Good news when I stepped on the scale this morning is I was starting to drop a little bit of anchorage I’ve been carrying around with me. This is the motivation I need to keep it going. One of the best things I have done to help with this is to really enjoy eating. I’ve stopped wolfing down everything in a five mile radius and really chewing food and exploring the actual texture. When I’m taking my time, I don’t eat nearly as much and I truly enjoy the flavors I am eating. Can this be called the “pleasure diet?” We’ll see how it goes after another week or two.

A lot of massive stressors are hitting this weekend for some reason. Kids grades have me perplexed and disgruntled, money woes are rearing their ugly heads, the house is a mess and needs a good and thorough cleaning and that’s just the start of it. There’s a lot of change that’s going to be coming in the next few months and here’s to hoping we all survive it. The accomplishment this weekend for me will come when laundry is done and the master bedroom is picked up.

Food & Drink #35 Blueberries – the health benefits are oh so deliciously awesome.

1) Provide antioxidants. Anthocyanins, the pigments that make blueberries blue, are potent antioxidants: A half cup of blueberries provides the antioxidant power of five servings of peas, carrots, apples, squash or broccoli.
2) Are a healthy, low glycemic-index carbohydrate, an especially good choice for diabetics.
3) Are a source of vitamin C, important for a healthy immune system.
4) Help meet your need for daily fiber – two grams per one-half cup serving.
5) Have shown promise in addressing the effects of aging: animal studies have demonstrated improved motor skills and a reversal of age-related short-term memory loss associated with consuming blueberries.
6) May have other health benefits ranging from preventing cancer and defending against urinary tract infections to protecting the brain from stroke damage and reducing heart disease risks.

Food tally for the day:
Breakfast: Rudis Organic multigrain bagel w/ Horizon Organic cream cheese (Yeppers. Organic baby!) Also 1 cup of Light Chocolate Silk and 1/4 cup blueberries
Morning Snack: Frigo Light Cheese Stick
Lunch: 2 Ezekiel tortillas, 1 laughing cow cheese wedge split between them, 1 slice of ham on each tortilla, unk amount of raw spinach (a cup and a half maybe?) and about 3/4 cup sprouts total split on each. Also had 1/4 cup blueberries
Afternoon Snack: A wonderfully delicious Gala apple and 1 oz of mixed nuts including: peanuts, pistachios, almonds, and cashews.
Dinner: TBA BUT….. Planning on steak, potatoes and mini-cheesecakes for dessert. This is all from Omaha Steaks and was a gift from my mother. The key here is moderation and not to eat everything in front of me just because it’s there. I’m also thinking I need to add in some other veggies. Veggies are soooo yummy!

I actually had two little Lifesavers candies today. The apple I ate was far more fulfilling. As part of the food enjoyment plan, I actually did nothing other than eat and eat slowly. I discovered I really enjoy almonds (which I have always known.) I am not a huge fan of peanuts and pistachios are pretty yummy too.

Feeding the Spirit #35 Going to try to make it to church tonight. We’ve all talked about going to a Saturday night service for a long time. Hoping it happens. Will advise later.

I’m thankful today is Friday. For whatever reason this has been a very long week and I can’t wait til the weekend to take care of a few things that I need to take care of and then turn into asparagus – a vegetable. The weather is supposed to be a tad bit warmer, so maybe this means I can finish going through stuff in the garage. It desperately needs to be done and hopefully, this will be the weekend.

So far, diet has been “ok” today, but not quite feeling up to snuff. Maybe it’s the large fiber content I’ve been consuming the past couple of days catching up with me. I can honestly say I’m “stuffed” yet don’t feel quite satisfied. How to remedy that I’m not sure.

Food tally for the day:
Breakfast: Apple & Water
Morning Snack: Cherry Jello and 1 peanut M&M
Lunch: 2 Cups raw spinach, 1 cup cubed chicken, 1/2 cup sprouts and 2 Ezekiel Tortillas.. oh and a Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge and 5 peanut M&M’s
Afternoon Treat:
Dinner: TBA

Health & Fitness #34 Stairs… so good for exercising those massive muscles we sit on each and every day. If you take two stairs at a time, it burns more calories and who doesn’t want that?!?!

