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| This is what I have been doing for the past month, only not so peacefully, and without the snazzy arm pillow. |
So, I know it has been, like 47 years since I have posted. I
am very sorry about that. As I mentioned before, I started working the after
school program at my school to make extra money, so every day but Thursday I go
in to work around 6:30 AM, and I leave work around 6:00 PM. Needless to say, at
the end of the day I have about as much energy as Ben Stein did in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I have been
coming home, eating dinner with my parents, and then usually falling asleep for,
you know, just a little nap (Read: all night). Oh, and doing schoolwork. What
is this schoolwork of which you speak, you ask?
I don’t think I have ever mentioned this before, but I am in
the process of completing an MBA. I am doing it online, and I promise it is
through a reputable university, and not one where you give them $200 and they
give you your diploma. When I started my MBA in January of 2012, I planned to
change careers and become an accountant so that I could make the big bucks. (I
do not make much money as a teacher.) However, as time passed, I realized that I
was about as good at accounting as a two year old is at being quiet, and I
decided I did not want to struggle through my job every day. So, I switched my
major to project management. I figured that making the big bucks was still a
possibility, and I enjoyed my classes.
But, when school started this year, something important happened. I started enjoying
my job a lot. I hadn’t enjoyed much of anything since I got divorced, but it
appeared that I was getting some of my spark back. I had an energy shift and I
became much more optimistic. I remembered how much I liked working with my
students, and particularly with my students who have ADHD. Now, right after I got divorced my initial
plan was to become an ADHD coach. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named had ADHD, and I learned
so much about it while I was with him. Mostly I learned to have massive amounts
of patience. While I did want to specialize in working with people with ADHD,
the thought of doing anything remotely related to Old Nimrod made me ill, so I
decided not to follow that path.
Well, now that I am almost done with my MBA, I have decided
that I do want to become an ADHD coach after all. I stand to make a lot of
additional money doing that, and I would be doing something I enjoy. My first
thought was that the MBA was a waste, but, after having Mom and Dad therapy on the topic, I think
the MBA will actually be very useful in helping me run my ADHD coaching
business. At first I will probably have to just offer my services after school
hours, but, once I become more established, I would eventually like to
transition into doing the coaching full time. If you are asking “What the hell
is an ADHD coach?” then you are not alone. When I first heard of ADHD coaches,
I thought it was probably something that would be administered by some quack
with no credentials, but, after doing my research, I found out that there is an
accrediting body and everything. ADHD coaches help children and adults with
ADHD learn to manage their symptoms, and to become more productive and
efficient. Basically, I will be helping people make the changes they need to in
order to improve their lives. Since I love helping people, this appears to be
the perfect job for me. I am going to begin my classes in March of 2014, and
will finish by May of 2015. Then I will be able to begin seeing clients over
the summer. The classes are actually teleclasses that are scheduled twice a
week in the evenings for an hour and a half.
Anyway, getting back to my original point in writing this
post, I am so busy right now that I just stopped writing blog posts completely.
I will finish my MBA on December 6, and the class I am now taking is my very last class! We are in the third
week of class right now, and I am just trying to slog through it. When I finish
I am going to do something special to celebrate, because, as many of you may
know, taking classes while working full time is about as much fun as getting a
case of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Up until this semester I have always
taken two classes at a time, so taking only one is almost like a vacation to
the Bahamas. Still, since I have added the after school program, it is
difficult to fit everything in.
I have been trying to exercise too, but I have been about as
successful at that as your average fish is at climbing a tree. Theoretically, I
could exercise either in the morning before work, or later in the day after I
get home from work. I have tried numerous times to get up at 4:45 AM, but I
have determined this is just not ever going to happen. One time, about a month
ago, I woke up at 4 AM and exercised, and I felt great in the morning, but by 1
PM I felt like I was in the middle of a Hunter S. Thompson book. I ended up
having to go to sleep right after I got home from the after school program that
night because I was basically incoherent by that time. So, that leaves when I
get home from work as my exercise time.
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| I don't have any human children, but if I did, they would not be sleeping at 10 PM because the sound of the treadmill would keep them awake! (maybe) |
I have tried exercising right after I get home, but I am too
hungry. I cannot exercise right after I eat, because then I am too full and
will probably throw up on my new treadmill. If I do not do it immediately after
eating, though, I will lie down on the couch at my parents’ house, or go back
to my house and lie down on the bed, and then it is so much harder to get up!
Plus, when I exercise right after dinner, I don’t get to hang out with my
parents and their pets, and I like to do that. So, that leaves me with
exercising later at night, around 10 PM. I am not saying it’s never going to
happen, but I am not saying it’s definitely going to happen either. We shall
see.
I have missed you all during my hiatus. I have actually
discovered that writing these blog posts greatly improves my mood and overall
disposition. It is uncanny how much actually. It is almost like taking a little
pill that just makes everything better. I have worried about trying to be funny
every day, but maybe it is okay if every post is not hilarious. Maybe I will
just write and try to be interesting. Once again, we shall see. For now I will
be happy with having written this one post, and I will just keep on trucking.
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