A Special Update For Those Who Miss Me

Perhaps you noticed I have not been around much the last few days?   I have decided to use the time that I normally enjoy wasting it doing fun things on my computer to work toward getting my RN.  I am currently an LPN and have always thought I would get my RN and even have started a few times.   It seemed like every time I did start I would end up in the throes of a divorce or some other life changing event that took up my time and energy.   This time it's now or never as I am now in my early 50s.   I decided to go the distant learning route as working full time it seems to be the way for me.   Being a person who likes to spend time alone with her nose in a book makes it a do able route to proceed.  So I got set up this past Friday night with the College Network and began my work.  I am finally done making index cards for chapter one.  I started Friday night after work and finished up this afternoon.   The chapter was fifteen pages long and I wrote out 120 index cards.   I hope to get through between a chapter and a  half to two chapters a week.  Which will put me at taking the Anatomy and Physiology test in about ten weeks hopefully.  Actually that is a pretty normal amount of time to get through such a class if I went to a setting where I sat in a classroom so I figure it's not so bad to expect it to take that long to sink in by myself.  I will just keep plunking away.    The good news is that of those 120 index cards the vast majority of them are things I either know pretty well because I use it a lot,  or things I know fairly well because I remember them,  or things that I need to brush up on because I have forgotten but I do remember learning at some point.   So while there is a vast amount of information,  I know most of it to one degree or another already.   It is a good thing that I am not trying to process this much NEW information.  I would be overwhelmed.    The other good news is that I really find the subject matter  interesting.  I can just get lost doing the homework.   But while it is not hard work it is tedious work so I will have to stick to it.   I tend to make index cards for a paragraph and then get up and do a sink of dishes and then do another paragraph and get up and fold a load of laundry.  That sort of thing.   But it is better to do a little and rest my mind I think.  I hope to be done with the entire thing in-between  a year and a half to two years.   I will be checking in here at MP a couple times a week on my days off and see how you all are doing.