A job well... D.O.N.E.

I am officially DONE seeing patients until the beginning of September and it feels SO nice! Kind of freeing actually, like I don't really have a care in the world at this moment (even my summer class isn't weighing me down too much). I received an 'A' for my clinic grade which is pretty awesome. My supervisor didn't go over every aspect of my grade with me, but she did say that if she had any worries about my performance, she would have told me when she had them and she did through the course of the last five/six weeks. She even offered to write me a letter of recommendation if I ever needed one and gave me a bag of hearing aid goodies! Yeah! I think a small sliver of me is going to miss seeing patients for the next few months and I will be itching to get back into it by the time the fall semester starts, but at this point I just want to enjoy a few months of none stress related stuff.

I've also been enjoying the week without Ayden. Yes, I do miss him to pieces, but I also know that he is having a great time and you know what... I know that every parent needs a break at some point. Whether that is just a few hours alone running errands or a few days away. It feels nice to recharge and it feels nice to have it just be me and Jay for a few days. Since we had Ayden when we were still so young and not living on our own, it's always been the three of us. Don't get me wrong, I love my family more than life itself, but every couple needs that recharge time as well where they don't have to worry about the kids. (Not that I'm not worrying about Ayden... ask my sister who spent the week with him, I texted her to see how he was doing more than once.)

Ayden has also called me twice too. He called to let me know that he's having a great time and that his top tooth that was loose fell out! He'll be wishing for his two front teeth for Christmas this year!

My car was into the shop twice this week... would you know. Cost me a grand total of about $150 to get it fixed for both of the times. Wouldn't you know that on the way to drop me off at clinic on Tuesday, Jay realized that he probably didn't put a sensor back in place after he checked my air filter and that was what was probably causing the problem. He called the mechanic after he thought about it and had them check that first thing when they looked at the car and sure enough that was what it was! I don't know if they replaced the sensor or just put it back on. But they ran their diagnostic on it and took it for a test drive before and after to make sure that was the problem and that it was running correctly after they replaced the sensor.

I was pretty excited that it was such an easy fix and was starting to trust my car again (I have major trust issues with vehicles after something goes wrong with them, especially if it goes wrong and I am in the vehicle and driving) because Jay had brought it to Rapids to pick me up and we got home all without anything going wrong. I even took my car to work yesterday and all was fine. After work I had a few places I wanted to stop and on my way to the last place... dun dun dun... the check engine light goes on again. I about have a panic attack because I was a few miles from home. I was shaking and almost in tears, but decided to just turn in the direction of home and pray I would make it all of the way until my driveway. I did, despite being almost traumatized, haha! I called Jay again and after he got home from work we took the vehicle back in. This time it seemed to be driving alright, but obviously something was wrong because the check engine light came on. Thankfully this time it was an air hose that had rubbed down which caused a different sensor to run the 'alarm'. And now... brought my car into work this morning and all was good again and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way. I have been very nice to my car since then, hehe!

I am taking some family pictures this weekend. I am excited about it because I am taking them at one of my favorite places in Point and the weather looks like it is supposed to cooperate for us as well! I have a few ideas up my sleeves of different poses I want to try out! After the pictures I am going to high tail it 'home' for Jay's brother's
graduation party. Sunday is most likely going to be spent helping pick up after the party and then Monday thru Wednesday next week my mom is coming to visit. I can't believe that next week is the end of June already! That means 4th of July fireworks and hopefully getting out on the boat for them and NO rain like last year! Also we get to go to see Josh Thompson (a country singer) for free on Saturday night, altough I think Jay's loverboy might be crashing our party, hehe! No matter what it will be fun, just as long as it doesn't RAIN!!!

It's taking me all week to formulate this blog post (which seems to be the norm around here). I just checked the last time I posted and it was 11 days ago already! I can't believe that it has been 11 DAYS since my last post! Honestly, where does the time go?! I know I don't post on a daily basis, but I like to post every few days. I like to get my thoughts out and down onto 'paper' because it helps. It usually helps more during times of stress and when things are not going my way and to be honest, things have been going pretty good here for a while. You know how life has its ebbs and flows... well, I've been flowing for a while and I like it. I don't want it to stop anytime soon. Selfish of me to not want my life to stop being good anytime soon, I think not, hehe!

It is officially summer according to the calendar and it looks like it might not rain today which is even better! I get to go pick up my little man from my aunt's house and enjoy the rest of the afternoon together! And then it is the weekend. I'm just all around pretty happy!

Okay, so here's a weird thought to ponder. Yesterday I was on the couch taking a nap. Towards the end of my nap I felt conscious and knew I wanted to get up and I kept feeling like I was getting up but then I would realize that I was still sleeping on the couch and not actuall up. I dreamt (and I put that in italics because I don't know if I was actually dreaming or not) that I was getting up off the couch over and over, but in reality I would realize that I was still stuck sleeping on the couch. I tried over and over to get up and I could never actually get my body to do it. Finally I actually opened my eyes and managed to get my body up, but it was the weirdest feeling and this is not the first time this has happened to me during afternoon naps. I googled sleep paralysis because thought maybe that was it. Like I wanted to get my body to moving, but I couldn't type thing, but after reading a little bit about it I couldn't determine if that was what it actually was or not. In any case, it is the weirdest feeling in the world! Anyone else experience that or is it just me?!

We had to take my computer into Best Buy last night to get fixed. The internet wasn't working on it, even though it was saying it was connected. The thing I love about Best Buy and their Geek Squad... they do most of their troubleshooting for FREE! The lady spent a good hour working on my computer trying to get the internet to work and it didn't cost us ANYTHING! Yippie! And now... my internet works again. She thinks it was something to do with my antivirus software and the settings that it had. In any case, whatever she ended up having to do we got it fixed.

And time to actually get this posted…

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