Im bouncing around the house in a skirt. Yes, a SKIRT. And browsing Etsy for other such things. Because I have decided that I thorougly miss hippie skirts and I must aquire some :-)
Did my first Apple Cider Vinegar rinse on my hair yesterday, hoping it will help to hold in my color. Waiting a while for the Baking Soda wash as ive been told it may lighten my color, and my hair is still crazy soft from the shampoo they used while coloring it. After showering last night I very lightly backcombed a section of hair just to see what it would do. AMAZING! Im pretty sure my hair is going to take to the dreading in a most excellent way! Im using the Dr Bronners soap bar and the Burts Bees face wash, so far so good. And amazingly Tom's deoderant held out through my skating yesterday which is crazy and awesome.
Skating is going well. Still not getting too crazy but im enjoying it and feeling more stable. My helmet should be here early in the week! And im gonna start making it to every practice even if I have to pay a cab to take me!
Im so excited to go to Roslyn today that ive been awake pretty much since 6am. These people just make my world happy! Wonderful friends and great music! Only a few more hours :)
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Hair and skates!
Decision is MADE. Dreads will be started during my visit to Texas in the next few months. I hope my hair is long enough by then! I will be starting tomorrow on a no-shampoo trial. I will be using baking soda and water as a wash and apple cider vinegar for a conditioning rinse. I got a Dr Bronners castille soap bar and some Burts Bees facial scrub as well. Should be an interesting experience. I wore capris today and was horrified by my own leg hair but im trying really hard to go with it! Having super dark hair is no fun in this instance lol. I got a teal streak put in my hair today and I LOVE it!Hit up the skate park for 45 minutes today on my roller skates and rocjed it. Just basic forward skating with right and left turns, trying to stay in derby stance. But I only fell once and it was when I hit a rock so I was quite proud of myself. Cant wait to get elbow pads and a helmet so I can be more daring!
Getting super psyched for the weekend and the Aries/Taurus party! Its gonna be rad.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Hair today, gone tomorrow?
Spending a lot of time on LiveJournal today going through the Get Up Dread Up community. I want dreads. My hair is so long its driving me crazy, but I need another couple inches before I can start backcombing. Im so excited over the idea. Ive been told by many that its gonna be RAD, and ive been told by a few that its nasty. Im not sure what I would do with my hair if I grew it out and DIDNT dread it. I miss my short hair. I always feel so good when I chop it all off. Rosie told me today I look hot with short dyke hair and that made me smile. I suppose I shall have to see if I can handle the grow-out process for dreads. If I cant make it, I cant make it. If I do make it and I hate the dreads, I chop them off and have short hair. If I make it and love them then awesome! One day at a time I suppose. I need to really think about what is going to make ME happy!!!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Wrapping up my stay in town
Tomorrow will be my last day in town. Girls will be home from Hawaii and i'll be back at my Dads. Im not too thrilled about the prospect. Havent spoken with him since our fight on Sunday morning so we'll see how it goes. Im sure he has calmed down but the problem is that the facts of the fight are still the same.
Im going to tell my Dad that I DO want to do summer classes at CWU. Its a start, and I need that. Ive gotta do SOMETHING right now. So i'll get started there and see how it goes. Looking into some options for staying in town at least part time. I know that will help reduce the stress level at home. When my Dad's girlfriend moves here next month that should calm things down considerably as well. Im excited to start school and get things rolling. Im looking into a part time job as well. Im incredibly stressed about money right now. I havent worked since January and my phone bill is almost a month late. I havent paid on my tickets in a couple months. I need my phone at the very least. I want to save up for a new phone as well that I can make video calls on. Something with a front facing camera! Not to mention I have more derby gear to buy. Though I havent been able to make it to practices recently mostly due to fighting with my dad and not having rides. Its stressful not having a license.
