A year in review

Well 2008 was a crazy busy year. I started out working and it seems that except for one week in July, I never really stopped! January to May was a very high-stress semester, as I was almost done with college. The kicker is that I was doing Paramedic clinicals, so I was working anywhere from 80-100 hours a week (sometimes, more than that even) and only getting paid for about 24 of those hours. It was a long long five months, but I got everything done, and graduated from my Paramedic program! Then it was summer! I wanted to be a paramedic before I was 20, so here comes a trip to Wisconson Rapids, WI for my practical test, in which I passed all the stations the first time through! But when it came to taking the written test, I didnt do so well. I wound up taking it again in late July, and again, did not pass.

Jacob and I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI at the beginning of July. We had an absolute blast, and our year long friendship turned into a relationship in the middle of July. Towards the end of August I moved up to Bemidji State to start on my nursing classes and on September 1st Jacob got on a plane and flew to Japan to study for 9 months. When it came time to register for classes again for spring, I ran into some problems getting into the classes I needed, and decided to transfer to the technical college in Bemidji, but could not start classes until fall of '09. This lead to me moving back to Morris.

Great-Grandma Roberts passed away on Dec. 6th. That sucked. A lot. She was the most amazing woman I have ever know, and I am glad that she is no longer suffering or in pain. I find more and more that she has taught me things I didnt even know she was teaching me. Today, for example, I am cleaning my room and instead of shoving all the extra plastic garbage bags into another one, I found myself folding them all nice and neat, like she had me do. She taught me so many wonderful things.

To close out the year, I , again, found myself working. Sitting at SCAS thinking that it was going to be a quiet, boring New Year, and the dee-doo's ring out, and we go out on a call which got turned into a Hot Load with a helicoptor! That is, we brought the patient out the the airport and met the helicoptor and instead of them shutting off the blades, they just kept them running, so here I am, standing under running helicoptor blades loading a patient into the chopper so they can just take off. It was a fabulous way to close out the year.

There were a lot of friendships made, a few lost, and lots of new experiences! 2008 was a pretty good year, but Im banking on 2009 to be even better!