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!