Christmas Vacation Fun

Ok! I always do better with this blog when I am at Kyrie's house... I think the tech just runs over from her and Aaryk. They are the reason I have an Audible account, where I downloaded an audio book for my trip! Kyrie helped me to set up the Bogger when I was here this summer! But I just got an iPad app that should make it easier to stay current.

After a hard time getting the truck started on Monday (it needed some vitamin B-12), I finally got on the road about 11 am. By the way it is possible to flood a fuel injected engine. Believe it or not I was stopped twice for my license plate late being out. I was suspicious but it really was out and my brother helped me fix it the next day.

I had a whole list of people I wanted to see while I am here and I have seen most of them, but more on that later...

Turns out there was still snow on the roads in New Mexico, however since I was delayed in Roswell by a giant scrapbook store, the roads were only slushy and not icy.

Living Life in FAST Forward! 6/13/11

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. " Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes it is lived in FAST forward!  I awoke to a missed call from a number I didn't recognize and they didn't leave a message.  When it rang again in the afternoon I found out it was the special education director from Waco ISD calling to give me info about the job and invite me to attend a conference!  The news was good!  I get to continue working with Deaf students!  But to attend the conference I had to leave Lufkin in less than 24 hours! So much for getting anything done before I left! 

Because my room reservation was originally for the assistant sped director, I got this awesome suite!  All to myself!  Not that I spent much time there!   The conference was also at the same hotel. I was so glad to have the opportunity to meet people I am going to be working with! Since the amnesia last year I have a really hard time with proper nouns and learning everyone's name was really kicking my butt!

Turns out that people in central Texas go out for drinks so I went too...but mine was a VIRGIN prickly pear margarita.  Did you know it is the alcohol that makes it sweet?

I made two new friends Laurie and BJ.  We did lots of fun things over the next couple of days....

To be continued....

6/10/11 A Trip to the Tea Room

Mom and I have been talking about going to Madeline's Tea Room for years but after we delivered a wedding cake for her friend's wedding we got serious about it!

Madeline's Tea Room Link

We had a beautiful lunch and Monica even held hands and prayed with us!  I would really like to take Jasmine and Angel there some time and I pray they stay open and I can take Leah and Chloe when she is old enough to remember it!

 It is just as cute as a doll house! Everywhere you look are little tea cups and Teddy bears and lace!  The world needs more attention to detail like this!

6/8/11 A Visit to Houston!



Abby is a beautiful young woman!

Rachel went to school with Johnny at SWCID and she is a top notch ASL interpreter and a wonderful Christian woman!  She has two wonderful daughters (Abby and Katie)
 and is expecting a third this fall!  I was good for my soul to spend the day with her and the girls. We had lunch and played at McDonalds and Abby and I played word games on my IPad. I helped Rachel get a Netflix account and connect it to their Wii!  The whole family was happily hooked on Netflix when I left!

Switched At Birth 6/6/11

I am really digging this new TV show on ABC family!

http://abcfamily.go.com/shows/switched-at-birth

I usually like them tall, dark and handsome (more team Jacob than team Edward) but what is NOT to like about a Deaf guy on a motorcycle! Too bad he is only 18 years old in real life!

But seriously this show has great ASL and great Deaf culture in it!  So if you haven't yet you should give it a try!

Traveling this summer is giving me excellent experiences but a little hard to keep up with summer shows! Watched last weeks just now and have to wait another hour for the current episode!

A Summer of Experiences!

One reason I wanted to start this blog was because (believe or not) some people don't have a Facebook!

And my posts can be longer on here...

From my Journal on 6/2/11:

"One gift of being a longtime Al-anon memeber is that I have accumulated a large supply of healthy, positive experiences which remind me that my God is worthy of my trust. Although I have faced many challenges and difficilties over the years, my God has never let me down.  Today when I encounter a crisis I have no need to fear.  Again and again, God stepped in to help. I have never once regretted my decision to trust."  Courage to Change p 154

How the Summer Started

Believe it or not our last day of school was a teacher meeting on a Saturaday morning...of a holiday weekend!   As soon as I could get out of there I picked up my friend Liz and we headed to Dallas!  She dropped me off at Fair Park and I met Mom and we saw 9 to5 the musical!  Later Amanda picked me up and we went to Best Buy and got my IPad 2! 

Then  Amanda helped me to get it all set up and running and I am in LOVE!

From the iPad

So I can post from here but not add pics... :(

I finally did it!

Ok! I have been saying for almost a month that I am going to start a travel log so that people can follow my adventures!  So here it is!