Found this on youtube. All I can say is "wow". In my opinion this was really well done...the best I've seen. Much better than my "imagine trying to sleep while there's a party in your house" analogy.

Potentially triggering

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Saturday was the big day... and it was RAINING!! The ceremony was outside anyway. But it was good.
Here I am after the ceremony....a little wet, but really happy.

And here with my Sociology Prof/mentor/safe haven (her office)/friend.

I don't have time to post anything more but will do a more lengthy post as soon as I can.

S

I'm shouting out a huge CONGRATULATIONS and "YOU ROCK WOMAN!" to S-Girl...who will be graduating in about 48 minutes! Can you believe a 7 am graduation!?! Wow.

I will be graduating tomorrow morning (not as early as S-girl!).

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The parents arrived on Wednesday afternoon. We had dinner at a Thai place that D and I love last night. Today, they are picking me up at 9 am "to go shopping"...apparently for my graduation gift, and they won't say where we are going or what I am going to be looking for. I feel somewhat uneasy about going shopping with them alone, but D can't go because L (my neighbor) ordered something that is going to be delivered sometime today and has to go in the fridge right away...so someone has to be home. Also, my Aunt B is arriving today, she called last night from a town about 2 hours away and said she would be heading here in the morning. She most likely will be here before I get back...so someone needs to be home for her too.

Raine arrives late this afternoon, early evening. So tonight I will have a house full! Not that we don't have one normally...but there will be actual extra bodies! Actually...it will be a house full until Tuesday morning when Raine heads back home...B may be here until Wednesday, but at least until Tuesday.

Things are going pretty well I guess. I don't feel very happy, but maybe that will come after everything is over.

S

Today is the start of finals week. I actually already had a final last Friday...for English class...it was really cool to do it then instead of the day before graduation! Today I am taking the Speech final. It's actually scheduled for Wednesday at 10, but I have the Statistics final that day from 7-9:45, so my speech teacher offered to let me sit the final with her other speech class. I snapped up that offer! This is probably the easiest final of the four and I am really looking forward to having it behind me so I can concentrate on Statistics and Chemistry. Going into Chemistry I am doing ok...I have a solid B in the class, it's possible to get an A if I do really well on the final, but I am not doing well in Statistics so I really need to concentrate on that. Any positive stats juju would be appreciated!

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In other news...

We are waiting for the determination of D's temp. state disability. The claim was received 5/9 and they say "please allow up to 14 days for processing". So any day now? Hopefully it will be very soon because we really need some more income...SSDI does not support one person, let alone two and 3 cats! REALLY, it doesn't. There is also the issue that I am going to have company very soon. Raine and my Aunt will both be staying here for a few days (for my graduation)...I'd really like to be able to get some new towels because the ones I have, while once very nice, are now kind of old and falling apart! There are a few other things I'd like to do around the house, but they aren't as important as that. Although I do think having appropriate food for my guests is kind of important...even if it's just a little food. My Aunt is a vegetarian and I'm not sure about Raine's needs now that her food needs have changed. Anyways...good money juju would be appreciated too!

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Graduation is in 5 days...I'm excited, and sad, and overwhelmed, and giddy, and scared, and, and, and... you get the idea. Last Thursday I went to get my cap and gown and found out I am graduating with honors! I didn't know I was...I thought my C in Anatomy dropped my GPA below the mark needed. Apparently it didn't. So I will be wearing a bright gold, satin stole on graduation day! Such a huge difference from when I was dropping out every semester.

S

Just watched the documentary "The Bridge" with D...probably not a wise decision.

*sigh*

S

This is kind of funny!

I belong in the year I was born!

You Belong in 1969

You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.

What Year Do You Belong In?

My Personality DNA

Generous Experiencer

This is a post that was done last year. This is how we still feel, so we are re-posting it.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

A different Sort of Mother's Day post
Happy Mother's Day
a slightly different message

I am a little late with this post...I had intended to not acknowledge the day at all but have changed my mind. Today I am wishing a very happy Mother's day to all those good moms out there. They may not know who they are so I will be specific.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who dropped everything and got their child into therapy the minute they (mom) found out child had been s*xu*lly as*au*ted.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who took the bedroom and bathroom doors off their frames to prevent same (above) child from having a place to hide and SI.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who watch their child move far away and do not pile guilt on them for doing so...even though they are sad to see them go.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who have all their children's friends at their home at the same time and allow the children to be children...no matter how much noise, mess and scraped knees are involved.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who go without new shoes and new clothes so that their children will have those things.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms that understand that children get dirty.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms that agonize over the possible damage something they said in anger/hurt may cause their child.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who recognized an abuser and kept their child away from them.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who DIDN'T recognize an abuser until abuse had occurred, and now agonize over not recognizing the danger to their child.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who miss their estranged children terribly.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who taught their children to say NO appropriately.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who freely gave hugs...with no strings.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who mother other people's children.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who mother other people's ADULT children.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who listen to what their children (small or big) have to say.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who applaud their children's successes.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who don't harp on their children's failures.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who don't compare their children.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who encourage their children's interests...no matter how silly or how much of a waste of time they may think the interests are.

Happy Mother's day to all the moms who think of their children first.

S

Things are getting down to the wire now. Tomorrow I have the last Statistics quiz and give my last speech. Next week I have an exam in Chemistry. Then the following week I have two finals on Wednesday, one on Thursday and one on Friday...then graduate on Saturday! Holy cow! I'm going to crash afterwards...I just know it.

S