I'm trying to go back to school in order to return to work in a sedentary field. I have chosen the field of medical coding because it is a rapidly growing field with a good future to it. Also, the pay is good and there is a chance that I will be able to work from home in the future. I know of one hospital system here that is setting their coders up to work from their homes.
I've spent a good portion of the afternoon and early evening on the 'net trying to find out if it will be worth my time to take the training offered by a local community college. I like their training because it is all online. The only class I may have to take at the college is remedial math. All the other courses, including the medical terminology and anatomy and physiology courses are done online. This will help me as I need to be available to watch my two youngest granddaughters while my daughter is in school herself. She has her classes set for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so I will take my math class on Tuesday and Thursday. That will only be one semester then all mine will be online.
The fun thing was that both websites that I checked out, those of the organizations that do the certification testing, don't list the college I want to attend. I do wonder if the ones they list pay them to be listed as I know that at least two of our community colleges here teach medical coding. I also know that there are many online programs for medical coding that the organizations don't list. I also found a website that has a medical coding discussion board but so far I haven't been able to actually post a question on the board! You're supposed to apply for membership but so far I haven't found where to apply. Very frustrating believe me. Both of the organizations offer online training a lot more money than I can come up with, one includes the books, the other doesn't.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I'm Back, Finally!
Well I'm now back and in a position where I can add to this fairly often, hopefully.
On Monday we had internet access hooked up at home but we've been having problems with it dropping the connection in the middle of whatever we're doing. Very frustrating to say the least. Had to have it hooked up to DD's computer because mine will only take a wireless connection. Oh well, at least we've got it now and don't have to wait in line at the library to use a public terminal. They have someone coming out tomorrow to see what's wrong, they admit it's not the computer so they may wind up giving us a new modem. I don't care as long as we finally get decent service.
Will be having breakfast at McDonald's tomorrow as the water will be off here at home from 9am to noon, I think they're adding meters and lines at the back of the trailer park.
Oldest granddaughter got a letter telling her school starts on the 25th and she's looking forward to it as she's been homeschooled so far.
DD and I are both trying to go back to college this fall and the classes I want are all, except for the remedial math, given online. I'm hoping to get trained in medical coding as one of the men at my church works for a hospital chain here that is setting all their coders up to work from home. Just what I'm looking for since I'll still have two girls to watch for 3 or 4 years.
DD wants to start her nursing prerequ's, hopefully later this month or soon thereafter once all her financial aid stuff is over and done with.
On Monday we had internet access hooked up at home but we've been having problems with it dropping the connection in the middle of whatever we're doing. Very frustrating to say the least. Had to have it hooked up to DD's computer because mine will only take a wireless connection. Oh well, at least we've got it now and don't have to wait in line at the library to use a public terminal. They have someone coming out tomorrow to see what's wrong, they admit it's not the computer so they may wind up giving us a new modem. I don't care as long as we finally get decent service.
Will be having breakfast at McDonald's tomorrow as the water will be off here at home from 9am to noon, I think they're adding meters and lines at the back of the trailer park.
Oldest granddaughter got a letter telling her school starts on the 25th and she's looking forward to it as she's been homeschooled so far.
DD and I are both trying to go back to college this fall and the classes I want are all, except for the remedial math, given online. I'm hoping to get trained in medical coding as one of the men at my church works for a hospital chain here that is setting all their coders up to work from home. Just what I'm looking for since I'll still have two girls to watch for 3 or 4 years.
DD wants to start her nursing prerequ's, hopefully later this month or soon thereafter once all her financial aid stuff is over and done with.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
We've got the girls!!!
Yesterday my DD spent about 4 hours in mediation with her soon to be ex, mainly squabbling over their 3 girls. She gets custody of them and he gets weekend visitation.
The one thing she had to give up was her desire to home-school them. She has to put them in either public or private school and pay for the latter if that is what she chooses.
