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Early morning appointments

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I have to get up sooooooo early tomorrow morning! I have a medical test. Yes a medical test. Not an exam .. a darn medical test as in an ultrasound. Why oh why did I have something scheduled so early in the morning, especially the day after I spent a week killing myself studying for my final exam I don’t know but it’s an important test and I have to do it. Sigh.

Even worse, I have all kinds of tests coming in January and February. It’s so strange, just as I started getting healthy enough to return to work I started having all these set backs and now I’m being put through the ringer with a ton of medical tests again. Figures!

I’m also really bad at finding places that I’ve never been to before – well ones that are in confusing areas. The place I have to go to tomorrow is supposed to be near the subway but in a basement area. I have to look for a few landmarks and signs to help me locate the place. It might as well have a Custom signs here sign and I’ll probably miss it .. I’ll probably get lost! LOL Which means I’m going to have to leave even earlier just to make sure that I make it there on time, just to allow some “getting lost time”.

Do you ever get lost when you’re trying to find a place that you have to be? I mean everyone gets lost every now and then but I mean trying to find some little office on a tiny little street? That will be me tomorrow morning!





Time on my hands to take care of my sites

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Now that I’m finished my nursing studies I’m looking forward to getting back to taking care of my blogs and websites again. I’m also looking forward to going back to work but that will be sometime in the new year and it will likely happen gradually. In the meantime my poor neglected sites need a little bit of work and attention.

It looks like I need to do some updates on the software for my blogs and as I keep saying I’d like to update the theme of this site and a few others. Perhaps a new look for the new year. For some reason I’ve always used green for this site. I wonder if I should change the color or keep some green in the theme?

I was also so busy studying that I didn’t get out and do ANY Christmas shopping yet! I didn’t even do any online shopping! I have to get out and run around this week or I’m going to be out of luck and not have any presents to give anyone. I don’t have a huge list this year, but still, I want to get a few gifts for some people.

I need to visit a relative in the hospital as well. He’s gone in for something called a dual diagnosis treatment. I need to do a little reading on exactly what that is so I can understand what he’s going through when I see him. At least I have some time now so I can visit for a while.

Have you caught up on your shopping or are you still busy running around preparing for the holidays?

Musical interludes

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My husbands been playing his guitar a lot more often lately. He’s always played his guitar a lot, but as I said he’s playing more and more these days.

He has an obsession with Led Zeppelin recently. I don’t know why, but he’s been trying to figure out Kashmir on his acoustic guitar again. I know he figured it out several years ago but I think he forgot that he figured it out so he’s at it again.

I really don’t mind him playing guitar. I love it actually .. except, the only time he plays it is when I happen to be concentrating on something, like say when I’m studying for a big final exam for example. Sigh … He just had to look something up on Youtube last night in the middle of my studying and play along with it.

When he did stop playing guitar last night and I could resume studying he decided to restring his guitar. I noticed that he’s using a new brand of strings – good ernie ball strings. I’ve never seen him use that type before. He must be experimenting!

Hopefully he lets his guitar rest for a couple of days. I really have to have some peace and quite so I can concentrate, but after Sunday evening he can play some celebration songs because my exam will be done and the house can be full of all kinds of sound.

One more exam and then I’m done!

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I’m so happy to say that I’m almost done my nursing courses! Yeah! One more exam to write and I’m done done done! I’ve done extremely well in my studies too. Considering it’s been some time since I’ve had to study this hard it’s nice to see I was able to get back into the groove and get the kind of marks that I was getting when I originally studied nursing.

Then … with any luck I’ll be back to work some time in the new year. I just have to have a couple more meetings with Human Resources at my workplace and ta da .. back to work for the first time in a while. That will be interesting!

It took a while to getting back into studying all the time but I think I might actually miss it in a few days when I’m done. I was actually thinking that I might take a surgical nursing course sometime in the spring. Break out the scalpel blades! LOL I certainly already have experience in that area from my work in the pain clinic and from having worked with a plastic surgeon but if I take a surgical nursing course I’ll definitely be able to work in the OR in our hospital. In the meantime I hope to get back into the ER. I loved working in the ER.

Ok .. back to studying if I’m going to ace that last exam.

It’s that time of year – so many sales!

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I guess it’s time to get ready for the holidays. We’ve already had Thanks Giving here in Canada, but I know my American friends are just about to celebrate one of their biggest holidays of the year and the excitement is building not just for the upcoming holidays but for shopping, shopping and more shopping.

I don’t know about you but I’ve been bombarded with commercials, flyers and emails advertising special Black Friday sales. As I said I’m in Canada so I can only imagine what it must be like for those of you in the States who can truly participate in the sales. Sure, stores here will have sales and those of us who live near the boarder can drive across the boarder and get in on some deals. We can also get in on some of the online deals although not all of the online stores have bargains for international customers. I don’t feel all that international being in Canada but I suppose I am.

If I had some spare money and I could go on a spending spree I think I’d get another TV for upstairs. Nothing expense as it would rarely be used, but it would be nice to replace the very old tv that’s already up there! I might also look into getting some comfortable folding chairs so that when we have too many visitors for dinner we’d have extra chairs for the table! Ok, so I don’t really need much .. but I’m sure if I was actually browsing through a store or looking at a site that had some fantastic sales going on I’d come up with a few more things that I’d “need”. LOL

What about you? Are you going to take advantage of some of the holiday sales coming up this week? Or are you going to stay home and celebrate Thanks Giving with your family for the whole weekend and forget the sales?

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