Day 15

Good afternoon everybody. We are officially on Day # 15. I guess that means there is roughly about 350 blogging days left. Will I continue writing here after that point? It is very possible. I might recreate the blog with a regular name and post a link to it from this blog on the 365th post so that anyone keeping up with the blog can then change over to the new one.

So lately, it has been difficult for me to find the strength to go to class. Its not that I don't want to go. I do. But at the same time, I don't. It isn't the 'class' itself. It's more of the having to get myself out the door, to the college, and to class. I am really looking forward to the beginning of June. That is when I am resuming classes online with American Military University towards my bachelors degree in hospitality. I think the big plus I see in the classes I will be resuming online is that they are online. I enjoyed being at a physical campus for part of the semester, but after a little while it got really old. Being the shy type that I see myself as, I realized really quickly that I enjoyed being an online student much more because of a few reasons.

Reason number 1) With being an online student, you have more flexibility as far as when during the day you will do your homework or post comments and whatnot. Going to a physical class on a physical campus, you have to be 'able' to get to the school at the specific time frame. If you can't, sucks for you!

Reason number 2) When you're a student online, you don't have to be physically in a small class room with your class mates. Yes you have to deal with each other on the chat board, and have to respond to each other. Basically you deal with the other students as much as the teacher wants you to do, but other than that, no real direct involvement with the other students. After going to school at the community college here, I am really looking forward to that again because I like to be more solo when it comes to school. Can I work in groups? Sure! Do I like to? Not really. How often in school, be it high school or college (since I know not everyone has taken college classes yet) have you had a group of students that was pleasant with everyone in the group? I was recently in a group of students working on writing a 3 page narrative together. At first, I thought our group was great. We all made it to the study sessions and put ideas on paper and such. Then after the first 2 meetings, one of them stopped showing up.

We talked to the teacher and she said that me and the other gal should just do the paper between the two of us and the other gal would have to do her own version. Well, then I emailed my version to the gal still remaining with me in the group. She tried to open it, but couldn't. She emailed back saying she has had a rough weekend, that she couldn't open the document, and that she felt maybe we should just turn in our own versions. I said "sure, whatever, no problem." Point is, with that experience I don't perticularly care for being grouped up. What was the point of me getting together with them on my off time when I ended up turning in my own version anyway? Basically a waste of time I think. Oh well!

So today was a pretty good day. The worst part is always how tired I feel most of the time. I'm sure as things in life improve, and I give all my worries, cares, and stresses to God, that not only will life start to take a turn for the better, I'm certain I will have more strength all around. To show just how tired I felt, we were watching buffy through netflix live stream. I was laying on the couch and I noticed after a while of laying there that my eyes kept drooping. I know I dozed off a few times. I almost wished that I would crash entirely and not wake up for a few hours. But, my usual routine is to doze off slightly, but to keep fighting it, resulting in me never really falling asleep for long. Either I wake myself up, or Erin says something and I'm awake again.

Roughly around 5:30, Erin was on World of Warcraftand I decided to get on too. Currently my night elf priest is level 11. I had just hit level 11 yesterday before signing off for the night. It happened a lot quicker than I thought it would, but that was because I was working on a quest in this cave swarming with bad creatures. I spent probably about an hour, maybe slightly more, in the cave trying to find the last part of this quest. Everywhere I turned, there were more guys I had to fight my way through. So, my experience went up quickly, and ended up with me being right at the edge of becoming level 11. On Erin's advise, I bought some new clothing for my character increasing the stats. Then I sold my old clothes, and ran to the priest trainer. I had a few new spells and tricks I was able to learn, including the really awesome ability to resurect the dead. I love that ability. When you go into a huge fight with a group, with me as the priest healing and trying to keep people alive, occasionally someone will die. It could be that I couldn't heal them fast enough.

That could be because too many things were attacking them at once, and it takes a few seconds for my healing spells to cast. If it doesn't cast before they run out of health, unfortunately they die. The positive side of that is, now I have this spell and can bring someone back to life if they are killed. This mainly works if they have not left their body yet, I believe. If they have released their spirit then I don't think I can res them.

So, yes we have been playing World of Warcraft daily. The difference between playing today, and playing back in my last life (first marriage), you can't let world of warcraft become your life. It is an awesome game. I will give it that. Is it fun to play? Heck yeah! Is it addicting though? Yes. It can be very addicting if you let it. I think the way Erin and I are on it is very safe because yes we might be on it for an hour or 2, or whatever, through out the day. But after a little while, we each randomly will get off and focus on other things. Say we have a netflix movie on the tv, after we level up or whatever on wow, at least with me personally, I set a goal for myself. Like, last night I wanted to hit level 11. I hit level 10 quick because I was so close. Then once I hit 11 I was like "cool." And logged off. It takes a lot to level up the higher you go, so if you can go a single level then you are doing good. :)

So today Erin made chocolate chip cookies. If you are new here, and do not know me personally, please check out the blogs that I'm following. One is one of my best friends, Melissa from Florida. The other is my wife Erin. Erin is going to school to become a trained chef, and has done a lot towards it already. On her blog she has posted pictures of things that she has done, both unofficial stuff, as well as some that were paid jobs as well.

In closing, the lesson for today will be moderation. They say "Moderation is key." They aren't lying! This goes for everything. It could be eating very fattening, yummy treats. If you go hog wild with them, then you will feel the results of all that going through your body. Same goes for things like role playing computer games. World of Warcraft for instance. It is a great game, and should be a "part" of life. Not life it self. This goes for lots of games out there. Play them, enjoy them. It is important to enjoy the little things in life. Just don't let them become who you are! That is all I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed, and perhaps got something out of what I have written for you here. I will write more for you tomorrow.

Thanks for being here.

CB