RANTING AND BEYOND

Watching my favorite band on YouTube. What a way to spend my day. You guys rock!

I started my day early. I had to renew my CPR certification. We had this Chinese guy Ming as our CPR mentor and there were 5 of us in the class. It only took me 2 hours to complete certification. I was surprised that they don’t pay close attention to return demos. You just have to follow the video and complete a written assessment afterwards. Back in the Phil, CPR training takes 5 hours minimum because return demos are taken seriously. If you don’t have the correct technique, you will have to do it again or worse fail training.

At dinner time, the Gelido family and I together with friends attended Samantha’s awarding ceremony at Lock Raven High School in Towson, Maryland. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the recent Poster Making Contest hosted by the Baltimore County Fire Department.

My Nevada temporary RN license was issued early today. It will not be long now before they issue my permanent nurse license. I need this for endorsement to the Maryland Board of Nursing. Time is ticking and bills are piling up. I need to start work ASAP.

When my college friend and batchmate Cherry Agor- Rumbaoa invited me to have dinner in her house in White Marsh, I had the chance to meet her husband Ryan and their twins, Coby and Riley who were such adorable kids.  I also met their friend Drexler who is also working as a nurse in the university hospital.

Ryan told me he likes giving books to his friends. He promised to send me one. I received the book, “The Automatic Millionare by David Bach,”  in the mail today and was so excited to read it.

Thanks to Cherry and Ryan..to Drexler as well. Happy Holidays!

Kids and adults these days don’t pay much attention to spelling and grammar anymore. Why can’t a college graduate master a simple subject-verb agreement or a word spelling perhaps? If a 70 year old woman can spell a word or two correctly, why can’t an educated woman do the same?

I mean I am not a know-it-all person, but it doesn’t hurt to do things right. It gives you that sense of accomplishment. If you can log in to your Facebook account more than a hundred times a day, why can’t you Google a word to check if you have spelled it correctly? If this post will offend you girl, sorry. I’m just telling the truth.

Ideas are fantabulous things. No business gets started, no bestseller book gets written, and no adventures get off the ground without them. The problem is great ideas are bigger and wider than we give them credit for. They have a shelf life. So how do you finish what you’ve started? Give yourself an IMMEDIATE DEADLINE.