She got the car, a '95 Ford Taurus station wagon, and has to pay any debts she has incurred since he left last fall, he got stuck with the debts from the marriage, probably over 10 times what she has to pay. Also he isn't allowed to use my younger niece for child care anymore and the girls cannot go over their without either their mother or father with them. You can rest assured that under no circumstances will my daughter take them into a home where they were mistreated.
She'll be getting a nice amount for child support which will enable her to buy the girls new clothes if she wishes instead of always hitting the thrift store. We just spent about $30 on new socks for each of them, bought in multi-packs, and new panties for the 4 yr. old as she's our "chunky monkey" and needed a girls size instead of toddler size like she's been stuffed into. I tried a skort on her at a Goodwill Thrift Store on Thursday so we could find out what size we need to start buying her. It was a 6X and fit her to a T! The 6 yr. old is a "skinny Minnie" and a 5 slim fits her best. She's going to be like I was at that age, thin, unless she starts gaining at pueberty like her mom did. Two yr. old seems pretty average for her age so far. LOL
We'll be looking into schools and try to find a 3 bedroom house somewhere fairly close to whatever school we choose, if possible. We may have to make do with 2 bedrooms, as we do now, depending on how expensive things get.
With her child support our total income will be going up just over 50% though that will, of course, depend on whether or not it shows up on time! If he goes into the military again it will come automatically which will be much better than us having to worry about his paying her on the first of each month, unless of course the state requires it be taken out of his paycheck.
Hopefully we can now relax to some extent. It will be nice not to have to worry about what stunt her ex is going to pull next.
The one thing she had to give up was her desire to home-school them. She has to put them in either public or private school and pay for the latter if that is what she chooses.
She got the car, a '95 Ford Taurus station wagon, and has to pay any debts she has incurred since he left last fall, he got stuck with the debts from the marriage, probably over 10 times what she has to pay. Also he isn't allowed to use my younger niece for child care anymore and the girls cannot go over their without either their mother or father with them. You can rest assured that under no circumstances will my daughter take them into a home where they were mistreated.
She'll be getting a nice amount for child support which will enable her to buy the girls new clothes if she wishes instead of always hitting the thrift store. We just spent about $30 on new socks for each of them, bought in multi-packs, and new panties for the 4 yr. old as she's our "chunky monkey" and needed a girls size instead of toddler size like she's been stuffed into. I tried a skort on her at a Goodwill Thrift Store on Thursday so we could find out what size we need to start buying her. It was a 6X and fit her to a T! The 6 yr. old is a "skinny Minnie" and a 5 slim fits her best. She's going to be like I was at that age, thin, unless she starts gaining at pueberty like her mom did. Two yr. old seems pretty average for her age so far. LOL
We'll be looking into schools and try to find a 3 bedroom house somewhere fairly close to whatever school we choose, if possible. We may have to make do with 2 bedrooms, as we do now, depending on how expensive things get.
With her child support our total income will be going up just over 50% though that will, of course, depend on whether or not it shows up on time! If he goes into the military again it will come automatically which will be much better than us having to worry about his paying her on the first of each month, unless of course the state requires it be taken out of his paycheck.
Hopefully we can now relax to some extent. It will be nice not to have to worry about what stunt her ex is going to pull next.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Finished a book
Just finished reading "The Return of the Prodigal" by Kasey Michaels, a Beckets of Romney Marsh novel according to the front cover. I believe I've accidentally skipped one or two of the series so I want to see if I can get them. If I've already read them I'll just return them to the library early. To my way of thinking, this is one of the best regency romance series that I've ever read. You don't have to read them in order but it sure helps so you can keep the characters in them straight as each person in the Becket family marries it adds at least one new character. In this one two new characters were added instead of the one.
I've got my two youngest grand daughters with me, the 2 yr. old is asleep in her stroller, she just now started snoring! LOL Got that from her dad and mom, and me too, she came by it honestly. The 4 yr. old had been playing with a couple of Barbie dolls but got bored so now she's just half sitting, half laying in her chair because she's bored. I've only got a few more minutes on the computer so we'll be going in search of her mother when I'm through here.
