on being halfway through my degree
August 7, 2010 by Sharon · 2 Comments
I did tweet about this earlier, but for anyone who missed it – I got a letter from the Open Uni this morning with my course result… pass! I got 73% overall which I’m fairly happy with. I actually thought I might fail the final exam since I had Mr Sniffy Nose sat on one side of me and on the other side a lady who kept praying to Jesus to help her (is Jesus quite knowledgeable about health and social care then? Who knew?) I don’t think I got as much out of the course as I could’ve done; I started off all keen and ready to hit the books, but then I had all that crap with my dad at Christmas time and after that work kept giving me people to train which was great in a way, but it did mean I wasn’t able to study during the quiet moments and that got me behind a little so I found myself skipping a few bits of coursework here and there.
Not sure if I’m going to do another course straight off. I doubt work would finance it and I’ve kind of had enough of studying for a bit because I’ve got so much other stuff to be getting on with. Though I do quite like the idea of studying Oceanography for some reason – but not sure it will help me much at work. Not unless the NHS have started treating patients underwater.
on standing still
July 29, 2010 by Sharon · Comments Off
Get me, updating twice in one day. Anyone would think this was a proper blog or something.
So, I was sitting in the kitchen the other day with my mum and sis, and mum asked sis to write out a birthday card for my uncle from her and her boyfriend. She did the same for my brother when he arrived, and gave him a card that she’d bought for him and his girlfriend. I asked if I should write out a card too but she said she’d put my name on hers because “you’re on your own.”
uhm… No. Remember that shy, nice looking chap that was with me the other evening? That’s my boyfriend, that is. Though apparently he’s not allowed to be included on a card since we don’t live together. Pfffft. Fair enough, I don’t see much of him because of the wonky hours we both work, and at the moment it’s doubly difficult because it’s the school holidays and he has dad stuff to do (and as he has 3 teenage daughters I can’t deny him the opportunity to spend time with them while he can, soon they’ll start moving on to uni or whatever else they have planned) – but that doesn’t make him any less a part of my life.
Lately whenever I’m around my family I just feel a little bit like I’m invisible or, worse, like I’m that one that nobody talks about. You know the sort – every family has one, right? It feels like everyone is moving onwards and upwards and I’m kind of stuck. It’s odd because I have a relatively good job, I’m looking to buy my own place and yet… it’s just not enough.
But, on the plus side, I found out today that the birthday cards have gone astray in the post. Shame.
on tinkering with my theme
July 29, 2010 by Sharon · 2 Comments
Changed the background of my WP theme – what do you think? I’m a bit crap with Photoshop, as you can tell. The bike photo came from here, the other photo is of my dog and I can’t remember where the beach photo came from but I’ve had it for ages; even used it on a previous theme, as I recall.
Of course, you know I’ll get bored and change the theme again in a couple of weeks.
