Adventures in Being Disabled

Last night I got to go to my Graduate School Orientation. I was very excited. It was held in the Education building on the second floor. I left work early, scooted across campus in my awesome kelly green scooter, went up the ramp like any respectable disabled person, and used the elevator to get up to the second floor, where the orientation was. I found a chair and made myself comfortable.

And then the power went out.

"Phew!" I thought. Boy was I glad I had already taken the elevator and was where I needed to be.

The orientation began. Introductions were made, pizza was served. And then they announced where I needed to go for my break-out session: one floor up.

Panic! How would I get up the stairs without an elevator! Thankfully roughly 20 people(I'm exaggerating, but not that much) offered to help. I waited until most of the people had gone up the stairs, then I scooted (without my scooter) backwards up the stairs on my butt.

Did I mention I was wearing a knee length dress?

So I had someone at the bottom of the stairs shewing people away so they wouldn't get an eyeful if they saw the stairs, another person hide my scooter in a room so it wouldn't get stolen (cuz who wouldn't want an awesome kelly green knee scooter?), someone held my plate of pizza, another held my purse.

And I scooted. I kept wondering what on earth I was going to do once I made it to the top - hop down the hallway until I found the classroom I was supposed to be in? Finally, I made it to the top and yelled down for the person watching that she could let people through now: I was decent.

Then I saw it: a chair with wheels! At the top of the stairs! Waiting for me! Put there by Heavenly Father! He's so nice. So I sat down, and asked someone else to push me (I couldn've pushed myself with my one good leg, but really, how fun is that? If someone else pushed me, I could go faster!). And I made it. Safe, sound, dirty (from scooting around on the stairs), and late.

Thankfully, the power was on by the time it was over.

And so begins my adventures in grad school....

One of My Most Favorite Things

Having the sun in my face. Feeling the warmth on my skin.

Aaaahhhh.....

Empty Nest Practice

My daughter decided to move out today. Thankfully, she moved close by (under the trampoline), and came back for dinner.

It all began when she spit her lunch out in the bathroom garbage, so it looked like she had finished her plate. When we noticed black beans in the garbage, she fessed up. However, in order to have a brownie, she needed to finish her lunch. Poor girl. I'll spare you the details on the tantrum that followed, but let's just say she ended up in her bedroom. She then escaped through her window (I thought that wasn't supposed to happen until teenage years...). She came back to pack her bags and get her stuffed animals and such, and said she'd still eat her meals here.

I hope when she really moves out she comes home for dinner once in awhile.




My Five:

1. The daughter, even if she doesn't like black beans.

2. I'm FINALLY feeling better after surgery, infection, allergic reaction to antibiotics...Today I felt human again. AND went to church!

3. The sacrament. I've missed it.

4. Erda's Ballpark Brownies. And my husband and visiting teacher making them for me.

5. Our trampoline. My kids actually play with each other now. AND exercise at the same time. My son did his first back flip today! Any my other son ALMOST did one!

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