One year + One day

That's how long it's been since I've had a seizure. I still haven't driven. I had a change this weekend since I was home and all, but I passed it up. I'm still a little creeped out. It scares me to drive after I have a seizure. What if I had one while driving? My old neurologist said the chances are the same as getting in an accident. I've been in those before- only once when I was driving, not my fault which means it could happen.... it's kind of an irrational fear since the grand mals I've had have not been while operating a motor vehicle. Nevertheless, I'm still freaked out! In a car I can do so much more damage than just falling over and slamming various parts of my extremities against whatever hard object is close at hand....

Also Barbie & Jordan's wedding has been moved to July 28 2007. I'm excited. :) I got to spend time with that Jordn Sand boy this weekend... it was great. He's a nice guy who makes my sister happy and just happens to love her. It's a great match. ;D He also got introduced to various aunts and uncles... poor guy, so many new faces....

Happenin' things

Today Annie & I tried out a new church in Moscow. Our friend Emily already goes there so we got a ride with her... actually she gets a ride from this older couple that live in Pullman... they're nice. :) This church was SO much like WPC without the HUGE problems we're experiencing, of course. It was like being home back before we had big staff issues.... Anyways, it was quite awesome. The pastor looks like an exact copy my old neurologist.... that was quite amusing. :D The Sunday school was good. The pastor's wife teaches it. We learned about John. Did you know he was the only disciple to die of old age? Crazy, huh? The songs were excellent, the sermon was good... all in all it was a good morning at church. Oh and the choir sang He Never Failed Me Yet. I can't even tell you how many times I've sung that song. It was like coming home....

This semester is CRAZY school wise! I volunteer Monday, Wednesday & Friday, observe kids for two different classes and have one paper and multiple tests each week. I'm really behind on reading, but I decided doing well on papers and tests is better than being up on the reading which is boring anyway. I also need to find a place to live next year.... I don't know when I'll find the time for that although I need to before spring break if not sooner..... I think I'm gonna sleep for a week when I get home for summer break. Seriously. There's way too much stuff to do!

I have a SOC 101 test tomorrow as well as a paper due (paper's done), two tests on Wednesday plus the volunteering tomorrow and I need to go observe some 0-3 year old and do a running record, then write a paper on it... and I need to read for a SOC 101 paper.... one day at a time.

Barbie's getting married on Labor Day Weekend. She was home Saturday and found two wedding dresses she liked. On President's Day Weekend she's coming home and bringing Jordan. I'm going home too, thank the Lord! I'm SO TIRED of school! I assume they'll be doing wedding stuff since it's going to be at WPC with a different pastor obviously....

I'm gonna go eat & then get back to studying until I know my stuff like the back of my hand....hopefully.

As a side note, my desk is TO SMALL! I swear they gave Community Hall the smallest desks on campus! It's very frusterating, especially when your books keep falling off your desk just because you have this weird idea that you might want to have an arm also on your desk as well as some notebooks... just the stuff you need to study for one class! (If you don't believe the smal desk thing, come visit, you'll agree!)

If it weren't Friday I think I'd get in my bed & pull the covers over my head!

I had a week of many downs. I was totally rude to the people at CCCC-a daycare in Pullman & the people at Head Start. I think the people at Head Start will give me a second chance. (I get to volunteer for two classes at a daycare/somewhere with adolescences so I was calling around.)
To follow that up, I thought I lost my wallet & therefore called to put a hold on my debit card & cancel my Macy card. I found my wallet in the one place I didn't look in the process of pulling my room apart! Grrrrrrrrr! So I called to get the hold taken off my debit card... I didn't even try to call Macys 'cause the women I talked to spoke English as a second language and was very hard to understand. Oh and today I went to the library to copy a journal article I "get" to read for SOC 320 and was totally rude to the guy trying to help me! I seriously don't know what is wrong with me this week! It's not my words. My tone & attitude have been seriously bad this week! (I went back and apologized.) Oh and I had to pay the mandatory fees for this semester, but I couldn't until today because I had to wait to get my stupid debit card off the list it goes on when it gets lost etc and guess what? The extra 3% late fee was added today. A perfect end to a perfect week. Thank God it's Friday. I don't think I could stand another day.