Im looking forward to this weekend and the Aries/Taurus party very much! I adore all of the Seattle/Roslyn people. Im a decent bit younger than most of them and yet ive never felt more comfortable. I am accepted, not judged, and its a wonderful feeling. The party is gonna be a blast! Rosie will be accompanying me and so many fabulous people will be there. A lovely escape from reality! Though really, reality has been pretty great recently. Happy outweighs, and almost obliterates, sad! Fantastical.
EQuAL meeting and movie night tonight :-) Im off to clean clean clean the office until I get to go home!
Im going to tell my Dad that I DO want to do summer classes at CWU. Its a start, and I need that. Ive gotta do SOMETHING right now. So i'll get started there and see how it goes. Looking into some options for staying in town at least part time. I know that will help reduce the stress level at home. When my Dad's girlfriend moves here next month that should calm things down considerably as well. Im excited to start school and get things rolling. Im looking into a part time job as well. Im incredibly stressed about money right now. I havent worked since January and my phone bill is almost a month late. I havent paid on my tickets in a couple months. I need my phone at the very least. I want to save up for a new phone as well that I can make video calls on. Something with a front facing camera! Not to mention I have more derby gear to buy. Though I havent been able to make it to practices recently mostly due to fighting with my dad and not having rides. Its stressful not having a license.
Im looking forward to this weekend and the Aries/Taurus party very much! I adore all of the Seattle/Roslyn people. Im a decent bit younger than most of them and yet ive never felt more comfortable. I am accepted, not judged, and its a wonderful feeling. The party is gonna be a blast! Rosie will be accompanying me and so many fabulous people will be there. A lovely escape from reality! Though really, reality has been pretty great recently. Happy outweighs, and almost obliterates, sad! Fantastical.
EQuAL meeting and movie night tonight :-) Im off to clean clean clean the office until I get to go home!
Monday, April 18, 2011
School!
The weekend was so superbly amazing! I dont even have words to describe how happy I was! Ive never given Oregon that much though except for a love of the coast. This weekend I really discocered how beautiful the whole state is. Its so green! I just wanted to sit under a tree all day even though it was overcast and rainy. I would never think that here in Washington! When it rains here I typically hide inside and wait for it to be over. So the state is great.
The school is even more amazing! The sweatshirt I bought has already become my second skin. My friend Zach came to the preview day with me. We spent 5 hours touring the school and talking the people. The campus is gorgeous so green and lively. There are squirrels everywhere! The buildings are old and brick and really pretty. They have a new rec center with a climbing wall, basketball gym with suspended track, tons of new machines, and a POOL with lap and recreational swims!!! Im pretty sure I would live in there! The classrooms are relativley small and the largest class size is 90. Our tour guide says she has had classes of only 15 people. Everyone we met was fantastic. If someone couldn't answer a question for us they didnt just point us in the right direction. They walked with us and introduced us to someone who could help and made sure we found the answer we were looking for. Everyone was genuinely nice; no one was fake, or rude, or full of themselves and too busy for us.
Cost of attendance includes tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, and personal expenses. For an Oregon resident it is estimated at $19,884 yearly. For a non-resident it is $31,425. Then there is a program called Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE). As a Washington resident I will qualify under this program to pay $21,921/year. Just a bit more than an Oregon resident. The only stipulation to this is that under the WUE program you cannot be majoring in ASL studies or Interpereting. The reasoning for this is because they have approximatley 300 incoming students each year that go into those programs. This is a serious downside to me because those two programs are the reason I am interested in WOU. One of the things they do to offset this is once you get accepted into the ITP program there is a tuition stipend available that waives tuition for those students. To get accepted into that program you have to have your first 2-3 years of core classes completed. So my final 2 years of school I wouldnt have to pay tuition.
Through some talking when I was there on Saturday I believe i've found a decent way to make all of this work for me. When I move down and start at WOU I will be declaring a major that is NOT one of the Deaf Studies programs for the first two years. After 2-3 years when I have all of my core classes finished and get accepted into the ITP program I will then declare that as my major. So I will either double major or have an ASL major and something else minor. In doing this I will be able to pay the lower tuition under the WUE program for my first few years and then qualify for the tuition stipend. My other option is to move to Oregon and live there for a full year before starting school; then I will qualify as an Oregon resident. Im not sure which route I will take. Id like to get into school as soon as possible. I need to figure out what I will major in. Im thinking Linguistics would be a good option. I want something that will tie in with the ASL/ITP nicely.
