Stress Free!

Last Thursday I took an actuarial exam.  I had been studying like crazy at work, but getting nothing done at home.  I did not want to study AT ALL and had convinced myself that I didn’t care about this exam.  In the final weeks I felt a lot of pressure.  My bosses expected me to do well (even though not registering for last Spring’s exam and failing the fall sitting got me booted from the student program) and my husband expects me to finish these exams!  I freaked and fell into a pattern of getting nothing done again.

I went into that exam KNOWING I failed.  I hadn’t learned anything, even though this was the second time I studied for CAS Exam 7.  In the 15-minute readthrough I got to question 20 (of 36) and realized that I knew everything asked about so far.  So I feel much better now!  I realize that I will have to do much more during the week, BEFORE crunch time, for the next exam.

I’ve been cleaning out closets and sprucing up the yard (items on “the list”).  I have a giant pile of shoes to donate to Goodwill hanging out on my bedroom floor!  Pictures on the computer are sorted, there are now pictures of BOTH my dogs on the mantel, and “the list” has been moved to my updated and again useful Palm VII.  By this summer, I should have all my projects complete!  Well, not the long-term stuff like rip out the kitchen and start over (10 years away, probably), but I will have lots more guilt-free knit and spin time!  Looking forward to it!

Snuggling with these guys is great stress relief . . . but it doesn’t get much accomplished. :)