Small Blessings

Sometimes, when you feel like everything is falling apart, and no matter what you do you're going to drop the ball on something because there are just so many things that have to get done...

There are little miracles that come out of no where and completely change your outlook on everything.

It's things like having our checking account pull from our credit card to prevent overdrawing when it never has before.

Things like the trailblazer check engine light turning off on it's own yesterday allowing it to pass emissions without us having to pay $130 to repair it and have the light reset.

It's the little things like this that remind me that I have a Heavenly Father who knows me, who is watching over me, and who will bless me, even in the smallest things, when I am doing what I should be.

*Side Note to this story: Dan and I began faithfully praying together every night last week...*

Coincidence?

I think not

Stress is:

a. Internal forces of a material that are unable to counteract external forces resulting in a dimensional change of the material

b. Being 1 week away from taking your National Board Exam

c. Being in the process of working with mortgage lenders/pre-qualifying/buying a house while being 1 week away from taking your National Board Exam

d. Internal forces of a material that counteract an applied external force

e. Trying to find a job in a city you don't currently live in

f. Praying for a job to come along so that you will be able to move within the next 2 months

g. Knowing the difference between Pemphigus and Pemphigoid

h. a, c & e

i. b, c, d, e, f, & g

j. All of the Above

k. None of the Above

Overwhelmed!

I officially have 3 weeks until my written board exam...

This exam encompasses all the material I have learned over the past 2 years in an 8 hour, 350 question exam. Yikes!

There are around 15 different subjects included on this exam including things like Pharmacology, Dental Materials, Anatomy, Oral Pathology, Microbiology, etc. These are all huge topics that had a semester long class for each one, and now I have to study & remember all of the information for this exam which is 3 weeks from yesterday.

It seems to be such a daunting task that I keep finding other things to do besides studying. Which is HORRIBLE. I have so much studying to do, but I also have a ton of other things going on also which seem to just work their way up on the to-do list faster than studying...

I have a review book that my big sister used and she said she mostly studied just from that and then took a few mock tests online, and that was enough for her to pass. I'm hoping it will be the same for me. I went through the entire Microbiology chapter last weekend and made about 50 notecards to study. I was most worried about that chapter and a couple others, mainly because I took microbiology in the spring of 2006...that was like FOREVER ago. It was also long before I was in the hygiene program and didn't save any of my notes. The next chapters on the list for today's studying include Dental Materials, Head & Neck Anatomy, and Morphology.

Not only do I have this huge board exam coming in 3 weeks, but I have a project for another class due on Wednesday, my jurisprudence exam for the state at the board of examiners next Friday, a final a week from Wednesday, patient requirements to finish in clinic, my clinical board exam 3 days after my written, and I need to find a job, somewhere for us to live, and pack up/clean my house in order to move out mid-late May...

I don't want to sound all whiny, I just needed to get it off my chest as to how much I have on my plate right now and for the next 3 weeks; and how I long for it to be May 10th so I can just be DONE with EVERYTHING and move on to the next chapter in life!

So, if you don't hear from me here for the next 3 weeks, I apologize. I will be back on May 10th!

What does everyone else have going on?