Getting Ready

Today was spent running around trying to get all of my last minute stuff for school done - get background check, fingerprinted, more books, titers, etc. Thank goodness the new year has started and I have some vacation days/floating holidays to use - even though I only have a week left. I also had my CPR class tonight. It really wasn't that big of a deal but got me thinking about how many people truly don't know CPR. I just assumed everyone did - or at least the basics of it. We first were certified in middle school. I asked Matt if he ever had to take CPR classes and he hasn't. Never has done it although he thinks he could muddle through how if he needed to (or at least listen enough to the 911 operator as they walk him through it). It just seems so simple and something that I think everyone should know how to do. Now if I still think it seems so simple when and if I am ever faced with that situation will be a different story.

Also, how unfair do you secretly think that it is that there is now a chickenpox vaccination? That's like a right of passage as a child - having the chickenpox and being caked in calamine lotion dots. Poor kids get to miss out on that and the possibility of ever getting shingles. Okay - so maybe it's a good thing but still not fair...