What's been going on with me from July-September of 2014
So, somewhere between the last few days of June and the first few days of July, I've noticed that our dog, Speck, had developed cataracts in his eyes as a result of his having diabetes. Yes, unfortunately, Speck has lost his eye sight, and now needs to be guided around the house. Anyways, for the 4th of July weekend, Jason and I got to watch the fireworks, twice. And we ate some stuff at my parent's house, first.
Anyways, Jason came over to my house first. And we got to hang out at my house first, before going to New Berlin to see the Fire works.
And I made them myself. For dessert, my mom made a chocolate sheet cake. Then after that, we headed out to New Berlin, WI, to watch the fireworks. I don't have any pictures of it, because it's all been video taped. Oh well. The next night, when we went to East Troy, we were supposed to watch the band, The Toys, in this beer tent, but I got distracted by this display:
I mean, the carnival rides were all lit up! How could I not want to go on rides, when they're all lit up like that? Here's some of the rides I did end up going on:
And then I went on this boat ride thing.
And then I'm happy to say that at least Jason, my Cuddle bear, went with me on at least one ride. The Tilt-a-whirl.
Then I only went on one more ride after that.
After that ride, Jason and I went and watched the Fireworks by the East Troy High School.
And then, the next day, I checked out movie times, to see when the movie, "Tammy", was playing, and Jason and I went to the movie theater to see it at around 4:50pm. And I have to say, the movie was pretty good. Good ending, too, or at least I like to think so.
Then the next day, I had to go to Marquette University, school of Dentistry, to get my teeth x-rayed. My dog Speck got another nasty infection in one of his glands, but he bounced back again. On the week of July 13-19, I finally got around to starting my scrap book. I figured if I'm going to be more active in the autism community, especially when it involves the Autism Society of South Easter Wisconsin, I should start up a new scrap book for it. So far, here's what I have put in my scrap book for my being more active in the community, this year:
This is just the cover of my scrap book.
This is the first part of an article that I originally wrote for a written communication class when I was 21. It got published in the Autism Society of South Eastern Wisconsin this year, for the months of March and April.
Here's the rest of the article that was published in the newsletter, this year.
This is all from when I went on panel and spoke of my experiences with the disorder back in April, this year.
This is from the volunteer job they had at Lakeland school in Elkhorn, for disabled kids, to help disabled kids learn how to ride a bike, also sponsored by the autism society of south eastern Wisconsin. Someone form my mom's work place thought I should do this as a volunteer job, since I'm a runner, but I'm also passionate about working with people who have disabilities, so yeah. I think it was the perfect job for me.
This is from my 2nd shift of helping out at the bike camp at Lakeland school.
This was the article regarding, my helping out at the Bike camp at Lakeland school.
And then here's my certificate I got for helping out.
I also found out who would be performing at the Wal Worth County Fair, this year. And I'm very surprised that Jason would want to see Foreigner, when I'd think he would want to see Trace Atkins or the Little Big Town, since I know he likes country music. But I said if he wanted to see another concert at the Wal Worth County Fair, that I would let him pick out who it is he thinks I should see.
For the month of August, I finally got to go on my annual trip to Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells. Except this year, I had my friends, Erin and Jack from the autism support group Meeting go with me. My boyfriend would have gone with me too, but he had more important things to take care of. And this is the 2nd time Erin's gone with me in 4 years. As for Jack, it was his first time I think he had ever gone to Noah's Ark Water park. And I think I turned him on to going to Noah's Ark Water park, because at the end of the day, he said he wanted to go again, next year. Here are just some of the group photos I had taken of us at Noah's Ark for this year:
And maybe hopefully, if we go on a day in the week and not on a weekend, maybe we could get better luck getting more pictures of us together before riding down more rides, like this. I hope so.
I finally met with a dental team at Marquette on Monday, August 4th. And we talked about a plan, on what we're going to do. I know they were poking me and stuff, but what they're going to have me do next time I come in is like a deep clean-root planning procedure. They found I had some smaller cavities in my teeth, but I get the options of having white fillings put in instead of silver ones, which I think is good, because that might make it look less obvious that I have more fillings put in my teeth. (I can't believe I almost ruined most of my teeth.) And then, they're also going to put the crown on my tooth where I had that root canal, earlier this year.
