Holy Cow – Busy!
27 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Crafts, It's All About Me, School Tags: Around the house, Craftiness, football, Health Update, School, shameless promotion
Sorry I’ve been absent, but it’s been a whirlwind around here. Between work, and my new jewelry business, and housework and getting ready for classes starting, I’ve hardly had time to do anything at all, like blogging!
So, if you haven’t already, please check out my etsy page! I’ve got lots of pretty things for sale. I’ve sold quite a bit too, so my stock is pretty much revolving. Each week there should be something new. And I’m still pushing my grand reopening discount of 20%! Just ask me how!
School starts back up for me next week, but my class actually opened up yesterday, and of course, I have assignments that are due next week, so I’ll be getting started on them this week. I’m really hoping accounting hasn’t changed too much in the past 13 years. Of course, I realize already how different the undergrad classes are from the graduate – but c’est la vie – I gotta do what I gotta do!
My knee continues to heal, and PT continues to torture me. But this time I am seeing results, so that’s a plus. I’m working downtown 3 days a week, and working from home two days, until I can get some more stamina on the knee. I go back to the ortho on the 17th. I can bend up to 137 degrees now (that’s a good thing) but I’m still fighting a limp and some pain and definitely swelling, which sucketh.
So, let’s see…what else…hmmm…nada. Darn I’m boring. I won’t even talk about the Eagles Season except to say that my team sucketh.
So, what’s new with you?
Back to School
06 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
So, I’ve been contemplating long and hard this summer about my return to Grad School. I dropped out earlier this year, but I have two years to make up my mind before they make me reapply. You see, I’d being taking the Financial Management concentration with my Masters of Science in Management Major, and the classes were so close to those I took for my MBA that my brain kept screaming, “What’s the point? Why are we doing this to ourselves? We already have this knowledge. Oh look, something shiney…”
You see, I WANT to go places in my career. Well, 90% of me does. The other 10% of me is quite happy just having a job. But for the past two years, I’ve been struggling and busting my hump to get promoted at work to the position of Compliance Officer. And I’ve stalled out. Don’t get me wrong, the management loves me, and loves what I do, they just aren’t willing to make the leap to take me from a Compliance Analyst to a Compliance Officer. And being stalled out isn’t good. What yoinks me more is that I DO have an MBA. That the company paid for. And my MBA means I have more education than many of the folks in my department who ARE compliance officers. Sigh.
So this summer, I’ve been thinking a lot. I know I need to go back to school, but the thought of continuing down the path of Financial Management seemed kind of redundant to me. What I really need to do, what I have to do, is switch my concentration to accounting. You see, with the Masters of Science in Management with an Accounting Concentration will give me all the classes I need to sit for the CPA. And THAT my friends, will not only get me noticed at work, but will also afford me the leverage I need to move up, both in earnings potential, but also in position. Something I desparately need.
The problem is, I find accounting boring. *yawn* Really boring.
So I spent this weekend doing my Pros and Cons list. The Pros won out. And this morning, I sent an email to my advisor at school and said effectively that I’ll be rejoining classes in the Spring (starting in January) and will be switching my concentration to accounting. Please make the switch for me. I’m biting the bullet and doing it. And by NOT chaning my actual degree program, my management classes will not go to waste – a good thing.
So, I start back at classes in January. CPA here I come.
Not Ready
31 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
in School, Work Tags: Blah, School, work
I am not ready for this week. I went to bed last night with a killer headache and sore throat and I still have it this morning. Normally I work from home on Mondays, but I had to come in today for a mandatory staff meeting. I still feel like shiznit and am praying the day goes quickly so I can go home and die go to bed.
I’m not ready for school either. I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon working on my class responses, and have to start again today with two chapters, 8 homework problems and 4 more responses, in addition to getting a head start on my term paper and group projects.
Shoot me now.
I need a pajama week.
I Am The Queen of Procrastination – But It’s Unintentional
03 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
Apparently, my brain is on overload.
My class requires a research paper. And I have been doing research. Granted, it’s probably the most. boring. research. ever…but I have been doing it.
I thought this paper was due Thanksgiving weekend.
It’s due the 14th.
Crap.
CRAP.
CRAPCRAPCRAPPITYCRAP.
Sigh
Anyone wanna know what I’m doing this weekend?
*crickets*
08 Sep 2010 1 Comment
in It's All About Me, School, Work Tags: home stuff, School, work
I know posting around here has been pretty scarce. School started back up this week and most of my spare time has been devoted to my graduate class and trying to keep my household in some kind of order.
My life is pretty vanilla right now – get up at 4am, go to the gym, go to work, come home, cook dinner, study, bed. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Oh, and work is kind of sucking buckets right now with the extreme amount of work I have to accomplish in the short time I actually have to do it. Brain. Is. Jello.
I have a bunch of posts in my head…and hopefully soon I’ll get time time to put “pen to paper” so to speak and get back to blogging more regularly.
MUAHS. Please, stay tuned. I promise I’ll be back soon.
Let Me Pick Up a Stick So I Can Beat Myself In the Head
25 Jun 2010 2 Comments
I just enrolled for my fall classes. Well, fall class. Financial Decision Making for Managers. $1,374 for one little online class. And that’s just tuition. I’m afraid to see how much my books will cost.
I’ve applied for tuition reimbursement. I hope I get it. But I have to finish the class and submit my grades before I get it, so I still have to pay for the danged thing first. OH yeah, and my books.
