Saturday, December 31, 2016
The year is over...
Today, is the last day of 2016. I can't believe this year is officially over. Christmas has came and went and now it's time for the new year. I hope 2017 turns out to be a great year. This year was not too bad. It was definitely one of my better years because there have been horrible years for me. This year I was able to get back in school and have raised my GPA up and got myself off of academic probation, got a better paying job that is in the field I am going to school for, got to go to the best concert ever over the summer and was finally able to get my own apartment that I don't have to share with anyone but my kids. What I am hoping for in 2017 is to try to become healthier. I need to find a way to do it so I am still working on that. I just want to work on getting rid of my flabby belly area if anything so I would like to work on that as soon as possible and then by summer maybe I will look decent. I want to continue doing well in school. I made it through the year with decent grades hopefully I can continue this coming year. I am hoping I can find something to get involved in at school so I plan on attending the involvement fair and maybe I will find something to get into. I hope I will be able to get the condo I want. It's still on the market so far so good. Hopefully it will stay up until I am ready to get it which won't be for a while. It probably won't be until summer time. I have a good chance of being able to get it. There are two other condos in the area that have been for sale for close to year and over a year. I'm planning on throwing my daughter a birthday party for her 5th birthday so that way all of her friends can come out and celebrate before they all go their separate ways off to different schools for kindergarten. I was also thinking about taking a trip to Great Wolf Lodge. I think that would be fun to do so maybe in March we can do that if I have the money. Who knows maybe I will find the man of my dreams. I have been single for 3 1/2 years so maybe 2017 might be the year I find a great and loving guy. Who knows what the year holds I just hope it will be all good.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Semester over!!!...
The Fall semester is officially over!! I made it through another semester and I must say I am very proud of myself. I passed all my classes. Which was not easy considering it is hard to find time for myself with working a full time job and taking care of two kids by myself. I'm glad I was able to finish. I took four classes and I received an A+ in one, which it is my first A since I started school, 2 B's and a C+, which I am happy for because I would have hated to have to take that class over. I have came a long way from when I first started up there. My grades were horrible because I was going through a rough time and was depressed a lot so I wasn't very focused. All the bad grades led me to academic probation. Now on to the Spring semester which starts in 3 weeks and I am ready to get started and get it over with. I have to see my adviser next week so I can finally sign up for my classes. It sucks to have to wait this long when it seems like everyone else is already registered for classes. Since I did good this semester that means I should finally be off of academic probation and I have been on it all year. Once I am officially off, I can sign up for classes when it starts instead of having to wait until the end of the semester so that I can sign up for the classes I want instead of them getting full. I hope I can do just as good in the Spring like I did in the Fall. Next Fall, I will officially be half way done and will only have four semesters to go, not including Summers. I am ready to graduate. I hope I can continue on and make it to graduation. That is my main goal. The sooner I can graduate the sooner I can get a better paying job. But I just have to take things one semester at a time.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Waiting on true love....
When am I ever going to meet the man that I am suppose to spend the rest of my life with? It has been a long time since I have been in a relationship with anybody or even been on a date. I have been single ever since me and my ex broke up and that was 3 and a half years ago. My ex took no time moving on from our relationship and even though he doesn't know that I know he just recently married the girl. It's funny because he has actually been hiding it from me. He hasn't told me at all and the times I have seen him he takes his wedding ring off. It makes me wonder why it's a big secret if you love the girl you should be happy and proud to show it off. Its not like I'm anybody to hide it from. Why get married just to hide it? I don't think I will ever understand men and their thought process. But I know I would be stupid to marry a guy who would hide the fact that he is married. Personally, I think its a mistake. There is a lot of lies and deception in that marriage and I think the girl was stupid to marry him but what do I know I'm just a single, lonely spinster who can't get a man to save her life. But I do know that the marriage is a mistake but it is definitely not my place to say anything and I can honestly say that I don't envy that girl at all because I would not want to be in her shoes. Anyway, I wonder when I can find a good man. I'm just waiting on the LORD to bring him into my life. I have waited all these years, I wonder how much longer I will have to wait. I just hope whenever he comes, he's in it for the long haul. I want a funny, loving man in my life. Hopefully he is honest because it is hard to come by an honest man these days. If possible, I would like to be friends first of course. I just want someone I can build and grow with and be able to trust. I have already waited 3 and a half years I pray I won't have to wait another 3 and a half.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Crazy long time...