Back in Ptown

So I left home with a new nickname. Are you ready? It's really good. ;D I'm now "The Honker". Why you ask? I kinda lost my voice. All the way. Thursday it was gone. Period. Yesterday and today it comes and goes in bits & sperts and sounds like a goose honking. Oh and it's so low I'd make a great baritone if it didn't die out every other word. :D Of course it's accompanied by a "wonderful" cough that sounds like I'm hackin' up a lung. It all started Wednesday when I helped mom in her class. Actually unknown to me Barbie brought the germs for it home on her Christmas break. It's a good thing I love my sister. :)

I start up classes on Monday and I prolly won't be able to talk to my profs or classmates. Speaking of which, I "get" to buy books tomorrow. Aren't you excited for me? I just wish I could have stayed home for another month & started class on the 8th of February instead. Now that I know what I'm in for, I'm unsuprisingly unexcited for the new semester to start....

Sick Sally signing off

Dead Week

So here I am on the second day of dead week. It's remarkably unstressful. I turned in every assignment (paper), done my online stuff and here I am. I should be studying for my final on Monday. I'll start tonight or this afternoon. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
So I might be going home for the weekend. Laura's graduating with her masters on Saturday or Sunday night. I'm not really sure. That'll be fun. :) What makes it even better is that I'll be home the following Thursday. :D
Annie & I got fun presents for our secret santas in the market today. I did pretty well if I do say so myself. (I also got some stuff for me.) :D
I ran around and did errands this afternoon so I can be ready for my meeting with my counselor at the DVR on January 2nd-yay! Oh and watched Anastasia with Alissa & Annie. I ate too much junk food today, if that's newsworthy. :D
Pretty much, my day was uneventful. Class was okay. I still dislike my poverty class prof. Too bad I "get" to have her again next semester. :P
Good luck to all doing finals this week and safe travel back to Yaktown! :)

Time...

should speed up. Yep. It's a week and a half until Thanksgiving break! I so totally excited as is Annie. Maybe it's because it's the first time it actually has some meaning besides days off school. A whole week in Yakima with my family... I've missed out on so many things. Why is it that as soon as you leave everything happens? Ooo and I get to watch the 2nd season of Veronica Mars, it's my birthday that Monday... anyways, I'm so excited!
All I have standing in my way are two term papers. Too bad it's a steep hill to climb. Come fast Thanksgiving break!
It's been pouring here... and wind gusts at 40ish mph...so annoying. I didn't sign up for Seattle weather. Although from what I hear we out do them here; they usually only get drizzling all day... we had pouring rain for two days pretty much straight.... I'm a Yakima girl for sure; the rain and I disagree.
Josh came to visit this past weekend. Sadly he didn't come to visit me. ;D ahahaha. No, he came to hang with my fabulous roommate, the one and only Annie Kroll. I was invited out to breakfast Sunday morning... Dennys....mmmm.

That pretty much raps it up kids.... see ya'll in Yakima!

Journals....

I hate peer reviewed journals with a passion! They say the exact same thing in as many different ways as possible and when they run out of different ways they repeat it anyway! Grrrrrr. If they actually have enough time to write a journal like that they need to get a life in the worst way. Seriously. Grrrrr.
You know last night I counted out how many papers I've actually written this semester.... it's so wrong! By the end I'll have written 10...or was it 9? Anyway, too many. That's how it's different from YVC. You write more papers. I miss quarters. They seem like a distant dream...so close, and yet so far. That reminds me, someone is stupid and it isn't me! I went in to be advised for next semester and my advisor said it looked like I still had to take two gened classes. It became they said we said by both schools. I'm tellin' ya someone's stupid and it's not me. I may have to visit YVC during Thanksgiving Break. Maybe I could catch Mr. Blisard... sounds like a plan...oh and Mr. Anderson and Ben (Mayo). Those are the best teachers at YVC hands down.

I Love the weekend! It makes me happy, like I should be...

So it's Friday... yay! I'm so happy! This week has been crazy crazy! *sigh of relief* I only have one class today... at 1PM... actually I should be doing homework in my spare morning... oh well... I took a test yesterday for the class that's usually in the morning so there's no class. :) I got a good grade too. :) I'm doing laundry instead of researching/writing a paper... and Annie's going to Moscow this afternoon to spend the night with Claire at U of I. Val's coming to Pullman sometime today for the weekend 'cause it's the Homecoming game and all...I hope she brought me the hangers I asked her to... :D... it'll be fun to see her and to show her my home away from home etc.
Tuesday was a horrible day. Everything went REALLY wrong. Yep, enough said. I ate a half pint of strawberry frozen yogurt to make it a little better. Oh and Julie & Laura called to chat which was a nice suprise and a good end to a REALLY crappy day.
Wednesday I volunteered in the Food Bank... I really enjoy the people I volunteer with, they're tons of fun... :)
Thursday I studied for the test today that I took last night 'cause it's on webct6. If you've never heard of webct count your blessings. It's such a pain in the butt! Grrrr... okay, I'm done.

