Dang, missed it by one!

I am totally stressing out over school right now.  I am in the Chamberlain RN to BSN program, which requires I take statistics.  In order to take statistics I have to take algebra ,again, for the 3rd time because the other classes were too long ago.  You would think I could remember it and just breeze right through it....nope!  I had to take math 92 (pre algebra)  That finally clicked and I passed with an A.  I thought I was on a role and could roll right through math 114 (algebra).   I did pretty well on my first test, passed the quiz the first try and got 100% on the first test.  It may have left me a little over confident....I failed the 2nd quiz earlier this week and I took it again today and I failed by 1 question,  ONE QUESTION!!!!  It took me 2 hours to take the quiz, if only I had taken a break and come back and checked one more time....I knew I had some wrong that I just couldn't figure out, but I was fairly confident I had enough to pass so I took a gamble and hit the submit button.....dang missed by one.  Just goes to show you gambling isn't good in any venue.  My impatience cost me 2 hours of my life....and I still haven't passed the quiz.  I was really frustrated and overwhelmed because I had an economics paper that I hadn't even started.  I laid down to rest for a few minutes and I looked up and saw the medal I received for running the Rock n Roll half marathon and thought, if you...the person that couldn't even run to the end of the block 18 months ago can run a half marathon, you can pass this stupid class!  I got up and started working on my economics assignment, took a short break to read scriptures with Bob and came back to the computer and knocked out the paper.  Yea!  Tomorrow I am going to pass that stupid algebra quiz! 

House for sale

Tonight I smelled something dead, I don't know how I missed it earlier, perhaps the humidity of the day made the smell worse.  When I pulled back my dishwasher I screamed and shuddered, there was a dead rat behind it.  It was so big I thought it was a squirrel, except for the foot long horrible tail.  I made Bob get rid of it, btw he screamed when he saw it too.  He got a shovel and removed it and I cleaned up the mess, but I couldn't get rid of the smell, when I pushed the dishwasher back in place I felt my foot brush something and when I looked down there was a dead mouse!   AAAHHH!!  I screamed again, bob said "another rat"  I said no just a mouse this time, he said "good, I can't handle another one of those big ones tonight".  He got the shovel and scooped that one up too....That is so gross, I would say we need a cat, but I am so allergic to them it's not an option.  Now I keep feeling things touching my legs and my feet and I keep jumping thinking there is another mouse....there's not, but my mind is playing games.  I am sure tonight will be a night terror night, where I wake up screaming, wake myself up, realize what I am doing and go back to sleep.  It doesn't bother me much, but it tends to be a little unsettling to those that hear me screaming in fear at the top of my lungs.  I appreciate that we have a home, with a roof over our head to protect us from the elements and lots and lots of space, but it is falling apart, and it has mice, rats and big spiders so I would sell it in a heartbeat, just not to a friend, because I know what a lemon it is.  Thinking of this experience in a positive way....I am really thankful they were dead when we found them and that they were not in my bedroom, and they hadn't climbed up in to the back of the refrigerator to die like the last one, and my husband was here to get rid of them for me.  There are blessings in everything if you look at it from the right perspective. 

Getting started

This is the first time I've written a blog, and I am not sure where to go with it, but I do know I want to keep a record of the things that I am doing, because there are a lot of them.  My picture is from my daughter Kellie's Wedding in May-I'm the mom.  We are missing one son as he was still serving his mission in Nicaragua.  We expect him home some time in November, although we havent' received official notice yet. 

Last June I completed the Rock n Roll half marathon in Seattle, my time was 3:08 not bad considering it was my first time and I spent 15 minutes in line for the porta potty.  I am recruiting family members to run with me next year, I am toying with the idea of running the full marathon this year.  I think that's a pretty big goal for a 47 year old woman that just picked up running last year.

I am going to Chamberlain College of Nursing, working on my BSN and I am currently struggling with my Algebra class, I used to love it, but I just don't learn the same way I did when I was a kid.  It has been 14 years since I was last in college, that is a long time to forget stuff.  If all goes well I should graduate in April or May.

I work pretty much full time in a local hospital, it is  extrememly stressful at times, but also very rewarding, most days I love the people I work with.

I am a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.  As a child I went because it was a peaceful place where people were friendly to me.  As an adult I have learned the importance of the atonement made by Jesus Christ and how it applies to my life.  I really need it, as does everyone, because noone is perfect.  I am really good at pointing out my own inperfections.  My husband and I were sealed in the Seattle Temple in 1983.

I think that gives you a pretty good idea of who I am, or at least it is a start for now.