Oh what a loaded line this is.
This line comes to mind because when I clicked the link to make a new post and the text box popped up, I worked through variations of different words to start this post in my head and they all seemed to want to say they same thing, "Sorry to my readers and to myself. It's been 20 days since I've made a post." Every single way those thoughts formed themselves into words in my mind all seemed to have the same resonance-and it reminded me of how I used to recite the quoted words above in my mind each time I would go to confession back in my Catholic days. This line is also apt because it was a recurring theme in a movie I recently watched called "Don Jon".
I want to preface the rest of this post by saying that: even though I haven't posted anything in about 3 weeks, and though there was little between the last post and the one before it, it's not for lack of eventfulness. Things have happened, and I will be spending my entire morning writing about it. I'm just not going to make this post a 20 pager. I'm going to try to break down the events of the last few weeks into separate post so that they are more easily digested. I'm also going to schedule the days and times they will be posted to be more spread out in case any of you are subscribed. I don't want you to be bombarded.
On to the rest of today's update: I'm going to give a few updates to things I think I've mentioned before as well as simply going to talk about some of the things that have been keeping be busy lately, everything else will likely get it's own post.
School Applications: I've applied to two separate school's Nursing programs. I feel like I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to go into some detail here just in case.
- One school's program that I've applied to is actually the school I've been going to since I started the prerequisites. The campus that houses the program is about an hour's drive and is relatively small and new. They only have one hospital in which they do clinical rotations at regularly, though they do have other places for a week or so here and there. The first term of classes is also only from 8:30-3:30 4 days a week
- The other school is about an hour and a half away, and is one of the oldest programs in the state. The do their clinical at several of the larger hospitals in the Greater Seattle area including many of the places I hope to one day work for. The first term with them will be 7:30-5:00 5 days a week.
Each school has it's pro's and con's including the commute and number of days a week. Go figure the school I'd rather go to (which I perceive as having the better program) has almost 20 more hours of in class time.
The application process to each of these schools is different, but I have completed both already and now it's the hurry up and wait game. For the first school listed, the waiting consist of merely waiting until the go through and quantify all of the applicants on a 100 point based system (I have 94.4 points) which means I should be getting my response back relatively soon seeing as how the students who are accepted still have to do all of their immunizations and background check. For the other school, you have an earlier dead line and a lot more to do before hand including all of the immunizations and background check, yet it's not until after all of that expensive rigmarole is done, that they invite you to take the make-or-break entrance exam. Like I said, I've already taken it, so for me it, I just have to wait until everyone takes the test, the scores are in, and they quantify students. The waiting process for them will be much longer even though I completed my application well before hand.
ADD
This is the next subject to update about because it's not getting it's own post, but does play a major roll in my everyday life. In fact, as I was typing out everything about nursing school applications above, I kept getting distracted by trying to learn more information and getting updates. So much so that I completely for got some of the other updates I wanted to talk about until just now. I haven't been very good about taking my meds regularly and it's mostly because I've been waking up too late to take them. I also have been having a hard time falling asleep at a reasonable hour which only adds to the sleeping in late.
Volunteer Work
A friend from the lodge is going to be in an important officer position starting in April. She asked me to play a pretty big roll during this up coming year, and it's one I've been wanting to play for some time now. I accepted in part because it's hard for me to say no, but also because what she's asking of me is something I would like to do. She asked me to head the membership committee. In theory, it's not that much work, but the hard part is going to be to get things started, so that it can operate with minimal effort on my part.
Another thing I've been doing is planning the Easter party. We got a small grant of $850 and it has to be used to benefit under privileged children. We knew for a long time that we had the money, that it was going to be used for this holiday, and the demographic it had to be used for, yet no one really did anything to start the process rolling. For a long time I'd noticed that things at the lodge get pulled together at the last minute, and there's always a lot of gripe about how it could have been done better. I'm not the kind of person who is OK with complaining with no plans for action to correct the complaint. In fact, I much rather avoid the complaints all together. So, I took it over. I got a lot of the ground work done, but there's still a lot left to do. Here's hoping all goes well.
Health and Fitness
I made a few goals at the start of the year. So far, I haven't been very good at keeping them.
- Classes at the gym three times a week: of the 4 official weeks so far this year, I've only missed one class, and did a 30 minute class for another.
- 10,000 steps at least 4 days a week: this was meant to be done on the days I didn't go to the gym, but after the first week I felt comfortable with settling for any 4 days. Same for this, I've only missed one day. BUT it wasn't in the same week that I missed the class.
- Salad as a meal 3 days a week: this is by far the hardest one. I said I would do this for only 3 months because I knew I would get worn out on salad, and I was right. It doesn't help that the best value is the big $5 container that last a really long time and usually goes bad by the last salad. There was one week I only had 1 salad the whole week (probably, I didn't seem to track ANYTHING that week), and last week, I only had 2 salads for a meal, but did have two side salads along with a meal. I counted it.
- Running: The goal was to be able to run the lagoon without stopping. I meant to give it a go a couple of times a week to help build up stamina. I only did that once though. I suppose this isn't a complete fail since I still have 5 days to make it.
Other:
This is getting long so this is going to be the last update I make. I've been really good about cleaning the house. This is a huge deal to me since for so long it was a sign to myself that I was a bad wife. I also thought it had a lot to do with why my husband didn't seem to love me. It turned out that it had a lot to do with having ADD though. I figured that once I started the meds, I would get better. It wasn't like an on and off switch though. It's been a slow and grueling process, but I happy to say that it's leagues better now, and I hope it keeps improving.
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