Starting Over or Starting Fresh in Everything Else

I don’t know if I would call it starting over or starting fresh. I am going to attempt to start blogging again. I have August 1st as my launch date, but that could easily change in the next nine days! I tend to always plan this for August 1st and then inevitably some monkey wrench is thrown at me and it all falls apart and I don’t think about it for another 11 months! I am hopeful that the monkey wrench has already been thrown and the disaster is being cleaned up this week. The last month has been a quagmire for me. First, I finished my CPB course and scheduled my certification test. Then I planned a vacation, just a small getaway. Then I got sick the day before I was set to leave. I still went, but I was miserable the entire time. The hotel room was awful, the toilet was tempermental and the a/c was apparently just for show. The vending machines were few and far from any room. I think there were two in the entire place and one ice machine. There was no signage and the room signage was impossible to understand. Terrible. My honest review did get me a refund of one night, so even though I suffered, my bank account didn’t take such a hard hit. It took a long time to recover from the illness and my studio had a small flood and everything had to be moved out and flooring ripped up and then I had to purchase new flooring and load everything back in and that is where it stands. Because of the sickness and the fact that that room is hotter than Satan’s ballsack, I could not work in there at all. Last week I decided to reinstall the a/c unit but I was “studying” for my exam and didn’t get in there to do anything.

I left on Friday for my exam on Saturday. Of course I did not sleep much on Friday. Not because I was nervous, but more because that first night in a hotel I hardly sleep at all. Not sure why, but it happens every single time. It was awful though because I had a 5:45 a.m. wakeup call ! I ate a small breakfast and then showered and was off to pick up a granola and get to the testing site. It’s a 5 hour 40 minute time limit. I was starting to worry an hour in when I saw how much I had done and glanced around the room at how much others had done. I was so far ahead. Then I remembered, I was taking a 200 question exam and they were all taking a 150 question exam. I finished with 60 minutes left. I was the first to leave and I didn’t look back. I was fine until I sat down for lunch and then doubt crept into my head. I can’t do anything about it until I know my score…hopefully by August 3rd. Then I either breathe and celebrate or cry and start really studying for a retake in October. Which would totally be the other monkey wrench thrown at my August plans.

I am working on the studio all this week though. I threw a ton of stuff away and gave a lot of stuff away. Now I just have to put the stuff I kept away and I lost two storage units! So there needs to be some creative organizing. Plus I lost two bulletin boards and lighting. It’s going to take a while to get the crafting space organized. I am going to start with my desk so I might be able to get some writing and work done. I need to have a space and time this weekend to get some birthday cards done. I also have to buy gifts or come up with cash. Sigh…should have thought about that when I was spending a fortune on underthings. For clothing items so few people see, they sure do cost a lot!

Time to get started on my afternoon prep. I am dreading looking at the rejection report. I have a new person entering charges last week and part of this week and it has not been bueno. Plus because the stupid clearinghouse made “upgrades” it is wreaking havoc on my grant payer ids. And Medicaid is being a total pill about it.