A Bit Of My story (so far)

I have had a very interesting week. Actually, it was a very emotional week where the negatives have so far out weighed the positives. I wrote them down along the way and tried desperately to find the appropriate opposite, simply to balance them out in my mind but as you can see there was no success:

Negative:
Uncertain
Chaos
Nervous
Worried
Tired
Anxious
Stressed

Positive:
Excited
Eager
Happy
Relieved
Anticipation

I may or may have not mentioned that I am almost at the end of the degree and this is (hopefully) my last subject, but I am pretty sure that I have not mentioned that this is a group project. Because I knew this course was a required thing for the degree, I intentionally did a “group project” a couple of semesters ago. The main reason was to see how I (personally) would work in a ‘group environment’. It turned out that I am a team player and we did very well…

So, now I am all set for this two-semester group project in 2008 then! Yeah, right!!! The powers in play had totally different plans for me. Towards the end of 2007, I somehow hurt my neck and suffered massive pain. My personal opinion, now, was that it was initially a pinched nerve and it got worse with muscles tightening but I’m not a doctor and nobody ever asked me my opinion, and of course, hindsight is always beautiful.

I am not a ‘drama queen’ – actually I can be but not when it comes to medical stuff – I distrust/dislike/hate that whole system when it involves me personally. More than happy for them ‘med dudes’ to try their stuff out on my boys but I do have the need to google it first… Thanks to the powers in control that my boys are all healthy!!!

Anyway, I finally ended up with a visit to the doctor (resulting in a needle for pain, a prescription for some seriously ‘nasty’ pain medications and a referral to a Physio). And so, decent patient that I am, agreed to all these requests, although I was highly, ‘disinclined to acquiesce to their request’ (courtesy of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie).

None of that helped until I ended up at a remedial massage therapist. She helped to fix me up more than all the other methods and I owe her a huge debt of gratitude! The pain has gone and most of my mobility has returned. My only loss has been of sensation and numbness down the right hand side of my left hand (forefinger tip for those interested). Makes for interesting typing though… Anyway this is now getting a little bit long so for now, the rest of that saga will have to wait (I fondly call it ‘my head smashing incident’)

Back to this week and pay attention now because this bit is important!
The most recent bit includes me actually scaring myself stupid! Of course, it involves Uni and the fact that there is now only one more Friday to go. For the uninitiated, Uni chooses a Friday for submitting stuff.

Anyway, last night (Thursday) as I was floating along, trying my best to get everything done, not harming any small (or big), annoying children and generally minding my own business cooking dinner when it suddenly hit me! An assignment or something equally important was due on Friday!

This was largely in part to a comment one of my group members made earlier in the week. Talk about a delayed reaction! I had been so sidetracked with why my stupid formula for the ‘required’ timesheet wasn’t working that I completely forgot about our ‘personal’ individual reports that we were supposed to submit separately today!!!

The end result is my stupid individual report is complete and submitted. But thank goodness for little comments that finally resurface when needed… Thanks D – you know who you are!

Take care
C