Good news!

This is one of the very first pictures of Offspring, ever.

I got some good news from V's dad today. We're going to be changing up our custody agreement. I will officially have V 70/30, and I couldn't be happier. She's also coming home 2 weeks early. Can we please talk about what an achievement this is and how excited I am? No more not seeing her for a month at a time. Everyone let's have a party together!

So this is college? Oh.

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I'm in my second year at a local community college, studying god knows what but my personal indecisiveness isn't what should be in question here. I'm disappointed by, and unclear of where, the future of higher education is going. I'm so upset by my course load this semester, and technically I'm not even a full-time student. Instead of trying to dance around details, I'm going to jump into this in a sporadic way, as the thoughts come - I share.

I'm taking 10 credit hours this semester, if you have no idea what that means, I'm basically one class short of being a full-time student. I'm taking three classes this semester - Psychology, Math, and a Spanish class. My Math class is considered 4 credit hours due to the fact I am in the classroom almost 7 hours a week. But personally, my math class? Easy fucking Peasy compared to the rest of my course load. I actually have not a single complaint about that class. My teacher is great, understanding, and doesn't over teach or stress the students out. We have a manageable load to carry this semester.

Spanish, I don't even have a course outline for this class. I received an email from my teacher on Sunday night at 11pm telling me that we could start our assignments for Chapter 3. There were 18 assignments, due by Wednesday. I feel overwhelmed by not knowing anything until he decides to send out an email sharing with us what were doing then rushing around doing all of these assignments as well as the ones that I already have assigned from other classes, and working two jobs. I'm going to explode. Do I blame them for giving out too much work? No. I blame the method the teacher has towards this course. A crazy expectation of what students of a community college can handle.

But Spanish, yeah, that's the least of my rants.

My psychology teacher floors me. She assigns a chapter a week. We must read the chapter and be prepared to take a test on it that weekend. Mind you, I am in a strict classroom class and have yet to do one assignment in a classroom. I have only done assignments online. Every quiz, assignment, and even my mid-term next week will be online. Is this wrong? I'm thinking fucking so. What the fuck did I sign up for a classroom class for when the only thing the woman ever talks about is how much she hates living in the South. Okay, well move back home then and let them hire a teacher that wants to teach us? Pretty simple concept.

I missed the first quiz due to over volume on Blackboard, and sent her an email, she refused to let me make it up, so for the rest of this semester I have been scrambling trying to save my grade, and this week is supposed to be our Spring Break, wanna guess what I am doing? I'm going to be doing two mid - terms, one for Spanish, and one for Psychology and I also have to do my quiz on Chapter 9, and all my written assignments for Psych.

Neither one of those teachers have even remotely taught me anything. I'm over learning, I memorize information and write it down, and that's all. I want a teacher who engages me, who tries to teach, who wants to teach me something. Instead I get these hag who think she's so hard for assigning a chapter a week, and whines about her personal life, and a guy who can't even be bothered to provide us with our grades.

Where the fuck did all the good teachers go? How are they getting away with this at a college level. For those who don't understand the difference between community college and a university, try to brush up. Community college is much like high school and should flow about the same pace. Psychology requires 12-15 hours outside of the 3 classroom hours a week for study time, so between just math and psych I am up to about 25 hours after at-home assignments. I work 35 hours a week currently, and still have to manage my spanish class. So tack on another 5 hours for that. If you can't do the math that's roughly 65 hours a week I am spent shoving my head up someone's ass. AND I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GET A FANCY DEGREE.

I'm going to die from this. Everyone pray that I can survive the remainder of this semester and give these shitheads the worst evaluation they've ever had and never look back.

Wednesday Wishes (2)

Looks like I am going to be joining Brooke again this week in linking up for Wednesday Wishes!

WISH ONE:

Some new Betsy Johnson jewelry and handbags, I have a problem.

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WISH TWO:

A day off, and a good connection to the internet.

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WISH THREE:

To never have to open another psychology book...ever.

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WISH FOUR:

A trip to see the ocean, I need to get out of here for some mental health.

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I've been busy, and I will continue to be busy with mid-terms coming up and V returning home within a couple of days. Life is nuts right now and I'm trying to hold it together. Pray I can make it through this semester with my sanity.

Health and Fitness

So over the past couple of months I have noticed my body changing into something I wasn't proud of. I have never really been one of those people who had to work for a good body. That makes me sound bad, or I feel like it does, but it's true - I could eat whatever I wanted and not really have to worry about gaining weight in the wrong places. Even shortly after having V I was pretty much back to my normal pant size and within a month or so you could barely tell I had a baby. But that's changing, I'm getting a pouch on my stomach, and my thighs are getting huge, and let's not even talk about my ass. So unlike some people, I'm not going to complain, instead I have put focus on eating better for more energy, and being able to burn calories while working out. I have started the 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels and I am on Level 2 of her work out, after I finish this, I am going straight into insanity.

I'm going to try to keep a record of my body changing over the next little bit until I feel comfortable with what I have. This is my starting point, the day I started the 30 Day Shred. I always feel awkward standing in these pictures! How the heck am I supposed to hold my arms? Haha.

I also had no idea how cheap it was to eat healthier, a lot of people complain about the price of "healthier" food in contrast to I assume "non-healthy" food but honestly I went to the store last night and bought $35 dollars worth of groceries.

As you can see that's actually a LOT of groceries for that price. So don't ever say that eating healthy is too expensive because it's completely NOT true!

Do any of you guys work out and eat right? What's your favorite healthy snack and work out?