Looking back, how did I get here?

So, here I sit on a rainy afternoon in upstate New York... been thinking about doing a blog for nursing students for awhile, an "I did it, so can you" sort of inspirational/informational piece.  I have a couple of hours before heading off to work a 12- hour shift, so I thought, why not?  

I guess some background on me would be good.. I'm 29, dreading July when that will become 30.  I had a short, not so illustrious career in food service/catering, before coming to the realization one day that my work had no meaning.  I still remember the day vividly.  I was standing in the kitchen at my job, calling my husband to tell him I would be running a little late.  Why?  Because the dishwasher had done a shoddy job of mopping the floor, and I realized I was either going to have to ask him to do it again, or do it myself... and I thought "what does it matter if the floor looks like crap?"  Who, other than my bosses will even look at the floor?  And who are they?  If they really have nothing else going on in their lives to worry about other than the floor being mopped, why do I even care what they think?  

To be truthful, I had been thinking about doing something else for a long time before that, I had gotten my real estate license, but lacked the salesman type personality that was needed for a successful career there. (guess I got lucky with that one!)  

So, that's how my whole journey got started... it's been about 3 years since then, and I can't believe how much time flies.  It seems like yesterday when I was so nervous about taking my first science class, and here I am just about a month away from taking my final... but those are stories for another day.