Dudes! YAY for my SO awesome Canucks!! I nearly had a meltdown this morning that CBC wasn't showing the game in Alberta, but thank goodness for the internet I got to watch online :) Oh, and did I mention that my Trevor scored the winning goal???!!! SO totally exciting. Now if only they can win game 5 in Vancouver on Thursday...
You know what's funny? I've been at this job since last May, but most people have just started to figure out that I'm a hockey fan! I'm a pretty lonely Canuck out here, but I'm slowly meeting more migrants from BC. So far at work I know of 4 die-hards besides myself. I know this whole post is turning out to be centred on hockey, but hey it's the playoffs and I love my team!! Can you guess how tempted I am to buy a ticket to a game and fly out to Vancouver?
Anyway, this really wasn't meant to be a hockey rave, but I was so wired after the game that I just had to write to people who understand me (for the most part!)
Have a great night and Believe in Blue :)
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
My Graveyard of Buried Hopes
That's a phrase I read once and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul. Let me start from the beginning...
I knew that correspondence would be hard, but MAN! I really missed instruction and having a pace to keep to. It turns out that there was not to be an LPN program starting this winter so I'd be waiting until September, IF there's even a start date in then. Hmmm, did you catch the big IF!! I'm so mad, frustrated, let down and discouraged. The school tells me now that there are not always enough students or instructors to run the evening part-time classes, so my only options are full-time or the whole thing by correspondence. Over the last few months, I have gotten the biggest run-around by this school that I want nothing to do with it, so I applied to Grant MacEwan to start the full-time Bachelor of Science in Nursing next January. That, of course, didn't work out because they've gotten so competitive and receive a bazillion applications. So now I'm back at square one with no idea what to do with my life while I'm not getting any younger and the realities of starting a family loom on an ever-nearing horizon.
So I've been looking into other options, not particularly things I'm excited about but maybe something that would be flexible and fill my career void. I could stay at the engineering firm I work for now and move into a different role that might allow for part-time working hours when the need arises in future. My father-in-law sold his business (AMEN!!) that Lee was managing, so he'll be looking for work in a month, so that brings dynamics all of its own. We could end up in some small, remote town doing church ministry, for all I know right now. I've looked into medical laboratory careers too, which could be kinda cool. We'll see. I can't really do much about that right now 'cause I need to see what happens with Lee's work over the summer. How many times have I wished that my life had turned out the way I'd planned in high school and that I'd never met a stupid boy at Briercrest to mess it all up? (note of clarification - NOT Lee)
Anyway, to prevent this update from becoming an epic novel, I'm going to stop now, besides, I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on. Now that I have a lot more time on my hands you should be hearing from me a lot more often - if you haven't already deleted me from your list of blogs to read!!
Did I mention that I got 98% on my final exam?? *sigh* If only it mattered.
Oh, and GO Canucks GO!!!
I knew that correspondence would be hard, but MAN! I really missed instruction and having a pace to keep to. It turns out that there was not to be an LPN program starting this winter so I'd be waiting until September, IF there's even a start date in then. Hmmm, did you catch the big IF!! I'm so mad, frustrated, let down and discouraged. The school tells me now that there are not always enough students or instructors to run the evening part-time classes, so my only options are full-time or the whole thing by correspondence. Over the last few months, I have gotten the biggest run-around by this school that I want nothing to do with it, so I applied to Grant MacEwan to start the full-time Bachelor of Science in Nursing next January. That, of course, didn't work out because they've gotten so competitive and receive a bazillion applications. So now I'm back at square one with no idea what to do with my life while I'm not getting any younger and the realities of starting a family loom on an ever-nearing horizon.
So I've been looking into other options, not particularly things I'm excited about but maybe something that would be flexible and fill my career void. I could stay at the engineering firm I work for now and move into a different role that might allow for part-time working hours when the need arises in future. My father-in-law sold his business (AMEN!!) that Lee was managing, so he'll be looking for work in a month, so that brings dynamics all of its own. We could end up in some small, remote town doing church ministry, for all I know right now. I've looked into medical laboratory careers too, which could be kinda cool. We'll see. I can't really do much about that right now 'cause I need to see what happens with Lee's work over the summer. How many times have I wished that my life had turned out the way I'd planned in high school and that I'd never met a stupid boy at Briercrest to mess it all up? (note of clarification - NOT Lee)
Anyway, to prevent this update from becoming an epic novel, I'm going to stop now, besides, I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on. Now that I have a lot more time on my hands you should be hearing from me a lot more often - if you haven't already deleted me from your list of blogs to read!!
Did I mention that I got 98% on my final exam?? *sigh* If only it mattered.
Oh, and GO Canucks GO!!!
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