Job Interviews......

Brandon had two interview this past Monday. The first interview was for a nursing job in Sioux Falls, SD. It was a phone interview and Brandon found out the positions hours were working two days during the day shift and two days working the night shift. We will have to wait to see if we hear back from them, but Brandon already knows he would have to say no.

The second interview was for a nursing job in Madison. He feels the interview went very well and has a good chance at the job. This facility is actually hiring 4 people to start in the beginning of May and 4 more people to start at the beginning of June. They are actually looking to hire people who are brand new nurses. This is encouraging and now we just have to wait and hope to hear back some good news. It may take till the end of next week to find out.

We would appreciate your prays!

Knitted Hat....
For the past few weeks I have been working on this hat for my hubby. He loves this T.V. series called "Firefly". One of the characters is Jayne Cobb, who is the crew's tough guy. During one of the episodes Jayne's mother sends him a knitted hat like the one I made below. In the show, when Jayne first tries on the hat he says, "Cunning, don't ya think?" So what do you think????? Also this is my first knitted hat and I really enjoyed learning how to knit on circular needles. Brandon also loves his hat. Merry Christmas Hubby! The pattern can be found here and you could use whatever colors you wanted.

Happy Birthday Hubby......

Brandon's First Day of Clinical......
Here are the scrubs he will be wearing for the next couple of years during clinicals. This will take a bit to get use to, but I am excited for him.

Last Day......
Today is Brandon's last day driving & delivering soda for Dr. Pepper/7-Up. It has been a very long and hard summer. He is looking forward to starting his first semester of Nursing School at UW of Madison on Sept. 2.

Happy Birthday Hubby.....

Just want to wish my husband a Happy Birthday and give anyone else a chance to do so as well. It was 35 years ago today that my hubby was born. I love him so much and am so happy that he is mine. I know it's mushy, but it's the truth.

He is also lucky to have the day off of work, but he had to go into the doctors office and get some vaccinations for the up coming school year. He is starting his first semester of Nursing School here in the fall.

Well I need to go and get some angel food cake into the oven. We will be having Haystacks with angle food cake and strawberries for desert. Wish you all could be here to celebrate:)

Exciting News......
Brandon just got notification in the mail today that he has been selected to receive a Gwen P Shapiro Rural Wisconsin Nursing Scholarship of $5,000 for this up coming school year. We are very excited because the last school year we didn't get any free money to help pay for the school year. Praise the Lord..

Just call me Nurse Kostman...

Brandon, here. Renee's husband. This blog is usually Renee's domain, but she told me I had to post something regarding my big news: It seems that the U.W. Madison - School of Nursing has seen fit to accept me into their BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program for the Fall of 2008. Before you know it I'll be wearing cartoon character scrubs to work instead of steel toed boots and a 7-Up uniform. I know that most female nurses wear floral print scrubs, or Care Bears, or some other rot, but, as a guy, that's just not me. I'll do my best to find some scrubs with ninjas, or maybe GI Joe, or Batman on them. Being a Murse (male nurse), I wouldn't want to be mistaken for a Madison metrosexual or, even worse, a Madison homosexual.

As it stands now, I have two weeks of class left this semester and then finals. I start my summer job working at 7-Up at the end of May. Nursing School starts the first week of September.

Brandon