Today marks the end of the first 7.5 weeks of school. It has been an awesome experience and I can't wait to start the next session. I've already talked to Amy, my Academic Adviser about next semester and have already applied for financial aid to go with my pell grant. My next session I only have one class or course. It is called Comm 150, which is Research Strategies for a Digital age plus.
I have also started working with Career Services, Jodi, is my contact and she is helping to redo my resume, gave me some job search sites and will help me the most that she can with job placement. It is a little different because I am not on campus, but she is still there for assistance and I plan to take advantage of everything the school has to offer.
On a more personal level, I am really tired the last few days and have not felt up to par, but I'm okay. My husband is working as many small jobs as possible so that we can make ends meet. We are not behind on anything but one bill. Groceries are not a concern because our freezer is well stocked. We are sticking to our budget and it is working well. I will however, be eternally grateful when I can get a job with my new schooling.
I wish you all a glorious and God filled day. I've already talked to Him a couple of times and will probably do so more as the day goes by. Especially until the AC guy gets here.
Love, L
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Where Will We Go
After talking with my academic advisor last week, I really started thinking about where I would find a job with my new degree. Career Services has been in contact and I have told them we would be interested in a position with a Christian based company, church or school, for starters, anywhere in the state of Texas. That leaves a very open and wide field.
My goal, our goal is to still have a few acres with a house and my animals. So even if I do wind up working in a city of more than 1500 people, I will still live far enough out to have those things. I think I might like going back to west Texas. I loved living in Abilene and working there. That would put us at least 4.5 hours from his family and probably the same distance from my Mom.
I told my daughter all of this and she is excited for us. We are excited that this year will be more fruitful!
Have a God Filled and Blessed Day!
Love, L
My goal, our goal is to still have a few acres with a house and my animals. So even if I do wind up working in a city of more than 1500 people, I will still live far enough out to have those things. I think I might like going back to west Texas. I loved living in Abilene and working there. That would put us at least 4.5 hours from his family and probably the same distance from my Mom.
I told my daughter all of this and she is excited for us. We are excited that this year will be more fruitful!
Have a God Filled and Blessed Day!
Love, L
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Next Semester
I AM SO PUMPED!!!!!
I had my call with my academic advisor this morning, and I was very nervous before the call, but felt so much better about things after I talked to her. I am only considered part time this session. I have one class next session, so I will still be spending about 3 hours or so a day on the computer for school. However, it is one class instead of two. FYE is not considered a full time course and as such should only take about 2 hours a week to do what is necessary for the class.
So next semester, because I want to get my degree finished as quick as possible, I'm going 3/4 time. That means I will have two full classes for the first 7.5 weeks, and one the following session or the last 7.5 weeks. I was also approved for a Pell grant this time, and will get student loans for what that does not cover. Registration for the next semester is the end of April first of May, and then next semester starts on June 22.
It was funny sort of, Amy Stokes, my academic advisor asked how it was going. I told her all was okay, but I still had some of the fear factor that I would be able to accomplish my goal. She asked if it was my classes or did I not understand something. I told her that if you get right down to the crux of the problem, I felt it was my age. I told her I felt like I was the oldest in the class. She laughed and said not at all. That the majority of the classes online are professionals in jobs or people that are returning for degrees or changing professions. She said very few online students are those right out of high school. That made me feel a lot better.
So I have a small break during session 1 and 2, but I'm going to use it to read ahead in my book, and to review math. I do have one more math class but it probably will not be until 3rd semester, which starts in October. Thank God I have a great support group of family and friends. Otherwise I probably would still be wobbling on whether or not to do this! I'm going to try to get my degree as quickly as possible. So please keep supporting me and praying for me.
Love, L
I had my call with my academic advisor this morning, and I was very nervous before the call, but felt so much better about things after I talked to her. I am only considered part time this session. I have one class next session, so I will still be spending about 3 hours or so a day on the computer for school. However, it is one class instead of two. FYE is not considered a full time course and as such should only take about 2 hours a week to do what is necessary for the class.
So next semester, because I want to get my degree finished as quick as possible, I'm going 3/4 time. That means I will have two full classes for the first 7.5 weeks, and one the following session or the last 7.5 weeks. I was also approved for a Pell grant this time, and will get student loans for what that does not cover. Registration for the next semester is the end of April first of May, and then next semester starts on June 22.
