Sunday, August 23, 2015
Summer of Success
As the summer is over and school starts tomorrow, I have been thinking a lot about what this summer has meant and what I've done. I have a lot to be proud of: financial providence (increased Social Security, Investment, Success with Free Reign, Personal Care Increase, Travel Payments, etc.), Trip Excitement (Extreme Rafting, National/State DD Council, Seattle, Ketchum, Moscow, Pine Flats, and a few other day trips), Entertainment (several movies, several plays, outdoor recreation like Roaring Springs and Floating and several hikes), Leadership (Developmental Disability Council, Special Olympics, Self-Advocacy Leadership Network, Volunteering at Rescue Mission and Foodbank, Move-In, etc.) Gym Time (Memberships to the Y, Axiom, and the REC as well as free reign to the gym of outside) I have also donated 50 pints of blood (6 gallon pin) and about 8,600 laps (not a typo) lifetime in the REC. I have also done well with reading (so many books), game playing (don't play me in Kings in the Corner, Connect 4, or Yahtzee) and classes (Yoga and Non-Profit Management). I have done numerous sports and was on a swim team. So what could've been better? Not much at all. I mean sure I wish I could've seen my friends more but that's what the summer brings. Yeah, I wish I could've worked more but I still got my 8-year pin at Albertsons'. Yeah I wish I couldn't of been bored as much but I got stuff taken care of to fill most of my free time. I think what's most important is that I learned a lot: financially, emotionally, physically, spiritually, socially, work-wise, and academically this is the best summer I've ever had. I attend a few other conferences and gleaned so much from everything. I mean the ways I could've done better financially the month before my Social Security went up cramped my style for about a week and a half but I had a lot of stuff to do anyways. Looking forward to what this term brings is exciting and I am proud to say overall all things considered it was a summer of success!
Monday, August 17, 2015
Summer Fun
This blog is going to be a lot more interesting than normal it is going to be a few paragraphs musing on summer fun and how I did extremely well getting things taken care of in the busyness.
This summer I not only felt accomplished especially lately (6 gallon pin for blood donation, swim bag for swimming 8,000+ laps lifetime at the REC, extreme rafting, financial independence and fun in Reno, etc.), I also felt like I was able to continue to strengthen old friendship and new ones and keep looking forward and moving forward overall. I have volunteered some and I have also continued to strengthen bonds with organizations and continue to change lives for the Developmental Disability Council, Self-Advocacy Leadership Network, Boise Rescue Mission, Special Olympics, and volunteering at the Idaho Foodbank. I also have continually seen growth in how I deal with different arenas of love, joy, excitement, and seeing through my lack of privilege on issues as well as an exuberant amount of reading.
As the last few days I have before school starts, I am doing a presentation, having a few appointments, doing interviews and getting club stuff started, training appointments, a breakfast and dinner, a couple of plays, and move-in. I am going to be tired at the end of the summer but intend to go to Get REC'D and Recover anyway because I enjoy it thoroughly. Then school starts on Monday the 24th- so my Summer is basically over. I have enjoyed the trips to Ketchum, Sparks, the side trips to Tahoe and Reno, the various little towns in Oregon and Nevada and Idaho's rest stops, Seattle, Snohomish, Moscow, Pine Flats, the rafting trips, the hikes, the various coffee and dinner stops, and the fortunate time I've had seeing several movies. I also took a couple of classes this summer too and besides volunteering for Southminster for Vacation Bible School and another thing or two there I also competed on a swim team. I also worked some at home and at Albertsons' and hung out with old roommates from the group home- all the while longing for a smaller gap between school.
I guess sometimes I wonder if things are going my way, learning happens, listening happens and life happens. I split my head open this summer and got a mild concussion. I also have been in Physical Therapy and Psychotherapy (Counseling) for quite a long time- years in fact. While this has been a piece for my own life to be strengthened and I don't know what it would be like without it, I also wonder if these skills are necessarily needed life-long. My life is forever changed though from my experiences this summer and I hope that I have seen changes in how I live my life and approach things. I have also made a commitment to get stronger physically and emotionally and get more committed spiritually. I have given this summer my all.
This summer I not only felt accomplished especially lately (6 gallon pin for blood donation, swim bag for swimming 8,000+ laps lifetime at the REC, extreme rafting, financial independence and fun in Reno, etc.), I also felt like I was able to continue to strengthen old friendship and new ones and keep looking forward and moving forward overall. I have volunteered some and I have also continued to strengthen bonds with organizations and continue to change lives for the Developmental Disability Council, Self-Advocacy Leadership Network, Boise Rescue Mission, Special Olympics, and volunteering at the Idaho Foodbank. I also have continually seen growth in how I deal with different arenas of love, joy, excitement, and seeing through my lack of privilege on issues as well as an exuberant amount of reading.
As the last few days I have before school starts, I am doing a presentation, having a few appointments, doing interviews and getting club stuff started, training appointments, a breakfast and dinner, a couple of plays, and move-in. I am going to be tired at the end of the summer but intend to go to Get REC'D and Recover anyway because I enjoy it thoroughly. Then school starts on Monday the 24th- so my Summer is basically over. I have enjoyed the trips to Ketchum, Sparks, the side trips to Tahoe and Reno, the various little towns in Oregon and Nevada and Idaho's rest stops, Seattle, Snohomish, Moscow, Pine Flats, the rafting trips, the hikes, the various coffee and dinner stops, and the fortunate time I've had seeing several movies. I also took a couple of classes this summer too and besides volunteering for Southminster for Vacation Bible School and another thing or two there I also competed on a swim team. I also worked some at home and at Albertsons' and hung out with old roommates from the group home- all the while longing for a smaller gap between school.
I guess sometimes I wonder if things are going my way, learning happens, listening happens and life happens. I split my head open this summer and got a mild concussion. I also have been in Physical Therapy and Psychotherapy (Counseling) for quite a long time- years in fact. While this has been a piece for my own life to be strengthened and I don't know what it would be like without it, I also wonder if these skills are necessarily needed life-long. My life is forever changed though from my experiences this summer and I hope that I have seen changes in how I live my life and approach things. I have also made a commitment to get stronger physically and emotionally and get more committed spiritually. I have given this summer my all.
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