Crazy Days

Thanksgiving was fun and much needed. :) Good food, good people, and best of all: NO SCHOOL OR WORK!! Too bad it only last a day. :p Anyway, tomorrow I'll be done with this last set of classes and then monday I start my Cardiopulmonary/ECG class, which sounds super cool...except that it's my only class...and it's the morning one. Blech. But that's OKAY! I wonder how it will go though because of Christmas break where we'll have 2 weeks of class, then break from Dec 19-Jan 3 and then finish the last 2 weeks of class. This should be interesting. I got my CPR and First Aid certification done on my Vital Signs and Emergencies class...well I'm doing my First Aid today. So that's really nice. I've just been busy as usual and I'm really wishing I lived closer to all my friends again. But I'm totally fine living at home and not having to pay rent(best part ever). Anyway, I'm basically just writing because I'm really bored...and daydreaming about how nice it would be to find a way that I can work hard at something (don't know what yet) and be able to take part in the gobs of money that is just sitting around waiting to be had by people like me. I really want to be able to provide better for my loved ones -- that would give me the greatest pleasure above anything else. :) I'm excited to see what I can pull together for Christmas though. Haha it will be fun!
Okay, so I have to share this...the other night when my mom and I went to walmart in payson my dad called me on my cell phone and said he heard a bunch of sirens one right after the other coming from different directions but he didn't know what was going on so he just told us to be careful on our way home. Well...on our way home we came upon the reason for those sirens: a car with people in it had somehow caught fire and blown up or something...so we got to drive past the charred aftermath with firefighters, police, and emt's all standing around talking to a man. I'm still not 100% sure as to what happened and if the people were alright. Needless to say, it was shocking. Then I ended up having a super psychotic dream that night...not having anything to do with a car crash or anything on fire...but just plain creepy and gross. So outrageous you could never guess it...but I don't know that I want to share it with the public for fear of passing on the scarring effects. I still haven't been able to shake the dream, so maybe I need to like share it with one of my school counselors, haha I really don't know. Anyway, it's nearly time for my afternoon class and First Aid certification. Wish me luck!!

Working For A Dead Horse? Not Anymore!

So I'm in my new set of classes at school which are Medical Billing and Vital Signs & Emergencies. They're pretty cool actually and I've got A's in both classes thus far, but good grief I'm struggling because I just do not get enough sleep each night -- which really needs to change or I just might collapse. :p So with the lack of sleep and my Billing class being the morning class, I have a hard time staying awake. Ha, so I'm constantly pinching myself, wiggling my legs, getting up to go get some water, etc., etc. It's kind of funny actually. I'm going to be getting my CPR and First Aid this next week in my Vitals class, so hopefully I can start applying to medical jobs now. If anything I really would just apply to be a janitor at the hospital until I'm more qualified because they do tuition reimbursement and it helps to get one's foot in the door. So I'm going to start looking into that option for sure! Thanksgiving is coming up, and I'm excited for good food and football, but I literally only have that day off because of work (I have that day through the weekend off for school, obviously). Speaking of work, today is the Orem Texas Roadhouse 1 Year Anniversary!! How crazy!!!! Haha I haven't had a job this long since my very first job. I've just always got bored and made a change. There's no room for being bored with this job, but the main reason why I stay is because of the health insurance and flexibility for school. We decorated the entire restaurant for Christmas already, so it looks like Santa threw up or bombed the place with his Elves. Ew...never mind...that's kinda gross. Lol but funny even so! I also got to play with my boss's baby for like an hour that night -- oh my goodness it was an absolute joy to hold that sweet baby for so long! :D I'm not baby hungry or anything...nope...not at all....okay, all the time. But that's OKAY! I can totally wait. Every time I hear or see an infant or child throwing a fit of any kind, that's the best birth control right there! Hahaha! So ANYWAY, the whole Dead Horse thing -- I'm reading this book called Money Secrets Of The Amish ~Finding True Abundance in Simplicity, Sharing and Saving~ by Lorilee Craker, and I absolutely LOVE this book and would recommend it to EVERYONE!! The chapter I just began is called "Dead Horses Smell Bad, But Debt Smells Even Worse" (how funny! but so true!). Anywho, I've been trying to get better at this whole "saving money" concept that I was never really taught. The whole instant gratification vs. delayed gratification thing, ya know? So this book just puts everything into perfect layman terms for me and wonderful perspective. I love it! But it talks about how if you don't save money while you're working at a job then it's like working for a dead horse. You can keep doing it over and over and slaving away and getting paid and then blowing it all (even if it's not necessarily irresponsible) but if you don't save and have something to really truly show for it then you're kind of dumb. That's quite literally what it says. Probably in better wording, but it actually calls us dumb. And by us, I (and the book) mean the "English" people. Haha yep, I concur. No argument there. ;p I'm proud to say that I've been disciplining myself starting with baby steps and I think I can give myself the proud title of being a money saver. It's obviously not much, but all those little bits at up to big chunks. :)