Summer Happenings

The summer has seemed to run away from me. I felt like it was going by painfully slow before I took the NCLEX. It just seemed like I was going to be studying for the rest of my life. June 28th was just never going to arrive. Now that it has come and gone, I feel the summer is nearly over, and I'm wishing it was May again.

We have been very busy this summer. With Dan starting his fourth and final year of medical school, things have been quite crazy. Yet, I feel that since I'm no longer in school, things have slowed down, and this summer has been quite enjoyable compared to summers past. Being able to have an actual weekend has been heavenly. Just feeling I have the time to take a Sunday nap has been such a blessing!

Just like any month June had a beginning, a middle, and an end....

At the beginning of June, I began my new job. I love it so much! I'm so glad I discovered that nursing was for me. I couldn't have asked for a better career!

You know when you've had enough of your pictures taken when you start to look like this...

DEER IN THE HEAD LIGHTS!

In mid June, we had the opportunity to celebrate the wedding of one of my friends from nursing school! Jessica and Mike make such a great couple. Jessica is so sweet and understanding (the remedy for a perfect nurse!), and Mike is very much into cars! They fit together perfectly! Dan and I are so happy for them! Below are a few pictures of the ladies having a great time at Jessica's Bachelorette Party! We had dinner at the Cantina Loredo in MidTown Crossing, it was so yummy!

Playing games

Opening presents

The cake topper...

Jessica and me

Maggie, Jessica, and me

All the girls at the party!

On the day of Jessica's wedding, Dan was on his last rotation of third year, internal medicine, so he wasn't able to attend the ceremony, but he came for the funnest part, the dancing! Dan had been fighting a head cold of some sort, so he wasn't feeling the best, but we still danced well into the night! We had such a great time!!!

You may now kiss your bride!!

(I stole the next two pictures from Jessica because my camera isn't quite up to snuff...)

Jessica's wedding had a peacock theme. I thought it was absolutely brilliant and beautiful!!! 

  

The groom's cake! 

Amber and Peter, can't wait until they get engaged! (HINT, HINT, HINT, I think Peter's missing the HINT!)

Maggie's brother was a great date until Dan could make it to the wedding! Thanks AJ!

Maggie had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction, but we cheered her up!

All smiles again!

Dan made it! (Can you tell he was a little sickly? Poor guy! He's so supportive!)

The beautiful bride! She looked so pretty in her dress, and her hair and makeup were perfect the entire night!

Group photo! Amber has a pool in her apartment complex, can you tell?

All smiles!

AJ is Maggies' wedding planner. Anyways, at dinner, AJ was talking about how he advised Maggie not get several different flavors of wedding cake because if there are multiple flavors of cake, people tend to eat more cake so they can taste all the flavors. We concluded it was rude of people to eat more than one piece of cake at a wedding. With that said, we all knew Jessica had four different flavors of cake: oreo chocolate, strawberry champagne, almond vanilla, and carrot (I think!) So when it was cake time, naturally, AJ and I decided we would sample a piece of every flavor of cake...ha! Caught red handed. Here's the proof! 

We're such rebels! By the way, the oreo chocolate cake was the very BEST!

Toward the end of June, I passed my NCLEX! I was a ball of nerves the nights leading up to the exam. June 28th was the day I had been waiting for my entire life to come and go so I could move on from being a student and begin my future. I ended up getting a terrible night sleep the night before the exam, but I was very confident I wouldn't have a problem passing the exam due to all my studying. Really, I haven't had much of a social life these past two years. Anyhow, the NCLEX is a unique test. The questions you receive are based on how you answer the first few questions. For instance, if I were to miss a pharmacology question, I would receive a ton of those questions later in my exam to test my strength in that particular area of nursing. Also, as you answer questions correctly, you're given harder and harder questions. Essentially, the test is set up so everyone who takes the exam gets roughly 50% of the questions asked correct. When my screen went black at 75 questions, I initially felt confident that I had passed, but then the more I thought about the exam, the more I was sure that I had, indeed, failed. The next 48hours, until I received my results, were torturous. Despite only being able to recall missing a handful of questions, I had a hard time realizing I had done really well on the exam due to my perfectionism. 

48hours later all my worries were gone!

I PASSED!

Appointment	Exam Description	Details	Status
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 at 08:00 AM Pearson Professional Centers-Omaha NE	NCLEX-RN: The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses English		Pass

And now it's official... Chealse Miller RN, BSN

Yesterday, I signed my name for the very first time with my credentials and it felt fabulous!