Last weekend was pretty nice and it’s been a great week but now they’re talking about snow. Man I’ll be glad when spring gets here and stays here. It has felt like spring all week and is going to end out back into winter. That really sucks too. I hate snow. I hate cold weather altogether. I should have been born in Hawaii or somewhere else that stays warm all year around. I couldn’t be that lucky though.
You know what, maybe I’ll move somewhere like that once I finish my school and all. But I hear the economy is worse there than here. I probably will end up spending the rest of my life around here since my family is here. Oh well, we never know what tomorrow brings now do we? Hopefully it will bring nicer weather than snow.
Today was a great day to go fishing. Dad even went with me which surprised me more than you can imagine. He doesn’t usually do much with me except for to complain but maybe he’s getting off of my back now that I had admitted that it’s time to ‘grow-up and get a big boy job’ even if it’s not the one he wanted me to get. At least it still deals with the law. Just not the same side he’s used to dealing with.
I’ve been trying to find something else I can do mostly on the computer to be able to work from home and still go to school full time. The only problem is I really don’t want to get burned out sitting in front of a computer day after day but I don’ t really think that will happen. I might find myself playing a game for a moment or two here and there just to break up the technical crap from time to time. Anyway, Dad and I had fun together for the first time in a long time and that’s more important than how many fish we didn’t catch. Maybe I should have said how many fish ‘he’ didn’t catch.
My week has been crazy and I managed to have today off. I needed it more than you know. Between work, trying to get into college and my father, it’s been one more stressful week. A couple of my buddies and I are going to go shoot paintball today. That will do me a lot of good. It will allow me to get some of my frustrations out and give me a chance to laugh for a change. I haven’t done much of that lately.
Laughter is good for the soul and your well being totally. I’m one of those people that takes natural vitamins and eats what I’m supposed to eat. I don’t eat a lot of processed foods so I’m pretty healthy but when stress hits you hard, you feel it in your body and it’s time to get out and enjoy life for a change. I hope you do that from time to time too. It’s so good for you. I don’t mean you should go shoot paintball unless it’s something you want to do because it’s a blast. Go fishing or what ever it is you enjoy. Life’s too short to spend it all stressed out 24/7 and that will only make it even shorter or could anyway.
I checked online schools and local colleges including the community college which is the closest to me and also the bigger colleges that are both about an hour or more away. I applied to several and got accepted to all but one. There’s a lot to consider here. I like the online courses but the local community college and also bigger college both offer a lot of classes online too. I don’t think I’m going to go with just an online college. What if I get stumped on something and just can’t get it in my thick head. I now you can chat with the professors and all but sometimes with me, it takes one on one for me to get something.
I think I’ll start off at the community college and then when I can’t go any farther, then transfer to one of the bigger colleges. All of the classes I will take at the community college will be transferable. I made sure of that. In fact, I got credit for some classes just because of the work I do. That was too cool. it saved me having to take 3 classes. I like the fact that I’m already ahead because of going to work instead of straight to college. Of course, my father said “But think how far you would have been if you hadn’t wasted these past 3 years working.” Leave it to good old Dad to bust my bubble. Oh well, that’s my father.
I decided to go to a local community college and see what they had to offer towards my new goal in life. I know that the classes don’t really start until the fall semester but I thought maybe I could get a jump on some of them so I could work and go to school part-time. I have to work because I’m sure not going to move back in with my parents just to go to school. I’d have to listen to my father tell me every other day that I should have done this when I got out of high school instead of waiting 3 years like I have.
You know, sometimes you have to do things at your own pace and this is one of those times. I know that if I had gone straight from high school to college, I would have ended up just dropping out. This way, I’m ready. I want it for me and not for anyone else like it would have been if I had done it the way my father wanted. Thank God my mother is more understanding. Dad is always saying I’m too much like her but I don’t see a darn thing wrong with that. He must not either since he loves her. Maybe he has just learned to live with it. I don’t know but anyway, I’m checking out all of my options now that I have a goal in mind.