We've gotten close lately, Tums and me. (For those that don't like these long-ish posts (or emotional ones, 'cause this one's a doozie), move along. "You don't see ANYthing..." Others, please click to ( read more )

My new strategy in dealing with the back pain is to bite my lip and push through it and just live. God, it sucks! But, I'm figuring it out. I'm pretty much always in pain now, but at least I'm getting things done. I think I'm afraid of pain, too, which is really weird. Or not. I don't know. I've been hoping we'd find a solution that would ( Read more... )

Finished grading (with the key they sent back w/my reports) my VERY LAST set of mail-ins for the med trans stuff. The road is completely clear for me to study for and do the Final Exam. Now all I gotta' do is DO it. Wow. It's so close. Yes.

Other progress - here are my latest affirmations that I have taped to my printer in my office ('cause I ( Read more... )

*This is cross-posted in FB, so if you've already read that, please feel free to skip ( Read more... )

Someday, I'm gonna' be at the top of this mountain and wonder what all that complaining was about on the way there! Finished ANOTHER Mail-In Report (as well as the template for the letter I talked about earlier). Hell yeah! So, I'm halfway done with the Mail-Ins for this Lesson. Three more to go!

I have decided that from now until I finish this med trans stuff, I'm going to divide my time between job seeking preparation and actual studying. They sent a workbook with this last Course called "Professional Medical Transcriptionist Career Starter Kit" that I'm using for guidance. They also sent 3 mini workbooks on things like HIPAA and ( Read more... )

Just a quick note. I've been on this computer waaay too long already, so I'll go back and read everybody's stuff tomorrow ( Read more... )

In my latest entry on our goal-oriented community, Project You, I said that I want to start riding my new bike a little at a time to start being more active. Well, Tom and I have talked about how else I could feel good about what I do all day, and we came up with this easy-to-check-off list for each day:

Cristy's Daily Goals:1. Wash ONE load of ( Read more... )

This is not very exciting, but I thought I'd let the world know that I have finished ANOTHER Practice Report. Yay! I'm movin' and groovin'... and just then, it hits me... Why does that song always come to mind? You're welcome. :)

Your accomplishing something for Pete's sake (who's Pete?),
Cristy

I got through one of the Practice Reports for this new Lesson. Yay!

I've decided to take a slightly new approach to these dagnabbit things. [Edit: I've typed a paragraph here like 5 times trying to make what I'm doing differently easy to understand, but there's just no point in going into the detail of how I've made it simpler; I'm just letting ( Read more... )