Meanderings of the Mind: March 2006

About Me

Name: Sara

Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

I was recently relocated to Chattanooga by the Postal Service due to the closing of the Remote Encoding Center I worked at in Bowling Green, KY. I had just started my first semester at WKU majoring in Nursing. Since I had recently built a house, my options were to get a lower paying job and lose my house or to move and rent my house out until I have my degree. I chose the latter. I've travelled throughout Europe with my friends and sisters which I consider the highlight of my life experiences to date. I come from a family of 6 kids--4 girls and 2 boys ranging in ages 18 to 34. Only my youngest brother is married at this point.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006

SEMMA

I'm in the second phase of my spring break--I've gone from nursing to bookkeeping, so this is what my desk looks like now.

I was 5 months behind when I started tackling this on Friday. Another good day should wipe it out. I do the bookkeeping for SEMMA (Southeastern Mennonite Medical Aid) which covers members in 23 different churches, mostly in the Southeastern U.S. and a few in Indiana and Ohio. Hopefully I'll have all the discrepencies figured out so I'm all caught up before the next quarterly dues come in the first of April. After this week, I won't have another spare minute until the end of the semester in May. Thankfully, my sister Kris does most of the work since she takes care of dealing with all the claims.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Spring Break

This is what my spring break has consisted of so far:

I finally finished my care plan this morning just in time to get ready for work. This makes the 4th day of my spring break spent on this. GRRR. I really wanted a BREAK, but I still have so many other things to catch up including the bookkeeping for SEMMA which is so far behind I'm totally embarrassed. I also wanted to really give my apartment a spring cleaning, but somehow I think that's going to get shoved back again since the priority rationale (care plan speak) doesn't put it ahead of the other things that need doing.

The other night I ended up buying a blood pressure cuff because I feel so "pressured." Every time I've taken it in clinicals or at the hospital, it's been ridiculously high. It's starting to scare me. Since I started monitoring it (all of 2 days), I've been ok. At least I feel a little more in control since I have the means to monitor it.

I think my memory is totally going bonkers. I experience these total laspses where I even forget somebody's name that I really KNOW. The other day I totally forgot that I was supposed to meet somebody for lunch who was only in town for the day. I forget to take my cell phone off of silent from being at work or school, so I totally missed her call telling me she was here. Now if that isn't mortifying, I don't know what is!

So I struggle on with the insanity of it all.....