It was funny sort of, Amy Stokes, my academic advisor asked how it was going. I told her all was okay, but I still had some of the fear factor that I would be able to accomplish my goal. She asked if it was my classes or did I not understand something. I told her that if you get right down to the crux of the problem, I felt it was my age. I told her I felt like I was the oldest in the class. She laughed and said not at all. That the majority of the classes online are professionals in jobs or people that are returning for degrees or changing professions. She said very few online students are those right out of high school. That made me feel a lot better.
So I have a small break during session 1 and 2, but I'm going to use it to read ahead in my book, and to review math. I do have one more math class but it probably will not be until 3rd semester, which starts in October. Thank God I have a great support group of family and friends. Otherwise I probably would still be wobbling on whether or not to do this! I'm going to try to get my degree as quickly as possible. So please keep supporting me and praying for me.
Love, L
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Five Years and Counting
It has been awhile since I've written on my blogs, not because I didn't have anything to say, but because life has been so busy. Most of you have read where I had planned to return to school and I did as a part time student. I absolutely love it! I'm considering full time this semester, however, the fear factor is there that I won't be able to handle four classes. This I know though, God will see me through. I had a math class for the first 7.5 weeks of this semester and I was able to finish it in 14 days, and I'm pretty sure I have an A in the class. I'm still participating in the discussions and I'm reviewing math so I can stay up on the practices I've learned.
In this last week, I celebrated my 49th birthday and my 5th wedding anniversary. We didn't do anything really spectacular and for our anniversary, I got contacts and he got new glasses. My eyes don't focus together so I'm actually only wearing one contact lens. I go back on the 12th to figure out if this is going to work, or what kind of compromise I will have to make in order to see.
We are still planning on renewing our vows on the 12th of November. We aren't planning on anything fancy and we still haven't decided on whether or not we want to write our vows or just have them redone. It is a work in progress.
My daughter and I have been spending more time together and it means the world to me. I love that we live this close to each other. I know that she wants to move from Emory, and I know that we will follow to be pretty close to where ever it is that they wind up. So in the meantime, we have devised a new budget, and we are going to start putting some money back into the savings as much as possible. We have two more big items before we can save a lot, like dental appointments, and computers, but we will get there.
How has life been for you in the last two weeks? Anything exciting going on in your life? Please leave a comment.
Love, L
In this last week, I celebrated my 49th birthday and my 5th wedding anniversary. We didn't do anything really spectacular and for our anniversary, I got contacts and he got new glasses. My eyes don't focus together so I'm actually only wearing one contact lens. I go back on the 12th to figure out if this is going to work, or what kind of compromise I will have to make in order to see.
We are still planning on renewing our vows on the 12th of November. We aren't planning on anything fancy and we still haven't decided on whether or not we want to write our vows or just have them redone. It is a work in progress.
My daughter and I have been spending more time together and it means the world to me. I love that we live this close to each other. I know that she wants to move from Emory, and I know that we will follow to be pretty close to where ever it is that they wind up. So in the meantime, we have devised a new budget, and we are going to start putting some money back into the savings as much as possible. We have two more big items before we can save a lot, like dental appointments, and computers, but we will get there.
How has life been for you in the last two weeks? Anything exciting going on in your life? Please leave a comment.
Love, L
Saturday, March 19, 2011
A Personal Mission Statement
Well I just finished up my second full week of school and I love it! I'm thinking seriously about going full time or at least 3/4 time after this semester. One of my classes for the first 7.5 weeks is called FYE or First Year Experience. It is a great class and the lectures are awesome. One of the topics this week was writing a personal mission statement. There were two videos that we could watch. One was just a random one of young girl writing her personal statement. The other was the scene from Jerry Maquire where he writes a 25 page personal mission statement. After reading the text and watching one of the videos, and i didn't watch Tom Cruise, I started thinking about my personal mission statement.
Writing a personal mission statement is actually a daily tool to be used to keep you focused and on tract to obtain your short and long term goals, as well as keeping what is important in your life, and knowing who and what you want to be. Using past life experiences and what you see yourself doing in the future are part of writing a mission statement. So after all week long thinking about what was important, the reason I was doing what I was doing, and who I want to be and where I want to be in the next 1 to 4 years, I wrote a first draft of my personal mission statement. It is in no way finished or close to where I want it to be, but it did get some of the preliminary things on paper.
