Paper & Pen will do!

Just had a great one on one appt with my wonderful Dr. It just strange the interpreter didn't show up even they told us it was already set up, this happened quite often lately?!

Thank the Lord for paper and pen to communicate if the interpreter does not show up! I am very grateful for very understanding doctor who has patients with me for writing things back and froward in short time period. However, it sucks at some points because there are somethings I cannot express in words and I prefer in ASL which is easier for me. It was interesting at same time, I like to see Doctors try to interact and communicate with me, yet this one I regularly see is always the best one I ever had in my life that absolutely try to find a way to communicate with me and meet with my needs.

God is good, he allowed me to bump into one of interpreters who knows me while I was at Strong today. I mentioned to her about not having a interpreter for several of my appointments, she was shocked and felt bad, so she gave me her email address. Whenever I have appt, will contact her ahead of time so she can make sure someone will be assigned. Wonderful news! :-)

Just gotta love how supportive interpreters and Doctors are! :-D
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Boston on the Feet...

Decided to leave my car at my good friend Sara sister's for my spring break while I was visit Tabby, my long time friend that I knew since first grade. She live 10 sec from Green line metro so why bother paying ridiculous amount for gas and parking permit at Boston University where she was attending.

Wow, what a fantastic trip to Boston for the first time, we were on our feet the entire time! I cannot believe my leg didn't fell off or felt sore past few days when got back to Rochy?! It was neat that finally realized what city life is really like when you RARE use your own car!

Here is the agenda and pictures....
Wednesday -St. Patrick's day:
We headed out on the interstate from Rochester around 10:30am arrived into Boston by 4pm trying to get to Tabby's apt at Boston University but end up got lost. So Sara and I found my favorite food market "Whole Food Market". Grab the opportunity to get few things that we couldn't find in Rochy, even some Lactose and Gluten Free stuff! Then back on the street again, still got confused and lost so we end up at Boston Common and Public Square and park there to meet up with Tabby and Katie (Sara's sister). Since it was St. Patrick's day and super nice outside, everyone was outside!
After we met up with Katie, we grab a quick dinner at a Deli at Boston Common and had Katie help us guide out to Meldon, her place to park my car. Tabby and I took the Metro on the orange line from Meldon then switched to green line to St. Mary's to her apt. End up catching up for couples of hours, Good times!

Boston Day 1 (Click on the Pics for more Pics!)

Thursday March 18th:

Tabby had class from 8 to 11am, so I did my History homework at BU Library until Sara arrived around 10:30. We just walked around the campus until Tabby was done and had lunch at Breuggers/Panera Bread and little shopping, then headed to see Fenway Baseball stadium (Boston Red Sox). Tabby decided to call the Boston Harbor Cruise tour to see if they would provide interpreter, of course they didn't BUT they gave us free tickets! Whoot so took the metro to Back Bay and rode the boat around the harbor saw where Boston Tea Party occur, Boston Intentional Airport, Boston Coast Guard Base, and other battle sites with ships (forgot name). After that we went to Chinatown for a little shopping and sushi! When we were done eating my stomach hit me really hard when we start walking back to the Metro was planning to go over to Katie's to watch UP the movie but I was in lot of pain so had to go home! What a bummer!

Boston Day 2

Friday March 19th:
Tabby got called into work at Harvard Research Lab and I was feeling little better so decide to take the metro to Katie's all myself. It was neat experience by picturing myself doing this everyday if I ever live up there. Arrived Katie's to join Sara to watch UP, what a cute movie. After movie we went to Harvard to check it out and meet up with our sorority sister Megan who was in town too for an job interview. We grab lunch together at Crema Cafe at Harvard Square, good time catching up and walking around waiting for Tabby to get off work. After Tabby got off from work we went to Quigley Center, Little Italy, and Coast Guard Base since it was nearby eachother. Around 7pm Megan paged us and told us come out to different part of Boston where we have not touched to DPHH (Deaf Professional Happy Hour) it was a Deaf nightlife social event. We went there and met up with her there and had good time. After that it was around 11pm we took the bus with Megan and Sara took the metro since our metro was closer to her hotel and had to get back before last metro at 12:30am. We did got home just fine! What a BUSY DAY!!! :-)

