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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.