So Ive got a lot of thinking and organizing to do to figure out how to get this all done, but im MORE than ready!
As for what im going
The school is even more amazing! The sweatshirt I bought has already become my second skin. My friend Zach came to the preview day with me. We spent 5 hours touring the school and talking the people. The campus is gorgeous so green and lively. There are squirrels everywhere! The buildings are old and brick and really pretty. They have a new rec center with a climbing wall, basketball gym with suspended track, tons of new machines, and a POOL with lap and recreational swims!!! Im pretty sure I would live in there! The classrooms are relativley small and the largest class size is 90. Our tour guide says she has had classes of only 15 people. Everyone we met was fantastic. If someone couldn't answer a question for us they didnt just point us in the right direction. They walked with us and introduced us to someone who could help and made sure we found the answer we were looking for. Everyone was genuinely nice; no one was fake, or rude, or full of themselves and too busy for us.
Cost of attendance includes tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, and personal expenses. For an Oregon resident it is estimated at $19,884 yearly. For a non-resident it is $31,425. Then there is a program called Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE). As a Washington resident I will qualify under this program to pay $21,921/year. Just a bit more than an Oregon resident. The only stipulation to this is that under the WUE program you cannot be majoring in ASL studies or Interpereting. The reasoning for this is because they have approximatley 300 incoming students each year that go into those programs. This is a serious downside to me because those two programs are the reason I am interested in WOU. One of the things they do to offset this is once you get accepted into the ITP program there is a tuition stipend available that waives tuition for those students. To get accepted into that program you have to have your first 2-3 years of core classes completed. So my final 2 years of school I wouldnt have to pay tuition.
Through some talking when I was there on Saturday I believe i've found a decent way to make all of this work for me. When I move down and start at WOU I will be declaring a major that is NOT one of the Deaf Studies programs for the first two years. After 2-3 years when I have all of my core classes finished and get accepted into the ITP program I will then declare that as my major. So I will either double major or have an ASL major and something else minor. In doing this I will be able to pay the lower tuition under the WUE program for my first few years and then qualify for the tuition stipend. My other option is to move to Oregon and live there for a full year before starting school; then I will qualify as an Oregon resident. Im not sure which route I will take. Id like to get into school as soon as possible. I need to figure out what I will major in. Im thinking Linguistics would be a good option. I want something that will tie in with the ASL/ITP nicely.
So Ive got a lot of thinking and organizing to do to figure out how to get this all done, but im MORE than ready!
As for what im going
Momentary set-backs
In a whirlwind of happiness and love and new experiences, yesterday held some low points. My dad and I got into a huge fight about school and my aunt called and told me there wasnt room for me at my uncles funeral. Both things were super stressful to me because of how great things have been recently. Mentally ive been in such a fantastic place and to be brought down was very frustrating. I brought it back around and had a good day, but those feelings are still with me.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Im in love!
I didnt want to leave Oregon. It was almost painful. I cant belive how amazing WOU was. I have never experienced such genuine care and concern by both faculty and students anywhere before. Everyone was so nice and helpful. If I was hot I would sell my body on the street to pay for tuition because I want it almost as much as I want air. Its also stunningly beautiful there. I just felt so happy. As a general rule I despise gloomy weather. I love Seattle until it rains and then I hide under something for fear of melting. It was cloudy and gray in Oregon today and I was utterly enthralled with all of it! I wish I could have just not come home. I WILL find a way to make this work, and I will do it soon. There are many more things going on in my head right now that im not really prepared to share publicly right now. But all in all it was an amazing weekend and I cant wait for it to be my life! Tomorrow is Derby Practice and possibly bowling with the Derby girls. It is also my beautiful friends birthday, I shall need to find some flowers! I am filled with love and happiness right now, I feel electric and I love it!
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