I know it has been awhile but I didn't know it has been almost 3 months since I last posted. Where does the time go? Well, November is almost over. We are in the week of Thanksgiving. Which is always an exciting time. Time to eat and go black friday shopping, if you go. Thankfully, the fall semester is almost over. I have less than 4 weeks to go then I can get ready for the spring semester. I hope I can make it through all of my classes with no problems. It sucks being on academic probation. I can't even register for spring classes until I meet with my adviser. I so wanted to take a sign language class next semester because they actually offered it online and it would have been one of my elective classes but since I haven't been able to register yet I missed out and now all the classes are full. Who knew there would be so many people interested in it. The only way I can sign up for the class is if some people decide to drop it around the time that I can register and that won't be for another month. I'm just happy that I am almost in my junior classes and finally getting done with these core classes. It seems like it's taking forever to get them done but if everything goes as planned then I will be graduating in 2 and a half years and I can not wait. Then hopefully I can get a job making more money and eventually get me a job that I can work from home. Who knows maybe in 5 years I will be able to buy a house. Right now, I'm just worried about getting a condo. Its one I want that is 4 bedrooms in a decent area but I wouldn't be able to get it until I am ready to move again and that won't be until next year. If I am lucky it will still be on the market next year but only time will tell. So far I have been in my apartment about 2 months and it is so nice to finally be able to have my own place but I am kinda ready for it to be next year so I can hopefully get that condo I want. There are a couple of things I dislike is that my patio area is full of leaves and surrounded by trees and its barely any grass around but the apartments across from us is full of grass and no trees and leaves. Another thing I dislike is the washing clothes situation. It cost $1.75 to wash and $1.50 to dry one load. Its not like I have all this money to just get quarters all the time. I can't wait until can have my own washer and dryer so I hope I can look forward to that next year.
Monday, August 29, 2016
So frustrated!!...
Well the Fall semester has finally started. I made it through my last Summer class with a B so I made it through Summer classes although I have to retake one of them this semester. This school I am at is so frustrating. It seems like they try to set you up for failure. I had to wait until classes had already started before I could get my financial aid and I had to get permission to sign up for a class so I had to ask my adviser first and she would get a hold of the instructor so they could let me in. It took 3 days of emailing my adviser back and forth before I got into the class. I finally got into the class and I thought everything was good. All I had to do was wait to get my financial aid so I could get the books I needed. Now today, financial aid sends me an email saying they cancelled my scholarship because I wasn't full time. Mind you, I am taking 4 classes!! Unfortunately, one of my classes I am taking is only 2 credits so now I lose my scholarship because I am one credit under being full time. Now, I'm frustrated and don't know what to do. I needed that money to get my books now I don't know how I'm going to get them. I sent financial aid an email asking if I could apply for anything else, loans or something. I just feel like every time I try to take a step forward I have to take 10 steps back. I feel like ever since I started back to school I have had nothing but problems but I am trying to be as positive as I can be but it is not easy. If I can not figure out what to do then I might end up having to drop a class and it will probably end up being the class that I had to wait forever to get into. I just hope everything works out. One thing I can do is add another class to take but I don't know what I could take and it will take too much just to get into another class since we are pass the first week. I am so lost and confused I just hope I can find a solution to this problem. I would hate to have to drop a class. I pray everything works out for the better...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
I think I love my job...
I think I love my job!! So far I have been there three days and I can say that I am really enjoying it. It is nice to have a cushy job after the many years of manual labor. I love the office environment and the fact that I don't have to worry about working weekends and holidays ever is great. I have to be careful though because it seems like we always have food up there. Yesterday, we got bagels and the supervisor brought cake and ice cream sandwiches to welcome us new people which is pretty cool. I ave never had a job do that before it nice to get recognized that way. There is 4 of us new people ans surprisingly 3 out of the 4 of us are black so I don't know if they were trying to reach a quota or something. All together there are only 5 black people and one of them are leaving at the end of the week. We had more cake today and other food like chips, taco dip, hummus and fruit. So we have had two cakes over the past two days. I pretty much worked by myself today which went pretty good I only asked questions when I wasn't sure of something. I can't wait until I have been there for a couple of months so that I will know more and be able to work independently. I'm glad I get to get off at 4 instead of 4:30 now. It gives me a little extra time to do what I need to do before I pick my kids up. I hope I won't get to point where I start hating my job because I love it and I am planning on staying for the foreseeable future.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
After the 4th of July...
