Author: oh2btigger

oh2btiggerhttps://oh2btigger.wordpress.comI'm almost 40 years old with a miracle baby and a magic one, too! I'm an aspiring nurse, married to a Soldier, raised in Denver and born in Roswell, NM. I'm a full-time student. I have 2 of the best kids one could ever ask for, terrific friends and a loving & supportive husband. What more could a girl ask for?
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>Journey to the 1st Exam (reprise)

>Hahaha!  They fooled me again!  Actually, the last post I mentioned that I had an absent professor due to serious illness and he is on a leave of absence right now.  We have the 2nd string professor (self-proclaimed).  We aren’t having THAT particular exam…that’s right folks, chapters 1-4 for my psych class has been canceled.   The autobiography assignment is going to have a different approach taken to it, altogether.  We’ll see how that goes…

But, rest assured, there will be another exam…right around the corner.  Yes, I in fact have 2 exams and a paper due next Tuesday, which will be my first exam(s) of the semester.

Today, I turned in my application for the Nursing program and so, now I wait.  That ought to be interesting…I hate waiting.  But that’s okay…

Would write more, but I have exams to prepare for, 2 homework assignments and a paper to write…

>Journey to the 1st exam

>My first exam…I’m not actually entirely sure which one it’ll be…my psych professor called out sick today.  We were supposed to have an exam on Friday over chapters 1-4.  On Monday, we won’t have a lecture.  We are taking the Myer-Briggs personality test.  Wednesday will be our first actual lecture.  Monday and Wednesday last week were introductions to the class and the syllabus.  So, I’m not entirely sure we *will* have an exam on Friday.  But, I’m not going to bet that there WON’T be one, so I need to be prepared for it anyway…

If we don’t end up with an exam on Friday, I know that I’ll have one the following Tuesday in Microbiology over chapters 1-5. 

I decided to take the evening off to play on the computer.  I’m absolutely pooped after my workout today.  I actually ran on the treadmill for 15 full minutes.  I tried to do 16.5, but I just couldn’t breathe anymore.  I’ll get more stamina as I continue to do it.

I’m quitting smoking on Monday.  That should make it easier to try and study…(read sarcasm here)…

Must sleep now.

>The journey to Pueblo

>Daily, I drive from Fountain to Pueblo where I attend Colorado State University-Pueblo in pursuit of my BSN.  Every morning, I get up, get showered and dressed and roll out to 7-11 where I get my coffee fix.  I could (and probably should) make coffee at home.  I then battle traffic going to the local high school and the Soldiers making their way to first formation (Physical Training) on a road that has been under construction as long as I’ve lived in this neighborhood.  I make a very boring 30 mile drive.  I go to classes, hang out with new friends, study a bit and then I make the same drive I made some 8 hours before, except I fight with traffic coming out of the base and the teachers leaving the school.

I will be doing this day in and day out for the next 14 weeks.  I don’t get Labor day off, but I get a full week off at Thanksgiving.  That’s a new one…

>Journey to nursing and motherhood

>Well, I made a couple of fatal errors today when giving myself my shot this evening.  I forgot to alcohol swab my skin!  Then, I ended up having to stick myself twice because the needle popped out the first time!

I certainly hope that this isn’t a sign that I shouldn’t go into nursing! I’ve had enough shots and blood drawn to know that I needed to clean the skin…man, I am a dummy!

>Journey to the end of the 3rd month of infertility drugs

>Well, if you couldn’t tell, I’m still not pregnant yet.  If I am not pregnant this cycle, then I start the hardcore fertility drugs.  If THAT doesn’t work, then we start IUI treatments…and holy crap!  My insurance doesn’t cover any of that medication!  So, we’re really hoping that this month works.  I kinda knew a long time ago that I was going to have to do injectibles, but I really hope that I don’t have to.  It’s really hard on your body.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now…

>The Journey to the British Isles!

>As some of you may know, we’re getting ready to take a vacation to England, Scotland and Ireland!  I can-not wait!  Friday can not get here soon enough.  If you are one of my facebook friends, do not plan on me posting all that often, nor responding to any posts for a month!