I've got my two youngest grand daughters with me, the 2 yr. old is asleep in her stroller, she just now started snoring! LOL Got that from her dad and mom, and me too, she came by it honestly. The 4 yr. old had been playing with a couple of Barbie dolls but got bored so now she's just half sitting, half laying in her chair because she's bored. I've only got a few more minutes on the computer so we'll be going in search of her mother when I'm through here.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Blog details
I find I don't like the way my blog looks but I'm not sure how I want it changed so I think I'll wait and get my daughter to help me out with it at a later date. I'd really like more color but when I tried to do it myself I'm not sure I liked the new colors any better than it is now! Just like a woman, always changing my mind. LOL
Finding my blog, food, reading
Boy, I sure had trouble finding my blog today. I goofed up royally when I wrote down the address for it and every time I tried to find it I kept getting the message that it couldn't be found. Luckily for me my daughter was nearby and knew how to find it and I was able to see what I had done wrong. I had been using the @ sign between the blog name and the rest of the address as though it was an email address! Talk about feeling dumb!
Breakfast this morning was a knockoff "Egg McMuffin" that used Black Forest Ham. Good but since we don't have a microwave DD heated it in the regular oven on a cast iron griddle. Oven was set at 400 oF but she didn't remember how long it was in for. Regular oven did a good job to my way of thinking. But it would be nice if more manufacturers put directions for using a regular oven as well as a microwave!
Later had a Godiva "French Vanilla Latte" to drink but I didn't think much of it. The cost was good, $1.48 for 9.5 oz. compared to $2.28 for the same size Starbuck's Frappuccino drink that I would ordinarily buy. It is doubtful that I would buy the Godiva drink again unless I'm really, really thirsty and don't have much money, hence the reason for buying it this morning! When I can afford to buy a 4 pack of the Starbuck's Frappuccino drinks I make them last by mixing them half and half with milk. To me they taste the same and I know it cuts the sugar content. Also, I usually use just 1% or at best 2% milk so that helps to make it a little better for me.
Another think I like are Lunchables. I've been eating the ones with a combination of chicken & turkey that have Swiss and Cheddar cheese, regular and wholegrain crackers, dijon mustard and an Andes mint. Would be nice if they would replace the cheddar cheese with mozzarella and the dijon mustard with honey mustard! I'd also like to see all the crackers whole grain. To my way of thinking more adults would buy Lunchables to take to work if they made them a little more adult friendly. I do realize that these are designed for kids but for heavens sake why not change them a little and market them to adults as an alternative to the sandwich many of them carry for lunch!
Yesterday I checked out four romances to read since I had finished all the books I had at home! I usually take my time but with the help of my daughter on one side of the aisle and me on the other it went a lot quicker. Right now I'm reading "Hardly A Husband" by Rebecca Hagan Lee. It's part of a series of books about a group of men in the Regency period in English history who called themselves the "Free Fellows League". I've enjoyed the others I've read and so far this one is interesting.
I find that if I can't get into a book in the first 10 or so pages I won't enjoy reading it. In fact I've got one at home that I read about twice that far in and still couldn't get interested in the story.
A couple of my favorite authors are Jo Beverly and Mary Jo Putney. I've read many, many books by the both of them and really enjoy them.
Breakfast this morning was a knockoff "Egg McMuffin" that used Black Forest Ham. Good but since we don't have a microwave DD heated it in the regular oven on a cast iron griddle. Oven was set at 400 oF but she didn't remember how long it was in for. Regular oven did a good job to my way of thinking. But it would be nice if more manufacturers put directions for using a regular oven as well as a microwave!
