It's been a long time since I blogged and well, I'm feeling it tonight so I'm doing it.
It's been a crazy busy year so far for my little family and I've been pushing myself physically, mentally, always emotionally.
Tonight, I'm going to focus on the mental. Education.
I started doing my Generals to get my degree. Yeah yeah yeah, I should've done it earlier on in my life. What with moving countries, finding myself, marriage, kids, work, mortgages and life taking over it wasn't a priority for me these past 14 years.
Plus, I wasn't interested. Just ask 22 year old Dayna what she thought of structured learning and the "piece of worthless paper that just shows you know how to sit in a class and pass a test". Pffft.
She was a little bit stupid really.
So, I started online General Education requirements and completed my FIRST class, English 1010 at the most prestigious SLCC and it's been ... good.
Finding the time to do it has been challenging. I try not to procrastinate. Lateness One class, shouldn't really be too overwhelming right?
One full time insanely busy job that requires 40 - 60 hours a week, one very busy full time working husband who is currently in between international trips, two crazy little monkey/bear boys who play sports and have swimming lessons and go to school and day care + one class = minimal sleep and some crazy time management.
That one class is roughly 4 hours a week of reading, writing and general incompetence.
So I found out I passed my class, I didn't just pass, I got a A+. It's English 101, I better get a damn high mark.
And though it is a class that SHOULD be simple to get a high grade in I'm still stoked with myself. It's a representation to me, of the beginning of an achievement I now want to complete.
I mean, at the rate I'm going it's probably going to take me the next 10 years to complete this thing, but time is going to keep rolling by anyway, so I should do something I want to do.
It's been a crazy busy year so far for my little family and I've been pushing myself physically, mentally, always emotionally.
Tonight, I'm going to focus on the mental. Education.
I started doing my Generals to get my degree. Yeah yeah yeah, I should've done it earlier on in my life. What with moving countries, finding myself, marriage, kids, work, mortgages and life taking over it wasn't a priority for me these past 14 years.
Plus, I wasn't interested. Just ask 22 year old Dayna what she thought of structured learning and the "piece of worthless paper that just shows you know how to sit in a class and pass a test". Pffft.
She was a little bit stupid really.
So, I started online General Education requirements and completed my FIRST class, English 1010 at the most prestigious SLCC and it's been ... good.
Finding the time to do it has been challenging. I try not to procrastinate. Lateness One class, shouldn't really be too overwhelming right?
One full time insanely busy job that requires 40 - 60 hours a week, one very busy full time working husband who is currently in between international trips, two crazy little monkey/bear boys who play sports and have swimming lessons and go to school and day care + one class = minimal sleep and some crazy time management.
That one class is roughly 4 hours a week of reading, writing and general incompetence.
So I found out I passed my class, I didn't just pass, I got a A+. It's English 101, I better get a damn high mark.
And though it is a class that SHOULD be simple to get a high grade in I'm still stoked with myself. It's a representation to me, of the beginning of an achievement I now want to complete.
I mean, at the rate I'm going it's probably going to take me the next 10 years to complete this thing, but time is going to keep rolling by anyway, so I should do something I want to do.
