Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooowly, but surely........

Hey…it’s been a while…but a lot has happened since I last blogged.  I started back up in school…..which could be going better, but hey!  I’m a perfectionist.  Whatever’s going great will always have room to get better, so…ignore me, lol.

I don’t know how much weight I have lost, but I have been way too tired to even think about exercise.  Not an excuse, I know, but I am in two demanding courses at school right now.  I have Phase One of a project due next week and I haven’t even started research on it yet.  That’s for my computer course.  For my Math course, I have been devoting all my time trying to catch up.  Both classes are online – which I think are more difficult than the live and personal classes.   It takes more discipline.  But anyway, I took online courses because of the convenience.  It’s cold outside, parking is limited at the school, but guess what?  The stupid courses don’t work on my computer because my version of Microsoft Office is too old and my version of Internet Explorer is too new.  So I end up having to go to school ANYWAY…which really pisses me off.  But I’m getting over it, LOL.   Maybe it’s better this way.  When I’m at home, somebody always decides they need to be knocking on my door for one reason or another.  At least at school I get some uninterrupted peace and quiet!  So it works out.  But I have to PRESS in that math course, because in my frenzy trying to figure out why the course wasn’t working on my computer, the show went on!  I missed SIX assignments.  Luckily there are about twenty more, but come on people.  This is math.  COLLEGE ALGEBRA they call it.  I need as many points as I can get.  So I’m in that computer lab every day, punching out numbers on my fresh $115.00 TI-84 calculator (I’m tempted to take another math class after this one just to get my money’s worth!!!).   Trying to make those grades, trying to “get that paper,” trying to wake up every morning and eventually do something I LOVE, not just tolerate, LOL. 

People are like, “Do you like your job,” and I’m like, “It pays the bills……”  I mean, I know a lot of people who have graduated with Bachelors, Masters and PHD’s who still don’t have their dream job, so a degree promises nothing.  But I’d be able to qualify for a wider range of higher paying jobs that can at least pay the bills a bit faster, LOL.  I’m trying to get a new car (I’ve got my eye on that Saturn VUE), and I’m trying to get this condo in Annapolis that I have dreams and fantasies about!!!!!  A degree promises nothing.  I have a friend who’s a nurse and now she’s attending Capital Bible Seminary.  I have a friend with an associate’s degree in criminal justice who is now attending the Washington Bible College to provide Godly encouragement and advisement to women.  I know someone with a degree in business from Bowie State University who now wants to pursue acting!!!  But one thing is true for all these people:  they surely are making more dough than me!!!!!!!  I’m not bitter.  I am thankful for what I have because I could have nothing at all!   Not to mention, a lot of the positions I have found in the past and even currently want to pay me $10.00 an hour here, or $13.50 an hour there.  I’m thankful that I’m at least making a little more than that!  So, like I said, I’m not bitter, but I am on a mission, and completing school is non-negotiable.

These days you can’t even be a receptionist in some offices without a four year degree in business.  And I know your reaction is that same as mine was!  You’re saying, “Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait one stinking minute!!!!!  You mean to tell me that for four years, I have to sit through all these accounting, economics, business and management courses just to sit here and answer your phones?  Oh, hold on, it looks like I get to make copies here, file something there, be a “go-for” here and clean a toilet there……”  That completely sucks.  It’s different if you love that and that’s what you want to do.  I wouldn’t mind doing something like that because I love helping people and I love administrative duties.  But after I graduate – I need something to match or increase the brain power used while I was sitting through Principles of Accounting I and II.  And I’ve heard horror stories about Economics………

But at any rate……all that is no excuse for not getting on the treadmill.  Maybe if I was exercising and eating right I wouldn’t be coming down with this cold ‘cause Lord knows I’m bundled up looking like an Eskimo most of the time!!!  I have a lot to learn about respecting my body.  Respect for your body has a lot to do with making sure your body remains the divafied temple it was created to be.  It means making sure you’re taking care of your health and your mind.  It means you are constantly feeding it what it needs, and constantly educating and introducing yourself to new experiences.  I’m getting there.  Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly, but surely.