I have been a dreamer all my life, and I guess that is why I like to write. Writing and dreaming gives me the opportunity to be someone I'm not. Some of my goals have changed over the years but one thing that has never changed is my goal to be a published writer. Some of you might wonder than why I'm not going after a degree in journalism or media. Well writers don't really make that much money to start out with, especially if you don't make it on the best sellers list. I have to be practical and I can still be a dreamer. The practical side of me knows that I need to work for us to be able to survive, unless of course we win the lottery. The dreamer side of me can still strive to be that published writer.
As a person, I want to be someone that people trust, that is honest, that cares and that wants to help people, but also have family and friends in their life. My husband and my child are the utmost of importance to me. God is first in my life, but they come in second, then family, then work. These are all things we need to consider. I guess the bottom line here is this, writing this personal mission statement will help me to define short term, long term goals, and the map on how to achieve those.
What are your long term and short term goals? ARe you only living day to day with no thought of where you want to be in one, two or four years from now? I'm 48 years old about to be 49, this has become majorily important to me, to achieve, accomplish and complete this before I'm too old to reap the benefits.
Have a blessed day!
Writing a personal mission statement is actually a daily tool to be used to keep you focused and on tract to obtain your short and long term goals, as well as keeping what is important in your life, and knowing who and what you want to be. Using past life experiences and what you see yourself doing in the future are part of writing a mission statement. So after all week long thinking about what was important, the reason I was doing what I was doing, and who I want to be and where I want to be in the next 1 to 4 years, I wrote a first draft of my personal mission statement. It is in no way finished or close to where I want it to be, but it did get some of the preliminary things on paper.
I have been a dreamer all my life, and I guess that is why I like to write. Writing and dreaming gives me the opportunity to be someone I'm not. Some of my goals have changed over the years but one thing that has never changed is my goal to be a published writer. Some of you might wonder than why I'm not going after a degree in journalism or media. Well writers don't really make that much money to start out with, especially if you don't make it on the best sellers list. I have to be practical and I can still be a dreamer. The practical side of me knows that I need to work for us to be able to survive, unless of course we win the lottery. The dreamer side of me can still strive to be that published writer.
As a person, I want to be someone that people trust, that is honest, that cares and that wants to help people, but also have family and friends in their life. My husband and my child are the utmost of importance to me. God is first in my life, but they come in second, then family, then work. These are all things we need to consider. I guess the bottom line here is this, writing this personal mission statement will help me to define short term, long term goals, and the map on how to achieve those.
What are your long term and short term goals? ARe you only living day to day with no thought of where you want to be in one, two or four years from now? I'm 48 years old about to be 49, this has become majorily important to me, to achieve, accomplish and complete this before I'm too old to reap the benefits.
Have a blessed day!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Progress in Life
School started on March 2nd, and to say I was a little fearful would be right on the money. However, I am on the third week of school and am much calmer and not fearful any longer. I'm ahead in my math course by two chapters and plan to be finished with the next two by the end of this week. Now when things are going good, the devil likes to make life interesting. So last Thursday after suffering with a toothache for three days I went to the dentist. They cut the tooth out on Monday and I was not able to do any school work. I became very anxious, but I had planned ahead and had already printed off my lectures and assignments for the week. So on Tuesday morning and off and on all day, I worked on school work for my FYE class. First Year Experience in case you wondered. So because of the tooth extraction, I missed work on Tuesday as well and was a little worried, but God always provides and the devil will run when you evoke Jesus name. It turns out that I will be working everyday next week because Chio, the regular custodian, has had a death in the family. My prayers go out to him and his family.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it is turning out to be a positive experience, and I think I'm going to try to bump up my classes. I know that this is the right thing to do because God is making it happen one step at a time. So if you are thinking about going back to school and how you are going to manage, God will provide the way and make sure you have what you need. Your faith in God will see you through. May you all have a blessed Day!
Love,
L
I guess what I'm getting at is that it is turning out to be a positive experience, and I think I'm going to try to bump up my classes. I know that this is the right thing to do because God is making it happen one step at a time. So if you are thinking about going back to school and how you are going to manage, God will provide the way and make sure you have what you need. Your faith in God will see you through. May you all have a blessed Day!
