One quarter down - Two to go

Well the date on this should date back to more the beginning of the month.

So, since my last writing on this blog I have been quite accomplished, for a student that doesn't work and is out of school for the holiday break.  Since I was done with school back on December 3, at least for the break, my time has been quite boring.  Well catching up on some T.V. shows, not trying to spend any additional money than required.  Continually going online looking at the same apartment complex and houses over and over, hoping that if I look up at the calendar it will read June 15.  This whole mentality of hurry up and wait that I have adopted from the damn Marines.

On a more productive note...I have secured my internship with the Spokane Regional Health District and have a wonderful opportunity to learn about the policy pushing that occurs behind policy makers, I guess you can say that I will be a primary shaker to the policy maker.  The two main project that I will have some impact on in Spokane will be a Healthy Corner Store Project: bringing healthier food choices to convience stores in locations that are not easily accessible to a Grocery store.  The other, is to campaign for a month long Walk to school for three districts in the Spokane County.

Well time to play with the puppies.

Mannix at Palmer College of Chiropractic

An Old School Video of why we love chiropractors and Palmer College of Chiropractic

Can't Sleep

It is amazing to me how my suffering through PTSD and the difficulties that I have trying to fall asleep.  Sure my primary care provider prescribed me a sleeping aid, but the fact is that I am afraid that I will become too dependent upon it.  How can it be that I was able to reassure Marines that this little pill will help their lives and yet I can not bring myself to do it.  Is it because I just completed a course on drugs in society and how dependent a person can become on a sleep aid; possibly.

Well with school being almost done for this quarter, still have a final to turn in, I am left with time to...well think, plan, prepare?  Prepare for what our move.  Heck it is still 6 months away before we are on the road to Florida.  I mean, what route should we take? Should we use a vehicle transport to ship my truck and then rent a truck and car hauler to move?  Should we put the wear and tear on my truck and rent a trailer and wife and I travel in separate vehicles?  Sure it is a matter of a couple thousand dollars but what would be the most sane way of traveling.  I guess I can put up a couple surveys on the site and see what people have to say.

Heck I am the one to choose to go to a prestigious school where each quarter the course load varies between 30 and 36 credits.  Just did the math over dinner...if I were to take the full load of 36 credits I will spend 36 hours in class/lab, 72 hours studying and 56 hours sleeping a week, only leaving me 4 hours to do what, relax?  WOW, I can not wait for those days to occur.  Heck, today I do not even spend that amount of time hitting the books, if I did I would think I would be a 4.0 student as an undergrad, instead I am a 3.4 and just attend class and do the homework/projects for the respective course.

Well I think I will go and lie down and try to get some sleep.

Cheers,

Cameron

Remember our heros

Look at August post!!!

One Internship closer

Well today was an exciting day.  Weather in Spokane was well above freezing causing a lot of snow to melt and help clear up the roadways that the road department could not seem to do.  More importantly I had an internship with the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) and I felt that it went well.  Just need the blessing for the big boss to approve.  Will describe what I will be doing there on a later date, need to fully understand it myself.

Cheers,

Cameron

Continuing the Adventure

Well today is the day that I am going to start documenting my trip down to Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida (PCCF) in Port Orange, FL.  I feel that this way I can both help myself and possibly others who may be on a similar journey.

Over the Past 18 months my wife and I have continually been looking forward to completing our schooling at Eastern Washington University (EWU).  Even more recently the both of us have been going to either a real estate website or the several different search engines looking for potential places to rent while I attend school at PCCF.  We are open to any recommendations to the Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach, and Ormond Beach areas for apartment complexes or even a house (we would prefer a house, having two dogs it will help).

Well, I think that this will be a good start to a blog.  More to follow

Cheers
Cameron

Remember a Hero

You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded , and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. 

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out , you know this is the day. 

Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. 

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. 

He's coming anyway. 

And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. 

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. 

And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... 

And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out. 

Medal of Honor Recipient , Ed Freeman , died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul..... 

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend" 

Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman! 

Shame on the American Media