MARCHing Forward and Feeling the Sunshine

It is hard to believe we are into the month of March. I usually feel like January and February are such slow and gloomy months (minus Valentine's day my favorite Holiday). How did we get here already?. . . 2011 is flying by. I feel the older I get the faster the years go. I don't like it. But what I do like is-that this March-I feel like life is truly marching forward.

I've started my first nursing job at a hospital in in the Portland Metro area. I've finished my orientation and I am loving everything I'm learning. I can't wait to start working with the patients on the floor. I will be working on a med/surg stroke care unit. I am told that the experiences I will gain on this unit will be invaluable. I cannot wait to dive in. The nurses and staff I have met at the hospital have been so supportive and welcoming. I feel like I am about to burst with enthusiasm and excitement. In addition, Pete has been so supportive...packing me tasty lunches and listening to me blabber every evening when I get home about "my day at work".

March has started with a bang and a few steps forward. I feel like I was running in place for the last couple years trying to make it to this very point and now that I am finally here. . .I feel like we are moving, marching, and starting to work towards additional goals and dreams. So even though it has been raining nearly every day here in Portland with gloomy grey skies..I feel like there has been a break in the clouds and life is brining on the sunshine!