Just a Quick Update
Oh dear! Where to start? Alot has happened since the last post.
Health
The biggest surprise: I started working out (actually taking two PE classes, more on that to come); my neck and shoulder instantly improved! I’m not completely back to how I was before I started blogging, but this is a big deal.
Feel free to comment on exercise. What keeps you from it? I honestly didn’t realize that I needed to be working my back and neck specifically. How about health care? Personally, I’d love to see docs be able to prescribe a gym, rather than just massage and physical therapy.
I haven’t figured out all the pieces yet, but I hope to never go back to where I was two months ago. 
School
Somewhere recently I heard that if a student has a parent in school, that student may be eligible for more financial aid. While that may be true in some cases, I have it on reliable authority - the Whitworth University financial aid department - that a parent in school doesn’t count on the child’s fafsa.
But, before I heard that, I thought, “why not look into finishing my degree?”
Long story short, I am currently taking twelve credits, including the aforementioned two PE classes, English 102 (did you feel that groan?), and logic. And for the record, I am taking logic because I needed a humanities class, not to get out of taking math (I already have more than enough math). Writing for English, though, is keeping me from getting back to blogging.
Just for fun: my first paper - a rhetorical analysis of a Jimmy Choo magazine ad. (It earned me a 98.)
Adventures
During my absence, I have done two - I don’t really know what to call them collectively - video projects? Anyway, the first was a commercial in which I played a doctor (and the patient was actually played by the hero! lol) and the second was a training video in which I played a nurse manager, and actually had lines. See why this falls under the category adventure? It’s not all that exciting or glamorous, but if you happen to be in an area or occupation where you see one of those and think it looks like me …
My other notable adventure was being asked to present a workshop on making the most of your wardrobe at a ladies retreat with gratitude as its theme. My 45 minute talk was entitled A Closet Full of Enough. That was fun, and I am planning on saving my material, should the opportunity arise to give the talk again.
Painting
Yes, I’m still painting. Some days I take my stuff with me to school and just find a table somewhere to paint when I have a couple hours between classes. I love watercolor! It’s so clean.
Currently I am only doing portraits.
Future
Who knows? Definitely not blogging with the same regularity as in the past. But I still like it!
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