Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year, everyone! I thought this might be a good opportunity to post a blog. So much has been going on. I am working on my final project for my Bookkeeping Career Diploma. I am sooo excited but I am also so overloaded. I have been working somewhere between 6 to 10 hours a day on this. So I regularly feel like my eyes are going to pop out of my head. Guess that's what I get for only allowing myself quick pitstops to the bathroom or to get food to eat while I work. I'm proud of my self-disipline right now and I am feeling very confident. I have to. I have to get this don't by January 5th or I have to find more money to pay them for an extension. There would be no excuse for that in my eyes. If I have to work 24/7 to get this done in time, I will. I don't think it will come to that though. I am so excited to have this program completed. Wow! I am so tired of being out of work or temping. So I am really hoping that with this diploma I will be able to find a good job. Once I get that job and can get myself in a better financial position I want to keep going with my education and get my Associates degree in Accounting then my Bachelors then my Masters. It's gonna take a long time though. That's okay though. I don't mind. It'll all be worth it.

I have been hanging out with my friends Keith and Darlene. Keith is the maintenance manager for my apartment complex and Darlene is his wife. I have known Keith since I moved in 3 years ago but we only chatted a little bit. I met Darlene during the summer and we really hit it off. They are such really good people. I feel so very privelaged to call them friends and to witness the wonderful marriage. They have been married for 8 years and together for 12 years. They are still so happy together. I truly enjoy hanging out with them and getting to know them more each time we do. It's been so long since I have had true friends that I am so happy to have them. I know I am gusting but it's so great! I have been so let down or just plain walked all over by people that I thought were my friends. I would spend so much time reasuring, conforting, supporting and advising "friends." I have been soooo close to accepting that it would always be a one-sided thing. That I would never find anyone to really do those things for me without there being a something in it for them. But then I meet Keith and Darlene and found that I was wrong. They have been everything that I that I was looking/hoping for and so much more. Without even trying they bashed thru those walls that I built to protect myself from getting hurt by bad friendships. It's been so refreshing to have their friendships. I hang out with them once a week and we have so much fun. Darlene has been so great for my self-esteem. She is always telling me that I am such a kind person, that I am so pretty, and so many other great things. I haven't really had a friend that reassures me and compiments me like see does. She doesn't let me hide in my shell or be on the outskirts of anything. She just pulls me right into the thick of things. It's really great. My goodness! I have been just going on and on, huh? hehehe Well, I'm sure you get the idea.

Well, not much else to talk about that I can think of. I'll post again soon. Love to everyone!

Another exam back

I am proud to report that I got another 100% on my Financial Reports exam. That was the last exam for Mod. 2. The work is getting harder and harder but I am really working hard to make the grade. Next up is "Accounting for Cash and Payroll Accounting." Then, "Accounting Systems." And lastly for that module (Mod. 3) is "Wholesale Accounting." Wow, scary stuff. I haven't gotten into these next lessons in any of the other accounting classes I have taken in the past. But it's exciting, too. I am looking forward to learning more NEW accounting stuff. So, including Mod. 3, I have 4 more modules to go until I have my career diploma. Mod. 4 will be 1 more accounting lesson and a lesson called "Introduction to Windows Xp." I'm pretty confident in that. Then, Mod. 5, I will have a lesson in Microsoft Excel and a graded project in Windows Excel. Since I have been working with Windows Excel extensively in the past I look forward to this project. Last but certainly not least, Mod. 6 will be my final big Bookkeeping project. That should be interesting. I am really looking forward to all these lessons and projects. It is really surprising me how much I have enjoyed this diploma program. I definitely feel like I will continue on with Penn Foster after I am done with this program. It would be great to check out what their Associates program is like. I definitely recommend anyone who has thought about taking college classes but felt they couldn't because of time issues, check out Penn Foster. It's so worth it. It's a work-at-your-own-pace program, you don't have to be in a class at a certain time, and there are no deadlines. It's really great. To me I find it better because I don't have to feel tied down by the pace of a class. I can go as fast or as slow as I need to. No getting bored or overwhelmed. My only wish was that I found this school and program 5 or 10 years ago. Oh well! That's the way the cookie crumbles. Well, gotta go. I'll post more grades as they come back. GO ME!!!! I HAVE A 98% LESSON AVERAGE!!!!! YYYYAAAAAYYYY!!!!

