To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate That is the Question!

I work in a nursing facility in Mount Pleasant, and I love my co-workers and the residents a lot. I guess that I can go out on a limb and say that most days I really love my job. However, the past few weeks have been very stressful with the threat of upcoming hurricane's and possible evacuations.
For instance, when the rumor of Hanna hitting our area surfaced my department had to contact, explain, and console family members on the evacuation procedures if and when it came to that point. Our building must be evacuated for anything more than a category 2 hurricane, for someone like myself who stayed here during hurricane Hugo a category 2 is something to sleep through.
Needless to say I contacted one family member who cried and felt guilty that they could not be with their loved one during the storm, I was only the phone for 15 minutes. I felt like a telemarketer! That week feels like a blur because I didn't get any work done for performing all of the phone calls and contacting all of the family members 2 and 3 times to update them on the situation.
I am hoping that the rest of hurricane season is a quiet one so that I don't have to spend any more days on the phone with family members. I know that I was not meant to be a telemarketer because I think that was the most amount of consecutive headaches that I have ever had!

They reall do exist...

I realized that dream jobs do exist but that obstacles also exist that stand between you and the "cloud 9" feeling. I really love working with older adults and on a daily basis thats what I do except its not at the capacity that I would like it to be. I would love to work for Hospice and help them through the end stages of life. So I find it very frustrating to be working in the same environment as my dream job doing something very opposite.
However, I am realizing that this "dream job" is keeping me focused within the MBA program because its the prize at the end of the game so to speak. I know that once the MBA is complete then the dream job is more attainable and that these few years will be worth it in the end. I have decided that I need to create a poster or something to hang in my office to make me realize that each day is a step closer to "cloud 9."

Moving Home

I moved back home in May after graduation to accept a job and start graduate school. My parents opened their doors offering a rent free, free food, free utilities and amenities offer which I gladly accepted. It has always been just the three of us along with whichever pets were in our lives at the time. So we made the big move- Sydney and I my two year old lab. It just made sense on top of the "free offer" Sydney would inherit four new play mates.
Now we've been home for almost four months and the situation is still good- even though I know that there are things that are a little difficult such as remembering to call if I have made last minute plans, or juggling my time between my friends and family. I think that reality has just hit- there will be no moving back into my apartment with my friends surrounding me- that phase of my life is over. No more late night movie nights, being five minutes from my friends, or stopping by the sorority house to just hang out- the spontaneity of that life style no longer exists there has to be a plan- after work or after school, the weekend. Its strange to be 22 and feel like you are living the live of a 42 year old- minus the husband and children.