Feeding the Spirit #34 Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before? Why and how can you change it?

I was laying awake the other night and taking inventory of how my 142 days of resolution are going so far for 2011. I was actually awake because of two factors: snoring and snow. The snoring is rather normal in my house, but the snowstorm… it was freakishly cold outside and yours truly forgot to properly program the thermostat. So…. I was going through some old photographs and compared them to some new ones. I know I have gained too much weight when my face is “fat.” Seriously. It’s one thing to wear tents, but when my face looks like the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man… well, it’s definitely time to reverse the trend.

I’ve started reading Jillian Michael’s “Master Your Metabolism.” There’s a wealth of information in there. I also recommend Tosca Reno’s “Eat Clean Diet.” I’ve started making changes on the diet, but I’m no where near eating TOTALLY clean yet. Slowly but surely. I wish I were one of those people who could make some changes cold turkey, but alas, not so much.

Health & Fitness #33 Still sore from shoveling snow, but did take a pretty good walk around the PD and up and down stairs today. Will probably try to do something at home tonight too.

Food & Drink #33 My mother used to say that I had to chew each bite of food 32 times. I always thought that was a random BS number, but there is some science behind it. So, I’ve been taking more time to eat and to TASTE foods. Too many times I have found myself just shovelling food in my mouth and I haven’t really stopped to taste it. It’s actually how my dogs eat – three chews and it’s gone. That’s totally not healthy because the mouth does a good bunch of digesting food before it even gets to the stomach. Why do I want to make my stomach try to do more work? I have to admit it’s harder to eat this way, but I have found that I enjoy my meals more and I have found that I don’t eat quite as much. In the long run, that’s a good thing. So a couple of tips to help the process:

1. Chew each bite of food about 30 times.
2. Put the fork or spoon down between bites.
3. Don’t talk with your mouth full. Not only is it bad manners, but it impedes on eating because you are in such a hurry to speak. A few more seconds won’t matter.
4. “Take human-sized bites.” This is another of my mom’s favorite sayings, but there’s truth to it. Smaller bites means better digestion and a feeling of fullness at a decent rate so you don’t over-stuff yourself.

There are many articles on the benefits of good mastication and I promise within a week of changing your chewing habits, you will see and feel a difference in your body AND your appreciation for food. Just maybe you will become a true gormand.

Food tally for the day:
Breakfast: 1 cup chocolate Silk
Morning Snack: 2 Ezekiel Tortillas, 15 baby carrots
Lunch:2 Cups raw spinach, 1 cup cubed chicken
Afternoon Treat: 1/2 “Mounds” package, 5 peanut M&M’s and cherry Jello (not together!) and 1 cup chopped pineapple (I do sense a carb trend here)
Dinner: Tuna fish salad, ezekiel tortilla, sprouts

Feeding the Spirit #33 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

Superbowl 45 was a bore. I’m sorry to the Packer’s and Steeler’s fans but in the overall scheme of things, the game was boooooooooor-ing. Even the commercials weren’t really up the the normal snuff – though there were a few that reached a level of “awesome” including the Dorito’s “Resurrection”, Mini Darth Vader, the Bridgestone Beaver and the VW commercials. There were a few others, but those actually do stand out in my mind.

However… I do have a gripe. Usually Christina Aquilera can really give a great performance but when she sang the National Anthem she totally boffed it. The Diva took up an entire two minutes (give or take 10 seconds) to sing the national anthem because she wanted to put her own personal flair into it. By doing so – the lyrics went awry. When she was supposed to sing “o’er the ramparts we watched” she sang “what so proudly we watched”. This as well as the off-key singing was a little too much for this ol’ Texas girl. She did finish the song in spite of the screw up and there were plenty of director takes of crying football players, but the mistake can’t be forgotten. In fact, one wonders really why the players were tearing up.

However, at one point and time she actually knew the anthem and could actually sing it… case in point.

In fact, I dare say that if the NFL wanted to get it right they should have done a little something like this—>

In other news, been slowly and steadily working on my 142 days. As for diet… yeah, been better but not great. The Snickers bar I’m enjoying this afternoon is something I refuse to feel horrible about. It’s either eat that or fall asleep face first on the desk. While I see the comedic value of that… probably wouldn’t bode too well.

