If anyone is reading this thank you

So I am really excited for my classes because all of them are life changing classes. Two of my classes makes me want to be a better person, my communications class makes me want to be a better person on the inside and to be more assertive, and my health class makes me want to be a better person on the outside. My Music fundamentals has already stirred my musical pot because even though it is mainly just review for me he shows us songs with stuff we had just learned so I have been strengthening my ear-training which is something I have always wanted to do. I don’t know if I mentioned this in a previous blog but my music teacher was a teacher from the U of M so I have high hopes it as if I go to the U. Of course thats just me trying to make the decision of going to inver look like it was a good one, so what I am in denial. Biology is the exception that it is not life changing but hopefully it will pick up.

So I can’t help to notice that I am home usually doing nothing like today because my friends are busy doing there own thing which makes me feel lonely. I just hope their schedules start to be less cluttered so I can fit in there (I don’t want to sound selfish cause I would like tot think that I am not). So that is all on my mind for today I just wanted to do this because if you put something aside for too long it will end up forgotten.

PS - I am going to make a series of Blogs sometime soon called “Served Soft: a blog about an under payed and under appreciated DQ worker” The title speaks for it self but it will focus on the mental damage it has done on me and my fellow co-workers.

Step 4: Going Public

So ends the first week of my second semester of college, even though its only Thursday it still feels like the end because I only have one class tomorrow for less than an hour and then my weekend begins. I wasn’t planning on doing a blog today until I went to my Health class, but I will get to that in a little bit. The classes I am taking are: Interpersonal Communication, General Biology: Cell to organism (with Lab), Personal communication (or its community because all it shows me is “Comm”) health, and Music Fundamentals. So far I love all of my classes and have high hopes for all of them especially Music fundamentals.

In the General Biology: Cell to Organism class I was nervous because I planned on taking just a General Bio class but it was filled so I thought I picked a class that was a lesser class. It turns out the regular General bio is lesser while the one I am taking is for majors, which is exactly what I wanted. The Interpersonal class is self explanatory and same with the health class. In my Music Fundamentals every is going fine because I have a leg up on some people because they don’t know how to read sheet music yay for me! but I think its going to be really fun because on Tuesdays its just lecture while on Thursdays (today) is a performance appointment where we play some things on the piano for him then the rest of the time we can just fiddle around on the piano till the end of class.

Anyway now to explain the main reason for this blog. So in Health class we talked about how we are going to have to change a bad behavior of ours for a class project, and one of the steps is going public with your resolution because it is shown that those who go public with it have better chances of success which sounds good to me. I plan on doing two things that will help each other, I plan on losing a bunch of weight, and each more fruits and vegetables (Which I have been doing pretty good about doing). So there it is and to set a realistic goal I have planned to have this done by AT LEAST the end of this semester.

I planned on doing homework between school and work but alas it is time to get ready for work... But I love you all (who ever reads this) and I hope you have a good day.

RIP winter break 2009/2010

It is said that today is the last day of my winter break *tear*. Well this semester will be a little easier because I am only taking 13 credits I could take more but my laziness wins this battle. At least I have a week to exchange my classes or add one but definitely not drop one. One thing that has been surging through my head all day while I was over-hauling my room because sam has a bunch of stuff stuffed in all the nooks and crannies, and that was trying to get more responsibility by getting my own place. I really want to get my own place because I think it would be great to have my own place where I cook my own meals and clean up after everything I do, which I think is a great way to express my freedom. I mean seriously that would be the best thing to happen to me *sigh*. It just feels right to just get up and go, and it is for the right reason this time. All the previous times I wanted to move out it was for the wrong reasons, it was to run away from my problems, but now it is to help fortify my future. Holler! haha I don’t know why but it felt like a holler moment so Holler Back if you know how I feel!

Anyway I gotta get ready for tomorrow peace out!

Blog: New Years Edition

*Sigh* Its a new year and a new slate. Even though I have made resolutions, they weren’t made for the new year, they were made as my life goes on because I believe that saying “This year I am going to ______” is very important but so is making mini resolution (or larger ones) all year around. I just hope my 2010 resolutions won’t turn into a 2011 resolution. Which reminds me that it feels sort like a fail when you have to do that for a couple of years in a row *cough* *cough*. But hopefully this year will be the final year for that resolution *fingers crossed*. Sadly the transition from 2009 to 2010 was filled with despair not because of the news years party, which was fun, but because I was afraid that I was going to be expelled from college and possibly be in jail =[.

This is how the story goes. On December 29, 2009 I received a letter from IHCC (Inver Hills Community College) saying that they received a letter from Warner Bros, and yes that is the warner bros the movie company, saying that they had information of movie infringement from my laptop. That is that they technically caught me downloading movies off the internet. Even though I downloaded the movies I thought I was doing it legally because I paid a website for the privilege to download movies which said “100% legal”, which I now realize that was a scam. So I called because it said i needed to set up a meeting with the dean of IHCC to discuses this. Of course I started to freak out because I might be expelled and/or go to jail and owe WB millions of dollars. When I called no one was there so I left a message saying that I needed to set up a meeting. They returned my call on January 4 so this meant that I spent the next 7 days trying to pull my hair out, people who saw me on New Years Eve can attest to that. So then we set up a meeting on January 6. I went in hoping the dean wasn’t a jerk who punishes people who didn’t do anything wrong. Then the time came at 10:04 AM I entered his office where we talked. I explained what happened and 20 minutes later I left the office as happy as I could ever be because:

A)I wasn’t trouble and just gave me a warning

B)WB did not ask for my name so they are not going to give it to them

C)This will never be on my record and the only people who will know about this incident will be him and his IT team (and of course the people reading this right now)

So I am sure you can understand how relieved I was. Of course the happiness died down when I had to say good bye to my favorite brother Patrick Decker. It is sort of sad that in 3 days I will be back in college while most of my friends of at least another week to themselves BA! HUMBUG! I don’t hate them I just envy them. I sincerely hope that I will have as much fun as I did last semester and FYI I had straight B’s which is a curse and a blessing at the same time... I guess

Now I have to go to work and it might be boring so make my day brighter by stoping by or even a little text would be nice (651-247-4723) =] Stephen AWAAAAY!

PS: I love my new hair but it seems like everyday that goes by it gets more dull =[