Smarter than I thought!

Something very EXCITING happened this week for me! No I did not find out that I was pregnant, and no I did not have a million dollars handed to me, and no, not all my debt was paid off...something even better than all of those things put together!

I am going to take you back to the beginning of this story...it all started back at the beginning of January. I signed up to take a class that had to do with learning a foreign language. Some of you may be thinking, "was it spanish or french or maybe even arabic?", well, if you guessed any of those I have to say that you are wrong. I entered the world of Medical Terminology. This was a 9 week course and by the end of the course I would have learned over 11,000 medical words. I actually had to learn 350, but they can be put together to make over 11,000 words. So each week I would go to class and I would have to memorize 50 terms each week and each word had an audionym that we had to learn with it. So it was a three step process...we had to learn the suffix then the audionym and then the meaning. Wow, this was tough at times. I am not much of a memorizer, so I had to stretch my brain cells. Each week we would take a quiz over the past weeks terms that we had learned, so it was alot of pressure, because I tend to be a perfectionist and I am a bad test taker.

Well, as the weeks go on, I am having to learn more and more words. By week 8, I have learned 350 medical terms, and the next week is the big finale. I had to take the FINAL! This test was over everything that we had learned. We had to know the suffix and the meaning. So, now it is the 9th week of class, wednesday, March 5, 2008, 5:30pm eastern standard time, and I walk into my class room feeling a bit numb. I go to the front of the classroom were the teacher is and she hands us our tests and she also had a bowl of candy for us to take from to help us calm our nerves. What a great teacher, to offer chocolate along with a test! If only my high school history teacher would have done that, I might have gotten a better grade.;) Anyways, I sit down and read the directions to the exam and I have my cup of water and my 3 #2 pencils and my 2 pieces of ghiradelli chocolate and mind full of medical terms just waiting to spill out onto the paper.

Now I begin the test and I am doing pretty good at remembering the answers and then a classmate of mine decides to come sit right next to me and I was feeling like my area was being invaided, my comfort zone was being disturbed. So I have to shuffle my stuff out of his way so he could have room at the table to sit. Then I go back to my test, and it happened, I had a brain freeze or what I like to call a "brain fart" some reason nothing looked familiar. This guy had messed with my mind!! My heart started to race and my hands began to sweat and I started to think "I wonder if anyone has ever had a heartattack while taking the medical terminology test?" I finally am able to bring my thoughts together and finish the exam. At this point, I have a cramp in my hand from holding the pencil so tight and a kink in my neck. I then get up and take my test to my teacher and then gather up my things, and if you are wondering about the pencils, yes I did use all 3 of them, then I proceed out of the room. As I am walking down the hall my body is feeling like rubber and I want to just calapse to the floor, but I am strong and I made my way out of the builing.

So now it has been three weeks and I went out to my mailbox on Wednesday and there it is, the big orange envelope! So I take it into the house and I call my husband to tell him it was here, but I was too nervous to open it! I then start to open it slowly, and I pull the paper out and it is upside down, I then close my eyes to turn it over and when I turn it over.....I see what it is that I worked so faithfully on to achieve. My hard work had finally paid off! The paper that I am now looking at, is my certificate of completion of the course, and it is GOLD! I received a perfect score!

I am just amazed that my brain could hold so much information! Thanks to this accomplishment, it has made me realize that I can do anything as long as I have enough determination.

I know you are probably asking what I am going to do with my life now that I have achieved such an honor, well, if all goes as planned, I am going to be taking a CNA course at a local college and pursue something in the medical field that doesn't involve delivering dinner.

Blogging...

I am so new at this blogging thing and have reconsidered whether I want to keep up with it. My sister was the one who really encouraged and pushed me to doing this. She thought my life was interesting enough that people that I don't even know would want to know about it, so here I am again posting about absolutely nothing.

