In case any of your are wondering...waiting with bated breathe and biting your nails from the anticipation (hahahaha)...I didn't have my phone interview yesterday.
lol!
I ended up being called to a birth yesterday afternoon, and it was a good thing, actually, because the lady who was supposed to call me to do the interview didn't call until almost 4pm! I guess she got stuck at a meeting or something. No harm, no foul...I was busy being clawed at anyways hehehe
So, the interview is set for Monday at 1pm now. Gawwwwddddd Monday seems SOOOOO far away! I know it's only 5 days away, but weeks and days seem to drag longer when you're actually waiting for something specific.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Tomorrow, tomorrow...
Last week the midwives college called me to let me know that they received all my paperwork and would like to set up a phone interview!!! The interview is tomorrow afternoon (1pm). I have been dying of anticipation all week long, now tomorrow is almost here!! I can't wait. A few people have asked me if I'm nervous, but I'm not really, as I have no idea what to expect. The only thing they've told me about the interview is that it is 30-40 minutes long and the purpose is to determine whether they feel the school is a good fit for me, and vice versa. I'm feeling totally impatient today and can't wait for tomorrow to come around, although I have a feeling that I may get all nervous at some point tomorrow.
Other than that, not much else is super exciting around here. Things are changing a lot this year for me and my family, I think. A week ago I took a hard look at our finances and discovered that we are pissing away an awful lot of money after the bills etc have been taken care of, just because we can. We've been doing this for a few months now, after having finally paid off a lot of debt that Jesse accumulated before we got together. I think we justified it that way, because we spent so long being so tight in the finances area and not being able to do anything extra at all, ever. But, this needs to change. Jesse works too hard for us to keep wasting money that could be spent on things like upgrading our house, which is something we've been wanting to do for a long time. I want him to feel like he's got something to show for the 100+ hours he works in a pay period, and not live paycheque to paycheque anymore.
So, I've implemented a strict budget for us...something we've never done before. Before we would just ensure that all the things that needed taking care of, got taken care of first (mortgage, insurance, bills etc etc). Now I've given us both allowances, and for the month of February we are striving not to spend anything extra other than what's been budgeted for. I want to see how much money we end up with at the end of the next pay period. I've also started planning out our meals for the week; dinners and some lunches. I'm doing this loosely, writing out 6 dinner that I will make that week, making up a list of the specific ingredients i need for said dinners, and then shopping for only those things. I factor in snacks, too, of course, and I've worked the dinners so that I can use leftovers for lunches, or in other dinners for other days. I've toyed with the meal planning for a long time, but procrastinated because I felt like it was too much work. In reality, it really wasn't. Saturday night I made up my list of dinners and the ingredients I needed, Sunday I shopped. I feel like a total weight is off my chest this week...I tend to spend a lot of my day agonizing about what to make for dinner, so this feels really liberating to just be able to look at my list on the fridge and know that I have everything I need already, and I can just pick and choose what I feel like for that day. Today is roast beef, roasted vegetables and salad. I can use the leftover roast beef for sandwiches for lunches (which Jesse can also do), and the leftover veggies will be turned into an unusual potato salad with a german style dressing instead of mayo. Yum :)
So that's me for now. Faeryn just got up from her nap, so that means my time on the comp is over!!
Peace~
Other than that, not much else is super exciting around here. Things are changing a lot this year for me and my family, I think. A week ago I took a hard look at our finances and discovered that we are pissing away an awful lot of money after the bills etc have been taken care of, just because we can. We've been doing this for a few months now, after having finally paid off a lot of debt that Jesse accumulated before we got together. I think we justified it that way, because we spent so long being so tight in the finances area and not being able to do anything extra at all, ever. But, this needs to change. Jesse works too hard for us to keep wasting money that could be spent on things like upgrading our house, which is something we've been wanting to do for a long time. I want him to feel like he's got something to show for the 100+ hours he works in a pay period, and not live paycheque to paycheque anymore.
