Hey it’s been about a week and some changes to my plan have been made. Up until this point I was under the impression that due to Doug being in the military we would be able to get in state tuition wherever I we were. After calling the school at duty station Doug is most likely to get next I realized this is not the case. You have to claim the state you are in as home of record for a year before you can get in state tuition. Not only that but you cannot be attending school during this period! Thanks a lot for serving our country right lol. Well this would mean that we would have to pay double for me to go to school. This would take our debt at the end of school from about 30 thousand to about 60 thousand!
Discovering this caused us to take some things into consideration. Our ultimate goal is for this to be our last duty station. Doug has two years left in the military and this next position is a two year position. Doug told me that in 2 years I would still be in school with likely 2 years left to finish before getting into the job market. We would have already added 20 thousand dollars to our debt load with more to come. In this scenario it would not be plausible to get out of the military and jump into the job market. Now in our revamped plan I will have been working for 2 years and putting my salary towards the debt we already have and building up a substantial savings. In this scenario Doug would have a cushion to fall back on while he looks for a job and I would already have employment. So our new plan is for me to go straight to work.
When I finish school in April the new plan is to take the little kids out of daycare and go back to being a stay at home mom for a couple months. Then when we move to the next duty station hit the payment and start looking for a job. I am actually excited about this bc the thought of being done with school at least for a while is a weight off my shoulders. Once we are established somewhere and I can get in state tuition I may look into school again.
So this week a couple of us stayed after school to practice blood draw. I was terrified. I had not held a needle in months. It all came back to me. I got four sticks with blood on the first try every time. If I do this once a week I will have the sticks I need to test for my phlebotomist license (25 blood draws and 5 capillary sticks) by the time I finish school. I also started reacquainting myself with the order of draw. This is much less confusing now that I know what the tests mean and they are no longer just meaningless abbreviations.
I have been doing amazing with my diet. I was not even temped (well a little) when Doug wanted Chinese food for dinner. I said no and he ended up getting a salad for himself so we both did well on our diets.
I have been listening to the daily audio bible on the way to school every day and also doing my chronological bible study at night.
I also started crocheting again the burnout is wearing off. I have 2 orders thanks to my best customer Miss Betsy Willet. That is another good thing about not going back to school that is good. I really want to build up my etsy store and I won’t be able to do that if I am in school.
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