Work, School, and Shingles!

I have been so busy since I started my new, amazing, amazing job, that I hardly have time to think, let alone even blog. This is the best job I have ever had and I love what I do. Working in the low income housing industry is very interesting and never the same from day to day. I work with a great group of women, of course there are days when everyone is ill with each other, but that happens in an office full of women. I am excited for the opportunities that this job is going to bring for me and the travel opportunities that come along with it. I really can't say enough good things about it.

My summer quarter in school started this week and I think this one is going to be the hardest one I have had yet. I am getting into my upper level HR classes and now I am having to read about case law and state regulations and laws, which is alot to take in. I am also having to take a Lit class and I hate having to take English classes in any form. I should only have three more quarters before I graduate with my Associates Degree and then I plan on going back to get my Bachelor's and hopefully my Master's. I have worked so hard for this, I just pray that I can continue on to complete my long term goal. Now if I can just get Wade back in school to finish his last 2 semseters of RN school, we would be a household of college graduates!!!!!

I guess all the stress from school and starting a new job took its toll on me and I now have SHINGLES. I thought shingles was something only elderly people got, boy was I wrong. I woke up Wed. morning with this rash on the right side of my forehead, I went to work not thinking it was really anything, but my boss told me it looked like shingles and made me go to the doctor. Sure enough, he told me as soon as he saw it what it was and loaded me up on medicine and told me do not go back to work for 48-72 hours, which of course meant Tuesday since we are closed Monday, thankfully I can work from home and not have to use sick/vacation time. Within 24 hours this rash had turned into huge blisters on my forehead and I looked like I had a 3rd degree burn. Thankfully I got it treated early enough that it is now starting to dry up and as far as I can see, as of now, it has not spread anywhere else. I do not itch, but since this is a virus that attacks your nerves, the whole right side of my facee feels like someone has punched me 50 times in a row. Needless to say, I am so gonna learn how to relax a little bit more so something like this does not happen again, since the doc told me it is usually brought on by STRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!