Alyse Paull RN

I passed my test!!! whooo hooooo i can officially call myself a nurse! it feels really great :) thanks for all the support and prayers, i love it! i'll write more later, jp and i are going out to celebrate with dinner at the lake! yuuummmmm

yikes!

okay, i realize there has been a delay in blogging...here is why:

I STARTED MY NEW JOB!!! lots happened, i was supposed to be a NICU nurse, but last minute i was offered a position as a post partum nurse. so i'll be taking care of mom and baby right after delivery!!!!! sooooo fun!!!

i also have been crazy studying for my boards. i'm working as a "GN" which is a graduate nurse, so now i have to take my exams to be an RN.  so thursday is the big day. i feel as thought i haven't studied enough. i had this big schedule i was going to follow...but since i started my job i haven't kept up with it. so now it's cram time. 

regardless...please be in prayer for me thursday at 8:00 am - 2:00 pm. you can also pray the night before that i'll actually get sleep...and before 8:00am on thursday morning that i don't get sick because my nerves have taken over :)

i'll update soon. i should find out results on saturday or sunday (who knows if that's true  because it's a weekend...so it might be as late as monday). 

thanks loves :)

i get scared easily.

so i live with this guy, my husband, of whom i should feel very safe and secure with. i thought i'd post now because my heart is still beating fast and i wanted to capture my reaction to this scary event. 

it's 10:30 pm, i'm picking up the house, and i know jeff is on his way home. the dishwasher and washing machine are both going, so the house is sort of noisy. anyhoo, i walk out of my room in my undies, and see a man standing by the front door. i scream so loud that i still 

have a headache 15 minutes later. but yeah, you guessed it - it's jeff at the door, not some robber or raper. 

this is not the first time a situation has happened like this. i get so freaked out. jeff i think is annoyed of it by this point...but what can ya do?? so i tried to capture my faces post-attack.

this is me trying to scream again...gosh my head hurts from shreaking so loud. 

here is my face ever since towards jeff because he doesn't understand how and why i get scared so easily, so he makes fun of me :(

i know this blog sucks, i just knew i needed to post something cause it had been awhile :) peace 

charlie

okay, so i thought posting pictures was fun, so here are some of our cat charlie (a girl). we're not obsessed with her or anything but give us a break, we don't have a kid :) so here they go:

this is when jeff and i went to my parents house to pick charlie up from her mamoo and baboo's house after they babysat her for 6 months.

charlie's security blanket at my parents house. she would stay up on those little steps and on top of the cabinets to stand clear of the dogs :)
here is charlie hanging out with her uncles, al on the left, butch on the right. they're oooold men now. 
here is charlie after she got declawed. she would hold one of her feet up like that like she was always holding a cane. it was really cute :)

more honeymoon...

okay, so i realized i didn't put pictures of jeff and i actually there...so here we go, blogger let me do it :)

here is jeff and sapo. this is significant because we used to call his old roommate sapo, it means frog or toad or something like that :)
another night in town square before the nightly shows they did-they were a blast!!! a professional dance crew came in and had choreographed dances for the soundtrack of "grease"....i totally got my hand jive on baby.
town square once again...this is the day before we left...it was haaaard to leave!
and lastly, our love charlie when we got home. she's so cute!

honeymoon cont'd.

okay...pictures are sort of working again.....

this picture is a little hole in the rocks where the sea of cortex and the pacific ocean meet (so one body of water on each side)....it was cool

this is the very famous arch....beautiful! jeff and i took a little boat tour, that is how we got all these cool pictures close up and stuff.
here's another picture of the arch. our captain said that once a year the water is low enough for people to actually walk under it....cool huh?
so apparently cabo is known for all the pirates they used to have....this is one of their caves/ hideouts :)
this is me and my husband rudy...man his sunburn was baaaaad. he was a water polo and water volleyball pro-he was outside alllll day :)

okay, blogger is "down" and wont let me post the rest of my pics...i'll do it soon :)

honeymoon!!!

okay, here are some pictures from our trip to cabo :) it was so, so, so fun and BEAUTIFUL!!!! enjoy!!

here is how we left our cat, charlie :) jeff's mom was nice enough to take care of her for us-i just thought i'd post a picture of how weird she is! 

this is part of the marina...there was a big marlin fishing competition so it was buuuusy with lots of big expensive boats!
this is the view from our balcony...it faced inside the resort to one of the fun pools.
here is the view from the beach at our hotel...the beach you see is called "lovers beach" and at night the ocean apparently covers up the beach so each day when the beach presents itself, it is really nice, smooth sand (supposedly that happens, we never went and hung out there just because the water was choppy, so it was hard to hop off the boat safely)
haha, okay this is funny. after this beautiful dinner that jeff and i had we were taking this nice walk on the beach. the water in cabo is really unpredictable :) the waves were barely hitting our toes, then jeff yells "watch out, this one looks like a tsunami!!!" and we started running up towards the beach, but the water still got us good! we didn't take a picture of me, but i was wet up to my waist :(

pictures

here are some links from our photographer from the wedding. if you're bored, take a look...but beware-there are like 750 or something :)

enjoy!!!

