Randomness

So it has been awhile since I posted a blog... This may get a little random(as the title suggests) due to the many thoughts that race through my head at once... Try to bear with me folks... LOL...

I posted a previous blog talking about Smart Cars... Well I recently saw one in a driveway while on the bus to college... I busted out laughing... It looked so ridiculous parked in the driveway... It looked like one of the kids in the house left their toy in the driveway...

The college semester ended about a week ago and still NO grades posted... I have been stressing out over what I got... I have also realized that getting your grades is 1000 times more stressful when you actually care about your grades... It is made even more stressful by the fact that I had a 4.0 GPA as of Fall semester and I really really want to keep it at that... Why is it that when you are going to High School for free and don't really want to get your grades you get them really fast but when you are in college and paying to go and WANT your grades they make you wait for what feels like an eternity... It is so aggravating...

I am ecstatic that I am getting to go back to my LARP this weekend... For those of you reading this that don't know what that means LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing... Basically I am going to a camp site for a weekend and beating people with foam weaponry... Great way to get your frustrations out... If you want to check it out click the link above... It is a lot of fun... I will be going with Cigar Freak, Charlie, and a couple other people that don't have nicknames...

Well I think that that is it... Thank you for bearing with my randomness to the end folks...

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is tomorrow and I felt it would be appropriate to write a blog about it...

I find it wrong that you see zillions of card for mom but maybe 5 for stepmoms and maybe 2 for a woman that was like a mother to you(like dad's girlfriend that hasn't officially become a stepmom or a female that if your mom died was like your mother) ... I think that this is sad... I always complained about it when I was younger and trying to find a mother's day card for my step mother... Now I have been with a man for 3 and a half years and I love his kids like they are my own... I don't need his daughters to call me mom(they both have mothers-bio) The problem is that most people don't think to say anything to those women because everyone only says things about Mom(biological)...

Please remember those that may not have given birth to you but love you like they did this mother's day and every mother's day after this....

Happy Mother's Day for any mothers, stepmothers or women that were like a mother to somebody and grandmothers!!!

Bum ankles suck

So... I have been on crutches for 2 days now and it completely sucks... You would think that we would have developed more comfortable crutches than we have... I mean HARD rubber where your hands and underarms go... WTF... A person who is not used to having to use them is faced with carrying their weight on the palms of their hands... my hands, wrists and shoulder and upper arms are killing me...

All the advances we make and we go backwards with crutches!!! I mean the old wooden ones (which I have also had to use) were so much more comfortable... At least they had a soft foam like thing where these metal ones have hard rubber... Are they trying to make them so uncomfortable that people take themselves off them early??? I mean that is not a good thing since they tell you to use them for a specific period of time... I am supposed to use them till the end of saturday... I don't even want to really use them after today!!! I will though so that my ankle heals properly and I will not have to use them again anytime soon hopefully *knocks on wood*...

Well till the next time folks... Live life don't just survive it....

Technology

Ahhh... Technology, it is supposed to make life easier but it usually just aggervates you more...

I remember when instead of checking my email box i checked my mail box... It used to be so exciting and make me so happy to get a letter in the mail... Now it is just the usual... Like my mail box (which never seems to have a real letter anymore) my email box is always crammed full with junk mail or spam as it is called on the web... I am not even sure that my boyfriend's kids know how to properly adress an envelope or where the stamp would even go... I miss getting letter instead of bills and junk mail...

I also remember when cashiers didn't look at me funny when I pay with cash... They always ask debit or credit when I pull out my wallet... I remember when my mom went to the grocery store and they asked her cash or check... I pulled my wallet out of my purse and the cashier said cash or credit... When I pulled out cash and said "Cash" she looked at me weird and didn't seem like she knew what to do... LOL...

That brings me back to my next point... How many times have you gone to a store and handed the person at the register cash and then realized you had the change on you??? What happened then??? The poor young kid at the register looked like their head was about to explode while the tried to figure out your correct change,right... I know it has happened to me on several occassions... Sometimes I like to see how long it will take them to figure out how much they should give me back and don't tell them for awhile... LOL... I have even had some break out their cell phone and use to calculator to figure out that I get $1.10 back...

If all the technology in the world were to fail then the people born after 1990 would have no idea what to do... I am sure they do not know how a card catalog works, how to socialize without a networking site or cell phone and how would they every know that for a $10.80 bill if I give you $11 then I get 20 cents back...

