Update Schmupdate

Anyone who has talked to me in the last 4 months, knows that I took the PE on April 16th. It was hard...harder than I expected. And has taken me a while to process it all (as I am finally posting about it a month later)

I felt like I should have studied more, but if I pass, I will be glad I didn't study more. Especially since the topics I really struggled with, I would have never thought to study the stuff that was actually on the test (but I can sure analyze effective stress in soils).

Mostly, I studied at work and counted my review class as good, but I decided I should study at home on a couple of Sundays.

Here is my study area with all my reference books, before I started studying.
This is what happened when I started studying.

KPP joins the table (this is after I pushed her off my book I was reading)
Nova joins the party. She spent a lot of time rooing at Pie or with her head in my lap trying to get me to play.
KPP was NOT going to move, you can tell it is later in the day, because my blinds are closed. This totally took me back to being in school. KPP use to sit on my lap in front of my laptop, it was very convenient for writing papers.
And here is me at the Easter Egg Dying Party. It was going to be the cutest picture of me ever, and then Geoff walked in front of me.

Now for the progress report on the goals
1. Company clean house - it is currently a train wreck : ( I had it clean and then the weekend after the PE happened and I just haven't had motivation, maybe tomorrow I'll clean.
2. Exercise 2-3x /week - again the PE happened. That test threw my schedule off. I will have to start up again.
3. Walk the Nova 4x /week - ya see above
4. Take a lunch 2-3x /week - I have actually done really well on this one, except I have been coming home for lunch. I rather enjoy seeing Nova and Pie in the middle of the day, plus I get a lot of cleaning done on lunch breaks.
5. Make my own bfast4/5 days - I have rocked this one!! YAHOO me! I think I have purchased bfast twice in the past 3 months.
6. Track $, Save >=$200/month - I have done fairly well at this, the saving, not the tracking, I suck at tracking, but I am more conscience about where I am spending my monies and that is what matters.
7. Read 60 books - Check I have been reading.
8. Write in my journal >=1/week - ya um no.
9. Bike to work 87x - I am still at two rides for the year, but tomorrow is bike to work day, so I will be biking, maybe that will be my kick-off for the season.
10. Take stairs at work - I was doing so well until I stopped working out and then I stopped taking the stairs. I guess I should start that up again, maybe tomorrow (but not when I have my bike)
11. Secret - I am doing okay at my secret goal.

Now I feel like I used the PE as an excuse for a lot of things, but it really did wipe me out. I think if I have to take it again, I will not schedule anything for right after (even though the baseball game was super fun) or the Saturday after (even though I go my composter together and Nana sanded most of my chair) or the Sunday after (I did something) and will take the Monday after off. I was/am really surprised how exhausting it was, I must be getting old. Oh and the worst part of it is I get asked daily if I know yet, I WISH! I only have 6 to 8 weeks left before I get my results! Please let me have passed!! I am too cheap and tired to take it again, however, I will take it again, because I vow to become a PE!

And thank you to all my friends and family (aka my only readers) for putting up with and supporting me while I prepared, I know I became a one trick pony. I sure hope I passed, so I don't have to play that pony again...