Well it is after the 4th of July, I just got back from out of town yesterday and had a good time. Its been a long time since I had been able to take a vacation so I'm glad I was able to but I am glad to be back home too. It was a long car ride. It was a nice time at the beach and it was a pretty nice hotel. I hope we get to go back again. We watched fireworks from the balcony of our room and it seems like that was the best fireworks show I had seen. The only thing that I didn't like about the trip was that we never ate breakfast. They had a lot of pancake places and we didn't go to one.
Now that I am back home, it is time to focus on other things. I have to get back to doing my school work. This half of the summer session I am only taking one class and it has to do with excel. I have already missed turning in a couple of assignments so I have to make sure I do not miss anymore. I have until Sunday to get all my assignments in. The first half of the semester I got a D+ in one of the classes so I have to retake it and I got a B- in the other. I just hope I can stay focused enough to get through the rest of these classes and hopefully do well enough to keep bringing my gpa up. I start my new job on Monday and I am so excited but I still have to buy clothes and I hope I can find the right stuff. I'm suppose to dress business casual so now I have to buy new clothes for this job. I never had to really worry about buying clothes for my job except for pants. I was always provided shirts or scrubs so hopefully I will be able to find things because I am not even sure where to look so wish me luck.
I am definitely going to have to start figuring out where I am going to be moving to. I refuse to keep having to live with my sister. 2 years is long enough and it made me realize that I can not live with other people I need to live alone. I hope I will have it figured out by the end of September. I just wish I knew where I was going to go. I don't know if I am just going to get another apartment or a house and if I am going to buy one or rent. I would love to buy a house but the way my credit score is looking I don't know if I am going to be able to get a place so I'll probably be stuck getting an apartment. I just hope everything works out for the best and I will be able to get a decent place.
Now that I am back home, it is time to focus on other things. I have to get back to doing my school work. This half of the summer session I am only taking one class and it has to do with excel. I have already missed turning in a couple of assignments so I have to make sure I do not miss anymore. I have until Sunday to get all my assignments in. The first half of the semester I got a D+ in one of the classes so I have to retake it and I got a B- in the other. I just hope I can stay focused enough to get through the rest of these classes and hopefully do well enough to keep bringing my gpa up. I start my new job on Monday and I am so excited but I still have to buy clothes and I hope I can find the right stuff. I'm suppose to dress business casual so now I have to buy new clothes for this job. I never had to really worry about buying clothes for my job except for pants. I was always provided shirts or scrubs so hopefully I will be able to find things because I am not even sure where to look so wish me luck.
I am definitely going to have to start figuring out where I am going to be moving to. I refuse to keep having to live with my sister. 2 years is long enough and it made me realize that I can not live with other people I need to live alone. I hope I will have it figured out by the end of September. I just wish I knew where I was going to go. I don't know if I am just going to get another apartment or a house and if I am going to buy one or rent. I would love to buy a house but the way my credit score is looking I don't know if I am going to be able to get a place so I'll probably be stuck getting an apartment. I just hope everything works out for the best and I will be able to get a decent place.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Great news...
