Woe Is me

Tonight I'm sitting here writing this blog when I should have been celebrating with Mary. Unfortunately, I'm suffering a horrible head/chest cold. I was struck with this nasty disease on Thursday morning. I went to school, suffering, I left early, came home and climed in bed. Then I got up Friday morning for clinical....feeling even worse. I headed to Alexian Brothers and my instructor asked me why I was there if I was so sick. I informed her that I didn't want to have to make up the time. I just wanted to get it over with. She told me early in the day that if I felt that bad, get what I could get done and go home. At 1045, I was hit with a horrible coughing fit, which had me gripping the wall for stability. My instructor sat me down and checked my vital signs! When it was discovered that I had a fever of 102.4, she sent me home for the rest of the day. On my way home, I called off sick to work that night. I got home and crawled in bed, sleeping the rest of the day and most of the night away. I also preceeded to sleep most of the day away on Saturday...I didn't even emerge from my bedroom til almost 4pm....yes, thats right. I had made the decision not to attend Mary's bachelorette party, more in fear of infecting anyone else with this god-awful process, right before her wedding!!!

So, I'm currently sulking, but....everyone else's health is more important. I've heard they're having fun!!!!!

Nursing school....1 month down already. Can you believe it? I'm shocked, where did the time go? It appears to be going well. Hopefully I can just keep it up. Next semester will be tougher because I'll be taking physiology on top of nursing 102...

Dawn's house is up on the market, hopefully it seels soon. You see, the plan is for her and I to head into the city and get an apartment together. Dan is planning on coming with us, so we'll have the Three's company house.

Wedding plans are currently halted. We've settled on a date and a hall, and thats as far as I've gotten! But, I'm totally ok with that. We've got some information on photographers and djs from some of the other weddings we've attended.

I'm seriously looking forward to Mary's wedding next weekend. It's been too long since we've had a Ryan wedding....and it hasn't even been a year!!!! Dan is also excited, he's heard so much about how fun our family weddings can be that he's not really sure what to expect!

Summer's Gone.....

Long time, no blog. Oh dear, I've been too busy to sleep let alone blog! :)

At the end of August, Dan and I headed north to Garrison, MN with his family for a relaxing week of fishing and basically doing nothing. Unfortunately, Saturday, Sunday and Monday it rained cats and dogs. When we arrived on Saturday afternoon, the owner of the resort said, "nah, we're not gonna get any rain, we're in the middle of a drought!!" Of course, Murphy's law, it rained....a lot. But, we did manage to catch some fish and even get pedicures!!! That was wonderful. Dan's mom paid for the pedicures after I tried, she said..."no! I finally have a daughter to spoil." That was very sweet. Tuesday, we were suppossed to head south to the Twin Cities to see friends and Meg and Joel. Unfortunately, we didn't make it. The weather finally broke, so we decided to stay and get some fishing in. We did manage to get to see my friend Shane and Dan't friend Scott later in the week, we met up at a halfway point. Sorry I missed you Meg! Bad combination of weather, and misplacing your number. We did discover that I am the "greatest fisherwoman ever!" All in all, we had a wonderful week and a lot of fun. It was nice to kick back and relax before life carried on again.

We headed home Friday afternoon and stopped in Chippawa Falls at the Leinenkugels brewery, took the tour, had a couple beers and headed out! Unfortunately, we were there on a cleaning day, so they were not brewing any beer, but we did get to see them do the bottling, that was neat to see.

Saturday, Dan and I had two appointments to view a couple reception halls. Mom and Dad decided to join us on our quest, just in case we wanted their opinions. We had a very productive day, saw two halls, two hotels, one church, and had lunch! All in all, it was a great day.

Sunday we had a wonderful dinner with Dan's family as they stopped to pick up Dan.

Nursing school started Monday August 27. It's kinda tough quite honestly. It's not the content that's hard, it's the fact that this first semester it escentially teaching me to do the job I already have!! I understand it's all a means to an end, but it is tough.

This past weekend, we attended a wedding of good friends of mine. It was so neat be at this wedding, because I had watched their relationship grow from their very first date. It had been so fun to watch them plan and prepare. Here's a picture of Dan and I at the wedding.