Year End Summary

I haven't been around much, I know. What do you do when there is less going on in your life than opportunities to write about them. This past year I had the idea that I would start this column and then create activities to document here. June was the last time that life seemed to be ordinary enogh to tell anyone about. During July I began having financial problems right after I decided that I'd take a new course, spent the month juggling things. In Auguast I took a let's-go-get-a job-club couple of weeks and ended up with nothing to show for it. I had thot I could have dealt with a light-work job but all they seemed to want me to do big full time jobs and I knew it wasn't up to it. September came and I started a Medical Terminology course that took a lot of my time. I had been told that I would be able to get a job with it and apply at VIHA for a desk job doing paper work, you can get part time and that suited me just fine. Each month held its own set of problems of course and I had to deal with those plus work on the studies. October didn't seem any worse than the rest, but I'd gotten into a rut of studying and attending class twice weekly by then. I began thinking about playing some Christmas music and using the abacus practice that I like to do to give me breaks and keep my mind active. It feels like I'm in a tizzy of madness and I often wonder if I'm making the best use of my time. I was making pretty good marks but there were other students going for the same thing and there are few jobs really. In November I started hearing that there was more to applying for the job than just passing this course. I sort of ignored it, I had paid for the course, passed the deadline for getting out with any reimbursement, might as well stay and complete the challenge. I was getting really tired, sleeping more and finding it harder to retain information. It comes to me that I really won't be able to handle full time work, started getting that groggy feeling like I did when I'd overdone it at other jobs. December is the beginning of reviewing plus studying the new work, I have forgotten how to do that and it felt like I was getting further and further behind and would I be able to cut it at the final exam? There was a huge wind & rain storm so class was canceled so that pushed the last class to an extra session. Its a good thing I didn't have any big Christmas stuff to take care of, I would never have been able to do it. I took the final exam on the 20th and it was over and I was relieved. I had been invited over to a neighbor's place and all I had to do was bake a plate of tarts and bring my harp to play as my contribution. Well, I don't want to go into it here, we had a disagreement and she called off dinner, so then I had nothing to do for Christmas. That's it for now, more later . . .