Ok, so I got my wires off a week ago yesterday! 87 pounds!! I have some weight to gain! I feel great though! So happy to not be trapped in my own mouth anymore bwah ha ha >=)

I am working at walmart right now...as most of you know

I never really wanted to go to college...well I did, but I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grow up...heck, I still dont really...but hubby has been harping on me for like a year now to become a nurse...not really something I never really wanted to be.

Well, he got on me about it again last night and as usual I told him that I really didn't want to be a nurse..."well, well, but, but...you'd be good at it!" Same thing every time.

Anyway, he got me curious about it so i started looking it up. To become an RN, it takes 2 years...it actually only takes 4 semesters, which is a year...but the classes are only available fall and spring...so 2 falls and 2 springs...2 years.

The community college here only accepts 40 people into the program a year! Anyway, so I am cutting it way short for this year, so I figured I'd go for next year...that way i could get all my requisite classes done before hand and then when it was time for those, I'd only have those and would have time to focus...assuming that I get in. You have to take an assessment test, they use your gpa, work experience...all sorts of crap to determine who gets in.

So in order for me to do all of this, Id have to quit my job...which does not pay much...I make about 1000-1100 a month...we would have to replace that income. SOOOO, with the pell grant and student loans (which we would only use if we needed them) I could do it and be a nurse in a little over 2 years.

Ok, so one of the good things...my hubby is about a semester and a half away from an associates for liberal arts or something like that...something vague...he has taken most of the classes I will have to take before the nursing starts...probably 75 percent of them...so he can help me with those. The only ones he wont be able to help me with are all of the biology classes...

Really the only class that freaks me out is communications 101...cause it's a speech class and I hate talking in front of people...

The total cost will be about 11k, but pell grant will pay for almost if not all of that and student loans will cover anything else. I already know all the rates and stuff on them because my hubby gets them. I am kind of excited, but at the same time, I worry if I will be happy doing that...

What do ya think? I mean at this point, I still don't know what I want to do. And if I just push forward with it anyway, I can always change my mind about the nursing part...I have a whole year worth of classes to take before I am dedicated to the nursing degree...