On August 10th, my mom, my sisters, me, and our boyfriends all went talegating to a Brewers baseball game. Thought it would be nice to do something that I knew my boyfriend would like to do for a change. Here's some our annual picture of us together at a Baseball game:
The following week was a sad week. The actor, Robin Williams had committed suicide, which is unfortunate. He was one of my favorite actors when I was a kid growing up, in just some of the movies and tv shows I had seen him in. He always used to make so many people laugh. I might not have liked it as much when he played more serious roles in some of the movies after that. But I liked him when he was in those comedy movies, and to me he was like a movie father figure, that I wish I had in some ways. In some ways, you could say he was one of my heroes when it came to the comedy figure, as well as that father figure I wish I could have had in my life.
In the following week, I had a case worker come over with some stuff on low income apartments. Originally, I would have wanted to move in with my boyfriend, but I figured that in case that fell through, I should have a back up plan which is to have my own place to live. And Jason agreed that I should live in an apartment by myself for at least a year, before I even think of moving in with him. I"m kind of nervous about it, but I'm hoping, it'll all work out. It's just for a year.
Not much else really happened for the rest of August until the very end. On the last Friday of August of the year, my friend, Amy, who I've been friends with now for 10 years and I decided to hang out . So what we did was, I took her out to Antigua for lunch. And then we went to the YMCA to hang out at the pool, eventhough it was only for a half hour. And then we went back to my place and watched a movie together. Then on Saturday evening, Jason and I went with my mom to my mom's friend's picnic on her farm land.
And then the following evening, we went to the Wal Worth county fair. I went on some rides that evening. And then at 7pm, Jason and I went to see the concert for Foreigner!
And I have to say, I was pretty excited to watch them perform. Overall, it was a great performance! And if I had the opportunity, would I want to see the band, Foreigner, again? Hell yeah!
And here is just a picture showing most of the guys from the band. Damn, that was an awesome show! And I knew most of the songs they were playing, so that helps. But like I said, if I could see them again, I would. Another cool thing is that in a way, I finally got to slow dance with Jason to a song. ;) The lead singer said to grab onto someone next to us, and to just slow dance with them, and they played the song, "I Want to Know What Love is". Anyways, after the show was over, I went and used up the rest of my tickets to go on whatever rides I wanted to go on at the carnival, there.
For the month of September: Two weeks after hanging out with Amy, my other friend of 10 years, Jeremae, and her husband Tim, came into Milwaukee, and we got to hang out at the Brookfield Mall, for a bit. Prior to that, Jason and I got to spend some one on one time together. We ate out at TGI Fridays in Brookfield. Checked out the Halloween Express store, and I bought this portrait where you look at it one way, it's a picture of some lady. You turn it another way, it looks like a skeleton. I just love Halloween!
Later afterwards, when Jason and I were in our room together, we were spending some alone time together. And when we were talking with his head pressed up against mine, I thought, "Wow, what a good idea for a picture!" So, I got this:
Aren't we CUTE?!
Anyways, I also recently started going back to Spring City Corner Clubhouse for training, so I can get a job in Clerical work, someday, and I also started writing for the Monthly Newsletters, again. Some ideas for articles do come easy for me, but then some don't. People were glad to have me come back, because they said I wrote some good articles, and they love what I had to say about certain things in some of my articles.
Then that weekend, I went with my mom on a plane to my cousin's wedding in North Dakota-Montana. I did bring both my camera and my video camera, for taking pictures, and for video taping some footage at the wedding. I also let her know I was doing this, and that I could take the footage I recorded and burn it to a dvd for her. She liked that idea, so I got to work on it, as soon as I came back home.
More recently, on the last weekend of September, I did end up going on another panel, and I got to ride with Emily Levine (one of the staff members at the autism society of Southeastern Wisconsin, and my friend from the group, Erin). And I got to talk and give some advice on how to deal with people who have special needs, based on some of the mistakes my parents made with me, and why we might not have as good of a relationship as I would have liked to have with them, based on that. But if I can always take what I've witnessed and learned from those mistakes not to make that same mistake, it's always a good thing.
One of many things we had on the grill for the 4th of July dinner was some grilled Shrimp. And we also had some deviled eggs.
Then the next day, I had to go to Marquette University, school of Dentistry, to get my teeth x-rayed. My dog Speck got another nasty infection in one of his glands, but he bounced back again. On the week of July 13-19, I finally got around to starting my scrap book. I figured if I'm going to be more active in the autism community, especially when it involves the Autism Society of South Easter Wisconsin, I should start up a new scrap book for it. So far, here's what I have put in my scrap book for my being more active in the community, this year:
I also found out who would be performing at the Wal Worth County Fair, this year. And I'm very surprised that Jason would want to see Foreigner, when I'd think he would want to see Trace Atkins or the Little Big Town, since I know he likes country music. But I said if he wanted to see another concert at the Wal Worth County Fair, that I would let him pick out who it is he thinks I should see.
