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Wow I am so wiped!!

Whoa, can you say out of the groove?  Today was my first CNA class and I woke up at 5:15 since I had to be there at 7 & the class is about 45 minutes away and can I just TELL you how tired I am?  First of all the class was a TOTAL snooze fest.  At one point this seriously could have been me, lol.


I mean I seriously could have passed all 8 tests today without even looking at that book (of course only b/c I've had a semester of nursing school).  Like I said before, after our 2nd semester of nursing school we can just challenge the test & be done with it, but I figured I didn't need to wait 6 more months to do that because I don't know when my unemployment will run out.  But man am I tired!! I got home from class around 5:45, came straight in, made dinner & promptly fell asleep on the couch.  But I've gotten a slight second wind so I figured I get a little blog in before bedtime.  Can I say how much I DO NOT want to go tomorrow?  This is probably going to be the longest 3 weeks of my life.  All I can hope for is once we start working with the patients that time will go by faster.  Of course I NEED to remember that this is going to give me a leg up when next semester starts b/c I'll already have done what we're doing, so for THAT I can't complain.

Anyhoo, I need to go to bed now.  I didn't even bother looking at the 8 chapters that were assigned tonight, I mean what's the point, she goes over it RIGHT before she gives the test, I should be ok.

Hope everyone's having a blessed week.

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