Later had a Godiva "French Vanilla Latte" to drink but I didn't think much of it. The cost was good, $1.48 for 9.5 oz. compared to $2.28 for the same size Starbuck's Frappuccino drink that I would ordinarily buy. It is doubtful that I would buy the Godiva drink again unless I'm really, really thirsty and don't have much money, hence the reason for buying it this morning! When I can afford to buy a 4 pack of the Starbuck's Frappuccino drinks I make them last by mixing them half and half with milk. To me they taste the same and I know it cuts the sugar content. Also, I usually use just 1% or at best 2% milk so that helps to make it a little better for me.
Another think I like are Lunchables. I've been eating the ones with a combination of chicken & turkey that have Swiss and Cheddar cheese, regular and wholegrain crackers, dijon mustard and an Andes mint. Would be nice if they would replace the cheddar cheese with mozzarella and the dijon mustard with honey mustard! I'd also like to see all the crackers whole grain. To my way of thinking more adults would buy Lunchables to take to work if they made them a little more adult friendly. I do realize that these are designed for kids but for heavens sake why not change them a little and market them to adults as an alternative to the sandwich many of them carry for lunch!
Yesterday I checked out four romances to read since I had finished all the books I had at home! I usually take my time but with the help of my daughter on one side of the aisle and me on the other it went a lot quicker. Right now I'm reading "Hardly A Husband" by Rebecca Hagan Lee. It's part of a series of books about a group of men in the Regency period in English history who called themselves the "Free Fellows League". I've enjoyed the others I've read and so far this one is interesting.
I find that if I can't get into a book in the first 10 or so pages I won't enjoy reading it. In fact I've got one at home that I read about twice that far in and still couldn't get interested in the story.
A couple of my favorite authors are Jo Beverly and Mary Jo Putney. I've read many, many books by the both of them and really enjoy them.
Friday, March 28, 2008
First Blog
Well I'm finally entering the twenty-first century and becoming more internet savy, or so I hope.
I'm still somewhat lost around a computer but the more I use one the easier it becomes. So far about all I've done is send and receive email, check out a few magazine websites, and do some searching for things that interest me.
After hearing about and reading about blogging I decided this was something I wanted to do so I set up a blog today and am posting to it for the first time. I'll post the address on a couple of forums I'm a member of to see if anyone will actually read what I write.
First off, this is Friday March 28, 2008. I'm in San Antonio, TX, using a terminal at the central library. I probably won't post more often than weekly or maybe twice on weekends since I don't have home internet access.
I live with my daughter and her 3 daughters and we seem to be getting along pretty well for the difference in ages. Every once in a while I take one of the two older girls and we go somewhere alone. I try to treat them to lunch at a local Bar-B-Q chain since it's pretty reasonably priced and we can share something.
Had to leave home for a while today because we had an exterminator come in. It's something I hope to be able to afford on a semi-regular basis in the future. The stuff we can buy in the store just isn't strong enough to actually kill anything!
Will make sure I get to church on Sunday as we're having two baby boys baptised! Yeah!!
Please feel free to post any comments, positive or negative, and remember, I'm still learning.
I'm still somewhat lost around a computer but the more I use one the easier it becomes. So far about all I've done is send and receive email, check out a few magazine websites, and do some searching for things that interest me.
After hearing about and reading about blogging I decided this was something I wanted to do so I set up a blog today and am posting to it for the first time. I'll post the address on a couple of forums I'm a member of to see if anyone will actually read what I write.
First off, this is Friday March 28, 2008. I'm in San Antonio, TX, using a terminal at the central library. I probably won't post more often than weekly or maybe twice on weekends since I don't have home internet access.
I live with my daughter and her 3 daughters and we seem to be getting along pretty well for the difference in ages. Every once in a while I take one of the two older girls and we go somewhere alone. I try to treat them to lunch at a local Bar-B-Q chain since it's pretty reasonably priced and we can share something.
Had to leave home for a while today because we had an exterminator come in. It's something I hope to be able to afford on a semi-regular basis in the future. The stuff we can buy in the store just isn't strong enough to actually kill anything!
Will make sure I get to church on Sunday as we're having two baby boys baptised! Yeah!!
Please feel free to post any comments, positive or negative, and remember, I'm still learning.
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