My Day Out!

So today was fun, in more ways than one.

Around 2pm me and my dad went and dropped my mom off at work. I got my SSI check today. We went to go deposit the check in the bank. I'm not going to tell you how much it was by the way.  ha ha.

We went to another bank and payed our car payment first. On our way out my dad accidentally took the tube thing they put the receipts in, with the pen and stuff. We forgot to send it back into the bank, it was funny so we had to drive through the bank drive through again and put it back in the tube thing or whatever they use to transfer it outside.

After we did that we went to the post office which wasn't far ahead. My dad just had to send in his passport application or whatever. We were in line for a while. I looked at some greeting cards and post cards and stuff while we were waiting.  There was this Japanese family that was walking through the line right behind us. They were so cute, I think japanese people are so cute. I could understand bits and pieces of things that they were saying but tried not to evesdrop on their conversation to much. I've watched a lot of anime so I have picked up some things.

Anyway, after that we went to the bank to make my checking account. While I was waiting for Ayeisha (the lady that helped me make it), to be done with another person I was just reading TIME magazine. I read some pretty interesting stuff. After she was done with the other person I was called forward. My dad was on the phone so I had to wait for him to be done because I had no clue how to do it on my own.

I had forgotten to being my ID so we had to call my sister and she had to read off the various numbers that Ayeisha needed. It was quite funny actually. We joked about some stuff, it was pretty enjoyable for what we were doing. I just signed some stuff after that and the usual. She gave me some dumdum suckers when we were done. I got a few checks and got my account set up and stuff.

When we were done with that we headed off to the AT&T store in the mall to look at some phones.  I tried out a couple with buttons for texting. It was a lot of fun to play with the phones. I had a lot of trouble texting though because my nails were to long. This complicated things a lot when I was picking a phone.  We decided to go look for nail clippers in the mall. we tried various stores like the nail shop, Express, and some others, but for some reason we couldn't find them so we decided to just go to Wallmart. I'm actually glad we went there because they probably would have been overpriced.

Funny little story, while we were walking through this store we got ambushed by this girl that was selling nail products, we insisted she do a demonstration of this 4 sided nail buffer that smoothed the nail and polished it and stuff. It was really funny, she made a good saleswoman.  She was very nice, and pretty. I would have bought one if I had had extra money on me. Unfortunately I did not, because i have a lot of other important things i need to spend my money on first.  I told her I would think of it sometime later though.

Anyway, so we went to wallmart, and I remembered I had to get another watch so we got another watch. I got this white and silver Timex digital sports watch. It's pretty nice. Than we got the nail clippers, and went to buy the stuff. It was funny watching my ad and the cashier trying to figure out how to work my watch.

So I got back in the car and we went to go visit my mom at work, and to buy some pumpkin seeds there.  I clipped my nails on the way to the AT&T store. We went again now that I had my nails clipped. I tried the same phones again, the ones wit the little keypads, and then I tried the normal iPhone that didn't have the actual keypad but had one on the screen. I found it to be a ot easier with the nails clipped to navigate and to text on the phone.

We were going to buy the phone but my check probably won't clear until tomorrow or monday so we decided to wait to get all the stuff like the phone and the case, and the charger. I'm excited to get it though! I had a lot of fun at the AT&T store. the guy that was helping us was very friendly, and explained things well. We are hoping to see him again when we go again and buy it next time.

After we were done there, we went to the post office again. The sun had set by this time and it was getting dark. My had forgotten to mail a letter so he just had to drop it off real quick.

We went to subway for dinner. I got a sandwitch with chicken and cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, ranch, mustard, and onions on it. It was very good. I also got a chocolate chip cookie.

Anyway, so after that we went home. and how here I am! :)

Out With My Cane...

Just got back from the store. I carried my white cane around for the first time.  A lot of you don’t know this but I have super bad vision and have always had super bad vision. I’ve had a cane for most of my life but have never really used it that much. I am a really stubborn person and insisted on getting around on my own for most of my life. Glasses don’t really help in most situations for complicated reasons I don’t know how to explain. I’ve been thinking about starting to use my cane lately, not only to let others know I am visually impaired, but to bridge the gap between what I can and can’t see.  I also have really bad depth perception. that is another reason why I have started to use it. I am not going to use it everywhere, but I am going to carry it around everywhere. If you see me using it or carrying it around don’t be to surprised. :)

I have had a cane for my whole life but have never used it because i was to stubborn.

I have been taking O & M classes since I was 7 years old to help me know how to get around and use my cane if I ever wanted to use it.

I went to the school for the blind and visually impaired up until 6th grade, it was great. :)

Yes I do know braille, but I have forgotten a lot of it since I don’t use it really.  I might want to learn about for fun though some day.

Most my friends growing up were either blind, or visually impaired.

My class at the school for the blind and visually impaired only had 8 people in it, we were all really close to each other. :)

My best friend Eric that I do not have contact with anymore because he is married, I met at the school for the blind. We were really close up until my senior year of high school. :)

I used to have a talking watch  

Despite my impairment I am very good at getting around and taking care of myself. I usually do not create any hassle for anyone. 

All my computer fonts, and browsers, and web pages are enlarged so I don’t have to have my face 7 inches from the screen at all times like I used to when I was stubborn. ha ha.

I use size 20 font for my browser menus. :)

I never use the word disability when describing my vision, I am not disabled since I have some of my vision, if you are not able to do, or use part of your body completely, that is a  disability, if you can use it partially , that is am impairment.  I am not disabled because I can see still, but not completely, I am visually impaired. :)

We bought a few things at the store, mostly shampoo, dish soap, and a few other things that I forgot. My sister got some ice cream bars… mmmm. I had the chocolate. :)

White Cane

I’ve been coming to a strange realization as of late. I have been legally blind, even with correction my whole life, but I’ve been really stubborn to admit these new realizations to myself. These new realizations I found were that I have a cane, but have never used it in public, at least not of late, this could help me a lot in most situations. I’ve never realized that it might help with the certain problem where people just automatically assume that I can see well when I can’t in a public place. I should have at least kept my cane out in open sight in these situations, even if i wasn’t using it. It could have helped me a lot.

The other realization I am having is that it could have helped me avoid a lot of uncomfortable situations where I couldn’t see and had to be careful, and I have suddenly come to realize that I have had a certain lack of security when not using it in every day life. I have to be a lot more careful than most people.

I didn’t realize just how common it is for people of even worse vision than me to use their canes and visual aids. I felt dumbfounded by this certain realization when I was reading personal stores of people that have even better vision than I do but still use their visual aids and canes often. I have never thought about it until my eye doctor said he is amazed how well I go through life without much help, I get around better than most people with my vision. 

I’m not the kind of person that would be embarrassed about bringing a cane everywhere with me, or asking for help, or being recognized as being visually impaired. 

I’ve read the personal stories of people that have worse vision than I do and they said that using a cane really helped them. They were like me and didn’t really want to use it at first but tried and loved it.

So I think I will try for myself as well. Maybe it will help me in more ways than one :)

Camera Happy

So today I went camera happy and took like 200 pictures in a half an hour. Have you ever just gone outside with your camera and took random pictures of things that you thought were cool just for fun?

I have this cool digital camera and I haven't been using it very often but today I got this sudden urge to just take it out and snap a picture of tons of things. I took a picture of breakfast , some scenery outside and some people in my family doing things I was really loving it. I went like everywhere. =3
(Mmm pancakes)

 

 

today was so much fun I also went to the store and stuff but this was definitely the best part of my day. =3