Life update

So yesterday I reported that I bought a desk that my husband was going to have to put together ...and that he was going to love me for it (hehe, that's funny!). A few curses and some re-doing, the desk was finally complete.

This how the desk was turning out to look like.

Me: Um, I think there is something wrong here.

Jason: No, that's what the instructions show.

Me: Um, no, that can't be right. The top of the desk is laying on the ground, and the rest doesn't look very functional.

Jason: Hmm, maybe you're right.

After re-arranging some pieces, he got it almost right. He'll fix the rest this weekend. You see, the board in the back where your knees almost touch, it's turned around the wrong direction, and so is the little bottom board on the right side.

Me: Can you fix it.

Jason: Do you know what I have to take apart just to fix those two pieces?

Me: Please.

Jason: Would you like to do it yourself?

Me: Um, no, just for you to fix it thank you!

So I followed through with going and taking my english and reading placement tests. Dang I hate it when I stress over stuff and then come to find out I didn't need to after all. They request you to take a math placement test also, but let's just face it, I suck at math and I'm just gonna start from the easiest course and make my way up. Let's not embarass myself with that placement test.

But as for the english and reading...how did that turn out you say? Wonderfully! I am exempt from reading...woohoo, no reading classes for me! And for english, I don't have to take any of the starter classes. I am starting where they make everyone start, unless they have to take the english classes that lead up to it, not only am I able to start higher up, but I can choose either English 101 or English 101 Honors. Really now..I'm not too excited over this!

So now I need to see about taking an english and math class online, and then start at one of the community colleges in Spring of 2010. Exciting and nerve wracking all at once...

What Will I Be When I Grow Up?

Holy sheeet, sometimes I drive myself crazy when I can't make up my very own mind. So what would be my dilemma this time? Well, it's actually one that I've had for a while now. Now that all of my kids are in school I am trying to determine what my career choice will be.

Let's start with what I have already done. I have been a sales associate/supervisor for a few different retail stores, such as Carter's Childrenswear, Docker's, Nine West, etc. I have been an emergency medical and fire dispatcher/supervisor, and for a short period of time was a volunteer EMT. I have been a police dispatcher. And then my career got put on hold when I had a high risk pregnancy with my last child, my son. So this is what started my stint as a stay-at-home mom.

I love how I got to watch my kids grow and didn't have to place them in someone else's care. For placing them in someone else's care I have learned can really piss a mom off. You know, like when the sitter isn't home when you arrive to drop your child off, but all her little kids are home and one of them offers to watch your baby for you. Right. Or when you go to pick up your child, obviously from a different sitter cause the last one didn't work out for some crazy reason, and when you arrive you find that your baby has just been given a hot bottle straight out of the microwave. Some people really should come with "I'm stooopid" tattooed on their forhead, save the rest of us the trouble.

Yet on the other hand I have missed the working world. I know, it may sound crazy to some. My friend shortmama says I'm crazy to think that way...but she says it's probably because I actually found a job that I loved. I guess I have to agree with her. I LOVED being an emergency dispatcher. Loved it...miss it.

So, my dilemma is that there are two career choices that I am seriously considering. But in order to do them, I feel my kids need to be a bit older. I would like to either go back to being an emergency dispatcher...or I would like to go to school to be a nurse. If I were to be a dispatcher then I would just have to sit tight for a few more years until the kids are older that way I don't have to worry about the hours that would be required of me. They would be more capable of taking care of themselves and my oldest would be in high school by then and would be able to help more. As for the nursing, I would atleast be able to start the schooling now, something to help fill the day now that all the kids are gone. I love to learn also, so that would be a benefit. But I don't know how interested I am in incurring a bunch of debt from school loans. This option would allow me to atleast be working toward my career option before I have to start working the hours of a nurse.

So this has been my internal conversation with myself for a while now...and it will probably continue to invade my thoughts for a while now until I decide to make a move.