Lunch break is over. Time to get some real work done. Tally ho!

Amazing how cold it is outside today. Temperature is about 3 degrees with w/a windchill of -22 degrees. (The Weather Channel @1140 hours.) Anyway, leaving the building for lunch didn’t seem like such a brilliant idea so I thought I would try to warm up the hearts and minds with a cover of one of my favorite Beatles tunes. Sarah Bareilles has an amazing and often under-rated voice. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did… and also check out her accoustic version of (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay by the one and only Otis Redding. Amazing.

Tonight I’m planning on watching “The Day After Tomorrow” in honor of the big storm that’s moving it’s way into the Texas Panhandle. We are only supposed to get two to four inches of snow, but the blizzard conditions which include 50 mile an hour winds and a windchill estimated tonight of 15 below is not my idea of a good time. I know this storm is not atypical, but still, storms like this always kind of freak me out. I don’t like to think I would be stuck at home with no electricity or creature comforts. I suppose that means I probably should learn what “roughing it” really means. I think I will go add a third pair of socks to my freezing tootsies and may also throw on another sweater. It’s cold. I don’t like the cold. It’s not that I’m a big fan of a Texas summer, which can be hotter than the gates of Hades… but I really don’t like the cold.

More later…… when I thaw out. Safe driving peeps…

I’m sitting here looking at my desk at the casa and all I can ask is, “How does it get this messy so quickly?” I guess junk mail is the majority of it (and mess is relative to any given person. Mine is just cluttered, not exactly “messy.”) And the good Lord knows that I have no intention of letting my desk look like mother’s kitchen table. Heavens that would be bad… I tend to be a pack-rat and I can probably justify most of the stuff I have kept throughout the years; however, the older I get and the worse mother’s hoarding gets pushes me to the other extreme and I’ve started throwing out a bunch of stuff.

If you are wanting to know the difference between hoarding and collecting, there’s a pretty observable definition. Hoarding is when the items collected intrude on the living conditions, lifestyle and ability to use areas of the home for their intended purpose. For example, when you are sleeping on the couch or in a chair because you can’t make it to your bed, you are a hoarder. Another example is when you are eating off a tv tray in the bedroom because the dining room and kitchen table are covered with stuff, you are a hoarder. If the quality of the air you breath is diminished and you don’t even realize it because you are in the stench all the time, you are a hoarder. If you are keeping random items long after the use they were intended for, then you are a hoarder. I’m not saying all of these things apply to my mother, but I can honestly say that she does have a problem.

My brother in law, John, is the opposite of a hoarder. He and my sister live in a wonderful apartment in Manhattan and have an office on one of the most famous streets in the world. Because New York living standards are different from the midwest, it’s easy to see how he is able to keep things to a minimum. I admire the ability to do that. And usually about the time their spring cleaning / fall cleaning starts, I sit around at the house and start asking myself, “Ok, time to clean out some of this crap. What goes first?”

With this being said, now is a good time for Life Lesson #22 Cleanliness is next to godliness.

It’s an old expression, but in case you were looking for some motivation to actually clean up the casa, here’s a list to help you get motivated.

1) Insects. The cleaner you keep your room the less likely that there are creepy crawlies hiding in corners, in your shoes, or otherwise populating a space that should be yours alone.

2) Cleaner rooms are healthier rooms. A lot of people are allergic to dust mites or dust itself. It’s bad enough that your messy decor might be making you sick, but if your room is literally making you sick that can lead to feeling awful and possibly preoccupying your immune system so when a cold or flu bug comes your way, you might be too run down to fight it off as well as you otherwise would.

3) When you can find all of your clothes, and they are clean and neatly put away, you can actually wear all of them and vary your wardrobe, which is very cool. This can prevent you from getting bored with your stuff, and even better, prevent you from wasting money on stuff you already have.

4) Cleaning gets rid of some other nasties: It eliminates food and body shed skin that roaches dine upon as well as the stink from oily bed clothing. (I’m thinking I need to do a wash load right now because I’m fairly grossed out by #4.)

5) Pride. If you have a messy room / house, when you have company over they may tell their friends. They may also say something if your room / house smells bad. When friends and family come to call, they don’t want to trip over anything, break anything, or sit there with a hankie covering their face because your room smells like decomposing food, old gym shorts, wet dog or what have you.