For the month of August, I finally got to go on my annual trip to Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells. Except this year, I had my friends, Erin and Jack from the autism support group Meeting go with me. My boyfriend would have gone with me too, but he had more important things to take care of. And this is the 2nd time Erin's gone with me in 4 years. As for Jack, it was his first time I think he had ever gone to Noah's Ark Water park. And I think I turned him on to going to Noah's Ark Water park, because at the end of the day, he said he wanted to go again, next year. Here are just some of the group photos I had taken of us at Noah's Ark for this year:
I finally met with a dental team at Marquette on Monday, August 4th. And we talked about a plan, on what we're going to do. I know they were poking me and stuff, but what they're going to have me do next time I come in is like a deep clean-root planning procedure. They found I had some smaller cavities in my teeth, but I get the options of having white fillings put in instead of silver ones, which I think is good, because that might make it look less obvious that I have more fillings put in my teeth. (I can't believe I almost ruined most of my teeth.) And then, they're also going to put the crown on my tooth where I had that root canal, earlier this year.
On August 10th, my mom, my sisters, me, and our boyfriends all went talegating to a Brewers baseball game. Thought it would be nice to do something that I knew my boyfriend would like to do for a change. Here's some our annual picture of us together at a Baseball game:
The following week was a sad week. The actor, Robin Williams had committed suicide, which is unfortunate. He was one of my favorite actors when I was a kid growing up, in just some of the movies and tv shows I had seen him in. He always used to make so many people laugh. I might not have liked it as much when he played more serious roles in some of the movies after that. But I liked him when he was in those comedy movies, and to me he was like a movie father figure, that I wish I had in some ways. In some ways, you could say he was one of my heroes when it came to the comedy figure, as well as that father figure I wish I could have had in my life.
In the following week, I had a case worker come over with some stuff on low income apartments. Originally, I would have wanted to move in with my boyfriend, but I figured that in case that fell through, I should have a back up plan which is to have my own place to live. And Jason agreed that I should live in an apartment by myself for at least a year, before I even think of moving in with him. I"m kind of nervous about it, but I'm hoping, it'll all work out. It's just for a year.
Not much else really happened for the rest of August until the very end. On the last Friday of August of the year, my friend, Amy, who I've been friends with now for 10 years and I decided to hang out . So what we did was, I took her out to Antigua for lunch. And then we went to the YMCA to hang out at the pool, eventhough it was only for a half hour. And then we went back to my place and watched a movie together. Then on Saturday evening, Jason and I went with my mom to my mom's friend's picnic on her farm land.
For the month of September: Two weeks after hanging out with Amy, my other friend of 10 years, Jeremae, and her husband Tim, came into Milwaukee, and we got to hang out at the Brookfield Mall, for a bit. Prior to that, Jason and I got to spend some one on one time together. We ate out at TGI Fridays in Brookfield. Checked out the Halloween Express store, and I bought this portrait where you look at it one way, it's a picture of some lady. You turn it another way, it looks like a skeleton. I just love Halloween!
Anyways, I also recently started going back to Spring City Corner Clubhouse for training, so I can get a job in Clerical work, someday, and I also started writing for the Monthly Newsletters, again. Some ideas for articles do come easy for me, but then some don't. People were glad to have me come back, because they said I wrote some good articles, and they love what I had to say about certain things in some of my articles.
Then that weekend, I went with my mom on a plane to my cousin's wedding in North Dakota-Montana. I did bring both my camera and my video camera, for taking pictures, and for video taping some footage at the wedding. I also let her know I was doing this, and that I could take the footage I recorded and burn it to a dvd for her. She liked that idea, so I got to work on it, as soon as I came back home.
More recently, on the last weekend of September, I did end up going on another panel, and I got to ride with Emily Levine (one of the staff members at the autism society of Southeastern Wisconsin, and my friend from the group, Erin). And I got to talk and give some advice on how to deal with people who have special needs, based on some of the mistakes my parents made with me, and why we might not have as good of a relationship as I would have liked to have with them, based on that. But if I can always take what I've witnessed and learned from those mistakes not to make that same mistake, it's always a good thing.
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