Hi all still in attendance. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Let see, what should we talk about today. If this were a audio blog then you all would be listening to my rendition of Barry White because I've got a really nasty cold, so my voice has changed octaves. I would say that this is one of those downfalls to spending so much time sucking up recycled air 30,000 feet up, but, when your bunk mate is hacking up all over the place, you're bound to catch a germ or two. Thanks John!

Thanks for all the prayers and wishes for my niece Angel. She is doing well with her chemo treatment at St. Jude. She has her bad days, but she's tough, she's hanging in there like a super-trooper.

Until next time thanks for tuning in to Tori's late night slow jams. Goodnight all you lovers out there.

The End Has Arrived

I am officially done with my Comp.II class at Kaplan University. I feel that I can be totally honest here. I did all of my entire final project today. I completely re-researched, wrote, and rewrote my paper in about 6 hours. It may not be the best thing that I have ever wrote, but it meets the requirements and it was done on time. Had I given myself a little more time to focus on the project, it would have been better, This term I tool 3 classes, but, in the future, I'm not sure that I will be doing that again. So far, my classes have not been as difficult as I assumed that they would be, but the additional stress factor that they add makes up for that.

Hey, I made it. That's all that counts to me right now.

Hello everyone

I'm sitting here in the airport (ATL) waiting to board my plane. This place has become like a second home for me. I spend a lot of time in the ATL and Memphis airports. I fly at least once a week. It's because of this that I amaze myself with how much I actually get done, and how I'm able to keep up with my life without being in a stable setting. This is the final week of work in all of my classes and I am really in crunch mode. I can honestly say that this is my least favorite part of class. I get down to this point and I start to worry will I be able to finish.

Well, I'm at a lost for words and I'm kinda thirsty so I'm gonna go now.

Update on the New Year

Hey everyone. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. My family and I are doing well. My niece is doing a little bit better everyday, so we are happy for that. We are taking this thing head on one day at a time.

In other news, I found out some very interesting information this week, but I'm afraid that I can't share it with the class or anyone else just yet. I can't go into detail about this interesting information because I'm not sure who really reads this blog, so the safest thing to do is to wait until I know I am free to share. I understand that it seems a little impolite to mention something and not explain its nature, but it's my blog, so what are you gonna to do.

I have decided on one New Year Suggestion (not resolution) and that is to be a little more brash when addressing rude people, namely guys that don't understand what the polite version of buzz off means. I hate it when guys approach me when it is obvious that I am not alone. They make it seem as if the person that I am with is so insignificant that they couldn't possibly be a candidate. It makes me just want to scream sometimes.

Another one of my New Years Suggestions (not resolutions) is to stay in school. I have come to terms with my tantrums and have decided that, no matter how ugly things may seem, they could be worse, and quitting school won't help. I know this is what everyone has been telling me. Heck, I've even told myself and other people the same thing, but sometime life just gets a little hard. Sometimes you find yourself needing to take a step back to regroup. There is nothing wrong with this, in fact, it's a part of life.

Hello and Happy New Year! 2010 Has finally arrived and now its time to put those new year resolutions into play. I never really make resolutions because I don't follow them. Instead I just say that this year I would like to accomplish this, and that and try to make it happen. I know that seems like the same thing, but I feel like resolutions are like promises that you make to yourself. I don't like breaking promises, so instead of making resolutions I make suggestions. If I don't accomplish my suggestion then there's no harm done. Anyway, I hope everyone had a blessed holiday.

I want everyone that reads this to say a special prayer for my niece Angel Collins. She's only a year old and was diagnosed with cancer over the holidays. She had surgery a few days ago to remove a brain tumor and will be at St. Jude receiving chemo once she is stable enough for the transport.

Happy Holidays

I want to wish everyone a happy holiday and new year. I don't know about everyone else, but I am done with all of my holiday shopping and I am now broke beyond compare. I do this every year. I over shop and end up broke around this time of year. I love this time of year though. My family and I have a little tradition; on Christmas Eve, my brothers, their families, and I all meet up at our mom's place and have dinner. We also pull names among the few of us at Thanksgiving for Secret Santa. We set a spending limit and shop for the person whom we drew. On Christmas Eve, after we've all ate, we exchange Secret Santa gifts. This little tradition was started to cut down on the cost of holiday shopping because our family had grow so, that it had began to get extremely expensive to shop for the holiday. We still buy gifts for all of the kids, and we might get a few little stocking stuffer gifts for the adults, but this has changed how we spend. Even with this I still tend to get a little carried away with the kids and for the names that I get. Anyway, this does it for me. I've got a lot of work to do, so I'm gonna call it good for now.

What kind of affect is school having on my life?

I could say that school is great or that, as of now, my educational experiences have been positive and insightful; but the truth is that this is not for everyone. Sometimes I wonder is it really for me. School has, and probably always will, caused me an enormous amount of stress. It never fails! Once I think that everything is going smoothly something happens and everything turns into one big mess. If someone were to come up to me today and ask me about school: how I liked it or if I enjoyed it; my answer would be no. Maybe I'm just venting today, but I can't think of one thing that I've enjoyed about my time spent at Kaplan University. I've spent the last 6 weeks working towards something else that was supposed to help me pay for school, but I've had more fun in that 6 weeks than I will probably ever have attending this school. I understand that life is not all fun and games, but it's not all misery and sorrow either. In life, you should be able to find a little joy in what you do. I don't feel that the only satisfaction that I should get from getting my education should be simply receiving a degree; I feel that the knowledge that I am receiving should excite me and encourage me to continue to try and learn more. Maybe for a person like me, online classes isn't such a great idea. I might need that fact- to- face contact a little more than I anticipated. Over the holidays I plan to reevaluate my plans and determine if this is the rout that I want to continue to pursue.