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