So, I've implemented a strict budget for us...something we've never done before. Before we would just ensure that all the things that needed taking care of, got taken care of first (mortgage, insurance, bills etc etc). Now I've given us both allowances, and for the month of February we are striving not to spend anything extra other than what's been budgeted for. I want to see how much money we end up with at the end of the next pay period. I've also started planning out our meals for the week; dinners and some lunches. I'm doing this loosely, writing out 6 dinner that I will make that week, making up a list of the specific ingredients i need for said dinners, and then shopping for only those things. I factor in snacks, too, of course, and I've worked the dinners so that I can use leftovers for lunches, or in other dinners for other days. I've toyed with the meal planning for a long time, but procrastinated because I felt like it was too much work. In reality, it really wasn't. Saturday night I made up my list of dinners and the ingredients I needed, Sunday I shopped. I feel like a total weight is off my chest this week...I tend to spend a lot of my day agonizing about what to make for dinner, so this feels really liberating to just be able to look at my list on the fridge and know that I have everything I need already, and I can just pick and choose what I feel like for that day. Today is roast beef, roasted vegetables and salad. I can use the leftover roast beef for sandwiches for lunches (which Jesse can also do), and the leftover veggies will be turned into an unusual potato salad with a german style dressing instead of mayo. Yum :)
So that's me for now. Faeryn just got up from her nap, so that means my time on the comp is over!!
Peace~
Friday, January 19, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Moving right along...
I have almost completed all the requirements for my application to the Midwives College of Utah!! Today I wrote my Letter of Intent, dropped off a Letter of Recommendation to one of the women who has agreed to do it for me, emailed the other woman who I am asking to fill the form out for me, and photocopied my high school diploma. All that's left to do is get two passport photos taken to include in the application, and get a $35 US money order to send along as my application fee. I have to go to London Drugs tomorrow anyways to pick up some film I dropped off, so I will do the passport photos then, and then head to the bank for the money order. Then I just have to stick it all in an envelope and mail it off! Holy crap!
This is all coming together so quickly it's practically making my head spin. At first the amount of stuff required for the application overwhelmed me a bit, as I tend have a hard time breaking down the "big picture" into smaller, more manageable chunks, but I just focused on getting it all done, piece by piece. Now it's almost complete! I feel so confident and motivated, it feels really great.
I still can't believe I'm actually doing this...there's definetely a big surreal factor going on right now. All I know is that it feels really good to be following my instincts about applying and getting it done...at first I thought I would be more apprehensive and skeptical of my ability to do this with so much other stuff on my plate, but somehow I just know that this is right. This is what I need to be doing right now. This may just be the catalyst for the change I've been looking for in my life as of late.
This is all coming together so quickly it's practically making my head spin. At first the amount of stuff required for the application overwhelmed me a bit, as I tend have a hard time breaking down the "big picture" into smaller, more manageable chunks, but I just focused on getting it all done, piece by piece. Now it's almost complete! I feel so confident and motivated, it feels really great.
I still can't believe I'm actually doing this...there's definetely a big surreal factor going on right now. All I know is that it feels really good to be following my instincts about applying and getting it done...at first I thought I would be more apprehensive and skeptical of my ability to do this with so much other stuff on my plate, but somehow I just know that this is right. This is what I need to be doing right now. This may just be the catalyst for the change I've been looking for in my life as of late.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
I think I may be delusional...
I am sitting here right now printing off the required forms to apply to the Midwives College of Utah.
