Spun the stars on her fingernails

i will post the email i wrote to a friend. we email every couple of month's with a life update.

Wow, I guess it's been a while since I've emailed you as well since it has been since your last life update. :-)

soooo what's been going on with me? it doesn't seem like a lot but kind of is. In May I graduated along with 1400 other students. It was crazy- so long and hot and LOUD. After I walked across the stage I headed to the bathroom for a pee and texted a friend who was sitting with my parents to see if they wanted to leave! I turned my robe in and we went out for an early dinner. It seemed so long but thinking back on it I can't believe it was so short. I still need to finish my Thank You's. I hope everyone forgives me because they're so late.

I'm starting to work actual "grown up job" hours. I love what I'm doing. If you don't remember I do something similar to you. I work with a young woman with CP. We hang out and do things together. A lot of the days are spent messing around online, reading or listening to music. our music tastes are very different but god/dess bless headphones! We go to the mall or hang out at coffee shops. There's always something we can do! She'll be at camp a lot this summer so I have free time but no pay. :-( After camp we plan on volunteering at for a theater group called PHAMALY. www.phamaly.org they're a group of disabled actors. the plays they put on are routinely reviewed in the major Denver newspapers. I'm going to see Side Show put on by that group on tomorrow with Ali(this will be her second time seeing the show) and her mom. Al has a major crush on one of the actors in the play. It's cute to see her gushing about him!

I'm still planning on visiting OR/WA if you're still up for having me? The last couple weeks in July or early August is what I'm shooting for. Does any of the time sound good for you? I know you'll have to work but I can explore the city or just spend time lounging and reading/listening to music. I have some other friends in WA that I'd be visiting as well. Just let me know if I could stay with your or if it'd be better if i didn't! :-)

since graduating i've been really thinking about change and life. i'm not sure what direction literally and figuratively i'd like to go. i love working with Ali (the girl with CP) but i think i could find that love with another gentle person. It's just i feel like my life has been on hold so to speak because i wanted to finish school. now that i'm free i have no clue! i'd like to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone just to prove to myself the i can make it. understand? it makes sense in my head at least. :-)

It's been really warm here. You guys were stuck in some sort of time warped weather!

i enjoyed eat pray love. i'm currently reading vegetable animal miracle and listening to the secret life of bees on a book on tape sort of deal.

despite living with my parents i spend most of my time in denver. i stay with a friend or family so i don't have to drive back and forth so much. i should just get a place of my own but i don't want to be tied down if/when i finally make up my mind about what and where i want to go with my life!

sounds like schools is amazing for you. i'm glad you love it. i think just taking one class will be better so you can have free time and enjoy life.

peace and love, sarah

i'm that sick tired where your eyes hurt and are watery but you have to breath thru your mouth so you can't fall asleep. i keep yawning to i guess i'll go to sleep soon.

I take A to special olympics basketball on Tuesdays at rec center in a suburb of Denver. Now I understand that there are some mentally "special" people that come there but A is not one of them! First thing that pissed me off was some old lady at the front desk yelled at her to slow down. She was going about as fast in wheelchair what I would consider a fast walk. also, in the year i've worked with her i've never seen her hit someone in her wheelchair. then the lady had the nerve to tell me that she needs to slow down like A didn't just hear her and like i'm her mom and A was a kid! wtf After they were done for the night one of the "coaches" told me A should probably stay in the bball court. i told her that i wasn't her "keeper or boss" and if she had a problem she needed to talk to A about it because she understands. if you see a non verbal person that uses augmentative communication devices or sign do you automatically think they're stupid or something?! A came out once to use the bathroom and have me get her a pen and paper so the coaches would write down their names for her. Maybe if they stopped treating her like a 5 year old she's be more inclined to do what they ask. She's not insubbordinate. she just doesn't like being talked down too and needs redirection when she gets distracted. This is why there are so many coaches. hopefully it'll get better the longer we go. last week was the first time we went. i went and sat in the common area with the tv and books as A requested. it's part of her claiming her independence albeit only for an hour and half. well they don't want her to have her pathfinder on the court and that's how she mainly communicates other than a few signs. she had to go to the bathroom and none of the coaches understood the sign for toilet. she was so upset and annoyed they wouldn't let her go out to have me help her to the bathroom she almost didn't want to go back. enough ranting



sleeeeeep


ps i forgot to pick up harry potter. :(

this is me not wanting to get up and go to work. i woke up at 7 to pee and then set my alarm for later. layed in bed and watched the people walk by with their dogs and cell phones. eventually i fell back asleep. i could sleep another couple of hours. i think today i'm going to try to keep it short at work! i stayed like an extra hour and half last night. i bet catherine is sleepy too. maybe i'll stop and get something to drink.

i need a nap. i tried to go bed early last night but it was so hot and hard to fall asleep. i had to be up at 4:30 so i could be at the airport to meet exchange students at their gates and take them to the departure gate. i should totally bring ear plugs with me next time i have a long time inbetween pickingg up kids so i can sleep! in about an hour and half i have to go work with A. it's her birthday! she's having a friend over so who knows what we'll do. this is my last day with her for a while since she's going to camp. i think i might nap for a bit before going in.

today was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. blessings and heartache for things i cannot change. it's just... hard.

dammit! i can't get rid of this cough. i couldn't fall asleep last night, i should've taken nyquil but didn't feel like i really needed it. today i have a full day of work. which isn't very hard. i need to write up a paper due tomorrow for Psych class but i can't make myself read the boring 3 page journal article i too in order to actually write the paper. feh. it's a crappy scanned in pdf file that makes the words kinda blurry. ok i'll it's my turn to complain about the farking cold. GO AWAY all you do is make me sick and cold.

ok, going to find something for breakfast and jet off to work. cough cough cough.

lurves you all

i hope my ipod is charged. *crosses fingers*

my last post from this job!!! i have 33 more minutes to go. i'm excited but sad it's over. i loved my coworkers. it's been a long time since i've had awesome people to work with- minus jeff and tim. they were lame and weird and smelly. but they got fired soon after they started so it wasn't too bad. yesterday i went to the doctors and got some flonase. not sure i like it. squirts up my nose and i want to blow it out but that would defeat the purpose right. i'm kinda wired. i had two cups of yerba mate tea last night after some sorta coffee drink so i didn't go to sleep at a proper time. i have to close everything down by myself for the last time ever. i haven't ever done it alone so i'm kind nervous i'll forget something.

P.S. dear cold, you can go away any time now. thx, sarah
P.P.S Stewie looks awesome in this mood icon <3 stewie!

so that long nap that i neeeeeeeeeded was sort of a bad idea. i'm still awake!

i have work tomorrow.

sergey and steve told me it hadn't been the same without me. lol my general randomness and weird humor was missed. this other guy i work with has this weird funk about him. alcohol, smoke- like he just came out of the bar and needs to shower sorta funk but he's ok at the begining of the day. not sure if its from his mouth or what. on wednesday i noticed he put a wad or whatever the terminology for chew is, in his mouth. so maybe thats what stinks. i bought a can of altoids today. i seriously can't work with stinky people.

school is going good. i don't like the way my psych prof lectures but i'll get over it. i need to read so much though. i ride the bus. it's not really as scarey as i had thought. and getting on from campus it's just full of college students. when it gets futher down the line though the drunks and crazies get on. i've learned by example. put on headphones and ignore everyone. i should start writing about my bus rides. there's some weirdo stuff that i see.

now i'm sleepy so i'll try to sleeeeeeep