Oh my goodness, that means that it’s just that much closer to deployment…I can’t believe that it’s already that time of the year.  Tear, tear.  I’m going to be lost without my best friend!  At least I’ll still have school, but when he was gone for 3 months to train at Ft. Leavenworth, I was lost then…and I was working and my mother lived with me for a short while.  Sigh.

I do have a wife, though.  One of my longest friends…a friend I’ve had since I was in jr. high school…will be mostly local while her husband is off working a variety of jobs throughout the US.  At least I won’t be totally alone.  I feel like that prayer has been answered.

If it turns out that I haven’t conceived before R’s gone, I will try a couple of IUI’s.  We haven’t decided how many of those treatments I should endure before going to IVF…there’s a significant cost increase with that kind of treatment.  In my mind, 3 IUIs before IVF…but, I don’t know how much more successful an IVF will be.  As far as the docs know, we’ve already corrected the known problems, SO the IUIs should work…

Anyway, if I’m not pregnant this cycle (sniff, sniff), the upside is that I can drink my body’s weight of vodka and various wines for a week or two before we try naturally…here’s hoping…

>The journey to size 8

>Well, just a couple of weeks has finally shown me slight results.  I am finally in size 12.  The pants are still a bit tight, but at least I can get the damned things buttoned!

Army Ball is next weekend…no way am I going to be in any old dresses…glad my mother in law came helped me find a good dress!  I’ll still look like a cow, but at least I’ll be wearing a pretty dress! 🙂

I need to go now.

>A Journey to non-smoking

>Yeah, well, if you know me at all, then you know that I haven’t been exactly successful quitting.  I have quit smoking 6 times in the last 12 months…in fact, I’ve been trying to quit for more than a year now and most of my time is spent taking one step forward, 2 or 3 steps back…and now I’m smoking a little over a pack a day…which is about a quarter of a pack more than I had been smoking.

Well, I am at it again!  More to follow on this one, for sure.

Tomorrow’s my quit day, again.

>The Journey to Body Worlds

>Extra credit for a class is really just an insurance policy in case you don’t do as well as you would have liked to on an exam–or at least that’s how I see extra credit.  But, if you’ve already done badly on an exam, the extra credit will just give your grade a little boost.

I tend not to need extra credit for classes, but I do it anyway.  I can ALWAYS use that insurance policy!

And today is just that day.  5 points extra credit for visiting the body worlds exhibit at the natural history museum in Downtown Denver.  I technically don’t even need to see it, I just need to show that I purchased a ticket.  I don’t want to spend all day at the museum, either.  I have an exam tomorrow afternoon, a major project due and another exam on Tuesday morning…oh, and I start my photography class tomorrow morning, too! 🙂

Welp, it’s time to get a move on…

>The Journey to August

>So, R is getting deployed a little sooner than we had anticipated.  😦  Such is the life of a military family.  I’m feeling tense right now.

I don’t really know how he feels about it.  It is what it is, to him, I guess.  And it really is what it is…just something I need to work out on my own.  I don’t blame him.  He didn’t VOLUNTEER to go early (or so he says…watch out, I tend to be passive-aggressive…)

I start fertility hormones this week, and as the previous times that I’ve taken hormones, I get a little crazy (eh hem…slight underestimation, probably).  Luckily, R’s VERY patient and tolerant.  And it’s a good thing, too!  I highly doubt we’d still be married if he didn’t tolerate my moodiness.  I’m less crazy since I’ve had him in my life and he’s a little more outgoing too!  Perhaps I’ve just grown out of most of it…and now that he’s getting to know my family better, he kind of understands some of my neurotic tendencies better, too.  In fact, he says I’m a lot like my dad, temper-wise.  We both blow up, but once it’s done, it’s done.  And then, we’re fine!  LOL!

At any rate, we’re going to deal and I’ll probably just be a little neurotic between now and then…at least I was the last time we went through this…I think I know what to expect a little more than before and I also remember how I was thinking back then so I should be aware of things that I might do and try not to do those things.  I really hope that I get pregnant before he goes.  I really REALLY don’t want to do IUI/IVF treatments while he’s gone…