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Finally finished my exams!

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I finished writing my last exam! Yeah! No more finals. No more school. I’m done. I just have to wait for my absolute final marks and it’s official – I’ll have completed my courses!

I kind of feel like going out and celebrating. I probably should do that, and I likely will, but first I think I’m going to spend a couple of day just relaxing! It feels so strange not having to pick up a book and study study study all day like I’ve been doing for the last three months straight. I almost don’t know what to do with myself!

I’d better watch it .. with all this new free time on my hands I might start shopping on the internet and end up with a houseful of Beaver Cowboy Hats or something crazy! LOL

Did you or someone you know just finish writing exams? Are you or they relieved? Tired? Happy it’s over?





Halfway through my courses

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I am so ready for my college courses to be over! I’m about halfway through my two courses and it seems that all I do is study study study. I suppose you could say I’m a good student, but I’m due for a break.

My worst problem with going back to school is that I’m taking online course and my husband is home quite a bit and since we’re doing renovations it’s quite distracting. I seem to study best when he’s not around.

I’m also concerned that I’m not moving around as much as I was before I “went back to school”. What with all this studying that I’m doing there’s a lot of sitting around going on. So .. I’m trying to get up at regular intervals and go up and down the stairs a few times, do some stretches and even go out for a walk with the dog. Anything to get up and get moving. It gives me a chance to stretch for a few minutes and gets my head out of the books.

Last weekend I was so busy studying for one of my midterm exams I wasn’t even cooking meals! I was totally glued to my books and the computer until I decided it was time to take my exam. The only interruptions I allowed was to get up and feed my dog, let her outside, or to open the door to the delivery person with the food that I’d ordered! Oh and my mother in law called and I had to talk to her briefly, but when she started talking about some new worship chairs that they’d just purchased for the church that she works in I decided it was time to get off the phone or else I’d be talking for a long time … back to the books for me!

Now I’m busy doing my regular studying and getting ready for a mid term in another course … oh and a big project in one of the courses too. I’m so ready for this to be done! Maintaining all of my websites and doing these courses takes ALL of my time. I’ll be sleeping a lot come mid-December!

Trying to concentrate

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I’m having yet another busy week. I guess that’s the way it’s going to be now that I’m back in school. I’m busy trying to return to work, going to school and maintaining all my sites at the same time .. oh and we’re renovating our house too! Yes that’s a lot isn’t it?

I’d be back at work already if my hand injury hadn’t happened – then I’d be even busier!

I’m having trouble concentrating studying when my husband is home. He’s always busy doing odd jobs around the house or picking up one of his guitars and playing music. I usually don’t mind, but now that I’m studying it’s a little distracting.

Oh and speaking of guitars, the other day he saw one called a jazzmaster musicians friend and that’s now his latest obsession. He loves jazz music, in fact when he first started playing guitar he played classical and jazz so he wouldn’t mind one of these guitars. Perhaps if he gets one of these guitars I can make a deal with him to only play it in the basement or upstairs when I’m studying? Yeah … that’ll work.

Ok … back to my studying!

Taking advantage of the great weather

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It looks like this is going to be a beautiful week in Toronto. It’s supposed to be sunny and warm all week. Lovely.

I took advantage of the great weather yesterday. I had to go to my new college campus to buy one of my college text books for my online course and since my campus is on the waterfront I took the time to take several pictures while I was there. I love Toronto’s waterfront area. It’s beautiful. There’s so much to do and it’s so pretty!
Sugar Beach Toronto's Waterfront
As it turns out George Brown college moved the nursing division from St. James campus to the Waterfront campus. The Waterfront campus happens to be right beside Sugar beach which is this kind of cool looking fake beach with white sand that over looks the lake. It’s right beside the Redpath sugar plant and I’m sure that’s likely why it’s called Sugar Beach. It’s very pretty with it’s pink umbrellas. Of course, while I enjoyed the sunny day and warm weather, beautiful sites and lovely beach it only served to remind me that in a few short months I’ll be putting up the christmas ornaments. Now isn’t that a scary thought!

Once we were done picking up my text book at the college book store and walking around on the water front my husband suggested we check out something that was pretty much across the street from the college campus. The Sherbourne Common. I really hadn’t heard of this area or seen the cool water features or other green items that were there prior to my visit yesterday, but I was blown away once we got there.

The Sherbourne common has three huge water falls that are composed of water streaming down mesh screens. It’s extremely cool to look at. The water is recycled back into the lake I believe if I read the information correctly. Actually the playground equipment and other materials at the common are all recycle and green materials. I’ll write another post and add more photos but for now, here’s one photo to show you one of the water features in the sunset with the CN Tower in the background.

Sherbourne Common Water Feature at Sunset

Have you been enjoying beautiful weather this September?

A weekend to myself

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As of tomorrow I will become a college student again. Hard to believe but it’s true! Ok, I’m only taking two courses and they are from home, but I am back to school.

I’m taking two distance education courses from George Brown College. They are nursing related courses. Since I’ve been off work on medical leave for some time I’m going to brush up on a few things and then in January I will be returning to my old job at the hospital if all goes well. Fingers crossed.

Hopefully nothing else happens that will hamper my progress such as my hand injury that occurred in June! That certainly put a huge delay on things! I’m still recovering from that. I don’t know if my hand will ever be the same.

I had a busy week last week. I was trying to get a lot of things done so that I could concentrate on starting my courses on Monday. As I said in my last post I was doing a lot of work on a number of my websites, upgrading and updating because I know I’m going to have less time in the near future to work on things. I also did a little research into possible inviting guest bloggers to write for some of my sites. We’ll see how that goes. I haven’t decided if I’m going to go in that direction or not. I certainly get a lot of offers as it is anyway!

Then .. I was also trying to prepare to go away this weekend. My nephew – the hockey player that I told you about earlier in the summer, is now living in Brockville and playing for the Brockville Braves. He’s playing his first professional hockey games this weekend. My husband and mother-in-law – and I, were all going to go to the Ottawa area to see him play this weekend, however I wasn’t feeling all that well by the time Friday rolled around so I nixed the trip for myself.

There was a lot of planning for the trip going on all week too. For quite a while it looked like up to 10 people were going! As in quite a few of my in-laws! I finally heard from my sister-in-law mid-week or so last week and she said that they weren’t going to see our nephew play this weekend and that they were going to go in October instead. It’s better that the family staggers visits. The poor kid is from Chicago and he’s away from home for the first time in his life so seeing family every few weeks might be a good thing.

It was nice talking with my sister-in-law though. I hadn’t talked with her for quite a while. They’d just come home from closing up their cottage. She was saying that their big thing to do this weekend was to go out and look for swimming pool pumps because they’re going to need a new one next summer for the pool at the cottage. I guess they are cheaper at this time of year.

So here I am on my own this weekend. Busy learning how to use the learning module for my online classes and still working on my sites. I am enjoying the peace and quite in the house though – there’s been too much going on this summer, too many people in the house. I like it when I have time to myself.

How is your weekend?

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