I'm still here!

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Everything is going really well. I have done 5 weeks of hard study and next week I get to go and have fun at my hospital. Although I think the reality will be boring induction tutorials and perhaps not much hands on practice. I think I will have to be patient for that.

I (with my tutorial group) got to do an x-ray today. We have an old donated skeleton, covered in fabric that we can x-ray and we worked together to get it ready for an ankle. I pressed the buttons for a lateral x-ray and we didn't do "too" badly. We missed the heel, wasted space, and probably cause the skeleton undue pain, but hey ho!

Unfortunately for my blog, I find I have so little emotional and intellectual energy by the end of the evening, the most I can do is keep up to date with emails and watch reruns of Sex and the City. By Fridays I am exhausted, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I am having lots of fun and thoroughly enjoy going off to uni 3/4 times a week.

I think we, as a family, are still getting to grips with our new life. I am finding it hard to summon the energy to get day to day jobs done, but I'm sure that will get easier. Its now just over 3 years since I last did a full day's work, so it was always going to take some getting used to!

The children are fine. I hardly see them during the week, but they are very happy and enjoying their time at nursery. I do miss them, but nowhere near as much as I thought, and as much as I should!! I always knew I wasn't cut out to be a SAHM for too long! Overall I think we'll all be happier, although there will always be a little guilt!

I'll try not to keep it so long next time. I need to put up some new pics of the children and our new living room.

New start on Monday

Eeeeeek!

I don't think it has really and truly sunk in that I am all but a student again. I have to present myself to an "ice-breaking" session at University on Monday at 9.30 and then my new life starts. Although I'll be doing student life without too much debt (she says hopefully) with nicer clothes, nicer food, nicer house and with a lot more determination. It is a strange experience to buy University books without worrying about whether I'll have enough for food (or beer and fags, more honestly)

Obviously my life as a mum and wife carries on, and I think the hardest bit is going to be juggling all the parts of my life to keep us all happy. Mummy's guilt is there, bubbling away, but I do know that the children are settling in well at Nursery, and Nursery School, and so I can relax while I am at classes.

My timetable looks quite sparse for now, with sometimes only 9 hours of classtime, but I am not going to be too cocky. I expect I am going to have to do some serious work on my own and I think I might be expected to meet up with coursemates regularly. However, it looks like I have Mondays off, which is fabulous. It makes trips away so much easier, at least until Christmas.

I got my first choice hospital for Clinical Placements. I'm not going to name it here as I need to be very careful about confidentiality if I chose to talk about it here, so its easiest if I keep it quiet. I am so pleased though. It couldn't have gone better. Obviously, those who know me will find out all the (possibly gory) details as and when they happen!

My lovely new red schoolbag is ready, I have bought a pencil case, which is filled, and I have paper and text books. I now have to get through a week of induction, and then a one-week course designed for all Health care courses (aka dullsville 101) but then, it begins.

See you on the other side....




(which will probably be Monday, knowing me, I'll be too excited! he he)

Uni news! Time for change.

Everyone who reads this will know by now that I got an A in my Physics which means I'm off to University in a few weeks to study Diagnostic Radiography.

This is both exciting and absolutely terrifying. My worry level has increased ten-fold. I have NO idea what I will be doing in 3 weeks time. I have an induction timetable, of course, but beyond that, I know nothing. Scary, is not the word. I know it will be fine, I know I can do it all, but even so, I just want to get going now.

They have set a small assignment which needs to be handed in on the first day. Its quite daunting as I want to my best, but of course, it will probably be rubbish (as will everyone else's) as I have never written anything like it before! Thankfully, I'm enjoying reading about the topic for now! Long may that continue.

I expect my posts on this blog will become increasingly about my studies, although conversely I expect it will be my studies that stop me posting as much as I should. We'll see how it affects my blogging.

Jasmine starts full time nursery on Monday, so I feel like my time as a SAHM is almost over. I will have Oscar for a week on his own, but its not the same, is it? I feel very conflicted about it, but I know it is the right thing to do. Jas loves nursery, Oscar is ready for nursery school, and I need to start doing more things for me. Its a time of change for all of us. I suppose September is like that for a lot of us.

It feels good to be returning to normal, even though we don't really know what normal is going to be just yet!