*cry*
ZOMG – I just checked – my books for this class are $400.
*SOB*
SQUEE!
02 Mar 2010 2 Comments
My mother happened to point out over the weekend that now that I have changed my major (and it is changed at school) from Health Care Administration to Financial Management, I qualify for tuition reimbursement at work.
Yay!
My tuition routinely costs $1200 a semester. I won’t get it all back (I only qualify for $3,000 a year) but it will certainly help!
In other news – my group project was due today. Too bad I dropped the class and my lazy group had to do it themselves. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Huge Life Decisions on a Saturday Afternoon
27 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
I’ve been absolutely beating myself up over this class from hell, and this is the 2nd time I’ve taken it. And now, it’s the 2nd time I’ve dropped it. I had a long Come to Jesus talk with Bob (thank goodness for an amazing sounding board!) and decided that I need to do what I’ve wanted to do for two semesters – change my major. So, I sent an email to my advisor and asked him to switch my concentration over from health care to financial management – which I actually know something about.
So, I haven’t dropped out of school, but I’m taking the rest of this semester off (no more group project yay!). I’ll pick up with the finance concentration in May. And I’m so happy about this decision I just can not tell you. Really really happy. Yay.
When Good Groups Go Bad…or Why I Hate Group Assignments
27 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in It's All About Me, School Tags: School, soap box preaching, things that suck
Look – I know that technically, in the real world, you are “supposed” to have to work with groups in the working world to get projects and assignments accomplished. But we all know what really happens – one or two poor saps on the project team are stuck with all the work because the other team members are too busy/too incompetent/too busy picking their toes to care, and they know that the work will get done in the end.
I am NOT one of those people who can sit by and let someone else do all the work and then take credit in the end. Nope, it isn’t in me. And every single time, I’m the poor schmuk who gets stuck doing everyone else’s work in the group. It’s because I either have “SUCKER” stamped on my forehead, or I am so anal retentive that people recognize it and realize that I will do the project because NO ONE ELSE CAN DO IT RIGHT.
I’m used to this where I work. Happens all the time. And I’ve come to painfully realize that group work is a required element of graduate school, to train us to become the poor schmuk in the workplace that ends up doing all the work.
This semester, I was assigned to a study group (alphabetically, it seems – blast the fact that my new last name starts with G instead of B!!! Blast!!!) by my lovely professor. We are going to be assigned a number of graded group assignments throughout the semester, but this week, our group article study is due.
Now, we’ve already had one group assignment that was due, and guess who ended up doing the majority of the work?
Guess.
Yep – Schmuk. I mean me.
Now, the last assignment, I did at least get a little bit of help from one of the other group mates, but turns out she read the WRONG assignment, and I ended up doing 99% of the grunt work. Two people in my group barely made ANY contribution at all. In face, one guy’s only contribution was to ask if our major paper had to be on one topic. The other girl chimed in and said, “Well, I work, so I can’t make the group meetings, but I’ll try to help out as best as I can.” And then all we heard from her were crickets. In fact, I’ve barely seen her post anything to the conferences which serve as our lecture/class room space.
This time, this is a major assignment. It counts for 10% of our grade. That’s a big chunk of MY grade that is relying on other people. The chunk that could mean the difference between and A and a B. I don’t do Bs. Not this time around.
So, guess who is sitting here, patiently waiting for the rest of the group to make a contribution to the article critique?
Schmuk. I mean me.
Sigh. Look, I know I have to deal with this crap in the workplace. But quite honestly, I’m not being graded at work. I mean, I’m being evaluated, sure, but not to the point where my GPA is counting on it. But its not like I haven’t worked and understand the rah rah team atmosphere. I do. I don’t like it there either, but I will get the work done. I’ll bitch about it, a lot, but I’ll get it done. And it will be good work, because I’m anal retentive. Have I mentioned that before? I think I have.
But in school, let my grade rely on me. Just me. If I get lazy and say “Screw this” then its all on me. Don’t make me work with three other people who have made zero effort on this project. I can. not. take. it.
Death to group work.
Busy Busy Busy
19 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in It's All About Me, School Tags: family, Friends, married life, School, work
I know…I haven’t had any posts of any sustenance lately. I’ve been really busy at work and at school, and I’m sure you don’t want to hear me blog about how busy I am.
School is tough this semester. It’s a lot of work because it’s a class I have no real background in. I feel as if I’m the dumb kid in the corner just trying to keep up. I don’t like that feeling at all, so I’m working twice as hard to keep up.
Things have been going on in the real world though. Bob and I had a lovely valentine’s day. We actually went on a date and went to see a band with some friends. The band was ok, but it was nice to get out of the house with my honey for a while. I love that man.
We’ve gotten some wonderful news lately – lots of babies are on their way in our life (no, none of them ours). My bestie is having a baby in August, her third. Her husband came through his surgery just fine, and now they can relax and enjoy their next baby. My oldest niece, Lauren, is also expecting a baby in August, and I’m very excited for her. And, we got a call last weekend that Bob’s cousin is expecting his first baby in August as well (ahem, not much going on in November, folks?), so I’ll be crocheting up a storm here this summer getting ready for a baby boom. I’m excited and thrilled for them all.
As for me, I’m plugging along. As usual, you can read about my weightloss journey over at I’m Being Bypassed. I’m also plugging away with work and school. And I’m working out nearly every day (one day a week is a rest day) with my Wii! I love my Wii and being active!
So there you go, a little more sustenance than before, and I promise some more updates soon!
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