Update

I'm listening to the soundtrack from Anastasia I got from my friend Stacie... I think it's my favorite from any Disney movie.
Yesterday afternoon I volunteered at the Soup Kitchen here... there were three other people from Yakima there. I even knew one... crazy. :) I like working in the Food Bank better, but Autumn needed me in the Soup Kitchen this week... it was slow, but I got to talk with all the girls, so it was fun. (I go once a week for the semester.)
Last night I went to Intervasity worship. We played Bigger or Better... we went through Stevens Dorm to trade up. (Sadly we didn't have time to go to Community.) We ended up with a really big, bright beach towel with I am the proud owner of. :D
Oh and I believe I'm going to go the Urbana in December...I forget where it is... oops. It's about missions all around the world that you can get involved in and make your own so to speak.
Gotta run to class sadly so as a last note, Annie & I finished the 1st season of Gilmore Girls... :)

Killing time before class

So it's an eventful week. ;) Monday was class of course & then Bibke Study here in Community with a lot of girls I enjoy. Tuesday-yesterday, I went to dinner at my cousin & her husband Corey's apartment here in Pullman. They had peppers.... mmmmm. :) Today after class I'm going to The Community Action Center to see if I can volunteer there as part of my poverty (HD 403) class. Tonight is Intervarsity-yay! Oh, we get a room this week-last week we froze on top of the library. Yep, it was cold. Tomorrow I have a quiz... oh, I have a quiz. Good thing I'm writing it now... I'm almost forgot. Heh. Is anything eventful happening Friday? Hmmmm. Maybe Annie & I will go to WinCo? No se. I guess I'll see.
I still need to go to The Rock and see if I can live there... it's an all girls Christian house in the middle of Greek row right off campus, actually it's just downish the road from us.

Cherize & Kim came to visit on Sunday & Monday-Yay! It was tons of fun! We did all kinds of random things like get lost in Moscow. To be fair it was Cherize's first time in Idaho and the rest of us aren't much better 'cause at least I have no sense of direction. :D It was great to see then and they put up with the trucks & the heater clanking at about the same time-5AMish.

My hair looks good today thanks to Annie-kutos girlie. :)

I guess I'll post...

So I'm in Pullman at school. It's almost the end of the third week. Weird... it still seems weird to me. No se why. I'm here and things are different and yet the same. My profs are like my instructers at YVC, but some different. I have more papers to write, more tests. They still are all in the same week... grrrr. I'm still listening to Christian music in the background-PLR in fact just like at home. It's surreal. I don't know. I still go to school with a whole bunch of the kids I went to high school with. I just don't see them very often, if at all. Except Margaret of course. ;) I'm more involved with Christian groups-CRU and CCF. I could go on for quite a while, but I won't.
Tonight Annie, Margaret & I are going to CRU. I have a quiz tomorrow in HD 302 and a paper due in HD 304. Then I get to read A LOT of chapters in 7 of my books to be ready for next week. And I have one paper due on Tuesday along with a quiz, oh and a quiz and three tests separated into Thursday & Friday. (quiz & one test Thursday, 2 tests on Friday). Isn't school fun. ;) :P to my profs. You'd think they'd confer to each other since they're all HD profs and decide not to stress us out, but no. :P to all of them.
Well life will go on, I guess....

Time is racing...

It's sooo crazy that I will be leaving for school in 13 days not counting today which is almost over anyways. I'm offically done with my online STARS class... I turned in my last assignment earlier this afternoon:) Yay! One more day of Anthro and then the last test-no comprehensive final thank the Lord. I already packed up a whole bunch of stuff and it's a good thing I guess 'cause my 'rents want to take me to Lincoln City on the 12th-15th. I haven't been there in forever so it'll be fun... it just means I have to be packed by the 11th 'cause we're pullin' out on the 16th. I can't even tell what I'm feeling... I want to leave. It just shouldn't be in 13 days... weird. Basically that's the vib I'm getting...weird. Maybe if so many things weren't still up in the air I'd feel better about going 4 hours away from home until Thanksgiving... oh well, God's in charge as always.

Waiting

Waiting sucks. I really hate it. Inbetween times, waiting... they're overrated. I'm so ready to be done at yvc, but I'm not. Anthropology is such a waste of my life... evolution of humans... the only good part is my funny teacher Mr. Anderson. He has such lame jokes, I swear. On the bright side, I've only said something totally & completely blonde once.... ;) I wonder when I'll stop doing that. Probably never, but one can hope. My online class - STARS. Yeah, I took the same exact class sophomore year of high school so it's a waste of my life too... the only difference is that I get college credit this time. I just wish it was July 3oth. That's a good date. My cousin Ellie's wedding, only one week of school & work left, I'll be done with therapy... yep, it looks like a good date. Oh well, back to the STARS class, joy.
This is like writting in my diary 'cause no one's posted or anything since May. Meh. It's all good.

