Jennifer Vitti

Other than being a full time student my other job, as I have mentioned a few times, is dog walking (I also do housesitting on the side). Dog walking sounds like a great job–and it is most of the time. You get to play with animals who LOVE you, you are outside a lot (yay for summer tan!), good exercise, and it pays pretty decent money. However, there are a lot of downsides: cleaning up dog poop (you kinda get used to that though), bugs, tired, smelly, unruly animals, and the weather. Yesterday was one of those bad weather days. It poured!!! And I mean POURED! I had like 6 walks and I was outside in the pouring rain. I keep an umbrella in the car, but I didn’t have any other proper rain gear because a) it wasn’t supposed to rain until the PM, not start at 9 AM and b) I’m housesitting so I don’t have everything I usually have. I was soaked by the end of the day. Which of course put me in a cranky mood–I was tired, cranky, frustrated, annoyed, PMS-y, lonely, and WET (which really probably caused/exacerbated all those other moods). Even the poor dogs didn’t want to be outside. When I took them out they would look up at me and be like “You’ve got to be kidding me? You’re taking me out…in this?!” Bleah. Luckily I lifted my mood in time for my sister’s birthday celebration. We went out to dinner with my parents and then came back for cupcakes and presents We’re celebrating again with my grandparents and my brother (who was on vacation) on Sunday.

Nursing News (can’t wait until this is the main talk almost every entry instead of at the bottom!):

-Book list came out. OMG SO EXPENSIVE! I could’ve added “and totally broke” to my bad list of feelings yesterday. I bought them all today though. My classes aren’t changing, so why waste time and not get the cheapest ones I can before they sell out. Luckily a lot of these were not books they were nursing kits, so my guess is those things will not have to buy again. Hopefully every semester will continue to get cheaper and cheaper (crosses fingers). I’ll let you know more about the books when I receive them (around orientation–17 days!).

-Paid tuition bill–really really really broke right now.

~love always~

Jen