lookie, an update.
ok, the past week or so:
i spent about a week at angel's (from the friday before last to last thursday). i found out that the most important of the classes i need is completely full at carroll community college. anatomy and physiology 1 filled up on the first day of registration, back in april. so i have to attend anne arundel community college. which is a bit of a pain, because i was really looking forward to living in carroll county, working around that area (owings mills/towson/baltimore or something) and going to school at caroll cc. but now i'm going to live in westminster (no way i'm not going to live with angel) and going to go to school an hour away at aacc (using my sister's annapolis address). i'm going to work somewhere in between the two so my commute doesn't seem so bad. angel and i made our way east on thursday. we both registered for classes (he at carroll cc, me at aacc). i will have classes four nights a week (and drive an hour home each of those nights, at about 10 pm, sounds like fun??) i have intro psych on mondays, intro soc on wednesdays, anatomy + physiology on tuesdays and thursdays, and online nutrition. full time. yay, gonna get health insurance. and then angel and i went to the birth center and faxed out many many resumes (for free, yay). i faxed out 12 resumes - doctor's offices/vet offices/dental office/chiropractor offices, you get the idea. hopefully i'll have some interviews for this week. working full time and going to school full time may be a bit much. i haven't decided yet. but i'm rather sure i can do it. i also want to call this montessori school in bowie that has a 30hr/wk administrative assistant job. it's $12/hr to start, not bad! but if i could make more (i.e. $12/hr, 40hr/wk) that'd be nice. i also registered for the information session on this tuesday at university of maryland, school of nursing. yay. going to take my WAC transcripts, and show that i've signed up for about half the pre-requisites i need (there are nine i still need). i plan to go there fall 2005. i'm scared i'm going to fail (at life) again, and not be able to do it all. but i won't know until i try.
plans for once i have health insurance: 1. thyroid blood tests; 2. thyroid ultrasound (to check the size of the cyst on the left, and the obviously larger goiter on the right); 3. seek treatment for thyroid; 4. neck x-rays, as my neck hurts a lot, and my mom started her degenerative (and genetic) neck/back problems at an earlier age and i seem to be following suit; 5. orthopedic consult re: neck/shoulders and maybe knee too; 6. neurologist, maybe; 7. psychiatrist/psychologist, maybe; 8. eye exam, need new contacts in august/september and i can get glasses too this year (my glasses are two years old). i am excited because i'm going to get contacts, AND this year i'm going to get glasses that correct my astigmatism only (which my contacts do not correct) so that i can wear my contacts, have good vision, put a cute pair of glasses on and have perfect vision. this is good for things like driving, in classrooms, etc, and being that i only wear my glasses to/from bed and bathroom, it makes sense. and i'd still keep this pair as the prescription isn't too far off; 9. hearing exam. i fear my hearing has gotten worse over the last few years. i think it's been 3 or 4 years since i've had a hearing exam (whereas before that i got one every year since i was two/three). my hearing pisses me off, it makes me feel stupid; 10. prescriptions. oh how i long for migranal; 11. chiropractor, tho i don't think my insurance will cover this. maybe they will, depending on what my neck x-rays show.
wow, my health insurance is going to be paying out the ass for my healthcare, yay! how i have missed health insurance. (mental note: request letter from AACC on tuesday to verify my registration status to send to tricare so i can get health insurance back)
what else to note? ah, yes. please send support/encouragement this way, as i am finally getting my life back in order, but am still scared that i might not succeed.
oh, that reminds me. it sucks that i feel so good about these good (but small) things i've accomplished, yet i still am depressed. i wonder how much is physical (thyroid, brain, etc) and how much is psychological. maybe it'll go away when i get my thyroid fixed. *crosses fingers*
oh, and in other news. my parents were painting their dressers in the basement, and my dad left the basement door open (duh, stupid - we have five cats) and m.k. made her fidgety little way downstairs. apparently, my dad shoo-ed her away from the dressers and she did her normal fidgety-action and brushed her tail against the wet paint. the wet, red, enamel paint. the kind of paint that can only be taken off with paint thinner. so, i got to traumatize poor lil m.k. by trying to hold her (the most nervous/fidgety cat in our household) still while angel futively wiped at the still-wet paint with a wet rag. didn't work. and the poor girl meowed so pitifully. then we contemplated the paint thinner (by this time, i made my mom get her butt upstairs to help me). but paint thinner on cat doesn't sound like a good idea. we had to get it (the enamel paint) off tho, because otherwise m.k. would clean herself and ingest it, and that can't be good either. so now m.k. has a sad looking tail. i held her as my mom trimmed the paint out of her hair. luckily, while she is the most nervous/fidgety kitty, she doesn't seem to be permanently traumatized. she most have a very horrible short-term memory. all in all, it was an interesting, and stressful, ordeal.
oh, and even better. yeah - enamel paint REEKS. my parents kept the vents open in the basement whilst painting, and the air got into the rest of the house, the first floor the worst. the fumes were absolutely horrendous and gave me a migraine. i went outside for a while to escape, then came up into my room, closed my vent, opened my windows, closed my door, turned on my fan, and i was ok. then angel came up to bed, and i had to close windows and open vent as he got rather hot and sweaty in his sleep cause the AC wasn't reaching us. i thougth the fumes would have gone away by then (all the windows in the rest of the house had been opened too, to facilitate the de-fuming of the house). nope... guess not. they were subtle, but apparently sleeping while bathed in enamel paint fumes isn't good for my head. had a pretty bad migraine today, on top of a gigantically sore neck/shoulders. let's just say i popped a few pills. (excedrin migraine, fioricet, flexeril, bextra... and pepsi, which isn't a pill, but the caffeine is so very wonderful). still not feelin so good. i wonder how many people got this far... cause that was a lot of rambling.