The past few weeks I have had this nagging feeling/voice in my head saying to me to just go and do it...stop waiting for the "right" time (previously I have said that I would wait til my youngest child was 10 before starting midwifery schooling) and just go and do it. The voice has been getting louder and louder. I have no idea why, other than the fact that I have just finished reading "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth" and so much of it resonated with me. So, I started reading online tonight again at the MCU website. And I discovered two cool things...1) for some reason living in Alberta qualifies me to apply for a student loan to pay for my schooling (no where else has that priveledge); and 2) living in Alberta puts me at an advantage because I don't have to travel somewhere else to do my clinical practicum work (I don't know why, but that's cool none-the-less!). So it kind of makes sense for me to start this process now, instead of waiting until we move to BC in the future. In some ways I think I may have lost my mind. Here I am 14 weeks pregnant with my third child and my oldest child being 3.5. I know that midwifery courses are going to be hard and a lot of work, especially so since I will be doing the courses via the distance education program so I will have to be extra disciplined with myself. And yet, I have found all sorts of reasons to go ahead and apply anyways. After this baby comes I won't be taking doula clients for at least a year, so I'll have that time on my hands that I would otherwise be doing client interviews, prenatal visits etc. Obviously I will have one more child to care for, so it's not like I'll have all this time on my hands, but I could make it work. And Jesse is completely supportive. I plan on talking to my midwives more about this at my appointment in a few weeks, as both of them did the distance program through MCU. They'll be able to give me an insiders POV, and, better yet, will likely be happy to be my preceptor when I get to the hands on clinical stuff.
So what do you think?? Have I lost my mind??? Part of me thinks yes, but in a twisted way the stars couldn't be better aligned...
The past few weeks I have had this nagging feeling/voice in my head saying to me to just go and do it...stop waiting for the "right" time (previously I have said that I would wait til my youngest child was 10 before starting midwifery schooling) and just go and do it. The voice has been getting louder and louder. I have no idea why, other than the fact that I have just finished reading "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth" and so much of it resonated with me. So, I started reading online tonight again at the MCU website. And I discovered two cool things...1) for some reason living in Alberta qualifies me to apply for a student loan to pay for my schooling (no where else has that priveledge); and 2) living in Alberta puts me at an advantage because I don't have to travel somewhere else to do my clinical practicum work (I don't know why, but that's cool none-the-less!). So it kind of makes sense for me to start this process now, instead of waiting until we move to BC in the future. In some ways I think I may have lost my mind. Here I am 14 weeks pregnant with my third child and my oldest child being 3.5. I know that midwifery courses are going to be hard and a lot of work, especially so since I will be doing the courses via the distance education program so I will have to be extra disciplined with myself. And yet, I have found all sorts of reasons to go ahead and apply anyways. After this baby comes I won't be taking doula clients for at least a year, so I'll have that time on my hands that I would otherwise be doing client interviews, prenatal visits etc. Obviously I will have one more child to care for, so it's not like I'll have all this time on my hands, but I could make it work. And Jesse is completely supportive. I plan on talking to my midwives more about this at my appointment in a few weeks, as both of them did the distance program through MCU. They'll be able to give me an insiders POV, and, better yet, will likely be happy to be my preceptor when I get to the hands on clinical stuff.
So what do you think?? Have I lost my mind??? Part of me thinks yes, but in a twisted way the stars couldn't be better aligned...
Thursday, January 04, 2007
This just sucks :(
For the past five years I have been keeping a portfolio/scrapbook with pictures of the births I've been to. Each baby got his or her own two sided page and I put the best of my best pics in there as a way to show clients the kinds of pictures I can take, and also as a way for them to get to know me better (there were also pics of my family and my certificates of my doula training, CBE training, workshops I've attended etc in there). And cards/thank you notes from clients as well. I can't find it. I thought it was in my car (I usually keep my doula binder and my portfolio in my car, especially when I have a lot of meetings set up, or births to attend...makes it easy to just go and know where it is) but I just cleaned out my car and it's not there. The last time I used it was the 28th when I took it to a prenatal meeting to show a couple who was considering hiring me. I can't find it anywhere, I've scoured the house, looked all over my car and Jesse's truck...nothing. I am so upset I don't have copies of the pics I used as I give the clients the negatives and just keep a copy of the doubles for myself (with the client's written permission to use them, of course). I know that this is totally minor and petty, especially in the grand scheme of things, but this was a portfolio that I loved, that clients loved and that I was really really proud of. And now it's gone with no way of replacing it.
I'm so pissed at myself...I don't often lose things, especially when they are of such sentimental importance! Fuck :( How the fuck did I lose a big blue binder??!!
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I'm so pissed at myself...I don't often lose things, especially when they are of such sentimental importance! Fuck :( How the fuck did I lose a big blue binder??!!
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