one link is for a slideshow which are the pictures for our book, and the others are all the pictures that were taken :)

www.jennavincent.com/blog/

www.senttoprint.net     PW 080412jv

www.studio563.com/austin/album/080412jvw/

update

alright...well, unintentionally i updated my blog through commenting on katy's blog. so if you want an update...check it out under her weird dreamy post :) i'll try to update more soon...

tomorrow (monday) i have my final

thursday I GRADUATE

saturday morning i leave for CABO for my honeymoon. WHOO WHOOO 

there are a couple more crazy things happening in the month of may, but i think i'll for sure be better blogging soon.

love love

mr. and mrs. paull

okay, i'm married!! it was so so so so fun!!! i have a project that i've been working on so i'm busy, but i think i'm going to try and convince jeff to join blog efforts so it will be "ours" :) we might change the name so it'll include both of us...i'll let yall know as soon as i know :)

oh yeah, that's right

sweeeeet, the weather is consistently reporting "82 and sunny" for april 12th :) that makes me really happy because i refuse to have a back up plan for rain!! i'm sooooooo excited to see all my family - people start coming to town in 3 days!!! yahooooooooooooooooo


seriously, i'm pumped. and katyo, jessie, heidi, and kateg, i better see pictures of this great event on your blogs :) it's a big day!

woah

i am getting married in 2 weeks and 2 days. oh my goodness! i am so so so so so so so excited to marry this man!!!!!

cookie monster.

gross. i am sitting at work and someone brought in cookies. i ate 4. i'm ashamed. they were heart shaped with sprinkles .... a heart is so inappropriate for how i feel about myself right now. i cannot write anything else...

i accept!

okay, well i've sort of been talking to people about my interview and stuff so i thought i'd update.

my interview: i didn't think it went very well...we got along fine socially, but then at the end i just had a weird feeling about it. that was wednesday and she said she'd let me know by friday about the position. so friday i got a call but i was at clinical all day so i couldn't call her back. so saturday i called her cell (i'm not weird...she said to do that) and she said she'd like to offer me the position!!! she said she'd have to call me monday with all the details...well...she called me today and told me all about it - and i just called her back and told her that i accept the position! i'm sooo excited!! my first real job will be in the NICU with teeny tiny babies :) initially i wasn't thrilled about the unit, but after touring and hearing about it i'm really, really excited! the hospital is really well respected and they take all the difficult births in austin and surrounding areas, so all the high risk babies end up there too (with me!).

i start june 2nd so i wont have to take time off for my honeymoon! thanks for all the prayers and well wishes yall, i'm super excited!! more updates to come :) i now have to catch up on homework that i've been ditching for the past couple weeks to get other stuff done.

yahooooo!!!

yes!

yahooooooo!!! my test is done with and i couldn't be happier. i love how getting one thing off the checklist of "to do's" makes me at ease. so now the next big task: finding the right outfit for my first official interview ever. i think i did it...or it's at least coming together. i have cute black pants that make my butt look great (which honestly, is hard to do because of it's hugeness), and this top that is really really cute from White House, Black Market. i need to find some sort of shirt to go under this other shirt though. and shoes...i don't have shoes yet. i have to finish this outfit by tomorrow because my interview is on wednesday morning!!! so i got this interview the day after i applied. i'm nervous about it to be honest with you. i'm not sure if it's the area of nursing that i feel most led to, but i figured i'd interview for the heck of it. i may just end up loving it! so it's in the NICU with all the little bitty babies that are really sick :(

anyway, there are lots of reasons i think it would be awesome, and lots that i think it might not be so awesome - but we'll see. if it's meant to be then i'll have to think about it a lot, if it isn't...hopefully they just wont offer me the job so i don't have to think about it. sooo...wish me luck??

peace

BRRRRRRR!!!!

well, that was a lie. it isn't cold at all. today it was in the mid 70's. to all you jealous folks in the cold...i'm jealous of you! i miss the snow and the cold...the freezing cold when you go outside with wet hair it snaps off! i think austin is going to be my home for at least a little while, but man would i like to move somewhere else.

