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No rest for me

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It’s been a busy week. I started taking my online college classes earlier this week and as it turns out I seem to have to do something for class just about every day. I can’t believe how difficult it’s been trying to get back into “school” mode. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised since it’s been quite a number of years since I was last in college.

Along with doing things like getting my text books for school and figuring out how to get into study mode again I’ve also been doing plenty of other things this week. For example I’m still trying to work on most of my blogs – updating them and slowly changing the themes on theme for a more up to date look. I also did a WordPress update on all of my sites since WordPress did yet another upgrade. At least that takes a lot less time than it used to in the past when you had to do things manually.

My husband was also home for three days in the middle of the week. Very distracting as far as me getting any work done, so we worked on a bit of our home renovations. Can you tell I’m all over the place! What I really need to do is rest but that will never happen!

Tomorrow I’m supposed to go out shopping with a friend of mine. She’s expecting her first child and she wants only the best for her new baby. We’re going to a malls to look for the best bratt décor cribs. Hopefully we’ll find something at Yorkdale. It’s a big enough mall!

Perhaps after our shopping spree tomorrow I will rest. I’ve certainly been busy enough this week. I’ll deserve a rest. I know my abdomen will appreciate it. Yes the Crohn’s is acting up again too.

Started my college courses

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I went shopping yesterday but I was shopping for things that I don’t normally shop for – well things I haven’t shopped for, for a number of years anyway! You see I started taking two online college classes on Monday and once I started my nursing courses I received my list of text books that I’d need to purchase so off I went on Tuesday trying to find a place to buy my books.
George Brown waterfront campus
You would think that the college that I’m going to would have the text books that I needed in stock but they only had one of the three books. I ended up calling several other college and university book stores to see if they had the texts that I needed in stock and they didn’t either and I also did searches online.

I finally ended up ordering one of the books from Chapters Indigo. While I was browsing online for text books I got side tracked and ended up on a site with rfid wallets and ended browsing that for a while. I never knew how insecure the new credit cards could be!

Now .. lucky for me, a nurse from my workplace has also been taking courses and she took one of the courses I’m currently enrolled in so she was able to lend me one of the books I needed. So she’s saving me money and saved me quite a bit of time searching for a hard to find text book. I’m so lucky to have such nice friends and people in my life.

Now I just need the book I ordered yesterday to hurry up and arrive. I put a priority delivery on it which means it should arrive within two to four business days, but it hasn’t even shipped yet! I’m not confident now that it will show up by the end of the week and I’d like it by the end of the week because I think I needed for next weeks “classes”. Plus, I did pay for it to arrive fast and if it doesn’t what was the point of paying extra? It was my first time ordering online from Chapters Indigo so we’ll see how that goes.

I still can’t believe I’m back in college! At least I’m already getting student discounts again. I got a discount on the text book I bought at the college store. I’ll have to get my official student card so that if I buy tokens for the subway I can get a discount too and maybe find other discounts that I might qualify for as well.

Thinking of taking up yoga

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I’ve been under so much stress lately that I’m thinking of taking up yoga or some form of meditation. I didn’t think of it myself if I’m going to be perfectly truthful, it was actually suggested to me by someone I was talking to last week. At this point I think I’ll try just about anything. I’m very stressed – during the day and even at night – it’s even affecting my sleep. So, if I can manage to bring some peace into my life through meditation I’m all for it.

Now to equip myself with the necessary supplies … yoga mat bags, yoga gear, yoga DVD … what else? Maybe I should check around and see if there’s some kind of yoga class nearby? A cheap one. I don’t have a lot of money and I don’t expect that to change in the near future. Actually that’s part of my stress, I think my fiances are going to drastically change for the worse in the next month or two so anything free is good.

Any suggestions?

Back to school

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I just found out that my nephew went back to school in January. I was speaking with my sister the other day and she mentioned that my nephew had applied for an online business degree course and had started taking it in January.

I’m really pleased for him. He’s still young but he’s started a few different careers in the last couple of years and then stopped without finishing and this time it sounds like he might really see it through. I really hope that he gets his online business degree.

An online university sounds like a great way to get a degree

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I’m sure at some point in most people’s lives they think about changing their career. These days more and more people are doing just that because of the recession from which I hope we are slowly starting to recover.

If you’ve been thinking of changing your career but perhaps you can’t afford to go back to school full time due to having children to care for and bills to pay, you might want to look into getting a degree at an online university such as Western Governors University.

Not only is Western Governors University a widely respected University that currently serves over 14,000 students, but it also offers accelerated courses. They’re programs are also accredited – something I know that I look for in a college or university.

WGU has a wide range of programs. Perhaps you are interested in Business Management or maybe Information Technology Management? Of course you could look into getting an bachelors degree online.

Other courses and degrees offered by Western Governors University include Humane Resources Management, Information technology, health care professions, Marketing Management or Accounting just to name a few. They also have an online teachers college.

If you’ve been toying with the idea of improving your education to better your career opportunities take a look at what WGU has to offer.

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