Hey look, I *am* still alive.....
Sheesh, amazing how life gets busy and ya don't have time to post much... :)
First off -- ROCK CHALK, JAYHAWK, GO KU!!!!!
February really kinda sucked. Work and school kept me busy (that's not the bad part), but there were two funerals that I couldn't make it to (that I wanted to). First, my dad's best friend's mother died. We're really close with that family, so I wished I could have gone (especially as the funeral was on Dad's birthday....). She had been ill for awhile (some kind of tumor in/around her one good eye, so I think that was the ultimate problem, but she was also almost 90 if not older). And then there was my Aunt Donna, my mom's oldest sister. I think I've only been around Donna and her three kids maybe a dozen times in my life...they always lived somewhere else -- Tulsa, Lyons, Kan., Phoenix. And they've been a little screwed up -- drug abuser for one of the kids, early pregnancy in the daughter (so Donna raised her grandson too), never much money, bankruptcy filing, etc. Donna was diagnosed with lymphoma a year or so ago, and I think it went in to remission but then came back last fall. And she just got worse. Mom went out there to visit in February because the kids kinda were freaking out and needed some help and support. Donna had developed a lung infection at this point and her kidneys were failing. Mom flew out on a Saturday and Donna died on Wednesday (and it sounds like it was a pull-the-plug type of decision but I don't know). Mom came back on Friday, then she and Dad and their other sister Denise drove to Phoenix the following Wednesday for the funeral. I would have liked to have gone, mostly to support Mom and Denise, but I need my paycheck more. *sigh*
Work is still work. It really doesn't stimulate my brain enough, but it's a decent paycheck so I'll hang in there. I'm just getting a little nervous. They've been laying off quite a few people on the manufacturing floor, so I hope that those layoffs don't trickle upstairs to me. I don't *think* they will because there's a massive data entry project that I'll end up doing most of. But we're waiting to see if the way we input stuff will work for the company that's storing all these boxes of folders for us, so in the meantime, I had *NOTHING* to do yesterday. And that makes me nervous when they laid five people off that morning and another half dozen the day before. Yikes. But also, one of our contract specialists is leaving Monday for a new job, and I think I will sort of be moving into her position, so I think my job's secure. I hope.
I'm still planning on radiology school in the fall, but I'm getting nervous about that. I'm applying to four different schools. Washburn didn't even invite me for an interview, and Fort Hays didn't accept me (and I drove three hours out there for a 15-minute interview, then three hours back....ARGH!!!). The deadlines for Labette and Hutch haven't passed yet, so I'm waiting to hear from them. I guess if I don't get in this fall, I'll work for a year, try and pay off bills/save some money, take a more couple classes and reapply to them all next year.
The other big stuff taking up my time is my Wiccan studies. My group is finally getting our butts in gear and working on our Second Degree, with initiations planned for November. So I'm doing a lot with that. Lots of meditation and energy work, working on reiki again, reading and researching a lot. Lots of fun!
Happy birthday, ladynaberrie and anyone else I've missed in the past two months!
sigma7, can you still lick your elbow? A podcast I listen two was talking about the "fact" that it's impossible to do but if anyone could, they wanted to see a pic. Think you could e-mail me a pic to pass on to them? (It might be worth a CD of Pagan music....yours if you want it!)
First off -- ROCK CHALK, JAYHAWK, GO KU!!!!!
February really kinda sucked. Work and school kept me busy (that's not the bad part), but there were two funerals that I couldn't make it to (that I wanted to). First, my dad's best friend's mother died. We're really close with that family, so I wished I could have gone (especially as the funeral was on Dad's birthday....). She had been ill for awhile (some kind of tumor in/around her one good eye, so I think that was the ultimate problem, but she was also almost 90 if not older). And then there was my Aunt Donna, my mom's oldest sister. I think I've only been around Donna and her three kids maybe a dozen times in my life...they always lived somewhere else -- Tulsa, Lyons, Kan., Phoenix. And they've been a little screwed up -- drug abuser for one of the kids, early pregnancy in the daughter (so Donna raised her grandson too), never much money, bankruptcy filing, etc. Donna was diagnosed with lymphoma a year or so ago, and I think it went in to remission but then came back last fall. And she just got worse. Mom went out there to visit in February because the kids kinda were freaking out and needed some help and support. Donna had developed a lung infection at this point and her kidneys were failing. Mom flew out on a Saturday and Donna died on Wednesday (and it sounds like it was a pull-the-plug type of decision but I don't know). Mom came back on Friday, then she and Dad and their other sister Denise drove to Phoenix the following Wednesday for the funeral. I would have liked to have gone, mostly to support Mom and Denise, but I need my paycheck more. *sigh*
Work is still work. It really doesn't stimulate my brain enough, but it's a decent paycheck so I'll hang in there. I'm just getting a little nervous. They've been laying off quite a few people on the manufacturing floor, so I hope that those layoffs don't trickle upstairs to me. I don't *think* they will because there's a massive data entry project that I'll end up doing most of. But we're waiting to see if the way we input stuff will work for the company that's storing all these boxes of folders for us, so in the meantime, I had *NOTHING* to do yesterday. And that makes me nervous when they laid five people off that morning and another half dozen the day before. Yikes. But also, one of our contract specialists is leaving Monday for a new job, and I think I will sort of be moving into her position, so I think my job's secure. I hope.
I'm still planning on radiology school in the fall, but I'm getting nervous about that. I'm applying to four different schools. Washburn didn't even invite me for an interview, and Fort Hays didn't accept me (and I drove three hours out there for a 15-minute interview, then three hours back....ARGH!!!). The deadlines for Labette and Hutch haven't passed yet, so I'm waiting to hear from them. I guess if I don't get in this fall, I'll work for a year, try and pay off bills/save some money, take a more couple classes and reapply to them all next year.
The other big stuff taking up my time is my Wiccan studies. My group is finally getting our butts in gear and working on our Second Degree, with initiations planned for November. So I'm doing a lot with that. Lots of meditation and energy work, working on reiki again, reading and researching a lot. Lots of fun!
Happy birthday, ladynaberrie and anyone else I've missed in the past two months!
sigma7, can you still lick your elbow? A podcast I listen two was talking about the "fact" that it's impossible to do but if anyone could, they wanted to see a pic. Think you could e-mail me a pic to pass on to them? (It might be worth a CD of Pagan music....yours if you want it!)