Doing great with school

So I got some grades back with my bookkeeping classes. I am so happy. so far I have gotten 100, 85, 100, 100, & 100. So I currently have a 97% average. Each grade is for the exam for a "Module" or lesson. I have 14 lessons for the degree I'm working on. I'm pretty excited. I have been really working hard on this and already have 5 done. That's pretty good in my book. I'll blog more later.

Exam Results

I am very proud to report and I have been doing very well with my Bookkeeping Career Diploma. I just got a couple grades back that I am VERY proud of. I got two grades of 100% and one 85%! Wooohoooo!!!!!! I am trying to really put a push on for this degree. I really don't want to put this off or drag my feet anymore. I don't know how much it will help me to get a better job but I am hoping. I also hope to continue on for my Associates in Accounting. I KNOW that having that on my resume will make a big difference. So.....I should have another test result to report on in the next day or 2. I am determined to complete each section within days of receiving them in the mail. So that means the only thing keeping me from being done next week with this degree is the USPS. lol My goal is to have this program completed by my birthday but with the idea of ASAP in my mind. One of the great things about my school (Penn Foster) is that it offers career placement and it's not really that far away. I hope this means that I can find a good job through them that wouldn't be too much of a commute. Crossing my fingers!

I'm baaaaacckk....Just with a different blog page.

So after seeing my brother, Tim and my father have both started their blogs up again I thought, what the heck, I'll start mine up again too. Problem with that line of thinking is: my old blog seems to gone MIA. It was probably attached to one of my old email addys that I have since gotten rid of for one reason or another and with that ID gone, so went the blog. That is my thought but it could still be out in never-never land of the ever-widening WWW. Oh well! Works out for the best in my book though. So much has happened and we are all constantly evolving and growing that I am not the same person that I was then. I am proud that I am always growing and changing. Better that than being stagnant. Hence that new blog name. I have learned from experiences and self-evaluation that I have a great deal of strength. I think sometimes people do see that but that's fine. I know it and that's what's important. I look back over the years and sometimes marvel at everything I have gone thru. I also marvel that I have not had a complete mental breakdown or just plainly given up on life. But why do that?! I would have missed out on all the good things in life and my family would have been hurt. I don't want that to happen. So I push on. Sometimes it can be a struggle but that's part of life. You have to work thru the bad stuff to get to the good stuff. It took myself a while to figure that out but I get that now.

So, enough of the really heavy stuff. To catch you all up on me. I have been working since September of 2007 at K&D Deli. It's a little Deli right outside of my apartment complex. It's honest work. But to be honest, I really don't like it. It pays some of my bills though so I'm sticking with it. I am no longer taking classes with Axia College of University of Phoenix. I became very unhappy with them and decided to look into other educational opportunities. So now I am working on my Bookkeeping Career Diploma with Penn Foster. It's a work at you own pace program that works great for me. Shouldn't take me too much longer to finish up this program. Once I do finish I plan to continue on for my Associates or Bachelors degree in Accounting. Hopefully the career diploma will help me get my foot in the door of the Accounting field and I can get out of the deli. I'm looking at opportunities now but it's hard without a degree. Sometimes I hate being an adult.

Lou and I are still together. He's working in the ER of Saint Francis Hospital as a Patient Care Tech II. He works at least 3 shifts of 12 hours per week. It can be hard sometimes but we are working thru it. I worry everytime he goes to work about him being safe. Tuesday night I got a call that confirmed my fears. He called to tell me that he was hurt at work and I rushed down there. He got hurt while wrestling with a "psych" patient who was on crack-cocaine and trying to run for the door. When they all fell to the ground, Lou ended up having all his weight, the patient's weight (he was a BIG guy), and half the weight of one of the security guards (not a small guy either) land on his left knee. One of the nurses said she heard Lou's knee make contact with the concrete/tile floor way down the hall. He is on crutches now with a brace that starts at the top of his leg and ends just above the ankle. Needless to say he got sent home from work that night and will be out of work for at least a month. Thank goodness for workmens' comp and the longterm illness plan that he has thru work. He will still be getting paid close to what he normally does. We are making the rounds of doctors and tests to find out what exactly is wrong with his knee. Tonight I have to bring him to get a MRI and that should let us know what's wrong. His doctor said that it might be torn ligaments. We'll see. I'm praying that it's nothing serious but I am also being realistic. He can't put weight on it without the brace on. So, I'll keep everyone updated. My fingers are getting tired so I'll do more updating soon.