Boston Day 3

Saturday March 20th:
Slept in until 9am! Tabby and I went little shopping. Went to my favorite store REI, got myself new bookbag since my current one is already worn out and light coat for rainy days. After that Tab and I went to Back Bay shopping area there were millions of people it was neat place. We stopped at this famous Cupcake place called 'Sweet' and grab some! Headed home to get myself ready to met up with my other sorority sister Catie, Amy, Sara, and Megan at Qugiley Market. We couldn't decide on resturant so went to the food court. I had seafood, had crabcake and fried shrimps. It was good but again it conflict with my stomach for some reasons! Later on we decide to go over to Harvard to Hong Kong place so they could have this popular alochol drink. Of course I didn't have some due to medical reason. Had to catch the metro again before 1am back to Tab's. What a wonderful exhausting night!

Boston Day 4

Sunday March 21st:
Packed up and headed out to Katie's place on the metro to leave for Rochester. We got home by 4pm. However, we have a very interesting interstate story to tell you!

Right before last rest stop before Rochester, Sara was driving and I was looking at her chatting. She was on right lane passing this ugly Red van with bed inside those kind you know.... this dude was about 28-32 yr old bald little big that all I can remember. While I was talking Sara gave me a weird looking, knew it wasn't me so I took a quick look behind me and all sudden this dude had his window down and held up disposable camera and took a picture of me and my car. I quickly looked at Sara and told her to speed up because I was scared and didn't know how to response to that, instead she speed up she flipped him off. All sudden he pulled off to this rest area with no bathroom! We both was like WHAT THE HECK in the WORLD why would he take a picture of us especially me (Thank God I had sunglasses on!). CREEPY!!!

Boston Day 5

What a WONDERFUL and GRATEFUL for a SAFE trip!! Million Thanks to Tabby for everything she have done for us!! Miss her dearly! :-)

Neurology Check up!

Finally had neurology Dr appt. today just for a check up and see how my new medicine was going for my migraines/headaches. It went well since my medicine I am on is working WONDERFUL and much better than my last medicines I was on before. On this new medicine I just have little bit headaches once a week or none! It just depends on if I am over stress, not enough sleep, around many people at once, or not ate in a long period of time. It's the best thing when you have no constant headaches or migraine Praise to the Lord!!
-Two negative about this new medicine is hard time to fell asleep and risk of having Kidney stone again (so better be drinking LOTS LOTS of water to prevent from it happening).

This appt. was really neat and exciting because my Dr. was in a excitement mood since he heard that finally found the right medicine for me! He said I made his day, which made my day go well too cuz love to see Doctors happy and hear good news from their patients since its a risky job. Even he had his boss came in and talked with me and hear the good news, even ask me more questions about the medicine. Pretty neat experience at that point! (also my terp was excited too, since she knows me). Now I do not have to go back in within 6 months- Yaya! PTL!

However, at the end he told me a sad news that he's not going to be around anymore after June. What a bummer, he was awesome and blessed to find right kind of medicine for this circumstance! Will miss him after he leaves. God will take care of this and will provide me a new one like him with all of his power! :-)

Spring Break Begins (10')

Ahh.. it's my first Spring Break at SUNY-Brockport this week! I had crazy week last week studying for my Health & Illness Sociology Medical Class midterm for 4 days in row from Monday- Thursday. It was pretty tough but I tried not to be over confidence with myself but got faith in myself I did well! We'll see what the results are after the break. I also had one super easy essay for Art class, got done in less hour. Glad it's all over, unfortunately I have to read 2 articles for medical class and 4 pages essay for Ancient History on Rome vs Greek. This is lot better than starting new classes and worry about spending $200+ for new books like I had to at RIT after spring break.

Looking forward to Boston trip this Wednesday to see a long lost childhood best friend along with a good friend of mine from here! It be my first time touch Boston, whoot! :-)

Mr. Hotdog

I've been taking care of this Betta Fish named "Mr. Hotdog" owned by my lil adorable Caleb while he was vacationing in Florida seeing Mickey Mouse. How lucky he is!
I just find it adorable that he named it Mr. Hotdog, I even asked him why? He said, "I don't know just because I want to name him that." I started to laugh thought was the cutest thing! Was thinking maybe because it was baseball season when he got it uhmm?? Who knows! When he gets older I'm definitely going to remind him about this! Giggles.