Well I got the word about the job and I GOT IT!!! I'm so excited you have no idea. I didn't get to talk to the HR lady who left a message and told me that I got the offer. I have to wait until tomorrow to talk to her and find out about the pay and when I start. I am hoping I won't start until either the week of July 11th or the 18th. I will be on vacation the 2nd to the 6th so this has came at a good time. I think I will put my two weeks in next Monday so my last day will be the 24th and I can have the last week in June to do what I want without worrying about work. I'm just glad after my vacation I won't have to go back to this job because I'm sure I would come back to a mess being gone for a week. I'm just glad to get away from that place. I can officially say that I am retiring from my department after 6 1/2 years and now I get to do a job where it will be the start of my future career. I'm so glad I won't have to work weekends anymore. It's just a happy time for me. I also got a call about a job interview for a front office job that sounded like a good opportunity but after that message was the message about getting this job so looks like I don't have to call back to schedule that interview. The crazy thing is I had just applied to this job two weeks ago today. So in two weeks, I applied, scheduled an interview, had my interview and two days later I was offered the job. That has never happened to me before. I have had 4 calls for an interview in the past month that has never happened to me before either. I hope this is the beginning of good things to come for me. I think once I start my new job my focus will be on figuring out where me and my kids are going to be living once the lease to this apartment is up. I am ready to get my own place finally and hopefully I will be able to do it. I paid off all but one of the collections I had on my credit report so I hope my credit score will eventually start going up I just don't know how long that will take. I just don't know where I am going to go. Am I going to rent a house, buy a house or just find an apartment to go to? I wish I knew what I am going to do but I will start to figure it out next month and have it figured out before we have to start getting ready to move. I hope I will be able to make a little more than what I am making for my new job then I can figure out what my budget is if I have to rent. If I can buy a house, I would like to try and get a foreclosure. I see that there are some decent houses that are being sold for cheap. I would like to find something that is in decent shape and fix it up as I go. I honestly would not want to go to an apartment because I would like for my kids to have a yard to play in and somewhere they can ride bikes. All I can do is hope and pray for the best and that everything works out the way I want it.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
I think I have good news...
First, I want to start out by saying that today is Prince's birthday. I'm mentioning it because I'm watching Purple Rain right now on VH1 which isn't really a big deal because they are always playing this movie between VH1 and VH1 Classic but after Purple Rain they are going to play Graffiti Bridge and I am excited about it. I like watching that movie. One of the movie channels played it a couple times and they would play it late but I haven't seen it in probably about a year now and I been waiting forever for it to play again. It just sucks that Prince had to die for the movie to get played. They are playing it late at 11:30 so I'm trying to stay up and watch it, The next time it's coming on is tomorrow at 4:30 and I won't be here to see it so I'm trying to stay up and watch it tonight and hopefully VH1 will keep playing it since they usually play the same movies over anyway.
Now for the good news I think I have. I think I may have got a job!!! I'm so excited. I had a job interview today at a place across the street from my job so I got my work done for the day and headed over there. The job is a HIM Clerk position and it's a great opportunity since that is what I am going to school for. So it will definitely help me get my foot in the door in the future. I had my interview and then I got to meet the lady that I would be working with. I also got to shadow her for about a half an hour just to see what she does and its totally a job I want to do. The lady I would be working with is an older lady which is cool she seems really nice plus she reminds me of another lady I worked with at my last job. After I finished with her, the lady I interviewed with showed me around and introduced me to everyone there so it was pretty cool and everyone seems really nice. It seemed like the lady I interviewed with pretty much said I had the job because before I left she said HR should be contacting me soon and she didn't say anything about having anyone else to interview first before she made a decision. So I think it is my job. Now I am just waiting to hear from HR. I hope to hear from them by no later than next Wednesday and I can put my two weeks in by the 20th. I want to put in to take some days off so during my last week which I hope is the end of this month I can take PTO and only work two days of my last week. From what I know, we can wear business casual, no jeans, it is Monday-Friday no weekends or holidays which is what I have been wanting and I am pretty much keeping the same time. The only thing I don't know about is the pay. I assume that I will find out about it once I hear from HR and I hope I'll make a little more money than what I am now maybe at least 2 or 3 dollars more. All I know is that I will be the 5th person leaving my department this month. One guy is suppose be leaving this Friday, another is leaving on the 15th, and another guy said he was getting ready to put his two weeks in to leave by the end of this month and another guy is planning on leaving by August. So it is a lot of us leaving at one time which is going to be weird but hopefully they will be prepared. I'm just glad to be getting away from there and that work. We'll see what happens soon...
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Hoping for good news...
