babble

It is SNOWING.
Let me remind you that it is the END of April. May starts in 4 days. Something is wrong here. I don't like snow during the winter...I like it even less in the spring!

What else? Well, let's see. I've got a pain in my ribs. No, not a pain, that's wrong. More like a breathing pressure. It's not in my chest, so I know it's not anything respiratory--and while I've been around a lot of people who've been in Mexico recently, they don't have any symptoms and they're all nurses, so handwashing is a major priority, with or without the pandemic threat. It's not scary enough for me to see my doctor and I kind of think it's because I've been sitting so much--studying, writing papers, work, etc. So what I really need to do is a lot of stretching and a lot of building up of the core muscles to counteract all the sitting I've been doing!

I had plans to hand in a paper today (I did send in the powerpoint slides for the presentation this morning), but there's SO MUCH I want to write about. I'm at work now and I should be able to spend a bit of time finishing it up. This prof has been SO LENIENT with me, it's been awesome. Helps that I rocked his class last semester and spent the whole time talking to him. :)

I have to do my taxes this week. I'm off Tuesday and Wednesday (as far as I know), so will do them up then. Yeah yeah I don't usually leave it 'til the last day (sorry Uncle Doug!) but the past two months have been so busy it hasn't been very high on my priority list!

I've picked up a ton of shifts in July & August (and I'm sure quite a few will pop up in May & June), so I'm not particularly stressed about finding a "real job," but at the same time, I feel like I'm putting pressure on myself to DO something. *sigh* I kind of think this rib pain might be a little bit of anxiety building up--what with writing this paper, working, personal stuff, blah blah blah--and I need to bleed this anxiety off. Well, not bleed literally. :) But get rid of it! That's what the May Workout Challenge is for! :)

Right, so "real job." This is a direction I've really been praying about. If I stay in Lethbridge, I'd like to work at the college or the university and I'm actually going to talk to a lady in HR about working at the university, so that's good. But some other ummm educational opportunities seem to be presenting themselves, so I think I'm going to pursue that too to see if God keeps that door open or shuts it. It wasn't even a door I was looking for, but fell through anyway...so that leads me to think that God is pointing me in that direction. It combines music and ministry, which would be awesome.

pigeons & a new path?

Ok pigeons.

They creep me out. The flutter of their wings, the cooing sound they make, they way they look. Everything. And a husband/wife team are determined, despite my best efforts, to perch on my balcony. They've been unable to build a nest because I keep scaring them off, but yet...they come back. Honestly, the dumbest animals in existence. For the past two mornings they have been my alarm clock at roughly 600-630 and nothing can shoot me out of bed faster and into my living room (wrapped in a towel) to slam open my balcony doors and engage in a little early morning rage.

The rage would come a whole lot faster if I didn't have to clamp my cycler lines, sanitize my hands, and put a cap over my catheter. I lose about 20-30 seconds of precious non-anger management time doing that. But it's probably a good amount of time for me to cool down--although it's also 20-30 more seconds that I get to brew and steam and simmer.

In other news, I am done my exams. I have one paper left to write and will hand that in on Monday. I don't know if I'm going to graduate. I haven't spent any of this week arguing with either the Faculty of Management or the Arts Faculty, but I may have to have a go at it this week. Ugh. I wish someone would just pop up and offer me the job of a lifetime. :) I do have something on the backburner that resulted from an interesting conversation on Tuesday that may be God showing me that "hello, this is the direction I had you going 15-16 years ago...get on it, child!" :) Praying about it and will share more once I know more.

"free" and clean!

Had my second exam this morning and it went well...I knew everything that was asked on the exam and I think I did pretty good. I HOPE I did pretty good! Not that I'm going to graduate now, but regardless, I should still put forth a good effort! :) Three exams and one paper to go.

Today, though, I'm not even thinking about school stuff. I've got the rest of the day "free" and I'm going to CLEAN. If my blood pressure can keep up with me, that is. I keep standing up and doing something and it keep dropping. So I feel like junk. But I'll muddle along and slowly work on getting this place back into shape.

I'm also going to write down places I can apply to and start getting that ready to go. I should definitely start looking for something full-time-ish. I've applied for a part-time position as Coordinator of the Campus Women's Centre which I think would be GREAT experience, but it's only 10-15 hours a week. Which for me is actually ideal 'cause I can keep my NICU position and keep picking up in the Delivery Suite. Plus dedicate May to walking and going to the gym Biggest Loser style :D

I've lost 20-25 pounds over the past couple of months and I have that much more to go. I'd like to do THAT before my high school reunion in August. Ohhhhh it always comes down to the reunion doesn't it??

Regardless of the fact that I'm going to look at these people like they're still 16 and not 35! :)

Right...so. Cleaning. Back at it! There is soooo much to do!
Baby steps, baby steps!!