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I would be glad to show you a great way to manage your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly communications, which would ultimately increase your business through simple marketing actions :)

If this is for a business, just email me your name, your business' name, mailing address, phone # and website address, and I will send you a sample of our product with a free DVD.

If you don't have a business, and just want to know more because you are strapped for time, but want to reach out to friends and family this holiday season... still email me your name, address, phone # and website (if you have one) and I'll send you a free sample of our product with a free DVD.


~Kari

A funny thing happened on my way to registration...

Ok.

I decided I wanted to go to grad school. This decision was followed by a whirlwind of phone calls, emails and conversations with faculty from my prior college to ask for a recommendation, and of course sending my transcript to the new school. Complete the application (online in a lot of cases now) and WAIT.

By the time I found out I really have been accepted (not just to the university, but also to my specific academic program) - it's time to register. I go to register and find out the school requires proof of vaccinations. In my case... TN requires proof of the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella).

I read about this on the day of my appointment with my advisor and figured I would just go get my blood drawn and it would prove I had immunity. I mean... they wouldn't actually keep me from registering for this, right??

WRONG!

Being that it seems I can never do things the 'easy' way... I found out I could only register for part-time status until the school's Health services had a signed form from my Dr. that I either had the vaccine with dates; was immune via blood titers drawn; or had the disease already with medical records documentation. OR... I could refuse based on religious beliefs. So off to the Dr's I went with paperwork in hand - had the blood drawn and waited 4 days. Got the paperwork signed by my doctor saying I had immunity and faxed that with the lab work and thought... NOW I can finish registering. I thought I heard the Hallelujah chorus of angels singing :)

But wait... it gets better.... lots better.

I call Health Services to make sure they got the paperwork because the system still wouldn't let me finish registering. I was told I still couldn't finish registering because my Mumps immunity measurement was dead-set middle .... the exact measurement fell between what the system considers Immune or Not Immune. But funny enough... my measles and rubella measurements showed immunity. Considering I would have had the MMR shot with all these vaccines rolled into one shot... wouldn't common sense tell you I was immune to mumps too?

Call my local Health Dept. to find out when I could get a vaccine and was told they didn't have any appointments open until December 22nd! Keep in mind that once I get the shot, I still have to wait another 30 days to have another titer drawn to (hopefully) prove Measles immunity!

Yes... classes start the week of January 14 :-/

I call my Mom. I ask her if she has my shot record. She says she gave it to me. That means it's somewhere in the garage. I am not ripping apart my garage for a shot record! Then she says I've already had mumps, but they didn't take kids to the doctors for every little thing back then.... so it was probably never documented. Wow... I'm nearly 40 years old, and didn't even know I had mumps!

So I leave work to figure out, who in the world will I call and either find my shot records, or medical documentation showing I've had mumps, or at the very least shows I've had the vaccine. I am drawing a blank. Call health services at the school and find out they will administer the shot, but I still can't finish registering until the blood draw in 30 days and lab work comes back showing immunity (figure 35 days round-trip for this!!)! Yes... this means I cannot finish registering for my classes until nearly Christmas! Boo :(

My personal lesson in this is that I should have paid attention to this detail as soon as I was applying for grad school and it's just 'good business' to know where important medical documentation is... no matter how 'unimportant' you may think it may be!

Hopefully... my personal vaccine crisis will get you to think about your own medical records :)
If you are even remotely thinking of going back to school - check their registration requirements. Not all states necessarily have all these restrictions - but check anyway :)

If I happen to find those shot records... I think my head may pop off anyway... LOL!

~Kari

Cleaning House - 10" Tulle circles for sale

Even though I won't know until later this month / first week of November if I've been accepted into my graduate program... I am already 'nesting' in my home office!
Cleaning off shelves - throwing away item that I have too long held onto in 'hope' of doing something productive with them.

Yes... I am a total pack rat :(

I found (3) packages of 100% Nylon Tulle Circles.
Each circle is 10" ~ There are 25 circles per packet.

(2) of the packets are white tulle circles, and (1) is Ivory.
The brand is 'Home Sweet Home'.

These are great for:
* wrapping up votive candles to give as gifts
* making birdseed packets for weddings
* wrapping small wedding favors
* if you make home-made soaps... very nice way to wrap them.

Each package is $3.00 + shipping, or take all (3) for $10 WITH shipping :)

I take paypal at kewomack at charter dot net

Email me if interested :)

-Kari

Awesome day..

Today has been an awesome and beautiful Saturday.

I have so much to do, and not a lot of time to do it in.

I'm excited and nervous about the future, but oh so encouraged.

Not everyone has a chance to go back and do something you wanted to do years before, but chickened out! I'm so glad my life was side-tracked down here to TN where I could meet my husband and have our family :) If I had gone to graduate school right away, my life would have been so different. Thank Goodness for those side-tracks!

But now it's time to go back to my first career 'love'... to work with college students!

I am in the midst of applying to MTSU's graduate program for M.Ed. in Administration & Supervision with a specialization in Higher Education. In a nutshell... I would love to work with students either through serving in Residence Life, Dean's office, Career Center, Student Center, Student Development... ALL of the above!!! My life was so positively impacted by staff in these very same offices when I went to school.... I want to be that same voice of reason & encouragement!

Thank You God for 2nd chances!

-Kari