Well things are looking good so far. I'm not doing so good on my diet. I am taking the pills everyday which is 6 sets of 5 pills. So that is 30 pills a day. I weighed myself yesterday and I have lost 6 pounds in 4 days which is awesome considering I haven't been following the diet. I am suppose to be only eating fruits and raw vegetables. That lasted a day and a half and I couldn't do it anymore. I went back to eating my regular foods but I am still eating fruits and at work I am still making my salads and all I drink is water so I am still doing good on that. So I will see how much weight I will lose once the cleanse is officially over. I still have 15 more days to go.
I think I might be close to getting another job. I have already had two interviews so far, one last Thursday and one the Thursday before last and I have another interview this coming Tuesday. So I hope that means one of these jobs will hire me and I can put my two weeks notice in. I am just ready to get a job that is related to the career field I plan on going into after I graduate. Also, I am ready to get out of the job I am doing now. I just hope I can get a job with a little more pay than what I am getting now and I will be working Monday-Friday and no weekends. It seems like everyone in my department is leaving so far, two more people are getting ready to leave. One guy put his two weeks in last week and it sounds like he was offered a great job. Another guy is leaving in August so I hope I am the next one to leave. We'll see if any of these jobs gives me an offer. My deadline to have another job is the end of July but I might be lucky enough to have one before this month is over and that would be amazing considering my last job took years for me to get out of. It would be so nice to not have to go through that again.
I think I might be close to getting another job. I have already had two interviews so far, one last Thursday and one the Thursday before last and I have another interview this coming Tuesday. So I hope that means one of these jobs will hire me and I can put my two weeks notice in. I am just ready to get a job that is related to the career field I plan on going into after I graduate. Also, I am ready to get out of the job I am doing now. I just hope I can get a job with a little more pay than what I am getting now and I will be working Monday-Friday and no weekends. It seems like everyone in my department is leaving so far, two more people are getting ready to leave. One guy put his two weeks in last week and it sounds like he was offered a great job. Another guy is leaving in August so I hope I am the next one to leave. We'll see if any of these jobs gives me an offer. My deadline to have another job is the end of July but I might be lucky enough to have one before this month is over and that would be amazing considering my last job took years for me to get out of. It would be so nice to not have to go through that again.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Weight loss goals...
I am attempting to lose weight. So far, I haven't been doing much exercising besides the walking I do at work but I have been eating more fruits for breakfast and I have starting eating a salad more regularly for lunch. I also have been drinking more water and I usually do not drink anything other than water. I try to make sure I drink 2 big cups everyday at work. A couple of days ago I ordered a full body cleanse kit. It is from DHerbs and they talk about it all the time on The Steve Harvey Morning Show. So since I had the money and I am trying to lose weight I decided to give it a try. So I can't wait until I can get started. I hear you can lost between 20 and 30 pounds from it so that would definitely be a good start for me. I just have to figure out what I will do once the cleanse is over. It is only for 20 days so after that I will have to find something to help me keep the weight off. I downloaded an app that someone recommended to use for exercise so I plan to use that when I exercise. I should start by Tuesday since I still have to get it from the Post Office. I plan on recording my starting weight and taking before pictures so I can compare my progress. Hopefully I can lose enough to look somewhat decent in a swimsuit.
No luck so far....
Well the week is over and I have not received any calls from any of the jobs I had applied to over the weekend so I'm hoping I will get some luck next week. I haven't been job hunting since the weekend so I am going to start looking again to see if anything new has been put up in the past couple days that I can apply to. My goal is to find something by the end of July if I can. I would like to be able to have another job before the Fall semester starts since I have a class I am taking on Saturday, it will be nice to get a job where I do not have to work weekends so that way I won't have to worry about having to explain to my boss that I can't work weekends anymore and if I do I can only do Sundays. I hope everything works out for me. I have about two and a half months to find something. I hope I can get what I want in that time frame. Wish me luck!!!
Summer semester...
Summer semester is going along smoothly. I am doing a good job getting all of my work turned in on time. You would think that it would be hard to keep up since there are assignments due every other day. This half of the summer session is only six weeks long so everything is due back to back. I am ready to get to the Fall semester. I am hoping that I will be able to keep up with my Fall classes as good as I am with my Summer because I will be taking five classes.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The job search continues...
