Spring Semester :-)

I'm one of those weird kids that actually looks forward to the first day of school. I am super excited for spring semester to start (even though I've been in school for all of January for a mini winter session of classes). I don't function with only a small amount of work to do, so when spring semester starts I should be a little less bored.

I will have a grand total of 15 units consisting of:
CTR 080 - 80wpm Speed Building - 6.5 units
CTR 028A - Computer Aided Transcription - 2.5 units
ENGL 903 - Basic Grammar and Sentence Structure - 3 units
NRAD 222 - Online Medical Terminology - 3 units

I am hoping for a fun, busy, informative semester at school. Hopefully I am also able to meet my own personal speed building goal of getting up to and passing one 120wpm test by the end of May.

Here's to hoping for an awesome 4 months of school :-)

outrageous goals for school

So in an attempt to motivate myself for school, since I don't practice nearly as much as I should, I have set some pretty crazy goals for myself.

Here are my goals for 2011:
- pass all 100 wpm tests by end of spring
- pass at least one 120 wpm test by end of spring
- pass all 120 wpm tests by end of summer
- pass all 140 wpm tests by end of summer
- be in the 160-220wpm class in fall

Needless to say, these goals are very ambitious, considering it takes most people at least 2 years to go from just 140 to 200, but why settle for the average. My goal is to do my best, and strive to reach the goals I have listed above. Whether or not I can achieve them is yet to be seen, but nothing is better than striving for the best.

Here's to hoping that I can accomplish my goals and do the best that I can. You can't ask for more than your personal best. :-)

time for a positive udate.......

Although I would love to write that they have figured out why I am sick, that is not the case. Instead, I am just going to write about more positive things to hopefully take my mind off of my health situation.

Progress on our wedding seems to have moved into high gear. Since new years eve we have gotten quite a bit done. We ordered one of the last few items needed for invitations and all paper stuff for the wedding; just need to settle on vellum and buy that. Then the supplies for all paper goods for the wedding will be in our hands. Of course, then comes the tedious task of making everything, but considering the sample didn't take long, I'm not too worried. It also helps that we won't have to deal with any glue when doing it all, yay for not having aerosol adhesive everywhere.

In addition to all of the paper stuff, we have all of the favor boxes and just need to order the rest of the goodies to go in them. Centerpieces are done and in hand.....although we should stock up on batteries before the wedding. Save the dates should be here in a week or two, yet another thing to cross off the list.

Thinking of all the things we have left to do for our wedding is not nearly as overwhelming. I just need to get a dress, although I am doing my initial search next Tuesday with Kerri. Other than that, we just need a caterer, an officiant and I think we are ready for the wedding.

Crazy that we could get so much done so quickly, but I love having things ready to go. It will make the weeks and months before the wedding far less stressful.

As the days go by I am more and more excited for the wedding since it seems like it is going to be incredibly fun, at least for us. The average person might think our wedding is a little crazy, but that's just fine.

Here's to hoping that the last few things for the wedding come together and that we have months to just relax before the big party is here. :-)

I don't want to be normal....

So it's been a few days since I got the lab results, and as luck (sarcasm!) would have it.....everything came back normal. It is times like these I want to be anything other than normal.

I just can't help but think to myself how someone would imagine me if they only saw my lab results and never met me. According to all my lab tests, I'm super healthy and could probably be some sort of incredible athlete. Unfortunately that is not who I am. I am sick every morning and night and feel like I am overheating all of the time. I don't know about you, but this doesn't sound normal. Also note that my doctor does not think this is normal either.....she want's to find out what is wrong as well and get me better.

Anyways, I spent Friday crying and lying on the couch dealing with the results, or should I say lack of results. I'm not sure where I go from here or if I'll ever know what is making me so sick, so for now all I can do is simply treat my sickness as it arises. So I will leave my "puke buckets" in various locations around the house, will have my thermometer ready to check for fever, and will continue to spend a decent amount of time taking tums and sleeping to deal with any sickness that arises.

Here's to hoping that I don't continue being normal. Knowing anything would be better than not knowing. I would rather know I have 6 months to live than sit wondering what is wrong with me and what the consequences may be. Grim I know, but living being sick all of the time can't really be considered living at some point

All I can do now is hope that there is some explanation for the way I feel. :-)

This is why I have health insurance

It's a new year and thankfully it has been almost 6 months since my last emergency room visit. I made a promise to myself and my family that when the new year came I would see my doctor to try to get myself healthy again.

Well 2011 is here and today I had my first doctor's appointment. I planned accordingly and went in with a list of all of my symptoms and everything the doctor would want to know. My doctor, being the wonderful person she is, first thought that I was still super sick, as I was in June, but once I explained things to her, she was simply glad that I was feeling a little better. Before leaving, my doctor and I had a nice chat about court reporting and I then headed down for lab tests.

So now all I can do is sit and wait for the results from the lab tests and hope they show something. I just hope that the tests show something is abnormal so that I can possibly be treated for it and potentially get better. Regardless of what the tests results show I have made a promise to myself to keep meeting with my doctor until we can resolve my illness.

Here's to hoping that the tests show something so that I can treat whatever it is and hopefully get better.

New Year, New Goals

2010 came and went quicker than I could have imagined, but I made surprising progress on my goals. I began 2010 with a total of 12 goals to work towards. They ranged from riding my bike 500 miles, cooking 60 new recipes, exercising, and watching every Star Trek movie. Some of the goals quickly became unmanageable because of all of my health issues that arose over the year, but I continued diligently working through the year on the others.

In the end, I was able to complete 7 of my 12 goals. I am quite proud of how I did. Although I could have done better, I will not let that overshadow what I was able to complete. My completed goals are as follows: exercise 130 hours, cook 60 new recipes, bake 30 new recipes, blog 30 times, read 5 books, reformat my laptop and watch all of the Star Trek movies.

Since I enjoyed working towards a set list of goals last year, I have made a new set of goals for 2011. Nearly all of the goals are the same, but have been modified based on how I did on the goal the previous year. This means that if I could easily complete the goal, I simply expanded it and made it more difficult, and for goals that I could not complete, I simplified them to allow for the possibility of completion this year.

Here's to hoping that 2011 is even more enjoyable than 2010, and that I can make even more progress on my goals. Happy New Years to all! :-)