One down and one to go...

After procrastinating this weekend studying for my nationals (I've decided I'm too good at it to give it up), I woke a 6:00 this morning to brush up and prepare for the exam at 9:30. After finishing the exam with 15 minutes to spare I feel great! That's right I cannot complain today. I know that it was not perfect or close, but I just want a pass. I'm sure that this weather has something to do with my mood, I live for the sun and the heat. It feels that I'm walking on air and flying, even the 45 min commute is a peaceful drive (with the wind in my hair!) I love it. Tomorrow if the sun is out I think I'll make the greedy go out on a date with me to the park. But that is after the last test tomorrow at 9:30 sharp....I'm not worried in the least. Yet.

Phew...

Well that was a stretch! The past few weeks have been insane. I have just wrapped up term II of my accelerated program. Over the past week alone I wrote 5 finals, with 2 national exams on the horizon for next week. Between work, school and making time for my wonderful wife (I'll refer to here as 'the greedy' or such for the most part I will explain more in a post tomorrow) I have lost quite a bit of sleep. Getting my marks though wasn't the hard part as most of my work paid off as I managed a decent mark, except the financial math I pulled a 60%. I remember back over the last couple of years the greeds had been taking a 3 year accelerated nursing program at Grant Macewan, she had so much to do and all the time. Me I am a laid individual, prefer to do the crossword with a coffee on the balcony on a sunny morning to relax personality. I helped as much as I could to support her and get her through that hell and told her that I admired her for her strength and that I knew that I couldn't do it and would never dream of putting myself into that situation. Thinking back I am sure that exact comment caused karma to put me where I am today, all I can say is thank god my program is only for a year. Needless to say I'll be back to start this all over again 4/10!

On the other hand I had ordered a notebook through dell.ca and it had finally arrived. It also has collected a weeks worth of dust as it proved to be too much of a distraction while studying. Now though I'm sure it will be a life saver with assignments and such through out the summer. It was a great deal and I love not being tied down; however, it too came with a few problems. I set up the wireless network and transferred most of my stuff of the home computer with no trouble at all. Then I proceeded to blow $49.99 on Microsoft Money as came packaged with my home computer 4 years ago as the deluxe edition me being an idiot assumed that the store edition had most of the features and an option to upgrade online....Wait for it.... The Canadian edition (which I bought) has no upgrade capability and in my opinion no useful features. So I blew $39.99 online and got quicken 2006 BASIC and it does exactly what I need. Finally after countless hours resetting all my financial information (and 1 late bill, but the greeds need not know that) it is up and running and everything else works great. If you're on the southside there is my coffee shop, Bogani's Cafe, it's great, the service, the coffee, just lacks on the hours. With my schedule 10:00 pm is too early to close, but they offer almost free wireless internet (only $5.00 for ... Well ever, until they realize that they are being short-changed for it anyways).

For today anyways...Back to work...

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