Just one test stands between me and the completion of school!! My final for "advanced facility coding procedures" SHOULD take place in about a week, so stay tuned!!!
I attended a seminar this last weekend at the school and wow!!!! I am sooo glad I did. I made some new contacts, met a couple great people that I would love to stay in contact with, and learned more then I have in the last 18 months!!!
It was nice to know I am not floundering out there alone (as I have felt frequently through this "school at an old age" thing). I also found out we are going to have a REAL GRADUATION CEREMONY!!!
I never graduated from high school, so I was kinda jazzed to know I would get an actual ceremony and diploma acknowledging my hard work and efforts. For 20 bucks I get my cap, gown, and tassel. We will be the first class to have such a ceremony, but the other Techskills schools nation-wide are taking note and following suit. We are treading new ground, and its a good thing.
On another note, work is really busy, but its a good thing! Makes the days go faster. I am currently working on facilitating the formation of a children's fatality review team. Depressing work to be sure, but a valuable service in any community.
For more information you can check out http://www.ican-ncfr.org/
My hope is to form the four surrounding counties into a "hill country" team that will meet bi-annually to discuss the deaths of children ages 0-18 in our combined counties. The formation is the hardest part because there are "mandated members" such as a Medical Examiner, EMS, Child protective services workers, Sheriff's department, and Pediatricians.
As you know they are all too busy, and its hard to get them together to discuss formation of such a team, let alone to have them commit to being a member of one!! Wish me luck!!
This is a long term project so I will keep you updated as things happen.
Enough rambling for now. =) Have a blessed week!!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
I figured it was about time to join the "bloggers of the world" and add my two cents about absolutely nothing so everyone can read my drivel. So here goes! My attempt at making my otherwise boring life sound busy and exciting!!!
First let me tell you a bit about me. I live in Texas, and for now,I am located in a small touristy town called Boerne. It is a strange little town, but I love it none the less.
I say strange, because I work with the community daily and I get to see all the downfalls of a town that otherwise seems wealthy, caring, homey and the ideal place to raise kids. In reality it is a town that believes in teaching its children abstinence only in their schools, has a horridly poor area of town that I am guessing most of our 9,000-ish population has no idea even exists. We have no OB doctors and only one GYN doctor....all oddities in my mind.
But I digress.
I love my life...mostly. I have three little dogs and a cat who all think I am the greatest thing in life.
I have a roommate I wouldn't trade for the world. She is everything you could ask for in a roommate. dependable, clean (way cleaner then I will ever be), hardworking, and as sweet as they come.
and I have a job I love. Does it get much better then that ? well....I could make an income that would support me, but I guess we cant have EVERYTHING!!! haha!
I also have the most wonderful family a girl could ask for. My Grandma Annie-Matriarch of our family and my best friend. My mom Patricia, whom without, I wouldn't be where I am today. My dad Bill-whom I resemble in more ways then one!! My brothers who definitely march to their own drummers but are pretty great brothers. And finally my sister....sweet, cheery, upbeat preggie sister Sara. She is the inspiration for this rambling blog and someone who I wish I could be more like.
Here is me with my co-workers after our Christmas lunch. I will post more pictures later from my other computer, but the best part of blogs in my opinion is the pictures so I had to throw one on my first post!!! I am the chubby bunny in the middle. That was before I got my hair cut, so I will find some more recent ones. Elizabeth is on my left and Marie is on my right.
First let me tell you a bit about me. I live in Texas, and for now,I am located in a small touristy town called Boerne. It is a strange little town, but I love it none the less.
I say strange, because I work with the community daily and I get to see all the downfalls of a town that otherwise seems wealthy, caring, homey and the ideal place to raise kids. In reality it is a town that believes in teaching its children abstinence only in their schools, has a horridly poor area of town that I am guessing most of our 9,000-ish population has no idea even exists. We have no OB doctors and only one GYN doctor....all oddities in my mind.
But I digress.
I love my life...mostly. I have three little dogs and a cat who all think I am the greatest thing in life.
I have a roommate I wouldn't trade for the world. She is everything you could ask for in a roommate. dependable, clean (way cleaner then I will ever be), hardworking, and as sweet as they come.
and I have a job I love. Does it get much better then that ? well....I could make an income that would support me, but I guess we cant have EVERYTHING!!! haha!
I also have the most wonderful family a girl could ask for. My Grandma Annie-Matriarch of our family and my best friend. My mom Patricia, whom without, I wouldn't be where I am today. My dad Bill-whom I resemble in more ways then one!! My brothers who definitely march to their own drummers but are pretty great brothers. And finally my sister....sweet, cheery, upbeat preggie sister Sara. She is the inspiration for this rambling blog and someone who I wish I could be more like.
Here is me with my co-workers after our Christmas lunch. I will post more pictures later from my other computer, but the best part of blogs in my opinion is the pictures so I had to throw one on my first post!!! I am the chubby bunny in the middle. That was before I got my hair cut, so I will find some more recent ones. Elizabeth is on my left and Marie is on my right.
Ok...so now that you know all about me, stay tuned for ramblings on a semi-regular basis!!
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