Love,
L
Thursday, March 3, 2011
School
Okay so school started on March 2nd, at Noon EST. Was I nervous? Was it what I expected? Did I panic? Yes. No. and No. There are the answers in order of the questions. Online school is totally awesome and it is not hard to reach your teachers, or your advisors or other students. It is totally awesome and I'm loving it! I've been doing math most of the day. I'm trying to do as much as possible on the two days a week that I don't work so that I can just do an hour or so on the days that I do work. We have to have all assignments turned in my Midnight EST on Saturday, sometimes Friday. We can get all the work for the week on Sunday. It is amazing to see how this works! I've taken a few or attempted a couple of online courses before but this is way different and I totally recommend this school.
Bryant Stratton actually has campuses all over New York, Ohio, Wisconsin (I think) and of course online and probably other places. If you are thinking about going back to school this is definitely something or a school to look in to.
I will update with progress as we go through... Love, L
Vow Renewal Ceremony
Okay so we had to make some changes in regards to renewing our vows. The ceremony has been changed to November 12th, 2011. That will be six years since our first date, or close. We went out on our first, first time we met in person, on November 13th, 2005. We met online through Match.com, and really it should never have happened, because his email bypassed not only Match.com's security, but earthlink's at the time.
So we know that it was meant to be for us to meet and fall in love and get married. If you are on Facebook, and are part of the family, you got an invitation. Written invitations will go out in October. We figure this will give us enough time to do it the way we want it! The reason for the change? I have to have a computer for school, and right now, I have one on loan from my church. Thanks Ronnie!
Bryant Stratton actually has campuses all over New York, Ohio, Wisconsin (I think) and of course online and probably other places. If you are thinking about going back to school this is definitely something or a school to look in to.
I will update with progress as we go through... Love, L
Vow Renewal Ceremony
Okay so we had to make some changes in regards to renewing our vows. The ceremony has been changed to November 12th, 2011. That will be six years since our first date, or close. We went out on our first, first time we met in person, on November 13th, 2005. We met online through Match.com, and really it should never have happened, because his email bypassed not only Match.com's security, but earthlink's at the time.
So we know that it was meant to be for us to meet and fall in love and get married. If you are on Facebook, and are part of the family, you got an invitation. Written invitations will go out in October. We figure this will give us enough time to do it the way we want it! The reason for the change? I have to have a computer for school, and right now, I have one on loan from my church. Thanks Ronnie!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Returning to School at 48
So once again it snowed here on Friday, February 4th. I had to wear rubber boots in order to walk over to the church to work because the snow was too deep for my tennis shoes. Anyway, I worked for a little over three hours on Friday, and came home to work on completing registration for online school. I was not able to get a pell grant but I was approved for student financial aid. The semester starts on March 2, 2011 and I heard from my admin today and he said he would have my schedule for me in the next couple days. While I am very excited because God worked it out for me to go to school, I'm also a little scared that I won't be able to handle it.
However, I know it will all be okay. I truly am excited about getting my accounting degree! This is the beginning to a new life where financially after school we will be much better off. We are still looking at selling my car since I will be attending online. There could be some issues with us not having a second vehicle but for the short run, it would truly be better.
While being a dog trainer is something I still want to do, I'm going to use most of my time for the accounting degree and trying to get it finished as quickly and monetarily possible. I'm reading up and watching some dog training videos and plan to practice on my dogs.
That's the plan for now any ways! Everyone have a blessed day and week!
L
However, I know it will all be okay. I truly am excited about getting my accounting degree! This is the beginning to a new life where financially after school we will be much better off. We are still looking at selling my car since I will be attending online. There could be some issues with us not having a second vehicle but for the short run, it would truly be better.
While being a dog trainer is something I still want to do, I'm going to use most of my time for the accounting degree and trying to get it finished as quickly and monetarily possible. I'm reading up and watching some dog training videos and plan to practice on my dogs.
That's the plan for now any ways! Everyone have a blessed day and week!
L
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Priorities In Life
Okay after a long talk with God this morning, I've realized that I need to get my priorities straight. Playing games on Face book, playing solitaire, or doing things that are not productive should not be on that list. So after a lot of thinking and realizing that money for the next two weeks is going to be very, very tight, I've decided to re-organize things and get a plan together and in place. Of course, I need God to be at the top of that list, and He is.
So here are the things I'm trying to accomplish with God at the helm over the next six to seven months.
1. A closer walk with Jesus and He being first in my life.
2. An income from my freelance writing and my website to sustain us when Norman doesn't have any work.
3. To start school. I had some very unrealistic goals this last week concerning this, so if i don't get enrolled to start by January one, then I'm not going to freak out.
