move on and she could just put him away, just a little. If she did call him within that 6 month span, then I won a trip to Vegas. If not, then I would pay for our trip to Vegas. This bet was made a little bit before Christmas.
So here it is, the middle of January, and guess what? I won the bet - Vegas here I come!
We had dinner last night and as soon as we sit down she says "I owe you a trip to Vegas." I win. But it sucks because now we're in the same pattern again. How do you get over someone after 8 years and that you know that they still - to this day - admittedly care about you? I always tell my guy friend - the other side of this relationship - that he's such an ass. he can't make up his mind and that he's stringing her along, basically wanting to have his cake and eat it too. he knows that but he doesn't know how to change it either. he thought moving away would be good for them but every time he comes back, it's the same thing. oh well. we'll see.

spit up, throw up and cut up aloha style

My Hawaii trip was nuts. I had a tickle in my throat before I left but I had a lot of hot fluids that made me feel better before we got off the plane. Tuesday and Wednesday were good - we went barhopping and to Matsumoto's for some shaved ice and saw some basking sea turtles. We went to the beach for some sun, we watched J Mo surf for a bit and then we went to the hot tub to loosen some muscles. This other lady went into the hot tub with us and she was so funny. She couldn't handle the heat and was acting like the crazy chick in 40 year old virgin who liked her bathtub a little too much. Anyway, we had some yummy sushi that night but that night was the end of the party.
Thursday Joey started feeling really bad so we left the Bishop Museum after one trip to Polynesian and Hawaiian Hall. We got home and rested, waited for J Mo to get off of work, had us some ramen for dinner and then Joey started throwing up. Meanwhile, I probably had about 4 bites of my soup because it was getting very difficult to eat. By Friday, the right side of my neck was swollen and I couldn't swallow very much at all . I had a spit cup with me when we decided to lay out on the beach because it was much easier to spit up than to swallow. Joey's throwing up turned into diarrhea and he was running a temperature the whole time. There were times when we were both in the bathroom, me by the sink trying to spit up, him by the throne spitting and gagging. By Saturday I was sad, I was tired, I broke down and started crying and I just wanted to go home. I told Joey to go with J Mo to dinner and I would start packing. the trick was I was taking motrin to make the inflammation go down so by after that first hour and a half, the inflammation would be reduced just enough so that I could swallow some food and drink. if not, I would not be able to eat at all. After Joey and Joey returned from dinner, he's like "are you sure you didn't have an allergic reaction to the motrin? it says swollen face." so, at this point i couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, couldn't drink, couldn't talk - imagine how miserable i was, i couldn't even talk! but i could breathe so i wasn't too worried. our flight was scheduled for 3:45 PM on Sunday. I was tossing and turning all night because I kept thinking ABC's I had learned in school - airway, breathing, circulation. By 2:30 AM, I woke Joey up and said that I wanted to go to the hospital. I didn't want a compromised airway on the plane. so Joey and Joey took me to the ER. The triage nurse thought I had mono. When the doc came in, he actually didn't know what was wrong with me. no fever, no diaphoresis, no other symptoms but my swollen neck and the fact that I couldn't open my mouth very wide. He even told me "you know I'm having trouble too" he didn't know what was wrong with me either. I tried to open my mouth for him. he took a light and I leaned as much as I could so he could get a good angle and then he knew right away. he said that i had paratonsillar abscess that was so big that it was pushing my uvula to the side. Paratonsillar abscess means that there was a big ball of pus that near my tonsils, so big that it was pushing my uvula - that thing in the back of your throat- and of course that was why i couldn't swallow. I told him I was supposed to go back to the mainland on Sunday afternoon. He told me that was probably not going to happen until ENT came because he couldn't perform the drain by himself. He called ENT asap. they hooked me up to an IV because I was tachycardic because I was so dehydrated. they took some x-rays and the x-ray tech was like "what happened?" i couldn't talk and i didn't feel like talking so i just told him that I couldn't talk. They gave me some toradol and some morphine to ease the pain. then ENT doc, this little Asian doc that was very nice and personable. he came in and gave me some novocaine topical spray and 3 shots of novocaine. they were going to aspirate to see if they could find the pus. first needle, nothing. second needle, there was about 30 cc of pus that he got out. it was nasty but oh the relief. then he's like "blade" and the RN handed him a blade and he cut me up and opened it up some more to drain. meanwhile i'm gagging and spitting up blood but it felt so good. anyway, i was out of the hopsital by 5 AM. The RN that discharged me saw my address. he, too, lived in Diamond Bar before. He asked what I did and I said I just graduated from nursing school. He said that he had gone to Mt. Sac. I told him I went to GWC and he said that he always used to go to the Ruby's out there. I told him that Joey was a manager out in the one in RSM. He's like "I miss Ruby's food." I told him that they would be opening one in Honolulu next year. He said Joey should transfer out. I said, yeah, I should be a traveler and work out there too. He said that I didn't need to be a traveler, he could hook me up with a job. Maybe by then I won't be so traumatized to return. aloha! Joey, poor thing, still cannot breathe well. We gave him a nebulizer treatment when we got back last night to open up his airways and it made him spit up a lot of stuff but he's not even close to 100%. His back still hurts, his fungus on his hands and feet haven't gone away and he's getting a tickle in his throat. i hope it's not a paratonsillar abscess. let's just hope and pray. thanks for taking care of me bubba even though you were sick yourself!

