Spring is almost here. I can actually smell it. I'm so impatient this year to get started on my landscaping and gardening. I want to finish the front yard's landscaping and I want to have the pine trees that line my back yard cut down. They actually shorten the yard by about 10 or 15 feet. I want to build a stone fence back there so that we still have some privacy. Probably will have more privacy than we do with the trees. Eventually I want to have climbing flowers going up the stone fence on both sides. I've got some plants ordered that will be shipped when it is time to put them into the ground. I want to do more outside this summer and get more exercise. I've been spending too much time doing my crafts in my basement.

You know, even though he doesn't really think much of plants that you can't eat, Rick helps me haul rocks, haul dirt and such for my gardens. My ex liked gardens and has made some since I moved out of his house and would have probably helped me with the gardens. But what I really appreciate about Rick is that when it comes to my crafts and trying to start a business with them, he is supportive. The ex would have looked down his nose at the idea. There isn't anything that I really want to do that Rick isn't supportive. I guess that's what relationships are supposed to be like. I'm not sure that I'm always so supportive of Rick. Need to make sure that I am in the future.

This fall I want to go back to school and get my RN degree. Even though we're not quite sure where we'll come up with the money for tuition and books, he hasn't discouraged me to do it. In the long run I'll make more money and will have better opportunities for advancement. If I don't get accepted into the BSN program at Northern, I'll try to do it online. I just wish I'd hear back from the Nursing Dept as to whether I've been accepted or not. It's very hard to not know how to plan. Waiting has never been one of my strong points.