Thoughts of and on the Week...

This week is another of those weeks where I wonder how in the world I’m going to get it all done. It’s looking like once again I will manage to fit everything I need to do into my week and maybe a bit of what I want to do too. The want stuff is a miracle in and of itself, let me tell you. On top of all the fun of it being a paper turn in week in this class, I somehow am fitting in three chapters in my Pathophysiology class (compared to a normal of one chapter) and the normal workload in my Econ 180 and Kine 103 classes. Gulp. Oh and on top of that my work schedule is a bit sideways because my preceptor is moving us from working the end of the week to the first of the week so he can have a long stretch off at Spring Break time as he’s planning to spend some time with his wife. On top of that it’s crunch time educationally for me at work, I have an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Prep class next week, a Non-Violent Crisis Intervention class, then during our Spring Break the Trauma Nurse Core Course (2 long days of lots of information and a test at the end) and the actual ACLS class right after Spring Break. Makes me a bit nervous thinking of all the stuff I have to arrange to make everything happen the next few weeks. But I know I can get through it, I just need to stay super organized & it’ll all get done, I know it will.

On the home front things are things. Pretty quiet here, but that’s better than what has been going on the past few weeks, so I won’t complain about the silence. The upside is that I’m working a ton the next week and a half to accomplish the adjustment to the schedule and classes so won’t be over here in Ozark much, which frankly rocks for me.

The car hunt, now that’s frustrating. I have found a car on Craigslist that I really like, but I’m starting to think the sellers just posted it for fun. I’ve tried to set up a time to see/test drive the car a few different times, but can never get them to commit to a time. The best I’ve gotten is a day and they’ll say they’ll contact me closer to that day to set a time, and then they never email or call back. Grr. This car is in decent shape, not too many miles and is priced pretty fairly as long as it is in as good of shape in person as it is online. I found another car over near where I live that looks okay, but I just get the feeling with it that I’m buying someone else’s headache… I already drive a headache that is leaking oil, antifreeze and transmission fluid on my driveway as I type. The upside is I’m making a flying trip to Kansas City on Saturday to see a Winterguard Competition and think I’ll try to set up a test drive or two while I’m up there if the cars I’m considering are still available then.

Oh well, this season in life will end. Me not being a fan of change and the fact that the past year of my life has been nothing but changes is the key to my current frustration, but I know in the end these changes will wind up being what is best for me and my kids, so I’m powering through and looking toward the bright light that’s at the end of all of this.