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.

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.

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.