However, ever since had to return Mr. Hotdog to Caleb I've been thinking about getting one myself and let Caleb name it for me. I am not quite sure yet, maybe later after this summer since will be traveling lot this summer, seem like I would be.

I remember my lil sister had same kind of fish she named it Lucky and it lived pretty long time! I did had one myself but I cannot remember what I named it maybe Husker something and guess it didn't last long! eh ek! haha HOWEVER, my next one will be in a better condition and be taking good care of it than I did when was younger! :-)

Yogen Fruz + Magic Mouse = Best Day

Ahh It feels so great to feel fresh down my throat with regular cup full of Non-Dairy Strawberry and Blueberry with Apple juice mixed Smoothie from my favorite smoothie place in this world Yogen Fruz (so far)!! I wish I could have this everyday, then be super healthy for me and maybe good for my stomach issues too hehe?!
*Sorry this is not the great pic, left my camera at home- next time I'll have it with me!*
Beside Yogen Fruz got to spoil myself a little bit maybe too much, by buy a magic mouse for my MacBook since felt annoyed not having one after a friend of mine took the one I been using. (It was hers actually!) It's the most AWESOME mouse I ever owned, it just like the trackpad on my laptop but on mouse and it's wireless a big PLUS! Ahh that would help make my work move much faster on the computer! I love you Apple!

(Gotta love my MacBook and Magic Mouse! :-D)

Hope you find it curious trying either out! :-D

Projects! Projects!

Finally came up with some fun projects around here that I could do!
I'm super excited to get it all started! Will do it one at a time, yes I wish I can do it all at once! Hehe...

Here is my list of Projects I am planning on doing...
1. Paint the stars (That been sitting for so long!-Swie Mor&Ver! Hehe)
2. Re-decor the bookshelf
3. Give my room a new look I.e:Revise pic Frames, put up some stuff on walls, curtain on windows.
4. Find old board n turn it into wall decor (VERY neat! You'll see!)
5. Candy Photos for long distance friends and family

Those are good as for now... I will absolute post pics of the progress of those projects.

It's super beautiful day with a full SUNNY day! God's so GOOD!
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College Hopping

My little sister just got accepted into University of Nebraska at Omaha, where my home is found. Which I am SUPER excited about since that where I was originally plan on going to in the first place even got accepted for Psychology program there and planning on enroll into UNMC (Medical Center) to do something in Paediatric Field. Felt like she is following my dreams that I kinda wish I would of done.

(Neat pic of RIT campus at night: Taken by Marshall Watson from RIT)

During my senior year was juggling between Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in New York or UNO. It was rough call since was very close with my family and Omaha buddies. End up rejecting UNO offer because I wanted to do something different in my life and experience different part of the US. Rochester is also well known for Deaf Community which is a big PRO for me in my future career. (Which I definitely can see it, happening!) One thing, I didn't mention is- that time I had a (ex)boyfriend who was going to RIT too, that pretty much dragged me to RIT.

I stayed at RIT for 3 years and graduated with an Associate of Applied Science in Computer Security recently May 09.

(with my Diploma from RIT)

During my last 2 quarter at RIT, I realized lot that computer wasn't my fit. I wanted to do something in psychology or Social Work field. Which I wish I would of went back to UNO in the first place then I would be graduating with my BA degree in either Psychology or Social Work by this May.

However, a wonderful academic counselor who knows me well enough to encourage me to major into Social Work. I took her word seriously and went for it and end up applying for different schools since RIT didn't have Social work program anymore. Also on the other side wasn't very happy at RIT. So, I applied to State University of New York at Brockport (SUNY), since was already rooted here in Rochester and wasn't ready to move back home. (Yes, I am much happier there at SUNY!)

This year is my first year at SUNY trying to finish up all NY state requirements and few social work classes. In between, have been thinking what kind of specialist in social work I want to do, so I know what kind of elective classes I can take instead of wasted ones. Pretty smart move uhu! haha. I am aiming to finish my BA degree by 2012 and then hop to different school to get my Masters by May 2013. Hopefully find job in hospitals as a Medical Social Work.

After I discovered the truth in the Bible, I realized God has purpose for me to be here in Rochester than back home. If I did not come here to Rochester, I might wouldn't know who Jesus our Savior is. Amen!
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