And a final note taken slightly out of context, the Bible also promotes keeping things clean. This also includes our bodies and our spirits. When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’Luke 11:25. and the rest of the story at Matthew 12:44 When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.

Food & Drink #22 The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. —Julia Child

Food tally for the day:
Breakfast: 2 homemade oatmeal cookies and some hot tea
Morning Snack: TBA
Lunch: TBA
Afternoon Snack: TBA
Dinner: TBA

Feeding the Spirit #22 “May the God of peace… equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen” (Hebrews 13:20-21).

Day 21 should have something pretty amazing to share. I mean three weeks is a long time for developing a pattern of change and becoming a better me, right? I was zooming around the “tube” and found this. At first I scoffed. I mean, I know that Sarah Brightman is amazing… but Antonio Banderas did quite the job. I suppose that’s todays lesson – admitting when we are wrong.

I’ve been excessively busy during the day and at night too tired to write. So here I am while I have the chance to check in and see what all the wonders of the universe have in store. Aside from catching up on my actual work-load, the only thing I have truly accomplished is watching some American Idol. There’s some talent out there and then there are the others where you just have to plug your ears, cock your head to one side and go, “Seriously?”

Isn’t rakish a great word? According to the dictionary, it means:

1. Smart; jaunty; dashing.
2. Of a vessel: having an appearance suggesting speed.
3. Like a rake; dissolute: rakish behavior.

I’m trying to figure out how I can best use it in a sentence, but at this time I haven’t quite figured out how it fits in law-enforcement. A romance novel perhaps, but not here. Will have to keep trying.

Also, I can’t say that this is a “new” feature to the blog, but from time to time, I figure I will share a few words I find interesting.

Life Lesson #19-20 Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences

Health & Fitness #19-20 If you are finding it hard to workout because of a time crunch. A lunchtime workout may be the answer. Keep a bag with your sneakers, gym clothes, and basic grooming necessities stashed at your office so you’re always ready for a lunchtime workout. Women with long hair can tie it back to sweat-proof it. And Baby Wipes come in small packs and can get you cleaned up really fast so you don’t have to wait in line for the shower.(You might not want to share that particular secret with your work colleagues!) If you pack a nutritious lunch, then you are set. Just don’t assume that you burned 300 calories and can then eat a cheeseburger. You’ll just feel frustrated and not lose any weight.

Food & Drink #19-20 Breakfast is the most important meal of the day as many studies have shown and confirmed. So here are some great breakfast ideas for you to ponder courtsey of runner’s world.:

Homemade raisin bran
Description: Mix one cup of Total cereal, a packet of raisins, and 1 cup nonfat milk. This simple home recipe with 244 calories fortifies you with 100 percent of the Daily Value for most vitamins and minerals, boosts your protein intake by 12 grams, and gives you a sweet, natural fiber and sugar source.
You’ll Save: 50 calories, 6 teaspoons of sugar, and 5 grams of fat compared with ready-to-serve raisin bran doused with a cup of 2-percent milk.

Scrambled whites with greens
Description: This low-fat, scrambled-egg alternative provides 54 grams of high-quality dietary protein in just 255 calories. First, spray your frying pan with fat-free Pam. Then pour the equivalent of four servings of Eggology egg whites (or Second Nature or Egg Beaters egg whites) in a bowl and blend with 1/2 cup spinach and 1/2 cup mushrooms. Heat the pan until the Pam starts to bubble, pour in the eggs, and fry until the eggs are nearly dry.
You’ll Save: 40 calories, 100 milligrams of cholesterol, and 13 grams of fat compared with two normal scrambled eggs.

Balanced Diet Shake
Description: For something cool, tasty, and nutrient-filled in the morning, try a shake or smoothie. The Balanced Diet nutritional drink provides 180 calories with lots of complex carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals in a naturally flavored French vanilla or chocolate royale. Each serving includes 5 grams of dietary fiber and 10 grams of soy, or 40 percent of the daily minimum now recommended by the American Heart Association.
You’ll Save: 60 calories daily and nearly 6 grams of fat compared with many other similar drinks.