Technology, what would the world do if it all were to fail???

Smart Cars

So I have seen a few of these tiny cars that look like a roller skate with an engine in it... you know those silly looking smart cars that I and probably other people wonder how anyone other than a little person would be able to squeeze themselves into it at all let alone comfortably...

well i found myself walking home from work and I saw one of these pill boxes on wheels and started to think.... When did Matchbox or Hot Wheels start making real cars instead of toys... That thought in turn led me to another one... if either of the two aforementioned companies made a smart car toy you would probably require tweezers to play with it because the things are already so tiny...

I also thought how practical is that car... I mean if you get in an accident I am sure that your engine would probably be in your lap... Also where would you put the groceries after you go shopping??? I know that when I go shopping all the groceries would not fit in the passenger seat...

I also take trips to NY and NJ often to visit with family... not as often as I would like but still enough so that i had to wonder where the hell my suitcase would go... and not just mine but my boyfriends and his kids... then I had another thought...

Forget the kids suitcases where would the KIDS go??? As far I could tell there is no back seat... I guess this is not a car for somebody who has a family or is planning on having one... And I mean how dorky do they look driving down the street... I have expect that when I hear one finally toot its horn it is going to sound like a dogs squeaky toy or a clown nose...

Maybe I am alone is my thinking but personally I think that the smart cars are really quite stupid...

Things my students have taught me

I have always considered myself to be an intelligent person but some of my greatest lessons have come from not a book or high priced college education but from my students at the Maryland School for the Blind (MSB)...

I have learned that you do not need eyesight to see but you only need your heart to truly see.

I have learned that there is nothing more beautiful than to see the smile of a child with severe disabilities when they accomplish something like wiping their own mouth with a napkin(something we do so easily and take for granted we can) for the first time to cheer and praise and the pride behind that smile.

I have learned the value of sticking to learning something no matter how long it may take.

I have learned not to take anything for granted and to see the beauty in even the smallest things.

I am learning to see with my heart and not just my eyes.

I love the students at MSB and I love how working with them and seeing them make progress makes me feel. They haven't taught me all they know yet and I am still learning. Just remember when you are feeling down and like things are the worst they can be that they can always be worse. You could be blind, blind and deaf, blind and autistic, blind and in a wheelchair or any combination of the above at the same time like so many of my students. These students have huge obstacles that they never asked for to overcome and yet they smile more than most "normal" people that I have met. They don't take anything for granted and take pride in things that they accomplish that we would consider simple tasks but to them take a little more time and a little more effort and makes them a little more independent.

aren't there more important things to worry about

I am a news junkie... I watch the news when I wake up before work and after class I will watch the eleven o'clock news... I have a problem with what is called "news"...

Tiger Woods having slept with enough women to have a different one for each month of the year... Tiger is apparantly a man whore enough said... why did the news feel the need to cover this for months... plenty of men cheat all the time (women do too) and nobody cares... why does it suddenly matter, is it because he can hit a tiny white ball with a metal club into a hole hundreds of yards away... WTF!!!

Then we have Jesse James... The man cheated with some chick that has more ink than skin (there is nothing wrong with tattoos, i have 2)... it was moderately interesting the first time you heard about it and saw the pic of the girl he cheated with but who the hell still cares... well I mean aside Sandra Bullock(not sure i spelled it right)...

Aren't we still fighting 2 wars??? What about what is going on with the economy??? I don't need or want an update on the anchor persons pregnancy nor do I care since I don't know her... I don't need everyone on the show telling jokes... if I was watching something to laugh I would watch a comedian... I wish that the news would stick to what it is supposed to stick to and that is the NEWS!!! not who is cheating on who with whoever... not how pregnant the anchor is and when she is due... I also don't care about some of the stupid crap that gets called news...

They spend more time talking about Tiger and Jesse than they do about the guy that got shot getting chinese food, the wars we are involved in, and anything else that people need to know... I mean there is ET, TMZ and Access Hollywood as well as other shows of that type that if I want to know who is cheating on who and who is dating who I can watch and find out... When I turn on the local news I don't want to hear about Brangelina adding another adopted or biological kid to their brood because I dont care... stick to the real news and leave that crap to the tabloids and the entertainment news shows...