sonicare, wedding crashers and anniversaries

it was our 2-year anniversary on saturday - me and joey's that is. we had no idea what to get each other. i had suggested earlier in the week that we should not get each other anything and simply enjoy each other's company. joey laughed but i thought it was a good idea. so all week long, i've been telling him that i haven't gotten him anything and he said the same thing. neither of us had time to go shopping. so after dana's bday dinner, we went to his sister's house. we were all hanging out and playing cards and then at midnight i greeted him happy anniversary. happy anniversary and that was it. cool. i was safe.
then when we were leaving, he hands me this bag. i had a feeling about the bag because his cousin said "it's in here" earlier in the night. so, lo and behold, he did get me a present. part of my wish list from my kris kringle was a sonicare toothbrush. since i didn't get it from my kris kringle, that's what joey got me. i was so mad. not mad, but i just felt bad. he had got his cousin to buy it for me because he didn't have time to do so himself. sweet huh? but i ended up to be the bad significant other. that made me determined. i had a full 24-hours to come up with a gift. but i had to go to my cousin's son's bday on saturday. so i went shopping early in the day - while he was at work. i ended up getting him the iPod transmitter thing he wanted, Angels and Demons hardback because he refuses to read the paperback and Wedding Crashers on DVD - he watched the movie without me first and he tells me, "there's this girl in the movie that reminds me of you" we wait another 2 weeks before we go watch it together. meanwhile mina and him have conversations, laughing hysterically, at how mina can see how this crazy girl reminds him of me. we go watch it and i DO NOT act like that crazy girl. only when she says "until I find you" I do do that sometimes ;p anyway, when he was done with work we had some chinese food as we watched the laker game and watched 40-year-old virgin. happy anniversary bubba!

mixed emotions

today was my last day at mercury. i was totally fine all day - exit interview, talking with my co-workers and stuff. and when it came to the end of the day today, I was going to begin my good-byes. i started with my manager and then i just lost it. my eyes started to tear and I had to walk away. I told her that I would go take some pictures to make myself feel better and then I would be back. I tried to let it all out and compose myself so I came back into the branch. I wanted to take some pictures of my clerical staff and i couldn't even talk. One of the girls gave me a hug and then I totally lost it. but then I composed myself again. i talked to one of the supervisors and she said how we had all grown - I had been there for 3 years and they were all so supportive of me during nursing school. they usually don't take part-time people but they thought i was still useful and they kept me. they helped me pay my way through school. anyway, I composed myself again and made my way to my other supervisors with little tears then headed over to my manager. she is awesome. gave me the most flexibility I could have and really understood that i wanted to follow my dreams of being a nurse but still had to pay the bills. she is one awesome lady. and then, when I got home, as if to end my casualty adjuster career, I got my RN-IP in the mail - my interim perit from the BRN. weird huh. talk about coincidence.