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Long Time no Post, Schoolings, Week 36

I have every intention of keeping on posting here.  I really do.  I’m finding between work, baby preparations, and school that I’m lacking in time to do much of anything.  Some of the things that have been keeping me busy are…

School

I’m set to register for my next semester, and am planning on taking:

Intermediate accounting – A logical extension to the first two accounting classes, I’m planning on going through my whole accounting book over winter vacation to prepare myself.  It’s been a while since I took my accounting courses and want to brush up.

Managerial cost accounting – Standard cost systems for processes, basically budgeting and costs for systems used in business.  I’m pretty sure this focuses on the internal users of accounting info, rather than public documents.

Federal Tax Accounting I – Required for the CPA exam, should I choose to take it.  This one I’m not really thrilled by, but I want to make sure I’m prepared just in case I want to go down that road.

SAP in Business – I’m an accounting information systems major, so I think I should concentrate on, well, accounting information systems.  This is optional but I would think it would be mandatory for this major.

Visual Basic Programming – I’m taking python, have taken java, dabbled in php and perl, so this should be fairly straightforward.  This language lets you make quickie applications to handle a wide variety of needs on the windows platform, and I have no experience in it.

Baby School

We went to baby school!  Last weekend we got to go and sit in the womens health center at Bay Medical Center.  I got to learn about all sorts of things, such as:

• The ‘Ring of Fire’ (poor Johnny Cash)
• Weird electrode looking things they hook up.  One of them gets ‘drilled’ into the babies head!
• Techniques for handling the contractions
• Aftercare for the baby
• How Bay Med handles things, procedurally

Afterward, we went on a tour of the birthing facilities.  It’s on the third floor of the hospital, and is actually very nice.  They have a fridge, hardwood floors, and a general ‘apartment-but-not-really’ vibe.  Basically as ‘homey’ as they could get in a hospital. More excitingly, they have WiFi throughout!  Might be nice during some downtime, if there is any.

At the end we got our prize:

We sure are certifiable!

I do feel better now that I’ve seen the hospital.  I was a bit anxiety ridden beforehand.

Week 36

Jolene is doing well, but feeling ‘very pregnant’.  She has developed a ‘pregnant waddle’ as she walks now.  We’re coping, but the whole thing tires her out.  The baby feels neat when she moves, but you can tell she’s getting more and more cramped in there.  She doesn’t ‘hit the walls’ as much as she did, since she has little room to do so.  She does shift around a lot.  It’s pretty neat to feel her feet or whatever sliding around in there.   All that’s really happening is that the baby is fattening up.

As an aside, I had a bit of an issue, but am now fully vaccinated against all flu viruses.  The CDC wants the families of newborns to form a ‘cocoon’ around the newborn.  The people at the CMU health department didn’t understand at first, but after repeated visits they gave in.