I started school this last Tuesday, so if you are wondering why my blog posts have fell behind it's because I have been (gulp) doing homework! Why has it taken me this long to do this? I look back on the last 9 years since being in school and cannot think of a single, solitary reason why I didn't get my degree. Well, I guess the reason would be that I figured I would do it before I turned 30 and that I had plenty of time, I needed to have fun and live my life instead. I don't believe in regret and shoulda-woulda-couldas, so I will not look back on my life hoping things turned out differently. It does make me sad that I will be 30 and still be working towards my degree, but I am also glad that I am 30 and not 40 working on my degree. Being a student this time around is a little bit different. I have noticed that I am not so much of a procrastinator anymore. I understand the importance of staying on top of my assignmnets, as my motivator this time is to graduate with honors as opposed to just doing the bare minimum. I hope to get as much as I can out of all my classes instead of just getting through it to get a passing grade. I also can look at school work and put it ahead of other things, such as going out with my friends. I have done enough going out with my friends in my life to put something as important as this aside. It's a much better balance in my life now. I do look forward to having this goal completed. I think people get scared sometimes when something has taken a long time to complete, especially school. As time goes on and on, the goal gets bigger and loftier and people do not know how to even begin. I am ready to have this checked off my list in two years so I can move on to the next goal I have. (Small plug, if anyone would like to go back to school, UOP is the best option for adults with jobs and kids, as they work with your schedule. If you are interested, let me know!)
Due to my recent proactivity with my credit and paying off debt, I decided to give the hospital a call where I was admitted about a month ago and ask about my bill. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it in the mail and I wanted to get an idea of what I'd be paying for my stay. I get on the phone with the billing department and the woman is just as nice as can be, really. She was surprised I'd even called her, considering I didn't even have a bill yet. She told me she'd sent the bill over to my insurance to be approved and paid but they hadn't heard back yet. "Just out of curiosity," I asked, knowing I would be responsible for 20% of the final bill, "how much was it?" What I heard next shocked me. "$61,000" she said. I said, "$61,000? I was only in the hospital for a night and only on anti-biotics, you can't be serious! My daughter cost me less than a third of that to give birth to and I was in the hospital two nights!...
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