i spent about a week at angel's (from the friday before last to last thursday). i found out that the most important of the classes i need is completely full at carroll community college. anatomy and physiology 1 filled up on the first day of registration, back in april. so i have to attend anne arundel community college. which is a bit of a pain, because i was really looking forward to living in carroll county, working around that area (owings mills/towson/baltimore or something) and going to school at caroll cc. but now i'm going to live in westminster (no way i'm not going to live with angel) and going to go to school an hour away at aacc (using my sister's annapolis address). i'm going to work somewhere in between the two so my commute doesn't seem so bad. angel and i made our way east on thursday. we both registered for classes (he at carroll cc, me at aacc). i will have classes four nights a week (and drive an hour home each of those nights, at about 10 pm, sounds like fun??) i have intro psych on mondays, intro soc on wednesdays, anatomy + physiology on tuesdays and thursdays, and online nutrition. full time. yay, gonna get health insurance. and then angel and i went to the birth center and faxed out many many resumes (for free, yay). i faxed out 12 resumes - doctor's offices/vet offices/dental office/chiropractor offices, you get the idea. hopefully i'll have some interviews for this week. working full time and going to school full time may be a bit much. i haven't decided yet. but i'm rather sure i can do it. i also want to call this montessori school in bowie that has a 30hr/wk administrative assistant job. it's $12/hr to start, not bad! but if i could make more (i.e. $12/hr, 40hr/wk) that'd be nice. i also registered for the information session on this tuesday at university of maryland, school of nursing. yay. going to take my WAC transcripts, and show that i've signed up for about half the pre-requisites i need (there are nine i still need). i plan to go there fall 2005. i'm scared i'm going to fail (at life) again, and not be able to do it all. but i won't know until i try.
plans for once i have health insurance: 1. thyroid blood tests; 2. thyroid ultrasound (to check the size of the cyst on the left, and the obviously larger goiter on the right); 3. seek treatment for thyroid; 4. neck x-rays, as my neck hurts a lot, and my mom started her degenerative (and genetic) neck/back problems at an earlier age and i seem to be following suit; 5. orthopedic consult re: neck/shoulders and maybe knee too; 6. neurologist, maybe; 7. psychiatrist/psychologist, maybe; 8. eye exam, need new contacts in august/september and i can get glasses too this year (my glasses are two years old). i am excited because i'm going to get contacts, AND this year i'm going to get glasses that correct my astigmatism only (which my contacts do not correct) so that i can wear my contacts, have good vision, put a cute pair of glasses on and have perfect vision. this is good for things like driving, in classrooms, etc, and being that i only wear my glasses to/from bed and bathroom, it makes sense. and i'd still keep this pair as the prescription isn't too far off; 9. hearing exam. i fear my hearing has gotten worse over the last few years. i think it's been 3 or 4 years since i've had a hearing exam (whereas before that i got one every year since i was two/three). my hearing pisses me off, it makes me feel stupid; 10. prescriptions. oh how i long for migranal; 11. chiropractor, tho i don't think my insurance will cover this. maybe they will, depending on what my neck x-rays show.
wow, my health insurance is going to be paying out the ass for my healthcare, yay! how i have missed health insurance. (mental note: request letter from AACC on tuesday to verify my registration status to send to tricare so i can get health insurance back)
what else to note? ah, yes. please send support/encouragement this way, as i am finally getting my life back in order, but am still scared that i might not succeed.
oh, that reminds me. it sucks that i feel so good about these good (but small) things i've accomplished, yet i still am depressed. i wonder how much is physical (thyroid, brain, etc) and how much is psychological. maybe it'll go away when i get my thyroid fixed. *crosses fingers*
oh, and in other news. my parents were painting their dressers in the basement, and my dad left the basement door open (duh, stupid - we have five cats) and m.k. made her fidgety little way downstairs. apparently, my dad shoo-ed her away from the dressers and she did her normal fidgety-action and brushed her tail against the wet paint. the wet, red, enamel paint. the kind of paint that can only be taken off with paint thinner. so, i got to traumatize poor lil m.k. by trying to hold her (the most nervous/fidgety cat in our household) still while angel futively wiped at the still-wet paint with a wet rag. didn't work. and the poor girl meowed so pitifully. then we contemplated the paint thinner (by this time, i made my mom get her butt upstairs to help me). but paint thinner on cat doesn't sound like a good idea. we had to get it (the enamel paint) off tho, because otherwise m.k. would clean herself and ingest it, and that can't be good either. so now m.k. has a sad looking tail. i held her as my mom trimmed the paint out of her hair. luckily, while she is the most nervous/fidgety kitty, she doesn't seem to be permanently traumatized. she most have a very horrible short-term memory. all in all, it was an interesting, and stressful, ordeal.
oh, and even better. yeah - enamel paint REEKS. my parents kept the vents open in the basement whilst painting, and the air got into the rest of the house, the first floor the worst. the fumes were absolutely horrendous and gave me a migraine. i went outside for a while to escape, then came up into my room, closed my vent, opened my windows, closed my door, turned on my fan, and i was ok. then angel came up to bed, and i had to close windows and open vent as he got rather hot and sweaty in his sleep cause the AC wasn't reaching us. i thougth the fumes would have gone away by then (all the windows in the rest of the house had been opened too, to facilitate the de-fuming of the house). nope... guess not. they were subtle, but apparently sleeping while bathed in enamel paint fumes isn't good for my head. had a pretty bad migraine today, on top of a gigantically sore neck/shoulders. let's just say i popped a few pills. (excedrin migraine, fioricet, flexeril, bextra... and pepsi, which isn't a pill, but the caffeine is so very wonderful). still not feelin so good. i wonder how many people got this far... cause that was a lot of rambling.