Test Anxiety!

How do we develop test anxiety? Why do some of us have GI distress at the thought of standardized testing or certification testing while others breeze through it? Well, I am one that suffers from test anxiety. I am taking a NCAST training, which is a feeding scale that rates parent/infant interactions during a feeding time. The test is a very reliable indicator of parent bonding/infant response and indicates when a parent might need helping learning their infants cues or how to interact with them. Long story short, I am in a training right now to become certified to perform the test. We test tomorrow and the results get shipped to CA for grading. We don't know for a month if we passed or failed! YIKES! I passed all 4 of the practice tests, but still............I am one that second guesses everything.

I suppose some of the anxiety relates to seeking acceptance from those higher than you (ie: colleges that you want to go to, bosses/parents that will find out the results, peers taking the class with you) or feeling competent. You know? Keep your fingers crossed for me tomorrow!!

Can't figure it all out!

So, I have spent some quality time on this blog over the last few days trying to figure out how to post a picture in my profile (not in a posting, I figured that out) AND how to add links to my blog. Now I know that I am not the most efficient person on a computer program....have called my girl Cheri for help! Hoping to get all that stuff done this week.

So I am really missing my sister, who recently moved to Springfield, Missouri to start graduate school. Today was a day full of errands and visiting with a college friend who just had a baby and it occured to me that today would have been a good day to go see sister, if she was still in Denton! (TEAR!) She is slowly getting adjusted and I imagine will be for a while. Best of luck little sister!

My honey Devlon comes back from a week of being one with the fish in Corpus tomorrow. I never thought I would have missed him so much. We are just about 2 months into this and have already fallen into a comfortable relationship. I am excited to see him tomorrow night!

I am getting back onto the diet wagon tomorrow in preparation for my brother's wedding in April. Fun times! Went to the grocery store and was counting points in my head.....my how those points seem to haunt me.......FOREVER! At least I should look good in some pictures that will be forever looked at!

Have a great week!

7 Things

7 things I plan to do before I die
1. Get married and start a family
2. learn how to needlepoint
3. Travel somewhere foregin..like Greece or Paris
4. Pay off my credit card!
5. Finally reach my goal weight
6. Be happy with who I am and where I am in my life
7. Retire near water with the man I love

7 things I can do
1. Bake
2. Listen to others and solve problems
3. Clean
4. give without expecting anything back
5. shop
6. multitask
7. tape and float sheetrock

7 things I cannot do
1. Be patient in traffic
2. Understand calculus/geometry/hell, all math! and it's purpose in my life
3. Install a ceiling fan
4. Waterski
5. avoid workplace gossip
6. speak a second language
7. live in the moment (most of the time)

7 things that attract me to the opposite sex
1. Smile
2. How they carry themselves
3. height
4. broad shoulders/chest
5. are their socks appropriate with their footwear of choice
6. well groomed
7. sense of humor

7 things that I say most often
1. For the love of all that is good and holy in the world!
2. Dramas!
3. How are you?
4. What are you doing?
5. I need to get serious about a diet
6. Seriously, you should not be allowed on the roads
7. HELLO!

7 celebrity crushes
1. Vince Vaughn
2. Matthew Perry in his heavier Chandler Days
3. Pat Green
4. Matt Damon
5. Jessica Simpson
6. George Clooney
7. Brad Pitt

I'm Offically up with the times!

So I jumped on the bandwagon and joined everyone else in the "blog phenomeon". Not sure that my life is that exciting that others need to check my blog for updates. Nonetheless, here I am!