The End of My Lazy Days

I guess this is it.  My summer of freedom is over.  Oh - I realize there is still a good month of summer left to enjoy, but it won't be the same.  It's finally time for me to get out of vacation mode and re-enter reality.  Today is the day my extended vacation ends.  Tonight, I go back to work.

I really can't complain.  Initially, I had only planned (and budgeted) for a month off.  The extra four weeks were just a bonus.  Quite honestly, I'm ready to get back to work at this point.  Between the move, the backpacking trip, and the new puppy (more on that later), our lives have been in a tailspin.  I'm ready to get back to some sort of normalcy.  I'm ready for a schedule, a sense of purpose, and, most importantly, a paycheck.  (Decorating a new house isn't cheap, after all.)

Of course, my excitement is laced with a teensy bit of the jitters.  Starting a new job always does this to me.  One would think that, after more than a year of working agency, I would be an old pro at this.  I should be tougher than nails.  I am accustomed to going to different hospitals, after all.  But working in Colorado is foreign territory for me.  I may have gone to nursing school here, but I never worked in a professional capacity.  And anyone who has ever worked as a traveler knows that each state plays by its own rules.  I know how to play the game in Nevada, California, even Australia, but who knows what I'm walking into now?

Just like any other position, I have to approach this with an open mind and a positive attitude.  I've been dreaming about getting back to Colorado for years, and this is just another part of my transition into life out here.  So, I'm going to rest up and do my best to mentally prepare myself for my first night back in the unit.  Wish me luck...

Home on the Front Range

Well, here we are.  After months of planning, a month on the road, and the longest drive ever between Vegas and the Front Range, we have arrived in Denver.  We've actually been here for a couple of weeks, but life has been so absolutely insane that I haven't been able to steal away any time to write.  There's so much to do with the new house, new job, and re-establishing Mouse's business that I can barely keep my head screwed on straight.  (Of course, I'm preaching to the choir of anyone who has ever moved.)  Oh - and did I mention that we threw a party two days after moving in?  Yes - we're that crazy.  But even though life has been a mind-boggling whirlwind since we've been back, it's good to be home.