My Utah adventure

I graduated! That's right...I am officially a nursing school graduate.
And to celebrate I went out to Utah this week to look for potential jobs.
However, after a day of searching, I discovered that this...


ended up being the most effective way to find them.
No trip was needed in the end.


BUT it wasn't a completely worthless trip...I ended up spending time with friends, making a hot tub out of a tree planter, staying at Starbucks until 12:30 AM, meeting new people, and eating a pizookie at the cutest little dessert place ever.


I also got to see the beginning effects of fall on the ride while listening to my true love, Jesse McCartney...





..oh Colorado. How I will miss you!

Life: it goes on

its here….yep, my big tests (kill me now) and then, end of school…fini!!  i don’t know how to feel yet, ask me after tuesday. one thing that i can definitely say is i’m sooooo scared about what/where i’m to be after school ends….

“in three words i can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:  

 it goes on” 

~~robert frost~~

indeed, it will go on and I need to figure it out.


i’ve been thinking about the last year and a half and i’m flooded with memories, both good and the bad.  this experience has stretched me in ways i could never have imagined.  i have had some incredibly tough challenges, but i also have grown in ways that i don’t think i could have if i hadn’t come back home and gone to nursing school and been with the people i was with. thinking about all of it, i’m trying to have a clear perspective on how to move forward, what i have learned, and what i need to change.


a few of the positives and not so positives…..
~long car drives, sometimes half asleep, and one car accident during the winter.  this is when i learned the word “panic attack”
~there are some really bad teachers… the greatest and most inspiring people in the world should be in the profession because they make ALL the difference!  there are a couple of good ones but are NOT enough of them.
~there are really mean (fully-grown) adults.  people need to magnify themselves at the expense of others and other’s feelings.  its sad.

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others. 

For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness. 

And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- - Audrey Hepburn - -

~i know i care.  as insecure and frustrated as i have been at times, i know that there is one thing i can offer that will help me in my profession. its not hard for me to love…i  feel when i see patients in pain, patients that are trying to keep their dignity,  patients that are treated rude and with disrespect.  it only takes really small, simple things to make a big difference..
~i understand pain.  kidney stones.
~i understand happiness…and heartache.  there was a boy.  where is the disconnect button?
~my home in the forest is an amazing refuge.
~my family’s support is unwavering and unfailing.
~my own voice.  i needed one and i know what it sounds like now. 
~the Lord knows me best.  i should trust Him.  i need the spirit in my life all the time. but i have to pay the price to have the spirit with me. its worthwhile work....i need to remember that.


...so here i go!

Book affair

i have been reading this book...

and i believe i have begun a love affair with books just like the main character, Liesel.

allow me to explain the signs of this affair....

numero uno:

yesterday i was in walmart with my mom and sister buying groceries, make-up, all that jazz.

when we were making our way up to the counter to pay, i stopped by the book section.

you heard me...i STOPPED and LOOKED at the books.  it was spectacular.  

numero dos:

it gets even better...i actually picked out two books that i plan to purchase once i am done reading this book and the last two books of the Hunger Games series.

numero tres:

i look forward to reading...all day, everyday.  and i never want to stop once i have started.

i never thought this would happen.  but i'm glad it did. 

now i just feel like i have been missing out on too much.

does anyone have any favorite books to recommend?

i have some serious catching up to do...

Marry me

i have been going to many wedding receptions as of late, and while so many of my friends have been getting married, i have been telling EVERYONE that i’m embracing singlehood for the moment….but this past weekend i got the wind knocked out of me.

i can’t stop thinking about it.

i went to this beautiful place for my cousins wedding.

the portland temple is gorgeous; the setting was serene, peaceful, simply incredible. in short, it was a beautiful day~beautiful bride, handsome groom, wonderful & fun family, and sensational food.

everything that i can hope for someday.

there was a dance “party” at the end of the reception that night.

i have some cousins that can dance!

most memorable moment:

jessica (the bride) dancing her tail off with all the girl cousins

and michael (the groom) watching her.

i watched him watch her.

it was the way he looked at her, almost bashfully and out of the corner of his eye, but definitely saying,

“i’m the luckiest guy in the world…”

moral of the story: i want that.

no, I CRAVE that.

for whatever reason it hit me that night that i am too excited to get married...just maybe

p.s.  today i officially decided that this song will be playing for my husband's and my first dance...

Becoming a palace

"Imagine yourself as a living house... 

 God comes in to rebuild that house.

 At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.

 He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.

 But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. 

What on earth is He up to? 

The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. 

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage:

 but He is building a palace.'  

C.S. Lewis

Do you see this??

Do you know what this is??

That is right my friends...it is a Colorado Springs Police Courtesy Warning.

Today will go down in history as the day that Jordan Harline FINALLY got out of a speeding ticket.  

After two attempts to get out of speeding tickets in the past (in one I even hyperventilated...yeah that didn't go over too well) 

I finally tried a new approach and...

voila! I ended up with a warning...going 18 over...in a school zone 

It's going to be a lucky month...

In 13 days

In 13 days from today, I will be sitting down to take the second most important test

 (the first most important being the NCLEX)

 of my whole schooling career.

ATI predictor test....BRING IT ON!!!