Frozen fruit smoothie
Description: You can prepare your own personal antioxidant-filled fruit smoothie like the following one that runner Bruce Shapiro used to lose 30 pounds over the last few years. Combine and blend: one cup frozen, unsweetened blueberries; 1/2 banana; 1/4 cup wheat germ; and water.
You’ll Save: 200 calories for each 2- to 3-cup serving, compared with many store-bought and canned smoothie beverages.

Personally, I would prefer a bowl of old-fashioned oatmeal, fresh blueberries, flaxseed, wheat germ, pecans, and a little bit of agave nectar. Filling and yummy. Scottish oats are great too. I used to hate oatmeal because dad couldn’t make it to save his life…but I had a big bowl a few years ago at Inn of the Mountain Gods and been hooked ever since. Yum.

Food tally for the day – Friday:
Breakfast: Ribeye Steak Breakfast Burrito
Morning Snack: Cheese Stick,Grapes, 1 Giradelli mint-chocolate square
Lunch: Tuna fish, baby carrots
Afternoon Snack: TBA
Dinner: TBA

Feeding the Spirit #19-20 I’ve really been missing my BFF lately. After something in the neighborhood of 25 years of fun and frivolity, tears and torture and some great moments in between, I miss talking to her on a regular basis. True friendships are a rarity and dad used to say that there was a big difference between a friend and a friendly acquaintance. It’s something I also try to instill in my kids. You have to know the difference and sometimes it takes a long time to figure out. So in honor of friendship:

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
— Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— Samuel Johnson

It’s the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.– Marlene Dietrich

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. — Czech. Proverb

Ok, I’m cheating. Two days combined into one. Yesterday I felt like hammered dog poop. Quite the visual because one has to wonder as to the consistancy of said poop, but trust me… it was ugly. Yesterday I went to the doctor for what I thought was going to be the ugly testing… no.. just kind of a painful poke and prod that I’m still trying to get over. The uber-ugly testing actually occurs next week. Local anesthetic and a 2.5 hour procedure is involved. If the tests are as others have told me about, I would prefer to just not go there. Sucks.

Ok… let’s lose some of the negativity for now at least. Sometimes I swear I sound like my mother and that’s bothersome. I really don’t mind being sarcastic or cynical, but negative is one of the things I’m really trying to work on in this 142 days.

Something positive. Girl Scout Cookie time!!!

I’m sure there is something cosmic about the way Girl Scout cookies fall right in line to sabotage new year resolutions; however, the yummy goodness (if eaten in moderation) can be a life saver for many people. I have and will probably always have a weakness for Thin Mints – they me want to sing and dance. In fact, I could right now because the guys aren’t here to make fun of me doing so. (Insert silly looking jig here.) I got two boxes this morning, some of which may or may not make it all the way home. However, the boxes have been in my possession for almost four hours and I haven’t even cracked open the box nor the bag in which they were delivered in. See… already showing signs of progress for a healther lifestyle, eh? However, I am salivating with the mere thought of a Thin Mint.

I’m not blue and fuzzy, but I think we can all agree at this point that this little fella and I have something mutually in common. However, I just want to state for the record I am nobody’s puppet.

Speaking of puppets… Did anyone watch the state of the union last night? Personally I had better things to do than to listen to El Presidente open his maw. However, the SoU address was posted on the White House website and I thought I would make a comment. I think President Obama is an idiot. And here we go with a rant / bit of negativity.

“Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans’ paychecks are a little bigger today. Every business can write off the full cost of new investments that they make this year. And these steps, taken by Democrats and Republicans, will grow the economy and add to the more than one million private sector jobs created last year.”

Excuse me, but did I miss something here? Because I am not making more money and after discussing this matter with the guys I work with, neither are they. Because of the change in the tax laws, my paycheck was shorted about $20 a pay-period. At the end of the year, that means the government has gotten another $520 of my hard-earned money. IF the federal government would quit spending money they don’t have and if congress would just suck it up and say “enough already” then the economy might just turn around.

El Presidente also touted the fact that America’s education system sucks. It does suck. We lack behind so many other nations in the world. I attribute this to many things… but first… the part that caught my eye and ticked me off – he was discussing the costs of a college education.

