NCLEX. prepin'

Ok so yesterday's blog vent worked! Woot! Today I checked and my paycheck is here! So I registered for the test with Pearson Vue. Now I just have to go out and get a money order for the Board of Nursing Fee. Then I can send that out too! So as soon as the daughter gets home from school with my car I am heading out to the bank. I am soooo excited now! Finally some forward progress!

Gotta go find some wood to knock on!

Am I stuck in a loop?

WTF... laptop crashed AGAIN!!!Jeep broken AGAIN!!! Need another tire for the car AGAIN!!! No money AGAIN!!! Studying AGAIN!!! LOL ok the last item is a good thing. ;-)

Its like a time warp or something, every year the same old stuff. Right now what is owed to me is close to $10,000. So why on earth am I so broke? I am still waiting for the money for my test. But I should at least get that this week. But what is with this stupid laptop? I have had it 2 years - warranty expired this month, and here it went again, blue screen of death. I have the recovery discs and I did back up most things onto the flash drive this time. But I can't find my flash drive...lol. I had passwords saved and some cool sites I'd found since the last crash and now I have to start form scratch!

Oh well... if by chance I get the money I'm owed, how cool would it be to get it soon and like all at the same time? Of course its owed to me by 5 different entities and lining that all up would be a feat in itself, but since I would like it now... I'll take what I can get however it decided to come in... as long as its soon.

On the school front, I am taking 12 credits. 1 of the credits is a computer class for finding medical information on the web. Comes in handy for a Nurse. Its in a 4 week format and self paced, but I only have 1 more essay and a final project left to complete. My Philosophy class starts tomorrow and I need to write a Deep Thinking Essay by the 13th and the rest is self-paced as well. I of course would like to finish it prior to May... so I'll do as much as I can before my Microbiology and Chemistry classes start next Monday. I am excited for the Chemistry experiments but not so much for the work.

Nclex studying in there somehow too and then job hunting! I have big plans for the year and big hopes... but surviving so far is taking a miracle.

Ok off to family Sunday night. I love having quality time with the kids. Its awesome to see my teenagers getting along and bonding!

Mom can I borrow the car?

LOL how long was the wait for that one. Ok so the driver's licence experience was a little longer than we had hoped. A few tears, stomach aches, complaining teenage boys, 2 hours at the Motor Vehicle Department, & a night time crash course in 3 point turns into a parking space size area... the 16 year old is legal!

So I picked her up from school yesterday since they had a half day. Of course since it was 30 miles away it made no sense to drop the boy off at home first so he came with us. We waited 2 hours and her test lasted all of 3 minutes. They have a 3 point turn course and she hit a cone! So she failed. Needless to say she practiced alot at home, and when we went back this AM, sans the boy, they let her practice a few times in the course, and bingo bongo she nailed it!

I had taken her on the driving course through the streets on Sunday, mind you that was pure accident, I was letting her drive there so that she would get the feel for the roads there and the weird parking lot, but turns out the few wrong turns we had gone onto trying to find the main road home, was the exact route they took her on for the driving part!

I am very proud of her and freaked out all at the same time!

D...D..Driving

Ah... my daughter is taking her driver's test today. I really hope she does well, it would suck to fail it since she's told pretty much everyone that she is going today. The good news is that it only costs $25 and she gets 3 attempts to pass it for that price and that includes her actual licence. (Not 3 in one day of course)

I added her to the insurance on my car and it didn't cost much more than I would have been paying... of course I want to shop around a bit more because I am sure I didn't get as good a deal as I could have. But it is only $64 more a month and that is wayyy less than I was expecting.

She still thinks I can pull the money for a car for her out of some orifice magically, yumm yeah not like fixing the cars we need to PAY the BILLS first makes any sense to her. She's never had to dig out change just to put enough gas in a car to merely get to work before.

Her argument is she needs a more relaiable car than I do. Last time I checked she had the cell phone not me. But...Yes I DO need a newer car that is more reliable than you do! Why? Well, for many reason but mainly because you only need it to go back and forth to school. I need it to do my job. Said job that PAYS for the things you have! No way to work = no money- no house, no eat and no CAR! Duh... your car doesn't work then Mommy drives you! My car doesn't work? LOL I take yours and Mommy still drives you! See the difference?

Of course in 4 months my son gets his permit and can drive, if I buy the car do you think she'll share it? HA! Fat chance.

Yesterday after her mini-meltdown over the car situation I asked my son, "Don't you live in the same house? If you understand that there is no money for ANYTHING right now... what world does she live in?" He laughed and says as we always do...
"Samiland"

PS. She spoke with her father last night and he said exactly what I thought he would say!

Spring Semester

Is about to start. I went down and picked up my books and lab kit today. I started reading Philosophy book and it actually seems like it should be a very interesting class. I am pretty sure I have bitten off a bit more than I can chew with the class load with Micro and Chem at the same time, especially in a school that is notorious for out of control hard science classes.

Soooo... that's about it. Just a crappy 2010 so far but.... I still have hope.

This to shall pass & all that jazz.

31 SOS

Is it just me or is the concept of happily ever after not only improbable but impossible? When the haze lifts and the blinders are off is what was in 1989 enough to sustain past 2010?

At this point I don't even know if its just the culmination of too much stress or if it just has been a long time coming?

Why oh why does it always seem that just when you think, "Ok its good."

It isn't!

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise...

Not a knock on the door but a walk in, introduced my parents this morning. Kinda out of the blue. I have a telephone but apparently they were out and about and decided to continue their drive to the middle of no where to my A frame in the desert.

So my mother, says that she did her Federal Taxes and is getting a good size refund, since she is out of work. AND... is going to loan me the $500 next Friday to finally submit my application to the board. So whenever my check comes in I can just pay her back then!

Hopefully they'll get my application processed pretty quickly and send my ATT so that I'll get a date for February. More likely it'll be early March. But I am keeping my fingers crossed and taking the very first available date.

So I shall be studying my butt off once again... just in case!