Well I am officially getting serious about job hunting again. One of the girls at my job just got hired at my old company for an administrative job and I am jealous. Why couldn't that have been me? As long as I have been trying to get an administrative job and I wouldn't mind going back to my old company. I still miss it even though I have been gone for over a year now. With her getting a position that I want, it gives me hope that I still have a chance to get something. I just need to start applying and try my luck. Hopefully I will be able to get a job offer in the next couple of months. I am so ready to get out of the job I am doing. I have been working in the same department for over six years now and its not something I want to do for the rest of my life so I want to get something in administration. Something that will be closely related to what I am going to school for that way I won't have to wait until after I graduate to get experience. I just hope I can get something and of course I hope I won't have to work weekends and I can get paid a little bit better than what I'm getting paid now. Wish me luck...
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Spring semester is over!...
The spring semester is finally over!! I made it through. In both of my classes I got a B- so I am proud of myself for getting through it. Now I can scratch those two classes off my list and move on to the next ones. Summer semester starts in a couple days and I have to stay focused. It is more fast paced and I will have assignments due every other day so hopefully I will be able to keep up. I'm trying to take three classes and I was trying to take four but the way my financial aid looked I was going to have to pay out of pocket again but now it looks like I'm still going to have to pay out of pocket so I need to figure out if I'm going to add the other class back or not since either way I'll have to pay out of pocket unless I bite the bullet and take out a loan which I would hate to have to do since I have loans from years ago that I haven't even been paying so I think I'm more scared to take out a loan. I guess I better figure out what I'm going to do quick since the semester starts in a couple days. I almost got myself excited because I was thinking about going for a minor but the classes I need are only offered on campus and with a full time job and two kids to take care of its not easy trying to find time to take on campus classes. The only thing I can do is see if they offer equivalent classes at the community college and hope they offer them online then I can have the credits hopefully transferred. I want to do as much as I can before it gets time to graduate. It's graduation weekend now and every year when it gets this time I always wish it were me but in a couple years if everything works out it will be my time and I can not wait. It will be a long time coming. I can just imagine how excited I'll be when it's my turn. Then I will have to figure out what I am going to do after. Either I can go back for another bachelors or get my masters. I guess we'll see when the time comes.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Long time....
It has been about 3 months since I last posted. Where is the time going? Well I don't think a lot has been going on. The Spring semester will be over at the end of the week and I hope I can make it through. I came out of one class with a B- so now I am just waiting on this last class to finish and find out what my final grade is. I just need to make it out with a C+ and I am at the border line with a C. I was just at a 71% which was a C- and I was 6% away from getting to a C+ but now that my final project was done I got all 100 points for it so I am excited I am currently at a 76%. Now I am a smidgen away from getting that C+. We had one more forum post to do which I am done with and it is due today by 5. The last thing we have to do for this class is the final exam and hopefully I will do okay on it but as long as I can get that C+ I will be happy. I should know by the time I do the final. I am just ready to start focusing on the next semester which is Summer for me. I am not getting any breaks until hopefully next summer so I'm trying to knock out the last of the classes I have and I only have 3 semesters to do them in if everything goes well. I am signed up to take 3 classes this summer but I am trying to add one more if I can sign up as a guest student at the community college. I can't believe this is the last week of the spring semester and the summer semester starts next Wednesday. I still need to find out about my financial aid for the summer so I should be looking into that quick and I need to find time to get my books. I am ready to get started and get summer over so that I can get to the Fall semester then I can do next Spring after that I will be in my Junior classes then my Senior and I will be ready to graduate. I hope I can make it to that cap and gown moment that is all I want. Hopefully these semesters will fly by.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Hot guy....
There's this guy I work with and I think he is sooo hot. I don't see him everyday but when I do, I sure get happy. We talk sometimes and joke with each other. He is a cool guy. The sad thing is I know I would never have a chance with him. He is a little younger than me and I usually don't go for guys younger than me like that but I would make an exception for him just to see where things went. He's single and has no kids so I would highly doubt a guy like that would be interested in someone like me who has two kids. He sure is nice to look at, has a nice smile and he wears glasses which helps make him more attractive. It totally makes my day when I see him. I guess all I can do is daydream about him since I know I wouldn't have a chance in hell with him but it sure would be nice. I know there's a guy out there for me somewhere. When we'll be together, no ones knows....
Organization dreams....
