Oatmeal

I have eaten steel cut oats for three days in a row. Once for breakfast and twice for lunch. Yum yum! It's a Cook's Illustrated recipe that has you toast the oatmeal in butter till golden brown, then cook for about 30 minutes till it's thick and yummy. Really yummy. I put raisins on it. 

Sorry it's backwards! That is thanks to Photobooth being like a real mirror. 

Week Six

Ah, Monday again. It's crazy how fast it happens. I hardly notice Mondays, though. They just come and go before I know it. It's a full day; 2 hours of nursing class plus 1+ hours of lab, one hour of pathophys and a 2.5 hour night class. Tuesday is no classes, so I'm home with Aftasie and try to balance home work with hanging out with her. Wednesday is clinicals day, so 6 hours of clinicals plus pathophysiology in the afternoon. Thursday is no class until night, then I have a 2.5 hour night class. Friday is 2 hours of nursing and an hour of patho. Not bad. Last Friday I didn't even know it was Friday. In fact, I was shocked it was Friday. No wait, that was the Friday before that, because the next Friday I remarked "Wow, it's Friday again already!"

Well, anyway, the days are all melding into weeks and I barely remember when I did things. I know I have a big quiz Wednesday, so tomorrow's priority is studying for that. Then immediately following that I have to start studying for an exam Thursday night, for which I plan to cram (yes, it works for certain classes and I'm trusting that nutrition will be one of them!). I have a Bible class project due next Monday for which I've done no work at all (but it isn't very involved). Then I know Health Assessment midterm is coming up someplace, but I'm pretty up-to-date on studying for that since it's a nursing class. Then a patho test on the 27th, for which I'm also keeping up pretty well. But one thing at a time! I know I need to start hitting the skills part of Assessment class more, which will be tested at the end of the semester, but I'm not going to do much till after Thursday night's test. Aftasie is an excellent subject to practice examinations on, by the way! I did a lungs and thorax and heart assessments on her half a dozen times this afternoon and she thought we were playing :)

And that was all probably super-boring. No one wants to hear another's schedule laid out in so much detail. But there you have it. My school life right now.

Week Five

I keep blogging by weeks of school!

This week I figured out that I feel a lot better when I'm all caught up on studying. It's worth the extra hours of study, it's worth the fewer hours of sleep. I'm not really caught up yet, but where I've gotten so far feels pretty good.

I haven't printed out my wall calendar yet! I know there are exams coming up fairly soon but I'm not sure exactly when. That's going to be fixed this afternoon. I have a regular, every-day events calendar up, so it hasn't been a priority.

Also on the priority list: laundry. I actually have laundry in the laundry bag that I still haven't folded from last week, but I'm out of clothes! We vary on who does the laundry. Whoever gets around to it, mostly.

It really comes down to priorities and relaxing. There are some things that just aren't important, and you can't get away with no relaxation/sleep. So yeah, there are a few dishes in a stack at the moment, and there are toys all over the floor in the living room. But the baby is asleep and I'm going to work on homework so we can play together and go do laundry when she gets up.

Someday life will be more relaxed. Maybe :)