I'm Done with College!!

Today, my brother's 56th birthday, is also a big day for me. I am finally done with all of my coursework to earn my Assistive Technology Specialist Certificate. No, it is not a "degree". But it was the same amount of work as a degree in my mind. After 25 years of avoiding college classes like the plague, I went back to college. I did the work, wrote the papers, took the tests and attained my certificate with a 4.0 G.P.A. Yeah, it was one or two classes at a time, but it was after 25 years of NO college work. I am very proud of myself. I feel like I stretched. I feel like I proved something to myself. I am happy to be done with it but so happy that I even tried to do it.

All is well on the home front too. Duane is home from Canada and it just feels so good to have him back. On the way home, his bosses called him to tell him they were renewing his work visa for England and I am so hoping they won't try to send him back there to "live". If he had to go back for a month to work and then could work for a couple of months at home, I would be okay with that. But I would not be okay with him going there to "live" and come home "occasionally".

Christmas is upon us. I am in the "mood" for Christmas although I don't have the money for Christmas. All is good with me and my family. I feel blessed and know that I am loved by so many people. I love so many people. When it is all said and done, isn't that what it is all about?

I'm done!! After 15 hours of classwork and 15 months of college classes, I am done. I turned in my last paper last night. I have one more "journal" that will say nothing because the journal is to keep us aware of what we have to do for the class and then I have to fax my journals to the professor after my supervisor signs off on them. Nothing work after all I have done. Once all of that is in, they will send me a certificate that will proclaim that I am an Assistive Technology Specialist. That will be so very sweet.

The question does occur to me: What will be my excuse for not working out now that I don't have "homework" to do??? Hmmm maybe I should actually get to the gym so I can have the "I'm too sore" excuse...:0)

Duane is coming home. He should be home on Friday night or Saturday as his job with Camillion is wrapping up and he can finish the work from here. I will enjoy having him home again but am a bit worried about where Discoverture will send him next. It would be so very nice for me if they would give him a job that he could do from here and maybe fly to the site for a week or two at a time. It isn't easy for us to be apart. Yet, if that is what he continues to do, we will have to endure this until I can retire from teaching. Then I could go with him I suppose.

Michael should be home tonight from California. I look forward to having him home too. I like my time alone but miss my people!!

Christmas is coming!! Our house is decorated and it feels good. I am starting to think about doing some baking. I love this time of year! But for now, I gotta get to work!!