“Of course, the education race doesn’t end with a high school diploma. To compete, higher education must be within the reach of every American. (Applause.) That’s why we’ve ended the unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that went to banks, and used the savings to make college affordable for millions of students. (Applause.) And this year, I ask Congress to go further, and make permanent our tuition tax credit –- worth $10,000 for four years of college. It’s the right thing to do. (Applause.)”

Ok… my oldest daughter wants to be a vet – to help animals that need it. A college education for her will run about $85,000. Does anyone seriously believe that $10K is really going to help with that? Why don’t we actually implement tuition freezes for awhile. Colleges can certainly deal with not building any new buildings for a couple of years. As a college guidance counsellor told me in the fall of 2010 when I questioned why I HAD to take algebra when I have not used it in the 20 years it had been since I graduated high school, “Colleges are in the business to make money.”
Yeah… lemme tell you about it. That $10K that the president is proposing is a drop in the bucket and college costs are still out of reach for many Americans. For me to go to school at WTAMU here in the Texas Panhandle… Here’s what I have to pay…

For details of cost by residency (Texas and border counties resident, border state resident, non-resident and international) by semester credit hour, please click here for Cost of Attendance. Amounts shown below are the rates for Fall Semester 2010.

Statutory Tuition
Statutory tuition rates are set by the Texas Legislature. The rate for Texas residents is $50 per semester credit hour (minimum of $120 per semester; $60 per summer session). The non-resident rate for the 2010-11 academic year is $360 per semester credit hour.

Designated Tuition
A mandatory tuition ($102.51 per semester credit hour for 1-11 hours; $1,435.14 for 12-18 hours; $102.51 per semester credit hour, over 18 hours) for operations of the University, scholarship set-asides and building upkeep and improvements.

Health Fee
A mandatory fee ($38 per semester, $19 per summer session) for the operation of a student clinic on campus.

Student Service Fee
A mandatory fee ($16 per semester credit hour –– maximum of $198 per semester, $96 per summer session) distributed by the Campus Student Fee Committee for various campus services and organizations.

Student Center Complex Fee
A mandatory fee ($8 per semester credit hour –– maximum of $96 per semester, $4 per semester credit hour–maximum of $48 per summer session) for operation and maintenance of student centers.

Technology Fee
A mandatory fee ($11 per semester credit hour) to provide, operate, maintain and staff facilities and equipment that helps promote computer literacy among the entire student body.

Traffic Safety Fee
A mandatory fee ($1 per semester, $2.50 per summer session) to maintain and repair campus traffic controls.

Records Fee
A mandatory fee ($15 per semester, $7.50 per summer session) to combine drop/add fees, transcript fee, graduation fee and ID card fees and to support the offices providing these functions.

Rec Sports Fee
A mandatory fee ($70 per semester, $35 per summer session) to finance, construct, operate, maintain and improve recreational sports facilities and programs.

International Education Fee
A mandatory fee ($4 per semester) for international student exchanges and study abroad programs.

Library Fee
A mandatory fee ($4 per semester credit hour) for the ongoing operational expenses of the Cornette Library.

Washington, DC Intern Fee
A mandatory fee ($1 per semester) to assist students participating in approved internships in Washington, D.C.

Intercollegiate Athletic Fee
A mandatory fee ($20 per semester credit hour – maximum of $240) distributed by the athletic director for all intercollegiate athletic activities and scholarships.

Advising Fee
A mandatory fee ($35 per semester; $17.50 per summer session) for advising activities of all students at the University.

Transportation Fee
A mandatory fee ($10 per semester) to operate and maintain shuttle service for the campus and parking spaces/lots.

Look at all the freakin’ “MANDATORY FEES” that I (or anyone) have to pay to attend school there each semester. I started adding it up and after I got to $400 a semester, I quit – some of the fees are for each semester hour… if you are taking a full course load of say 15 hours, that’s unreal and a load of bullshit.

Ok… done with the rant, but I’m willing to bet you can tell I can go on and on … and I want to, but won’t. That’s the problem with me blogging, I’m sure I can channel my mother and work up a rant John McEnroe would be proud of… but I won’t. I will just leave it at rest and experience the power of the Woo-Sah…

More later from this rebel…