bittersweet....

in the words of my old boss, i am happy as a clam right now. what a great day!! i will start from the beginning...

i slept with my heat on last night for the first time and it was great because i woke up so toasty warm and happy. i stayed up super late last night getting homework done after work so i didnt even get in bed till almost 4am!! i got up around 10 and then had to rush through and do even more homework and practice my speech that i had to give today.

i rush off to class and of course my professor decides that i should go first in giving the speeches. oh well, thats fine, i went, it went just fine and now i am done. that means for the next week of classes i can just sit there and stare at other people while they give their speeches. nice. and we got out super early today so i was able to come home and eat lunch before my next class. went back to school and got my review for the test that i have to take on thursday. blah.

then onto work!! the best part of the day! it was a little crazy when i first got there, but everyone i loved was working today and that always makes me happy. ran around for the first couple of hours and then ended up going to an open house thing down in the PT area of the hospital. and by open house, i really mean, me and alyssa and merrill playing on the playground outside! it was hilarious...we were spinning around and checking out all the fun things...we originally went for the free snacks, but had way more fun than we thought we would. you might think this was the best part of work, but alas...it was not!!

so we get back up to the unit and we find out that one of our favorites, and longest staying patients, is getting discharged. i love this girl...i love her family, i love her sisters, i love everything about her. veronica has been in the hospital since the day i started working there...we pretty much checked in on the same day...2 months ago. and today she got to go home. we had made a tutu for her because she loves when we go in her room and dance and be silly and she put it on and we all danced around and celebrated and it was amazing. it was definitely bittersweet though. walking her to the car and actually saying goodbye was hard. you want them to be well enough to go home, but you love them and miss them and dont want them to leave. she was crying and it made me cry as soon as she hugged me. she has really touched my heart, her whole family has. the great news is that now she can just come back and see us as a visitor rather than a patient...we already made her promise to come show us her halloween costume next week!

so i just got home and i am in the best mood because of today. the weather is awesome outside, its in the 40s and that makes me so happy. i am looking forward to having a 3 day weekend this weekend, still debating going home or not...i want to see katherine and carly and hang out in wfalls with my mom and dad as well, but the idea of staying in austin and being lazy and getting to go out with alyssa and just hang out sounds super appealing...

what to do, what to do...