Holiday

Christmas came and went by so fast. I was not prepared. We did have a white Christmas.

The kids really enjoyed their gifts. I was really glad to have this holiday just for us here at home with no family or traveling involved. Amanda turns 18 so the thoughts in the back of my mind are that I won't have many more Christmas holidays with her living here at home.

I finished up my first semester of grad school with 4.0 gpa. I was so excited, it was the hardest thing I have ever attempted in my life, but I am looking forward to the next semester and the challenge of more classes.

Tomorrow is a big day for me as I have a job interview. I am nervous about the job. It is in the area of my future degree, but nervous about it all the same. I know I need to get out of the job I have and move on because I have truly outgrown sitting at a desk doing nothing but paperwork.
Hope you all have a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to the new year and all that is to come in the future year. My oldest will graduate from high school, start college and probably move away from home. I will be busy with school the rest of the year, but it will go by fast I am sure. No big plans for the new year.

Oh the election

Man I can't believe we still have a month till election day. This has to be the nastiest election campaign I have ever been part of. What do you think? I am just amazed listening to each politician harp on the negative issues of their opponent. What is up with that? I think that to run for any public office, there should be no negative campaigning allowed. You should not be able to say anything in regards to your opponent unless it is positive. Maybe if they can't be so negative, than they would have to concentrate on their own election strategy because they would have to say what they are going to do instead of what their opponent isn't going to do. I am so sick of politics and I can now understand why people say they are not going to vote. How sad! I would have never guessed that there would be a time when I wasn't interested in politics.

Tuesday Thoughts

Today is one of those days when I really start to question if I am on the right track with my life. I am enrolled in the Masters Program at the Univ. of Stout in Wisconsin. I wonder if continuing my education will be the great thing I have thought it would be. I make good money at my current postion so is it worth going on to school. I know that when I am done I will be able to find better employment with much higher pay, but should I just learn to be happy being just a normal working person. I want the education for my own personal goals, but know that eventually I will have to find higher paying jobs to pay off my student loans. I am really questioning my own need to continue my education. I want to get my degree and be self-supportive and be able to afford to move myself to a big town and enjoy life. Okay just pre-school nerves. I just worry about the freedom I am giving up the next three years while I am working on this degree.
Tomorrow I will be over it and back to myself again, I am sure.

Hump Day thoughts

I am begining my master's program and having to work write my first paper. I am such a procrastinator that it is going to be a challenge for me to spend so much time researching and composing a paper. Sometimes it is scary and very over whelming that I am going back to school. I am sure in the end it will all be worth it for me.

Thoughts

Live for today because you don't know what tomorrow will bring.