A really interesting thought... (well- to me, anyway)

...my waiting is soon to be over.

I have been waiting to be able to take my CNA test... waiting for Eric to come visit... and most recently, waiting to get a job, and to find out when my aunt and uncle are moving so that I could see if I could go help them.
On the first account- My test is Friday... I hope I pass... because I really don't want to have to take it again- or get another job in defeat..
On the second matter: It's almost November... tomorrow is the first. And that means there's only November and most of December left before he comes to see me. And that's really awesome.
In the third front... I will be able to get a job no later than taking my test... and then I shall hunt down a place of employment and secure a position.
Fourthly: my aunt and uncle are moving in the next two weeks or so... and thus, I shall likely go to visit them and help them pack and move. And then get the job. Thus, giving me a little bit of leeway in my timing of the job.. a little more break before it, to figure out what I am doing in January...
I think I've found a long-distance pharmacy technician program.. I learned that WI has no real rules regarding pharmacy technicians... and that the requirement to take the pharmacy technician certification test is almost nothing.. Basically, any program that will teach me enough to pass the test will work. And most places I could work say "formal training" rather than anything specific... and so this would work.
It's about $500 dollars total... (well, supposedly $800 with a $300 discount lasting three more weeks... hrm...) and it IS accredited with the government organizations... heh- if DANTES- the military funding type program... is willing to put their money into this school's training... it has to be legitimate, at least... Still thinking on it... figuring I will need to just get a part-time job for now- and do the training along side of it. According to the website- http://www.pennfoster.edu/pharmacy/index.html
there're a LOT of things to memorize.. The program appeals to me so far- because they DO have a page of accreditation information, and a page of the content of the program... I still need to compare the information covered, with that covered by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Test... (which is a voluntary test... but with it you make around a third more money than without...) the PTCT test website gave a list of everything that's in the test- skills and knowledge they expect you to know... so I think I need to make sure that whatever program I choose covers it all. But that's good. I can do that.
:) so.. things are looking a little less upside-down for me now... All I have left is the difficult-to-answer-but-good-idea-to-think-about questions that I keep getting from a certain someone... :) And trying to decide what is going to be my answers for some of them... :) (I appreciate the questions, though! I REALLY do...)

:) well.. I need to go... but here was your update..

~Danette

a link to think about...

I read this recently on my friend Chris Nielson's blog... ... not sure entirely yet what I think about it...


A Christian Perspective on Marriage

....redirection.... and a note.

I don't feel like writing an extra blog entry today... so here- check this out-

http://ispiratio.blogspot.com my other blog.




oh- I heard back from the Red Cross and state about my CNA test... I now have a date- Nov. 3rd...9AM... Hayward.

yay.

:) Lists...

Here's a fun list... it has a hundred and fifty things on it... the bolded/colored items are those that I've actually done... :) I found this on my former pastor's blog- http://biffsworld.blogspot.com/


01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment – who hasn’t? (me, apparently...)
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking- with Brita and Hanne... being silly sometime probably...
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage (church platform?)
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music (um.. with a mic and my computer count?)
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane- yep, those Young Eagle things at the airport... :) copiloted, at least... for a minute or so.. lol
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet- (for a week...)
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (I have no idea... Camp recovery time comes to mind... or being sick..)
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (I killed a baby chick once... but we didn't eat it. It was suffering and dying so I killed it.)
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office (not public... Lighthouse Society Vice President, though)
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

If you would like to participate then cut and paste into your blog and highlight the stuff you have done. Do me a favor and leave a comment so I can read about your "accomplishments."

late-night musings...

Sitting here... I should really be in bed but I'm not... I am trying to come up with something else to write... something to share about my life. It's good exercise for me in writing, in a way... because it gets me into practice of putting what all is in my head, into words that I can write down... or alternatively, tell to the person who needs or wants to hear them.

Lately I've been wasting a lot of time. I've been spending it selfishly, not thinking or caring enough about my siblings desires, or my parents', to have me interacting with them a lot. I've been kind of almost treating my bedroom as a dorm room type thing... where I live here.... and spend my time here... and not downstairs with a most of the rest of my family. It's kind of stupid. And I need to change that. But it's so... easy. And without schoolwork to do right now- hanging out downstairs while my siblings are doing school stuff... it isn't a lot of fun. Kind of boring. I end up wandering around doing nothing, or doing little bits of something that aren't all that significant... Until I get a phone call. Or a message on Google Talk... Or an email. Or I think of checking/updating my blog. Or, as of late, I waste time playing with this one online strategy game thing- called Survival Guide. I'll admit... I never would have really started playing the thing in the first place if it wasn't that Eric liked it... but it's kind of... grown on me, and is kind of fun... though for that matter, the REASON it's fun, is that it's a competition... a challenge... something I don't have a LOT of in my life right now.

I need to get some action into my days... Starting tomorrow. Right now, I'm going to bed.

:)

Graduated...

I am now officially done with my CNA course... I graduated October 5th, from the WITC CNA program. Now all I have left is my Promissor test... and finding a job. That shouldn't be too hard though, because there were about five or six CNA positions in one of the newspapers the other day... some of them sounded kind of neat.

I am really excited that I know what I'm doing... that I am able to say "I know what I'm doing now"... and in January, I will know what my plans and schedules are. Today I sent my Promissor application in, along with the $100 test fee... (ouch!) Now I just have to wait for them to get back to me and tell me when my test is.

I am bored right now... Don't want to go to bed... but don't have anything I want to DO, either...
:)

oh well.

Vertigo....

Wow... This is neat... David & Denise Hamner, my relatives, and their magic... :)