i feel like i shouldn't be updating right now because i have 1,000,000,000,000,000 other things i should be doing. like studying for my test, like planning my wedding, like stopping eating, working out, spending time with jeff....but i'm the queen of procrastinating on the things i should do. i move in less than two weeks to the place that will become our (jeff and i) place after we get married...I CAN'T WAIT! don't get me wrong, i love my roomie, she has been so gracious letting me live there for cheap. but the catch is that it is in a bedroom...that's it. nothing is mine but the clothes, and i couldn't even tell you how long my things have been in storage. i know that they're just "things" but "things" make me feel comfortable, like i'm where i'm supposed to be. so, basically, i've just felt out of place for ...ever.

so, i'm moving and i can't wait. i have always lived on the third floor of apartments, and this is no exception. i am so thankful for all of my friends that have moved me time and time again. they hate it, but i love them :) especially the washer, dryer, couch, recliners, bed, table.....up the tight staircase of 3 floors. yup, they're awesome.

i'm in my last semester because i become a nurse. i graduate in may and i'm soooo excited. i have recently started the application process for jobs, so now (hopefully) the interviews will come rolling in and people will see how great i am :) maybe not how great i am, but what a passion i have to learn and work in their specialty. i don't boast about being smart or anything, cause i really do just get by. i don't study hard, i study enough to pass. maybe that's bad, but i'm in my fifth year of school and i'll be ending with an associates in nursing. lame. oh well, more school it is for me once i get a job. whats nice about this shortage is that the hospitals will pay for me to go back and get my BSN then my MSN. i'm pretty pumped about that. i'm applying to: labor and delivery, NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), post partum (all the mama's who just had their babys), and newborn nursery (it just makes me happy...what can i say)!! generally new grads aren't hired right into those areas, but hopefully there is a big enough need right now that they'll want me.

i'm really excited to marry jeff. (like that transition). the wedding is coming up...a little over 10 weeks. and i can't wait to see all of yall that are able to make it. austin is such an awesome city...tryyyy to come.....not just for my wedding, but for a little vacation for yourselves :) i think it should be a fun party. we're just so excited to celebrate what god has done in our lives and we want to share that with all of yall.

okay, i gotta pee. i guess that means i'm OUT.

peace.

fun christmas

yeah for the holidays and seeing family. christmas was a blast and it went by way to fast. kate's blog basically sums up what we did, santa fe, puzzles, movies, the new yorker (a SWEET game i suggest everyone should get...seriously...), eating, and being cold :) it was beautiful and it made me miss being in snow more than i thought. but now i'm back home and trying to pull everything together before next semester.  i hope yall all had a great holiday too!!!!

wedding dance

so i think jeff and i have decided on how we're going to do our first dance as man and wife...what do you think???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeoi16lScf4

if you can't click on the link, then copy and paste it...it's worth it :)

hormones

what is wrong with me?? i was driving home last night from work and just started crying. it was rediculous...i was thinking about how happy i will be when i'm done with school in may...and i just started crying. i was trying to describe how i feel to a friend of mine, and it's sorta like i just can't breathe right. i've been doing yoga to help be deep breathe and stuff...but i just have so much on my plate i feel like i can't retain any more information. but i have 7 more days until then end of this sememster...that will feel really good.

i think i've decided the area i want to apply to work in. i LOVE ob...but i'm not sure yet if i'd prefer to do post partum or L & D. i really like it a lot, a lot, a lot!! i attended my first couple of births last week which was AMAZING. it is truly awesome to me how we were created and are able to fit babies through such a little space :) it really is an amazing miracle! the first birth i was at i was really weird. i had to leave the room cause i almost passed out watching the CRNA do the epidural (welp, i guess that line of work might be out for me...i was hoping to get my masters to do that!). i heard the crunch of the needle going in the back and my face immediately got hot and i felt like i was sweating, then my knees started getting a little shaky...then the black spots came. i knew i needed to get out of there quick because i didn't want to pass out in front of the patient and her family!! i sort of held onto the wall and slowly scooted out...i'm sure i looked like a complete idiot. the patient later asked me if i was okay and i explained the whole thing to her...she laughed at me...as she should have :) she was awesome though! she hated her nurse so i got to be really involved in everything...she didn't want the nurse doing anything, and preferred me to do everything with her. that felt nice...knowing that one of your patients really liked you and wrote the hospital about it too!!! (maybe that will help me get a job later...) soo, when she was ready to deliver she was amazing. when i first saw the baby's head i couldn't believe it...its so different that you think. i looked up at the patient's mom who was in the room and she started crying, and that's when i lost it! i just was crying and crying...what an awesome thing god created. wow...as i read over this blog i see a pattern....i cry a lot!! dang it.

i can only imagine when my friends and sisters start having babies, i'm gonna be a total baby too. i just feel honored to be a part of introducing these little guys and gals to the world. it's so fun to me!! so now i must decide which area....i have awhile to think about it...maybe i'll apply to both units and see which, if either, will hire me :)

well folks, that's all for now, and maybe for awhile....i'll try to update with some pictures later.

peace in middle east...please!