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Showing posts with label Summer Semester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Semester. Show all posts
I don't want this blog to get all negative, blue, depressing and dreary just because I am recovering from pneumonia and meningitis. So somehow I am going to keep this positive and upbeat and still somehow talk fashion and other things I love.
Our neighbors were in Europe recently on vacation/business and brought home to me the Paris Vogue which included French, Milan and American designers. I was just stunned but the magazine is just gorgeous and SO many pictures. Real eye candy when it comes to fashion and so many inspiring items that could be used for my own things down the line.
But for know I just have to get my strength back. My big accomplishment today was unpacking my school bag and putting away the things I bought for this semester. It's all in a plastic tote for fall but gosh it was so emotionally hard to do it. The stuff I owned, and didn't have to buy for the semester, went into my studio and by the time I was done I was drained. BIG nap.
So you can see why somehow I want to keep it positive and not bore all of you with "the downers". So until next time I am so glad we had this time together.
Well yesterday I went and paid the price difference that my Pell Grant doesn't cover for the summer semester and for me that was nearly $1,700 with the class fees included. Now, I had the money to pay it and it took months to save it, so it made it hard to turn over that kind of money for the classes.
If I have to be honest with you my readers, I have never invested in myself like that before and until two years I wasn't even really capable of saving like that. It took a lot of sacrifice and doing without somethings but it felt rather good to believe in myself enough to invest in myself like that. I felt like I am finally comfortable with who I am and who I want to be and for a person from a domestically violent childhood home , I think that is saying alot. Those of you who have the same background, may understand what I am really trying to say.
If you live in N.E. Ohio like I do then this next part will make some sense, gosh am I over all the rain we have had here lately. It seems like that is all it has done this month is rain, and I am not so sure rain affects Fibromyalgia or not but it seems like this month more than others I have been so stiff, sore and achy it isn't even funny.
Since Saturday I have been on break from school and it has been so very nice to finally spend my day doing things that has sat for months and if the fatigue will ever subside I may get even more done. Been busy working on some work here to earn the money I may need for Fall classes, so its no huge rest.
However, as I said the fatigue the last three days has been really bad. I am laying down in the middle of the day for 4-5 hours but I guess I need the rest. It is hard to lay down at times as I feel like if I didn't lay down I could be so much more productive. Oh well.
Well until next time I am so glad we had this time together.
Well I got my last College Writing 1 paper back I and I am pleased to say I got a B. There were some minor problems with it, that made it the grade it was but overall I think I did well. Today I found out I have a $170 price difference from what I was told would be the cost for the summer semester. Was not looking forward to that at all but will somehow come up with that difference. As of Saturday of last week I did raise the needed $1,500 for summer semester and boy did I work my butt off.
Been trying to get ahold of my student advisor at the Kent campus now for over a week and half to see if she could lift some of the requirements needed for Fall Classes. It isn't anything major as the requirements is simply classes I willbe taking in the summer. Not getting of her is getting really annoying.
Jim re-read the paperwork from the Project Runway application and found out today IF I get accepted to the next round THEY CALL ME. So we all need to send out good karma so they pick up th ephone and call me.
Also found out today that the parking permit for summer is $40 so I need to come up with that as well. Then of course as times roll on cocst for books. So it is going to be lots of doll work and more than likely baby sitting to get the dough.
I would really ask all of you what you would like for me to talk about here, I havenoticed a big surge in readers in the last two months and I am wondering why all of you come here and what you would like for me to talk about. My plan at some point is talk somemore about fashion.
If you noticed I changed some of the stuff on my blog with links and the main discription and I have really been gving thoguht to changing the blog name--more than likely not the web address just the name of it--Not sure. Again would love to hear what you think.'
Until then I am so glad we had this time together.
It is so hard to believe February's last day is tomorrow, where has the time gone? It flew by so fast and yet all of you have been faithful readers have been there every step of the way reading about my life, my thoughts and feelings. There are times where words fail, things are to painful to talk about, where I would be totally exposed, raw beyond words and I am not so sure thats why all of you come here.
I try to keep it encouraging, upbeat and most of all I try my best to keep it real. The struggle for me this month has been my lack of self confidence more than normal and my trying to get over it as they say. It has been painful, all to real and in many ways probably holds me back.
I am tired of it, I no longer want to be in my own way. I want all of the possibilities for me to happen, all the doors to open and to be the best possible me I can be. Go where I need to go, be who I need to be and do what I need to do. The sky I am finding out is the limit. The last week has been the hardest because I want the summer semester to be here already. Summer semester for me means Studio Fashion classes and I don't want to wait any longer to be in them.
I know G-d is going to provide the 5 students besides my self we need for the class to happen and I know I am going to do the best I can when I get there, it is "just the getting there" as they say. Right now over all I know i Have a good solid B in my classes and that is where I will find my confidence. As of today I am going to claim it outright! It is past time I do. Until next time, I am so glad we had this time together.
