Lattes and Studies

Monday, why must you come so quickly? I’ve decided that Mondays will be the day where I do a little recap of my previous week here for y’all. I don’t like it when blogs become all business-business worth informative posts (which are great!) and sponsored posts (which pay the bills) so this way at least once/week I’ll drop in and ramble along for anyone who cares to read it. Interestingly, people say they like these types of posts the best (and I’m talking about a random group of people in a Facebook group I’m in) but when I look at the statistics, these types of posts get about 3-5% of the readers on the day they are published (on this site) versus a more informative post. Not that it matters, I like breaking things up now and again, and I certainly enjoy rambling, hahaha.

Last week wasn’t a very exciting week re-cap wise. A few of my regular classes were cancelled due to location unavailability so I spent a lot of extra hours doing this

Nothing makes an evening off more exciting than spending it reading about digestion and absorption!

Thursday night I did take a break from studying to make some oatmeal cookies. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough flour and I figured that wouldn’t matter as I threw in a little extra oatmeal. When I saw them in the oven I realized that maybe that flour was a bit more important that I thought….so instead I ended up with oatmeal cookie granola

It was pretty good actually so no harm, no foul.

Friday morning I got an email from the company who monitors my website security saying that Malware had been found. I spent hours trying to figure out where it was (normally it’s pretty straight forward but in this case it was anything but). In the end I had to contact them and by Saturday morning all was well. Thank goodness for SiteLock. They’ve saved my butt on more than one occasion.

Saturday I taught Zumba Toning and then came home and got ready to write my final Nutrition exam. It is an online at-home exam but I was still pretty nervous. It is a 3 hour exam and I told to expect to need the full 3 hours to complete it. I was flying through the questions (well maybe not flying, but moving along nicely) and at the 90 minute mark I was well past 50% finished. I had about 25 questions left at that point and was excited that I would finish early and have some time to go back and go over my answers. It didn’t take long before 90 minutes left turned into 45 minutes left, and then 30. When I was down to the last 26 minutes, I had a handful of questions to finish and I lost my internet connection. I won’t lie, I was freaking out. I tried contacted them via twitter (since I knew nobody was in the office on Saturday) but by the time they replied (which was within the hour, just not instantaneously like I had hoped ) it was too late. I finally managed to get reconnected but I had lost all of the time I was disconnected on my time clock. I started scrambling and I just (and I mean JUST) barely got all the questions answered when the time was up and my exam auto-submitted. Of course I was super rattled when I got back online, and I remember one of the questions was about fibre and I yelled, “I don’t even know what fibre is right now!!!” who knows if I was even writing actual sentences or not, and what I did I write I’m sure made no sense. And now I wait. It can take up to 10 days to get my result so I’m going to try to put it out of my mind until that fateful day. If I passed I guess it won’t matter that I lost that time, but if I failed I will be really upset. Not only because it means I’ll have to pay $75 for a re-write, but the pass mark is 80% so while calm Suzi knows the material well enough to pass, frazzled Suzi might not have…

Updated to add: After writing this post I happened to check my email and I’ve already got my exam mark back….and I passed!!! Yay!!!!! Phew. What a relief that is!

And since problems come in threes is only makes sense that Saturday night I would discover that my professional site (suzifevens.ca) had disappeared. The domain and everything was still there, but the content and my WordPress theme were nowhere to be found. Ugh. About an hour later I managed to sort that out but I really hadn’t planned on spending my Saturday night fixing my website.

But that’s three things, so I should be safe for a while….right!?!? Please say yes!

Sunday was wonderfully uneventful. Pekoe and I changed the bed

It’s really his favourite household chore. He always runs in and jumps on the bed and gets all frisky. Silly old man.

Ollie had a little fun too while we moved everything so we could do a good vacuum (two cats = lots of fur)

So that was my week in a nutshell! Do me a favour and keep your fingers crossed that my exam situation has a happy ending? I’m so over studying!