For years, I have always thought about joining a sorority. It has always been something I wanted to do. I have always had two that I was interested in but one that I really wanted to be apart of. Within the last couple of days, the thought of joining one has came into my mind and I started looking some stuff up. I found a blog by a lady who is in a sorority and she gives tips to aspiring entrants as well as share her experiences. Some of the things you have to do to even be considered to join one is have a gpa of 2.5 and have a background in community service. So this year, I am planning on getting my gpa up by making sure I am getting through my classes with passing grades and I am getting involved with community service. I have actually wanted to be involved with community service and volunteerism but never knew how to go about it. I started looking online for places to volunteer at. I have found 3 places that I plan on volunteering at. I have already sent in applications to 2 places so I just have to wait to hear from them. The other place I plan on volunteering on Saturdays and they have opportunities for one Saturday a month. So before I register I need to make sure I don't have to work that weekend. If I don't, I'll sign up and see how it goes. If I like it, I'll sign up again for next month. The other two places I applied to, one of them I planned on helping one or two Tuesdays a month and the other place I signed up to help on Thursdays and Saturdays, so I can do one or two Thursdays or Saturdays a month. The Tuesday and Thursday one I can just take those days off of work. But that is definitely one of the reasons I would love to be apart of a sorority is the volunteerism. The other reason is the life long friends part. It would be awesome to be able to have friends who would be like family. I already don't have many friends especially friends to go out and do things with or even talk on the phone and confide in. That is something I would love more than anything is to have real true friends. We'll see what happens. I don't plan on trying the sorority thing until the next Spring semester so for now I'll just focus on getting my grades up and volunteering. The one thing that scares me is the having to get a recommendation letter from an active member of the sorority you are interested in. I wouldn't know how I would go about doing that unless I was able to get involved some way on campus and I just happen to meet someone. I don't know how that part is going to play out but I have a while to figure it out. I hope everything works out the best way it can.
House plans....
This year I am wanting to buy a house if possible. Since it is tax time, my plan is to use my tax money on getting my credit report cleared off so I can get my score up. Once I do that, I can hopefully start looking for a house. I just don't want to get another apartment. I am sick of apartment living. I want a place I can call my own. A yard my kids can play in everyday. I have been looking for houses and I found one that's a pretty nice size. Its an over 3000 sq ft house with 4 bedroom and 2 and a half baths. It also has a living room, a family room, a loft and a den so plenty of room to run around in and have privacy. It says its going for $109,900 right now and hopefully the price will get lowered again soon. I just hope no one tries to snatch it up before I get a chance. It also said it needs some work and who knows how much so that's something I would have to look into if I get the chance. If I have a chance to put an offer in, I will definitely try to low ball it. That is, if it doesn't need too much work but it seems like a house that is too good to pass up. I'm surprised no one has put an offer in for it yet. It has been on the market since November. There are other houses I am interested in but that one is at the top of the list. I hope I can start looking real soon.
New Year.....
This is my first post for the new year. Sucks I waited so long but I did. It is February now. The night job that I posted about, I only lasted 3 weeks there. Which was for the best. I wore myself out trying to work two full time jobs. I wasn't getting any sleep. I would be dozing off driving. Now I know that if I was to get another second job, it would be part time but I don't have any plans of getting another night job. I am back in school and I am happy. I am determined to do good and pass my classes. So far I think I am doing good. I have been turning my assignments in, the only thing is the reading. The chapters are so long its hard to concentrate for long. I was only able to get into two classes this semester. I wish I could have taken more but I didn't get registered into school until after the semester had started and the classes I need to take, either they aren't offering this semester or I have to take a prereq first or they were full. I had all of my classes for the next 5 semesters planned out and since I got registered late and could only sign up for two classes I had to rearrange it so hopefully I'll be able to stick to the schedule. I plan on taking 3 classes this summer then 4 in the fall and next spring, then I should only have 2 left by next summer. After that, I'll be able to take my junior classes and I can't wait. I looked up the syllabus' for those classes and they seem easy. The cool thing is no projects and I don't think there are any papers to write. I have a year and a half until I get there if I can pass the rest of these classes I need to take which I plan on doing. I hope everything goes as planned but like I said so far so good.
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