I guess I could tell you about my week. The week usually starts on Sunday for most people, so I will start with Sunday. Sunday in our house is what we call "The Lord's Day" "The Day of Rest", well I spent my Sunday home with a sick kiddo, and I had the priviledge of doing 5 or 6 loads of laundry not to mention the 2 baskets of laundry that needed to be folded already. So the next day was Monday, and yet again I have a sick kiddo home with me, and I had the priviledge of doing house work since I wasn't going to be going anywhere, then I went to work that night and got to feed sick people. Tuesday, is next on the calendar, and I now have 2 sick kiddos home with me, but on this particular day I have an appointment, and a very important appointment, it was time for my monthly coloring and highlighting, so I loaded up a tote bag of fun and I took 2 feverish kids to the salon. Yes, I know you are probably saying, "What kind of mother are you, to take 2 sick kids to the salon!" Well, I am the kind of mother that was in desperate need of root touch-ups! Then I went to work in the afternoon to feed sick people. Next is Wednesday, and I have finally had one child break of the fever and on meds and sent her off to school, but yet I still have one left at home who is just miserable and with 102.1 fever, so I just did work around the house and then went to work in the afternoon to feed sick people...ummm, I am seeing a pattern here with sick people, is anyone else noticing that?...Okay, now it is 4am Thursday morning and I hear someone sniffling and coughing and I think to myself, "who is that coughing in my room at 4am!!!" Well, it was the child that has not been feeling well all week and still has a 102.7 fever and is just miserable, now I am feeling miserable because it is 4AM! So I get up and get some meds and water for him, put him back in bed and I make my way back to bed only to come back to a husband that is snoring directly in my ear! I finally go back to sleep at about 6am and then to wake up at 8am only to find that no one is up getting ready for school! UGH! So now it is crunch time and I rushing to get them out the door for the 8:30 school bus. They finally are all off to the bus and I am now on my way to the doctor to have my kiddo checked out. So after 2 1/2 hours at the doctor, we leave with a prescription for some meds and for some reason I am now going to be a seeing a specialist. Now remember, we went to the doctor for my son. Go figure!?

Now it is the afternoon and I have yet to get a shower and I have 2 hours before I leave to go take care of, yes, you guessed it, sick people.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day too, because all of my kiddos will be home from school because it is "Good Friday", and I know that the Lord would rather have children stay at home to drive their mother's crazy than to have them in school on this blessed day.;)

Life...

Well, I am not sure what to talk about today that would be of any interest to anyone, but I will just write until I run out of things to say....
It was about two months ago that I was diagnost with Hypoglycemia,(low blood sugar), and it has been a very big challenge for me. I am suppose to eat every 2-3 hrs. in order to keep my sugar leveled and balanced. Sure, I can do that, no problem, I love food, I love eating! The only thing is that I have to stay away from sweets and watch my carbs.BUMMER! I love sweets, I mean I didn't get these big thighs from eating carrots and broccoli!! The biggest challenged of eating that often, is my job. I work a 4 - 4 1/2 hour shift with no break and it is a very physical job. So I am constantly moving and exerting energy, this then causes my sugar level to drop. Well, Thursday nite it was a busy night at work and I was exerting lots of energy! I could feel that my sugar was dropping, but I knew that those patients needed their dinner and nothing was going to stop me from getting them their food!! I finally got all the trays off to where they needed to go and then it hit me....yep, my sugar was very low! I grabbed some OJ. and drank that and then my Supervisor asked if I needed to sit down and I replied with a nod of my head "yes". I then made my way to the office that is there in the kitchen, and I could tell that it was going to be the longest walk of my life....my legs were feeling kind of like rubber or mush, and I started to sweat and my heart was racing, and then it happened, my legs could go no further. I kind of sort of dropped to the floor, it's like when the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz has water thrown on her and she starts melting, that would be the best way to describe my downward play to the floor. At this point, someone has noticed my body sitting there on the dirty, cold tile floor where no one is suppose to sit and she then turns to yell for the supervisor, she then comes and swoops in for the save and at this point I am out cold! She then calls in "The ACT" to rescue me, remember I work in the hospital, so this is the best place to get sick on the job, anyways, they decide that poring a packet of sugar down my throat is the best solution to this problem and pouring orange juice down my throat also, so a few minutes have passed and my sugar finally started to make it's way back up. I was not completely aware of what was going on around me and when I was aware of what had happened, I look down I see that I am covered in sugar and it is all over my mouth! I was finally able to stand up after a while and then my supervisor went and got me something to eat. So it made for an interesting night. I guess the best thing was that I got out of an hour of work and I got a free meal!;)
Next on the list of excitement, was that my husband found out Friday that he is being layed off from his job! The only thing that thrills me about that is that now he can work on all of the projects that have needed to be done around the house! He said that he is ready to Mr. Mom for awhile and I said I was totally ok with that!
So, see, my like really is a roller coaster and there really isn't a dull moment around here!

Follow up...

For all of those people who have been reading my blog, I would just like to say kudos to you! My manager at work, Beth, says that all the time, and I like it, so I am using it to! Anyways, if you have been following my posts and have read about my job, you would probably remember me talking about "The Crapper", well it is time to bid farewell to this lovely contraption.

I thought I would share with you some pictures of " The Crapper" and some of the lovely people that I get to have the privilege to work with..

This is Jonathan, he is in denial that he is Asian!

This is our faithful Ed! We love you!

My Day Off!

