Summer is definitely here.

Whoa. First off, happy Memorial Day and a big thank you goes out to those that have previously and are currently serving in the military.

A couple weeks ago I helped my friend Christopher Clifford open his table at the St. George farmers market. He hand makes and sells these awesome wooden toys. Check it out here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/CliffordAndSonsMFG?ref=ss_profile I am also constantly over at the Clifford home with Tasha and her little boys that are basically teenagers. Morgan (4 1/2), Wyatt (3), and Luke (18 months).

I also paused my summer for 3 days to do a big expensive review for the NCLEX I have to take in January (I guess it was worth it since the company that hosts the review is guaranteeing that I will pass the first time). That weekend I went hiking with a few girlfriends up and around Snow Canyon (got lost for a minute, no big deal). We later made it to the Tuachan Saturday Market and got some killer street tacos. Then just this last week, I went to Morgan Clifford's preschool graduation and later we all made Swig's sacred sugar cookies with NEON frosting (thanks pinterest).

This past weekend I made my way up to Salt Lake City for some family bonding time. I hung out with my Mom, then went up to the cabin (location: Strawberry Reservoir north of Heber City) and had a blast! Good food, camp fires, dirt bikes, target shooting, and laughing with very entertaining friends.

To top it all off I met my incredible best friend Tasha at Trader Joe's (my first time and I want to live there) and then we drove back down to St. Geezy together. Life is great.

Love, Tash

My attempt at a 5-year plan...

Whoa. I am an organizer and a planner. It is how I function is this crazy world. However, I also understand that this crazy world likes to throw unplanned events at me on a regular basis.

My plan originally was to get done with school then do traveling nursing all over for a few years. I later found out that I would need many years of experience before I can run around as a traveling nurse.
Then I started looking into Alaska because of the great salary benefits but coming to the conclusion that Alaska would be a difficult place to live and the cost of living would out-weigh the large salary. That last frontier is way too cold and dark for this warm and sunny girl.

So here I am with this future plan and I am anxiously waiting to see if it will work out the way I want it to (yeah, right): I graduate from Dixie's associate nursing program in December 2013, taking the NCLEX (Registered Nurse licensing test) in January 2014, currently looking into moving to Texas (cost of living not much higher than Utah, no state tax, and a high demand for nurses), start Dixie's online bachelor's degree program August 2014, have my BSN by July 2015, go to Europe for a few months, find another job somewhere cool (maybe central California), get an awesome living space full of pinterest inspiration (puppy included), find a great guy that my dad accepts, get married after I'm 25, travel a bunch more, start a family, live happily forever, and I will retire and continue to do awesome things.

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
― Henry Rollins

Love, Tash

Living the dream, keeping it fresh...

Well, here it is guys! I have been thinking about this for awhile and figured I better start it now with school being over and all. My plan for this blog is to just update friends and family of what is going on with me and stay connected. No crazy stuff (unless I feel it is necessary) and hopefully a good time all around.

So let's begin. Finals are over and I ended up with much better grades then expected when I started the hardest semester ever back in January. I went up to Draper (where I'm from) to see the family. My sister and I helped my dad update his wardrobe ("But Tash I don't want to look like I'm trying to be in my 20s when I am in my 40s.") and apparently pea coats are gay. Then we went and saw Oblivion (Tom Cruise looks gooood).

I was able to visit my good friend Nichole and her boyfriend Aaron and their HUGE chocolate lab Grizz (Grizzly Bear...no joke.). I had a chocolate lab growing up and this beast is twice the size of mine and he is still a puppy. What a cutie though.

Saturday, May 4th, Dad, Madi (14), Mason (12), and I all got our family pictures done. I am very impressed with Target (Groupon that). Then Madi and I went with Mom to Thanksgiving Point and had ourselves a good time at the tulip festival (I want to get married there! Not anytime soon obviously). We also discovered that Madi is an awesome photographer!

Later that night I babysat my adorable cousins that I love so much and Cambria is my very best friend (She's 3) because she said she wants to "poop and pee in the big girl potty like her best friend Tash". Love her.

That was Salt Lake trip last week and now I am working in a boring gray cubicle because money does buy happiness (whoever said it doesn't is a boring person because I could totally find lots of awesome things to do if I had a ton of money). And for those of you questioning my "Tash Point Whoa" (which came from the comedian Daniel Tosh who's show is Tosh.0 so I introduce myself to others my age by say "I am Tash like Tosh point oh."). Credit is given to my amazing best friend Tasha for coming up with the whoa-ness.

Definition of WHOA: cease or slow a course of action or a line of thought : pause to consider or reconsider —often used to express a strong reaction (as alarm or astonishment)

 

Love, Tash