What's new...

Well its a little late, but summer has finally arrived in this part of the world!! Today was beautiful. After not seeing the sun for about two weeks, or atleast it seemed that way, we finally had our first official first summery day of summer! We spent it on the river bank with some friends...just hanging out, fishing and playing in the sand and the water...good times!

So I am no longer a student!! Woo hoo! I am so happy to say that. I may even be employed...but I'm not sure yet. What I mean is that I had an interview last wednesday, got some "back check" papers to fill out and had my driver's license photocopied...so now I wait. One of my instructors said that if I got those papers...then I have a job. I haven't officially been offered one, so I will wait and see before I say that I do! I'm also going to give the hospital a call tomorrow to talk to a guy there. My last practicum instructor mentioned my name to him (she's and LPN and the hospital) and he wants to give him a call. So I need to get on that tomorrow. The hospital has 12 hr shifts...which I'm sure can be brutal...but the way I see it is...since I don't want to work full time...I could work one or two shifts per week, and I'd be good to go! If I get on there and at our local seniors home...I could work as much or as little as I want. Right now I'd like to work about three days a week. That's enough for me...plus I still have kids at home that need me more than they think they do. So I'm sending up some prayers and crossing a few fingers that all turns out well and in my favor.

On my last day of being a student...I had my interview and then my day was over (I had worked the last of four eight hour shifts before the interview) as I drove away from the facility I just burst into tears. I'm not sure why. I don't know if it was a release of some sort, tiredness or that I'm so happy that I'm done or that I'm scared to actually work again and make some pretty good coinage! I was like that the rest of the day. I'm a bit nervous to actually work...but I know that its something that I need to do for me, if no one else. It help keeps my mind occupied, helps me to stay focused on the task at hand and to keep my mind from thinking about all the negative things that I could dwell on, but shouldn't. Going to school has really saved me from a dark place. I am happy to say that I feel alot better than I have in the past year or two and that I have been able to ween myself off of my anti-depressants! I've been off of them for a couple of weeks already and so far so good! I'd really like to live without them...and I think that occupying myself with a job will really help.

My sister and her family are coming here in a week and a half or so...I'm so excited. I haven't seen them since last summer. I'm praying for atleast one lake day...last time they were here we didn't make it to the lake at all. They're only here for a few days and then we're all going to head to Edmonton and meet up with my parents there and do the whole mall thing for a couple of days. My parents and sister and her family well then head back to Stoon, while my family and myself will stick around the area for a few more days and visit with Jason's brother and his family and hopefully his parents as well. Then we'll come back here and back to the grind.

Jason is renovating our bathroom right now. He has taken two weeks off unpaid (eeeek!) and then has two weeks of holidays. So far things are coming along...but I don't have a shower or a tub...just a toilet in the basement along with a sink. We've been going to the local campsite for loonie showers...they're not that bad actually. We bought a repo house about three years ago and are finally able to gut the bathroom. We've only had a tub since we've moved here...not fun! The previous owners did some bizarre things to this place and we've just been trying to get it back to "normal"...our bathroom actually used to be two, so thats what we're doing...putting it back to two, instead of one. I'll try and post pics once its all completed. The bathroom's aren't going to be anything fancy...but so much better than what we've had, so I'm pretty excited!

Well thats about it for me. Its hard trying to get back into the groove of blogging...I've hardly done any since I started school. Hopefully things will pick up in this area for me...we'll see I guess.

Take care everyone! Happy Summer!

Wow...its been over a month!

Well what can I say...hmmm...I'm not sure. Life is crazy busy, I just got off "work" a while ago. I have one more day left...then three off. I've worked the past six out of seven days, eight hour shifts...who knew that life could be so nutts!!! Sunday was my only day off and it wasn't enough. Thankfully today was the best day that I've had all week. Yesterday I had a nasty headache and felt just weird in my head...kinda fuzzy. The day before my back was killing me...but today, I felt great, thank goodness!! I only have five more days of being a student...woo hoo!!! Right now I'm doing my transition...its where I'm on my own, no instructor, just the help of other care aides, its to help us go from student to actual worker. So far so good. I also have some exciting news...I have an interview next wednesday. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. Its been so long since I've gotten and actual paycheck...hopefully it won't be much longer;)

Not much else is that new or exciting at the moment. I could talk about a few things...but I'm not much in the mood. I thank you all for checking back, even if there are no updates. Hopefully I'll be able to update more frequently...maybe not. I guess time will tell.

Hope all is well with everyone out there! Take care!

A bit of an update (for Jenny:)

Well things are good. The kids are in soccer...Syd loves it...I think Rowyn does too as he talks about it all the time...but he has yet to participate...grrrr!!! He's had a practise and a game and hasn't gotten on the field yet...that kid!! Clinical is going well...I'm sooooo glad to be done with school. I work in the local care home three days a week...thurs, fri and saturday 7am-3pm...its going pretty good. I did have one day where a resident flipped out on me and swore up both sides of me for about five minutes. I was told that I should have left her (she was in a special lift for going onto the toilet as she doesn't walk) as long as the brakes were on, so she could think about how she was acting. But I didn't. I got her ready and then left the room and broke down bawling like a baby. I wasn't hurt by her comments...just more in shock I guess...just a natural reaction for me...I have never in my life been talked to the way she talked to me...oh well...its all part of the job!!

