-20 degrees. Yep, that's how cold it was at one point this morning on my drive into class. I don't think we ever got higher than 11 degrees over all today. And that was NOT the wind chill temps either...........

School sucks. Its hard. Its taking up all my time. Its only ending of week #2 and I already feel like I can't keep up. I get home in the evenings, try to spend an hour or two with the boys, and then the mind drifts to all the reading, studying, homework that I need to get done. (And yah, I shouldn't be posting here, but I needed a break from my carbo-cation intermediate drawings..........damn carbon-carbon bonds!) I don't have one easy class at all so each night is spent trying to prepare for the next days courses. And yes, I feel that I could cry every day when I think of all the stuff I am missing out on with the boys and also feel guilty for the stuff I'm NOT doing around the house (without my parents, we would be sunk--Thanks Mom and Dad!) If I get time to post this weekend, I will put up my schedule for each day so you can see what I am talking about. It's for my family's future.......it will only be like this for another 2 years......I can do this! I think I can, I think I can.....yes, I chant that over and over almost on a daily basis.

Tomorrow I meet my one and only patient that I will be dealing with this semester. Since I won't start my clinicals until Summer, this semester we each get assigned one patient that we see several times over the semester and do some basic skills on (with the patients approval, of course). Next semester they will release me onto patients to do real procedures. I will warn you all when that comes.

Uh oh. Chemistry is calling. Must. Learn.Reaction.Mechanisms.