These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

I feel that in light of all the thing that have gone on since the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I need to make a list that reflects on the positives in my life...the things that I wake up for everyday.
First and foremost, my favorite people and inspirations: My sons
Favorite food: My grandfather's meatballs (now my dad has taken that role over)
Favorite desert: A toss up between Butter Tarts and Versea's dessert  (old family recipes, as well)
Favorite drink: Vanilla Coke (much to the dismay of my brother and doctor as I am diabetic)
Cook or Bake: I like to bake
Favorite animal: Cats
Favorite activity: Walking
Favorite hobby: Reading
Favorite Genre: a mix of horror and a touch of innocent romance- not the raunchy stuff
Favorite era: the 1950s
Favorite Precious Stone: Emerald
Favorite College: I'm a Bearcat, baby!!
Favorite Musical Group: Paramore
Favorite Song: A Thousand Years by Christina Perry
Favorite Artist: Melissa Faulkner-Vanzant
Favorite Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Favorite Actor: Tom Hanks
What I want in life: To be successful and make my kids proud
What I wish for: Someone to share my life with, a companion. It doesn't have to be a romantic relationship, but I want someone I can trust who will care for me no matter what- good or bad. Friend or significant other, whatever I am blessed  with.
My short term goal: To graduate with my Bachelor's, get a good paying job, and get my own place
My long term goal: To get past my short term goals and then go from there. :)

Ugh!

As my academic career draws to a close, one would think that my problems would begin to dissipate. However, that is not the case. I am currently attempting to get the bureaucracy off its duff to catch up with my dead-beat ex-husband. He had quit his job abruptly to move with his live-in to Georgia. I recently pursued legal actions against my ex-husband that currently have left him with supervised visitation. Apparently, in Ohio, no parent can behave badly enough to warrant the ties that bind being severed- at least temporarily until said parent completes mandated counseling and/or parenting classes. The latter has been left optional for him.
In the mean time, it is my children who suffer the greatest, no longer having medical coverage or child support to help offset some of our living expenses. I don't blame my agency caseworker, she is great- always on top of things. I blame the system that allows this to happen. The system that says that as long as some mediocre payment is made- not the amount that has been order, but an obscure amount, such as $30 or even less- they cannot touch him. He has moved without leaving the enforcement agency and the court a forwarding address AND he failed to update ANY employer information, thus the cutoff in support payments and insurance, Yet, still, nothing is done.

So, for me what I am and have been contemplating this last month or so is not the teachings of Descartes or the lectures of my various subjects in criminal justice that I have heard this week,no, what is bantering back and forth in my mind is how I will keep food on the table and get my kids their prescriptions and doctor's appointments. So much for the system.