Yay:)

I got a letter from the DVR today saying that I qualify for financial assistance for school! It says I'm in Category 1- individuals with most severe disabilities:) I hoped my cerebal palsy & seizures would help me finish my education. Too bad I applied too late and am therefore on the waitlist:( But my counselor Daphne Martin will call me when I come off the waitlist so she can send WSU money. It probably won't happen until spring semester 2007, but better late than never:)
Thank you Lord... for answered prayers:)

Cell

Yesterday a little girl called my cell phone (and Annie's) five times. I only answered once, but not before I listened to the voice messages spoken in spanish... actually make that three messages in spanish. I tried to tell her that she had the wrong number the one time I answered, but I don't think she understood me 'cause she kept talking... I evenually hung up on her... I felt bad. We weren't getting anywhere though. Today I listened to another message. I understood pero, grasis and mi mama. The rest was definitely over my head. *shrug* It was fun to listen to 'cause it sounds so smooth and pretty.

In other news, I have my first final tomorrow in feature writing... it'll be easy... knock on wood...and I'm a goin' to the chapel to see my cousin get married at 7PM tomorrow at St. Paul's I believe... meh. I have to give up my bedroom for my aunt & uncle:(

A day in the life of Sally

Today Mexican President Fox came to visit Naches... Val and I drove by the protest against him on 40th & Washington ... we beeped our horn to support them. She was way excited.... don't really understand, but whatever:) We also went to see Stick It which is quite a good movie in my opinion. The main character shares my last name...that doesn't hurt;)
The quarter's over in 6 days!!!! I'm so ready to be done. Actually I'm more than ready to be done, but it's all the same.
In other news I'm getting a laptop in a few days.... it's comin' to the house in the mail and I got a cell phone for this summer & the next two years at least... while I'm away at school:)
Gonna go write two papers & stuff so ttyl.

Needing to vent

So today in like a half hour I go to classess to turn in two papers and do a debate about immigration. I was writing my paper for Ethnic Studies last night 'cause it was last on the list of things to do. My teachers are plotting against me by making everything due on on the same freaking day! So last night of course the computer totally froze up as I was about to write a supporting paragraph in the middle of the paper-the rest was written thank God. It evenually printed. So this morning dad was comparing me to his stupid 5th graders by saying that since they leave everything until the last minute blah blah blah and how they tell him their dog ate it, the printer ran out of ink etc etc. Hello I'm totally different than his stupid 5th graders! I have 4 different teachers and tons more work to do! When I have more than one paper plus other stuff to do something is going to have to be last. Anyways, I gotta go to class so ttyl.

Annoyed

I got my hair cut at SuperCuts this morning. My hair is too short! Short hair requires maintanence that I don't want to give it. I have better things to do with my time than make sure my hair doesn't flip out and look retarded. Grrrr. Plus it's too short and thick to put in a ponytail. (yes she thinned it) Plus it's different lengths which would've been cute just a little longer.... Grrrr. Hopefully it'll grow an inch or two real fast.
I saw Annie & Cherize at work:) I would've stopped to say hi and make fun of you guys, but Julie had other things she needed to do.
I signed up for summer classes today. I'm taking physical anthro and a child development class. Just 7 more credits and I'll be done:) Does Annie or Cherize still have an anthro book they want to let me buy?

Seattle

I went to Seattle yesterday for my doctor appointment and MRI. I swear Dr. Vlcek is gettin' skinner each time I see him... anyways he said that we're going to try and increase my Keppra and if that doesn't work we're going to go a new medication that starts with a T and ends with an l and if that doesn't work we'll go back to keppra and Tegretol. I wonder if it's possible to get through all that by August. I guess we'll find out, eh?
Now on to the MRI. It was interesting. I went into a tunnel thing and a machine made lound beepy and clicky noises. Oh and I had to lye perfectly still. It wasn't too hard though. I just closed my eyes and pretended I was in bed. I got to have those squishy ear plugs in so that my hearing wouldn't be damaged more than it already is. It only took half an hour.
After we were done at the Swedish Medical Center we went to Nordstroms! I got two pais of sandles:) Tevas and Keens. I'm totally excited! They're the only store that lets me get my two different sizes for the price of one. They kept the left foot 10 and the right foot 8 1/2 for the Keens and the left foot 9 and the right foot 7 for the Tevas:)
That was my day in a nutshell. Yep.

YESYESYESYESYES!!!

I got accepted to WSU fall semester 2006! Yay! I'm soooooo excited!