Birthdays...

My daughter just turned the big 5 on the 13th and I had a party for her on the 12th. It was pretty cool to be able to throw a party and have people come out for it. It kind of bugged me that I passed out almost 40 invitations to the kids at her school and only a few of them showed up. That was so mind boggling to me. Its not like I didn't pass it out in enough time for people to RSVP. It was still a nice turn out regardless. Now my birthday is coming up in a week and I will be turning 30. I can't believe I am officially turning 30 in a week. It just sucks because I know I don't plan on doing anything or celebrating. Too bad I don't have a special guy in my life to celebrate with but I'm sure my time will come one day for a guy to be n my life.

Need a new plan...

I haven't posted in over a month and I know I have a lot on my mind so this will be the first post of a couple. I am back to searching for a new plan to lose weight. The nutrisystem plan that I was planning on doing didn't work out like I wanted. I read some of the reviews on the QVC website and it kind of scared me off of spending all the money on the food if it wasn't going to be good. I am still trying to do research and figure out what I need to do. I know I want to get exercise dvds and use them and the only way I can do it is if I get up super early in the morning so that I have time and I need to buy a new dvd player because the one I have doesn't have a remote so its hard to go to pick another selection without it and I don't want to buy a remote and risk it not working. The next thing I need to figure out is the food. I want to try to eat healthier so I need to figure out what foods I can get. I'm kind of thinking about getting a George Foreman grill too. I guess we'll see what happens. I do like seeing other people inspiring and showing their weight loss journey because it lets you know if you are dedicated enough it is possible to get healthy and lose the weight.

Marriage goals...

I always wonder when the guy that I am suppose to spend the rest of my life with will come into my life. I have been single going on 4 years. Its a part me that's fine with it since its been so long but its another part of me that wishes I didn't have to be alone all the time. There's so many people I know that are in relationships and are married and I can't even get a boyfriend. I am no where near the point of talking about marrying someone. It kind of sucks. I will be turning 30 this year and I am hoping that in the next year or two the guy I am suppose to marry will pop up in my life and I can be married by the time I am 35. I still want to have at least 2 more kids and I would like to be married when I do. All I can do is wait for it to be my time and I'm sure GOD will send a guy one day. I think it will be nice to finally get married and have a complete family.

Tough semester...

So far I am trying to make it through this semester. I don't think I'm doing too bad but I think I was doing a lot better last semester. I had to drop a class because I felt like I couldn't keep up with it and there was too much reading and it was definitely hard to keep up. It made me realize I can do four classes but five classes is too much. I am just hoping I can make it through this semester and pass my classes with at least a C. I joined a club in my department called the Community Service Club. I'm glad I was able to find a way to get involved on campus which was a goal of mines and also to be able to do community service and volunteering opportunities. I was able to volunteer yesterday and it was pretty cool. Its nice to be able to go out and help people. I can't wait for the next opportunity and who knows maybe their will be more people to come and help since it was only 5 of us.

Decided on a plan...

This is my first official post of the new year!! My last post I mentioned wanting to get rid of my flabby belly and needing to figure out how I was going to do it. Now, I have figured it out. I decided to go on the Nutrisystem plan. They are selling it on QVC and Marie Osmond was on there. They are selling the first five set. Which comes in a box and has a weeks worth of breakfast, lunch, dinner snacks and shakes. It costs a lot but I am just waiting on my school refund money then I can put in my order. I want to order the six week set of meals. Once I put in my order I will officially start exercising for at least an hour a day. I am excited to get started now that I have a plan in place. I think this is a good plan because I didn't know how I was going to get started and now I know. I will have all the food I need so I won't have to do any grocery shopping or planning meals. I just need to get a scale so I can keep track of my weight loss. So by summer time I should be able to lose a significant amount of weight and I am so ready to get started. Hopefully, I will be able to put my order in within the next couple weeks and get started by the beginning of February. I am just ready to start feeling good and comfortable with myself. I don't feel that way with my big belly so I am ready to get rid of it and not feel like I have to wear big clothes all the time. We'll see what happens and how much weight I can lose by July.

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.

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.