Right now my parents are here...its so nice having them around. The kids and I hadn't seen them since August and its been about a year for Jason. We've just been puttering around the house, trying to get a few things done. Syd's in heaven as grandma will play board and card games with her all the time ( I hate games...I know, I'm bad) and Rowyn is acting life a goofball and also seeing how far he can push everyone...which isn't so good! He's also learned how to ride his bike this past week without training wheels. You should see him...its like he's been riding a two wheeler for years already...going in an out of the ditches and flying down the street...you can't keep him off that bike...its almost to the point of annoying how much he loves to ride...I'm kind of glad that we're having a good rain today;)

So thats about it for me...I think we're going to head to Prince Rupert this saturday...its my grad day and I should be walking across the stage...but its an all day affair and I'd rather be spending it doing something with my family and something thats alot more fun. There's only a handful from my class that are actually going, so really, I don't feel guilty about it.

I hope you all are doing well and are enjoying spring!

Been A While!

Well first off...all I have to say is PHEW!!! Glad that part is over!!! Yesterday was my last exam and my last day in a classroom!!! No more racking my brain...no more information overload...no more brain spillage because its so crammed pack of "stuff"...ahhhh...it'll be nice just go to clinical and do my thing three days a week and then enjoy my four days off...sooooo nice! A few of us went out to celebrate last night...it was alot of fun I must say. Its been nice getting to know some new people and making some new friends...a couple of them have been really supportive when times have been tough...I'm very thankful for them. I'm just so glad that I am no longer stuck in a room with over 20 women all day long...soon they were going to have to pad the walls in that room...not only for my sake, but for the sake of a few of us. I certainly won't miss the dram either!

So since I've been in school...I've been doing alot of sitting...I'm so glad that I now will have the time and the mental energy to get out and do some exercising...its been too long and its starting to show unfortunately. I've been so drained mentally and emotionally that I haven't seemed to even eat well...my poor family hasn't had many decent meals since I've started school...hopefully that'll now change!

My parents are coming down/up...whichever way you look at it. Next weekend they'll be here. I haven't seen them since August...thats just too long! Jason hasn't seen them in a year! It'll be so nice to have them around. My house is in such disarray though....so I better start tidying up and organizing so they have somewhere to sleep...cause at this moment...there is alot of stuff piled up on that spare bed!!

Well I hope all of you are doing well!!

Not Much to Say...

Well actually I do...I'm so ready to be done school!!!!! Two more weeks left of "in class" school left...after May 2nd...no more books, handouts, group assignments...nothing!!! Just eight weeks of clinical three days a week!! I'm so much looking forward to just going to clinical, pretending that I'm actually working (I say pretending because its only pretend if you're not getting paid!) for eight hours a day and then coming home and not having anything thing to think about, not stressing about exams, assignments...sitting on my butt for six hours a day at school. The hard part is getting through these next two weeks!!!

Almost everyone in my class is starting to drive me nutts in one way or another...I'm so sick of being in a room with a bunch of bitchy women, me included! (I know...you're mouths are all open and in shock of me being bitchy...haha!) Everyone in the class is so stressed...some more than others...some are "working it" more than others as well, which I really can't stand and I really think is unfair. Some people always seem to have a "crisis" when it comes to crunch time...so us others have to pick up their slack...or so it seems. I could go on and on...but I won't!

I am just mentally drained. I never though it could get this bad...but it has. My brain is so full of stuff...I don't think there's anymore room for one more ounce of information to enter and stay in there!! I have three assignments due, two this week which are group projects, another next week. Three final exams to study for, a "working" resume to get ready for friday and to practice and study for my last "skills assessment" exam next week! I can't figure out if I'm coming or going!! So if I happen to talk to some of you...please excuse my lack of whatever I may be lacking...its not you...its me!! I just can't wait until May 2nd...once the morning is over I will breath a sigh of relief!!

Well thats about it...I just had to do a bit of whining...I could do alot more, trust me, but I don't want to make your ears bleed!!

Some exciting news!!

Well its happened...no...not that, or that...or even that! Its better than all of those combined!!! My baby boy...who's not a baby...but I can still call him that if my mom can still call me her baby girl!! On wednesday night he accepted Jesus into his heart!!! Woo hoo!!! He is so proud of himself and so happy about it! We were reading a bible story and started talking about having Jesus live in our hearts and I asked him if he had asked Jesus to come into his heart and he said yes...I asked when did he do that...he said "yesterday?"....haha. So we prayed and he asked Jesus to come and live in his heart to forgive all his sins!! Just had to share!

"Mom...my leg armpit is sore!"
"Your what?"
"My leg armpit!"
"Where exactly is your leg armpit?"
"Right here!"
"Ha ha...that is your inner thigh...you silly...but that was a good try at figuring out what to call it."

A conversation with my five year old son the other day after his cords had rubbed his "leg armpits" a little raw.