4. A place to live where, the electricity bill and utilities are not more than the rent. A place to live where we are not overrun by critters so to speak. A place to live where the floors don't give when you walk. A place to live that I can invite my family to spend the night. A place to live where if I decide to keep kids or provide childcare, I have room.
5. To plan and pay for our vow renewal ceremony, just the way we want it.
These are currently my priorities. I have other priorities but these take precedence currently. Number one will always be a priority no matter what else I have completed or accomplished. God, husband, work, family, and friends. Those are the way it is for now.
May you truly have a blessed and God Filled Day. love, L
So here are the things I'm trying to accomplish with God at the helm over the next six to seven months.
1. A closer walk with Jesus and He being first in my life.
2. An income from my freelance writing and my website to sustain us when Norman doesn't have any work.
3. To start school. I had some very unrealistic goals this last week concerning this, so if i don't get enrolled to start by January one, then I'm not going to freak out.
4. A place to live where, the electricity bill and utilities are not more than the rent. A place to live where we are not overrun by critters so to speak. A place to live where the floors don't give when you walk. A place to live that I can invite my family to spend the night. A place to live where if I decide to keep kids or provide childcare, I have room.
5. To plan and pay for our vow renewal ceremony, just the way we want it.
These are currently my priorities. I have other priorities but these take precedence currently. Number one will always be a priority no matter what else I have completed or accomplished. God, husband, work, family, and friends. Those are the way it is for now.
May you truly have a blessed and God Filled Day. love, L
Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday monday!!!
Well Monday has arrived and I find myself at home, taking antibiotics, cough syrup, nasal gel and trying to keep Dooley from stealing my cough drops. I have a respiratory infection and probably for awhile, but I visited the doctor on Friday and he loaded me up.
I have missed work since Friday, although I have been writing my income level from that is not enough yet to sustain us on days I miss from work, or to replace my lost income from the school. I've started inquiring about going back to school to get my teaching certification and my degree in education. I have thought about being a teacher quite a lot lately because I enjoyed it so much while I was at the Day school at the church. Before then though, when i was in my twenties i considered it then. I love history, science and math, and reading and writing of course. I've been looking at online schools all morning and I will need to do this online since we live so far away from a major metropolitan area.
I finally finished my dog treat recipe book and hope to get it set up on line on my website for sell. I'm praying for it to be a hit and make us some money. That is one of my goals for the day, to get it up on the website and ready for purchase.
Other than that I'm thinking a lot about the fact that my daughter and son maybe moving before Christmas. They aren't moving out of state, but they won't be five minutes away. If and when they move, most of my family will be driving distance of at least two hours except my baby sister and her kids. What exactly does that mean? Probably that I will want to move closer to my daughter. I have already asked my husband how he feels about moving and I was answered with a question. That is okay. I know God will lead us to where we need to be and if it means closer to my daughter or my mom, or staying right here, that is what we will do, at least until my grand babies start arriving.
I guess that is enough rambling for the day! I have things I need to work on, and information I need to gather. May you all be abundantly blessed by God in whatever it is you are seeking from Him. Love, L
I have missed work since Friday, although I have been writing my income level from that is not enough yet to sustain us on days I miss from work, or to replace my lost income from the school. I've started inquiring about going back to school to get my teaching certification and my degree in education. I have thought about being a teacher quite a lot lately because I enjoyed it so much while I was at the Day school at the church. Before then though, when i was in my twenties i considered it then. I love history, science and math, and reading and writing of course. I've been looking at online schools all morning and I will need to do this online since we live so far away from a major metropolitan area.
I finally finished my dog treat recipe book and hope to get it set up on line on my website for sell. I'm praying for it to be a hit and make us some money. That is one of my goals for the day, to get it up on the website and ready for purchase.
Other than that I'm thinking a lot about the fact that my daughter and son maybe moving before Christmas. They aren't moving out of state, but they won't be five minutes away. If and when they move, most of my family will be driving distance of at least two hours except my baby sister and her kids. What exactly does that mean? Probably that I will want to move closer to my daughter. I have already asked my husband how he feels about moving and I was answered with a question. That is okay. I know God will lead us to where we need to be and if it means closer to my daughter or my mom, or staying right here, that is what we will do, at least until my grand babies start arriving.
I guess that is enough rambling for the day! I have things I need to work on, and information I need to gather. May you all be abundantly blessed by God in whatever it is you are seeking from Him. Love, L
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