I PASSED MY CNA EXAM!!! The first little leg of the journey to Nursing school is complete. I feel a little sense of accomplishment as the class I took jammed a semester worth of information into 8 weeks and I passed! Congratulations to the rest of my classmates as they all did as well! We were the Super class! I have an Anatomy Test tonight that I am now stressing over. After four class periods of bones and bones and more bones oh...and a few joints, I'm being tested on all that tonight. Can I remember Symphoses and how they differ from Synchondroses, Synarthrosis and Synovial? Can I remember which bone the greater and lesser tubercle resides on and what bones make up the pectoral girdle? We'll see!
Registration for the Summer session is coming up very quickly and I'm debating something. My intent was to take Physiology and take the NLN sometime in September. My original goal was to apply for the Spring 2011 start of Nursing school. Now, I'm rethinking this. Whereas I do intend on taking a Summer class, I don't know if it's a good idea to rush Physiology. My application to Nursing school will be based on how I do in Anatomy, Physiology and the NLN exam. Do I really want to race through Physiology in the Summer with backyard BBQ's, nice weather, distractions upon distractions or should I wait until the Fall? Right now, I'm leaning towards "wait until Fall" and take Chem 101 over the Summer which like Bio 101 will serve as a refresher to score higher on the NLN. This would bump the Nursing start date to Fall of 2011, a full 8 months later than planned which isn't horrible. The down side to that plan however, is AT&T. Last week, one of my friends notified me that his AT&T center located in Mesa, AZ, is closing. What this may mean for me moving forward, is unknown. But Ma Bell has not finished her cuts yet. I have two weeks to make a decision and will take any suggestions.

I need a babysitter for a smarty pants 16 year old and a snotty 15 year old who proved over the weekend that they are not fit to be home by themselves. As I study, I am digging out of the wreckage after the wars that occurred here over the weekend. MOM is not happy with her ducklings. My kids are like our current deadlocked Congress. Neither of them will budge and inch on anything and nothing got done. I have no clean clothes and neither do any of the kids. When I asked why it did not get done as I asked my son looked at me square in the eye and said, "Laziness!" At least he was honest. That's good, right? When I asked my daughter why there was a sink of dirty dishes, I was told that the dishwasher did not get done washing dishes until 3pm. Bold faced LIE! I started the dishwasher before I left for work at 9am. Called them on that and the stammering and hems and haws abounded which only fueled the ire. SIGH! I just have no words for all this. On their Spring Break, they will do all this and oh so much more under my supervision or they will be giving up FUN for Lent and beyond! It's not so much the cleaning that is so tiresome. It's just disappointing that with all that is going on, my kids have not been part of the solution. Well... I guess I'll just have to live with the smeared jelly on the couch, living out of the laundry basket, and deal with the no clean towel problem for a little bit longer. This deadlocked congress isn't going to undeadlock any time soon.