Blogs confuse me!

Still updating..... trying to be patient..... not working to well..... I give up for the day.......

and now something for the regulars

Sorry.... It's been a super long time. My life is boring in case you can't tell. The semester is officially over and most of you know its been a little rough to say the least. All in all I ended with 4 As and 2 Bs and a successful play. In one year of nursing we have lost 9/30 students. That is a lot in my opinion. Some dropped out and switched to the Practical nursing program. One decided Nursing wasn't for him. One is in the middle of a messy divorce and she couldn't handle everything all at once. The rest failed. Two were some of my favorite people in the class. One was not. This puts them in a tough situation. They cannot progress in the program until they retake the class they failed NEXT spring. So they are one year behind now. They will graduate with the incoming first years (who start next fall) if they don't fail anymore. The other thing that is rough is in any normal class they would have passed with a C. Nursing is skewed. I don't know if I have put this up here before but in order to pass you need a C. Not just any C. An 80% C. Anything lower than 80% is a D or F. 94-100% is an A, 85-94% is a B, 80-85% is a C. We don't know WHY they do it this way, but they do. Anyways... other than that..... I've got a friend visiting from California May 31st-June 8th and my summer pharmacology class starts June 8th. So i'm trying to get all my relaxation in before that starts again. The itinerary for my friend is this:
Sunday: plane arrives at 6 AM so we are ganna hang out in the cities for the day, any suggestions on where we should go? I was thinking the Mall (of course) and maybe Como park/zoo/gardens! Sunday night will be spent at my parents house.
Monday and Tuesday: we will explore southern MN. My friend has never been here so we will go to some local monuments.
Wednesday: We are heading up to my family's cabin to hang out with my friends.
Thursday: We will come to my apartment and take in the local "colors". LOL
Friday-Sunday afternoon: My sister is celebrating her birthday at the cabin so we will be going there to join in the festivities!
Sunday night: back to my place because I have class from 10-12 in the morning!
Monday: after class we will head back down to the cities and hang out until the flight leaves.....

Hopefully my friend doesn't get bored! Small town MN isn't the most exciting place in the world! If you have any suggestions on what to do let me know!

As you can all hopefully see I've updated the blog again. Cut me some slack as I'm still deciding where to go with it. I'll add more as time goes on and I run out of books to read and catch up on. Thats about all that has been happening in my life. I'm a pretty boring person. Hope all is well with you! I'll try to start posting pictures.....

An Open Letter:

I'm not entirely sure she reads this, but I just found her blog and started following it so maybe she will pick up on it.
What happened? As far as I'm concerned you were my BEST friend. We both knew where we stood in our opinions and views. If that is what happened then I'm sorry you took what I said the wrong way. But that doesn't change my views. I'm a liberal, and though I don't agree with everything they say, they are closer to where I do stand. Your conservative, and I respect that. When you attack my personal beliefs then I'm going to give you information defending them. I was in no ways attacking your political beliefs. They are just that: YOUR beliefs. Not mine. The thing is I don't care what you believe because we were friends beyond that. I moved out with you while your husband was deployed because I felt we both needed something to change. So I left MN and the drama that was here and it was possibly the best decision I could have made. I came to spend time with a friend I missed and support you in a really difficult time. We didn't talk for a really long time once after high school and it seems that it is happening again. I've called you, left messages, text you, sent you emails, sent you facebook and myspace messages and yet you ignored me. So I decided to give you time to breathe and get over what I thought you considered a political tiff. So now I hear you have been to MN the 13-19 and didn't call or even let me know. I was home during the majority of that time. I don't know if you were with his parents the whole time, but I'm guessing you stopped to see your family to. If you didn't have time to see me I would have understood, but I probably would have been more than willing to fly out and visit you. I miss my friend and I don't know why I lost her. I've tired calling you today, and you once again didn't answer. So call me. If you don't want to be friends anymore then I'd appreciate you letting me know. Congratulations on his return, Roxie: I'm sorry she died, Maggie, glad Zeus is feeling better, your birthday, your anniversary, his birthday, the CNA certification, the new car, vacationing in Moab, and anything I may have missed. If we are no longer friends I would really appreciate getting my belongings back. You have my number, my email, my facebook, my myspace, and a number of other ways to contact me.