What are your Goals?

I may as well give you my own current goal list.

1. Finish my masters degree and become an assistant principal.

2. Travel to Europe as a group leader with the same organization that my kids have traveled with.

3. Meet some type of soulmate and have a decent relationship.....Oh wait, you said "goal list", not wish list..... oh well.

When I was 21, I was wrestling with going back to school, too. I'm so glad I did. Getting my High School Diploma was such a load off my mind and heart--I never realized what a big thing it would be. Then I picked away at college classes at the local community college here and there for a couple of years. That's now on hold until I figure out just what field to go into, but I figure, at least I've got some of the basics out of the way when inspiration finally strikes.

I can tell from your posts that you're very intelligent and you love to learn new things and to express yourself creatively. A college class could be a good outlet for all of that, and keeping your brain busy might help the depression a little.

Well said, alexnell!

i made an appointment with my local college about my education options, so, if
the GED is the way to go, she will give me all the information i need, and the book i need to study from.

thank you Deb, alexnell, and nena, i am a little nervous, but, very excited about
starting my life, finally!

congradulations Katie on taking that first step! I'm proud of you for making the appointment

thank you, Colby, the appointment is for next Thursday morning... i hope it goes well, i'll let ya know

Way to go, blue! I am very proud of you. All the people in the world can give you advice, but ultimately you are the one who made the conscious decision to do something to change your life.

Bravo to you!

Way to go! You can do this, my friend! You really can!



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well, goodness knows I have a ton of goals (and I'm sorry to say that a good deal of them are rather superficial; what can I say? I'm a teen) here's a few:

*convince Sasha that when we pet her, it is not neccesary to jump up and bite you.

*convince the kittens that we will not jump up and bite them.

*get into a good college, when the time comes.

*get my Varsity letter in water polo (I already know I'm getting one for swimming next year...yay!)

*become a professional dancer (that could take awhile, but I just took myself one step closer. I switched dance studios back in December, and yesterday I auditioned for the performing jazz group. I'll find out if I got in in about a week!)

*survive camp next week!

ok, so they pretty much are all superficial. I do have others that aren't, but I find them much harder to put into words. these are just a couple of mine.

oh, BTW~ a week ago, I would have put that I want to get a 4.0 GPA on my report card this semester, but it came a couple days ago.
4.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm very proud of that. esp. cuz I'm taking advanced science, math, and english!!!)

Wow! Congratulations upon your wonderful scholastic accomplishment! And, equally, congratulations on being such an excellent athlete: dancer, swimmer, water-polo player!



Where in Oregon do you go to school — and what's its name? There are several of us here at the web site who, as you know, live in Oregon.



One of my heroes of the cinema, Louise Brooks, was a professional dancer — first with the modern-dance Denishawn Dance Company on national tour and then with Ziegfeld's Follies in New York city. I do believe we at The Cat Site have a future star in our midst!



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Katie, you will be surprised at the direction your life can take with even with small changes in your life...I know you are fairly young and can't really see that...but as I was looking over my life recently...I saw all the twists and turns it can and does take!!!

Such as getting or dumping a boyfriend...I had to make a hard choice 21 years ago about a serious boyfriend (he had asked to marry me)and I turned him down for a "maybe" relationship with another boy...Guess what?? The "maybe" boyfriend and I will be celebrating our 20th ann. in Nov. The *simple* choice of getting your GED and going back to school could change your life FOREVER!!!! By the way....the serious boyfriend never amounted to much..his first and only marriage ended in divorce after 6 years and has jumped from job to job (occ. living with his parents. My husband is in upper managment and makes a very comfortable living for himself and us (including a well-adjusted 15 yr. old)....So, remember all of the postives of life and of the smallest changes....like waking more ever day!!!

If I hadn't gone back for my Diploma, I never would have met my husband! He was the housemate of one of my classmates at the Alternative High School. She decided to fix us up on a blind date because we were the 2 quietest people she knew. I only agreed to go because I wanted her to stop pestering me about it. I assumed that Greg wouldn't like me, maybe even end the date early, and that would be the end of it.

Oops.

What's the update with this appointment thing? When's the appointment? I want to know how things turn out.

Deb

well, the appointment is for Thursday morning and i am so excited!

i'll tell you all about it when i get home from it

DebbieA

i hear what you're saying, and thanks for your input, but let me just say, with the experiences
i have had already i can assure you i understand the impact of change, big or small.

this is why i am taking this step, i need to make a change, i cant keep standing still.