I am animal

You Are Animal

A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts. You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary. But you sure can beat a good drum. "Kill! Kill!"

The Muppet Personality Test

LOL
I did the "what muppet are you" test on this page Muppet test

I'm santa!

So I just finished being santa. I love christmas. Everything is set for my children to have a magical day tomorrow. The house is clean, the presents are wrapt and I finished all of my baking (I made shortbread, choc chip cookies, coconut ice and white chocolate bark for presents for my uncles, aunties and cousins)

We had a roast dinner tonight and then went and looked at christmas lights, the kids were very cute in how overly excited they got every time we found a new house that was lit up.

I went overboard as usual, they have so many presents that it will take them all day to unwrap LOL. Oh well, kids are there to be spoilt especially at Christmas time.

We had our work Christmas party on Friday night. In the true style of my mother (who also happens to be my boss) we didn't have a picnic or go out for dinner and drinks, we hired a bus and went on a pub crawl. Now don't get me wrong, we all had a heap of fun and I did enjoy myself but sometimes it is hard to reconcile that I came from her. She was in her element surrounded by drunk people in pubs, she is so social and I am so shy. She drinks and smokes and gambles and I do none of the above (I do drink but only very occasionally when there is a specific event being celebrated eg a wedding or xmas party) Not only do I not partake in any of the above but I have little respect for people who do - which does wonders for my relationship with my mother NOT.

On the GAMSAT front, I got my medprep notes so I ditched the textbook I was working from and have started to work from these notes instead. I am halfway through the physics component already and I am suprised at how easily it is all coming back. I attempted an essay but It was a peice of shit and now I am totally fretting about this section. On the poem front, I now remember why I hated the poetry section in the HSC. It is like a second language to me. I can do classical writting and shakesphere but in poems people are intentioally trying to be cryptic and I just dont get it most of the time. I can read the notes on the poem and say "oh I see how that works and what that means" but send me in blind and I have no Fn idea.

I'm planning to get started (ie procrastinating)

I got my ACER books today ($104 later) so it is finally starting to feel like it is happening. I also found a second hand medprep guide for $200 so I was pretty happy with that. Now all I need to do is actually start studying.

It is all a bit scary, I have a looked at lists of subjects that may be in the GAMSAT for the science section and even though I have almost finished a degree in chemistry it all still looks like gibberish. It is just so hard to know where to start. Do I start off by studying from texts of do I do practice questions first? I think I will start with chemistry as all the knowledge is there I just have to remember it, then physics as I have done 1st year uni physics (although that was way back in 1999), then Biology as I have never done any biology, not even in high school.

How do you study for section I & II????????????
I have read that I should read but when am I going to fit that in? With 2 kids, PT work, FT uni and several extra-curricular activities when am I going to get all of this study done???? Now I am just psyching myself out. I am telling myself that writing a blog is good practice for section II but I don't know if that is true.

Lets set some study goals for this week:

1. Write 1 timed essay (only 1 this week as I will ease into it especially with Xmas to distract me)
2. Find 2 poems of different types and analyse them
   
3. Get to the end of chapter 7 of my 1st year chemistry text (doing chapter summaries and practice questions)

All to be done by next Monday (Christmas)

In other news:
We got the house clean in time for Adeline to come over yesterday (just - but don't look in the laundry LOL). I had a really nice time, I was glad that the conversation flowed as easily as it did after such a long time. I do believe that she now thinks that I have very peculiar children. When DS had finished his dinner he started stripping in the middle of the room and poor Ad didn't know where to look. It was pretty funny and it made me realise how well trained they are, he knew it was bath time as soon as he was finished his dinner.

I was pretty happy that we cleaned the house because Dad rang up and wanted to come over and visit for Christmas and we were able to say yes. Although this led to me having to go shopping today because I hadn't even thought of Dad and Marion (his wife) when it came to presents. We only see him a couple of times a year. So today I went shopping with mum, as mum hates shopping so I figured that this would make it quick because she tries to spend as little time there as possible. My quick shopping trip turned into a big 4 hour shopping ordeal because my theory backfired. She hates shopping so much that she hadn't done any and we had to do all of her Christmas shopping. I spent money that I didn't have on stuff that I could have gone without and ended up having to borrow from mum just to survive till pay day. On the bright side Mum bought me a new dress.

Dinner with dad went well. I told him about my Dr plans and he was really supportive (excited even) but it led to a nagging session by Maz trying to convince Dad to go and get some formal qualifications. He is smart but life took him in a different direction and now he is a labourer with no qualifications. They gave me make-up again (3rd year running) LOL. I don't know if it is meant to be a hint or if they just don't pay attention because I just don't wear make-up unless it is a wedding.

Well I am buggered as I have had 2 really late nights and I have to working the morning so goodnight.

DPJEJ

And so it begins.......

So I have started a new blog........ Lets hope I keep this one up.

Quick notes: DH = Darling Husband
DS = Darling Son
DD = Darling Daughter

I decided to start a blog because I have just turned a new page in my life. I have decided that I want to be a doctor. It is something that I have always thought of but passed over as 'too hard'. My marks out of high school were nowhere near high enough so it wasn't really an option and then I got distracted by life, marriage, kids etc. and I have ended up back at uni about to enter the last year of a double degree in chemistry and marketing - neither of which I am excited about pursuing.

I didn't even know there was a graduate entry option to medicine until Eve (a person that I am on the Golden Key committee with) was talking about GAMSAT and about being a doctor. I was intrigued and began Googling. I got very excited and knew within moments that this is what I wanted to do next. The next GAMSAT (Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test) is in March for 2008 entry. It is all a bit scary, a test where the average is about 50 but you need 65 to even get an interview at a medical school, which means that you need to be in the top 15%. There is also a GPA requirement so the people sitting the exam have Distinction averages so I pretty much have to be in the top 15% of the top 15% all of which is very daunting. But I can do it.

I was going to hold off and sit the test in 2008 when I am more prepared but I decided to do 2007 as a test run, then I can resit in 2008 if things don't go my way. I am hoping to get in to avoid that year of stress but I don't think it will happen. I have not done any preparation yet as I just found out that it existed but others have been getting ready for months and even years. Everything that you attach the label of GAMSAT to costs sooooo much. The test itself costs $300 then you can get a few official guides that cost $100 then there are some good prep courses and materials out there but all are $1000++++ even for a few practice exams it costs $275. Being a mother of 2 where both of us are studying full-time we just don't have that sort of money laying around. It perpetuates that medicine is something that only the rich can afford to do. I am just going to have to do it on my own and try and save to get some of these things for the 2008 test.

In other news, I am spending today trying to madly clean my house because Adeline (a high school friend that I haven't seen i years) is coming over tomorrow. It is pretty hard to clean when you have 2 preschoolers following you undoing all of your good work, not to mention the evil computer that is calling out my name. DH is at work today and I have to work tonight and tomorrow so this is my last chance to get this cleaning done.

DS only has 2 more days of preschool left, next week is his last week and he is off to big school next year which is so incredibly scary. It will be hard because DH and I will no longer be the whole world to him, he will have all of these influence that we can't control. It is so hard to see them upset and it will be harder to stop this from happening. DD had a dancing concert last week (which was absolutely adorable) but being 3 at the end of the show they made all of the kids sit on the stage for 1/2 an hour while they did a presentation and she wet her pants and the other kids were mean to her and it broke my heart, I went and got her and took her away. She got over it though and still loves to dance.

That's about it as I have to go and find out why the kids are being so quiet (it means they are doing something they shouldn't).