Well, as some of you know, I work almost everyday. Yesterday, though, I had the entire day off from work. So since I had the day off, I thought I would make the most of the day. I got up and did the usual, showered, got dressed, put on my face and curled my hair, got the kids up and ready for school and fed them breakfast and pushed them out the door to the bus. That all took place before 8:30am. Now that they were gone, I had some breakfast and made a grocery list and headed off to the stores. I started out at Sam's Club, to only buy meat, then $35 later I left the store with more than meat. Next, I went to Aldi's, which I love and love that they opened a brand new store, and I went in for a few things, and came out with $35 of a few things. Then, I went across the street to Meijer, where I finished buying all the neccesities and came out spending way more than I had planned, but we now have enough food to last us till, maybe the weekend! You have to understand, when I go grocery shopping and then my kids come home from school, it's like they have never eaten in their entire lives! Packages of cookies are ripped into, bags of chips are flying everywhere and the big thing is the Trix Yogurt, I have never seen a kid get more excited over yogurt in my life!!! It's like they have just found a pot of gold and nothing could be better!
So, now that my grocery shopping is over, it is now 2pm and I have to start thinking of what to make for dinner. So with me being the Martha Stewart that I am, I decided to make a chicken dish for dinner and get all the preping out of the way, so that when I go to cook dinner it is ready to go.
It is now 3:55pm and I hear that loud beeping noise of the bus backing up, and yes it is that time, the blessings are home! Oh now my day is so much better and it is complete! WHATEVER! Now that they are home, you know exactly what is going to happen, yep, of course, you guessed it, it is the raid of the cupboard for that one precious snack, that one morsel of food that will just make their afternoon complete. So they get their snack, and I wisk them away to Target for some much needed shoe shopping and Easter clothing shopping. Well, an hour later, they all have 2 new pairs of shoes, and a package of new socks, outfits for Easter and a very broke mother! Thanks to "Uncle Sam" I was able purchase these much needed items so that my children didn't have walk around barefoot or naked. Thank you, Target and the United States Government!:)
Now, we are home from our blessed shopping trip at Target, and it is time to make dinner. So while I am fixing dinner the blessings are out running around and playing outside and for some reason, my boys figured that since it was sunny out and above 30 degrees that they didn't need to wear anything outside except a sweatshirt! So when they are called in for dinner, here come 2 boys that have these very bright red ears and cheeks that have no feeling in them! I asked them why they didn't have on coats or hats or gloves and they replied, "It's warm". Oh, duh, that's right it was actually 40 degrees today, I forgot we were having a heat wave! Stupid me! What was I thinking!
We then sit down to eat and we are having the usually dinner conversation, you know, what kid got in trouble at school today, of course not mine because they are perfect angels, or what new dance they learned from a kid at school, or who got in trouble on the bus, you know meaningful conversations that every family has. Then when we were almost finished, I asked the kiddos to help clean up and put food away after we were done eating. I then said when we were all finished I was going to be sitting down and watching my all time fav show, Biggest Loser, and I wasn't doing anymore work, and I quote " I am worn out from all the runnin around I did today", and my blessed son, Matthew,(if you remember he is the one that wants to drink alcohol when grows up) says, " Yeah I am tired too, because I have been doing nothing but learning all day!" Boy, it's too bad that the school is making the kids work so hard in.....KINDERGARTEN!
Well, I was able to sit and watch my show, and it wasn't done in vain, I did fold laundry while I watched it. So it wasn't a complete waste of time.;)
So that was my day. Now aren't you exhausted just from reading it?

Kids being kids!

Well, today was a good day. I didn't have to work and I got to pay bills and do laundry and make dinner and clean my house and have an argument with my hubbs. Okay, that doesn't sound like heaven to you, but it was nice not to have to leave my house and take a shower. Maybe that last bit of info you didn't need to know, but you want to know the real me, you know that what you see is what you get. I am an open book, not much of me is a mystery, maybe that is why I don't have many friends....

We were able to sit down as a family tonite and have dinner at the table. This is a rare event because any of you who have read my profile you would see that I work in the evenings, but this is my weekend off. Back to what I was talking about, we started talking about summer and how much we are looking forward to sun and warm temps and shorts. Then the topic of camp came up, and my oldest daughter was saying how she loved camp last summer and that she wanted to go back, and my son, who is 8, then said he wanted to go too. I honestly wish they could all go, but not all of them are old enough. (bummer;)) As the discussion continue, my other son, who is 6, out of the blue says, and I quote "When I grow up I am going to take my kids camping and drink alcohol." Now you have to understand, we don't drink and never have, so I am not sure where he came up with that idea.