I is a Straight Line - Neck and Shoulder Exercise by StretchClock

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I have this saved as a Google Gadget on my desktop. It goes off every 60 minutes and prompts me to do a 30 second stretch to keep me from tensing up. If I get up and leave the computer for a bit, it also allows me to pause the timer and resume it once I return. This has been a lifesaver for all the hours I have spent on my computer working on school and work stuff! If you spend a lot of time on your computer, give this a whirl...the stretch on this link is one that I just did...there's quite a few different ones that the guy uses. You do need to turn your speakers up so that you can hear the guy's calm soothing voice, along with the chirping birds...I love the fact that the "model" is a guy in a shirt and tie in the middle of the wilderness...

I would love to hear what you think so please post a reply!

Cheers!

Almost done...

It's almost too good to be true. A week from today I may be just reading a book (one that I want to read and not one that I have to read for a class) or maybe taking a nap on the futon while I wait for a load of laundry to finish doing its thing.

I am about to start up again--on my final paper--I have about 10 pages left to edit one last time and type up. This paper has been interesting and it definitely has sparked my interest into using the topic for my Masters Thesis...but I won't worry much about that right now....that's a ways away--next summer.

Right now, I need to remain focused, finish and post it. How am I going to feel once I hit that "send" button? Exhilarated? Relieved? Content??? Who knows....I know I won't feel sad about it. Will I go through school withdrawal? Will it be like being pregnant for 9 months and having the post-partum blues one sometimes gets?
Or, the post-marathon blues I have experienced after training for 7 months and then finishing a 26.2 mile marathon? The cure for that is to keep on running and to put another marathon on the calendar to work toward.

No, I don't think so...we are talking 7 years! 7 long years mixed with family, kids, work, house, and school...not an easy feat...no, not at all.

This will be a very special week...on Friday we are going to the Graduation Banquet which will be real nice...My dad and Joan will join Jeff and me for a night of recognition and a lovely dinner...all my professors are supposedly going to be there too. Then, Saturday morning, is the official Graduation Ceremony....Cap and gown and all. (The last time I did that was for my two AA degrees in 2006.(Yup! Almost 3 AA degrees with all the units I've taken.)

Time to hit the books...my case study paper awaits completion. The sooner I finish, the sooner I get to bask in my own glory of being DONE!!!!

I am soo tired....Glad it's Friday....my last weekend as a student...soon to be graduate! A week from today is my graduation banquet...!

More stats...

5 days until the END of my FINAL class
7 years...YEARS....of school: Night classes, summer classes, accelerated classes
Hundreds of papers...(I dare not count!)
Hundreds of books
10 days to Graduation

oh....and one final paper....ONLY 20 pages....due in 5 days.

Am I really almost done?

Pictures are priceless...
Yesterday, one of my very special kids...an 8th grader, gave me his school picture...not just a wallet size....but a 5X7 in a beautiful frame! I asked him of his mom knew that he had given me this picture--thinking to myself that he may have grabbed it off a dresser at home, unbeknownst to mom--so, emailed mom to thank her for the framed picture....her response was that yes, her son had a choice of who to give the picture to....and he chose me (even over his dad--who is divorced from mom)

I was speechless. That picture sits in my office at home...his smile....priceless and inspiring!

I just had to share this...