Dark Waltz

Chocolate Chip Waffles

Today was pretty laid back. I started officially working on my math. This is something I'm going to be doing all summer. One of the things I am happy about is that it looks like I'm starting to comprehend fractions a lot more now. I still have to be careful to have a cool head. There isn't much to tell today besides this actually. I did make chocolate chip waffles however. I have started playing around with the basic recipe I got off the internet from Allrecipes.com

The Deck is Complete!

Today I finally got my missing math book! I was missing the fourth one that I'll post below. I think the math books I have are cool because they have cards printed on the front. I think UVU was very clever when they thought that up for their special ones. It cost me over $100 dollars to get the book, but I want to be able to get to Math 1010 or higher without going through the classes. I am by no means done collecting all the math books UVU has, but I do have the ones that will help get me out of the lower math classes. Everything below Math 1010 doesn't count towards core credit. I was going to also fix my FAFSA (financial aid for school) so I could get it again, but I forgot to apply for it. Naturally I'm going to do that immediately so I can get it straightened out. Vocational Rehab has been paying for school, but they want me to at least try and get financial aid from the school again. I am glad I went to One Stop at school and asked then what I needed to do or I probably wouldn't have remembered I needed to apply again. For pictures of the books there will be some near the bottom.

So I got the book and decided to go walk around Walmart for a while for fun. I like to do this when I am around because they have a lot of interesting stuff. I've always loved walking around stores as you can guess from my usual high activity at the mall. I didn't eat anything before I left, so I looked at the food and even thought about getting a Fiji water when I was there, but decided against it because I felt like I'd like something at the mall or around that area more.

I ended up going to Cinnabon after walking a bit around town deciding what i was going to eat. I wanted to get a blended lemonade. It's basically a lemonade slushy. They put lemonade and ice in a blender. It's simple and amazing. I did end up getting Italian at the food court. I have fallen in love with Villa Italian kitchen. I got a bread stick and a Stromboli from there. The Stromboli was chipotle chicken and I got an alfredo dipping sauce. Everything was great. 

When I got home I removed the 5th book from the binder that it was in with number 3 and I put number 4 in. I still have to get a new binder for number 5 now. Here are the pictures.

I put book five in book four's plastic wrapping until I can get a new binder. For the rest of the night I've been just playing games like tetris, watching bald eagles, and listening to audio books. It was definitely an awesome day today.

Feeling Fancy

Today was pretty simple. I slept in and went to the store. I don't know what it is, but lately I haven't felt like doing a whole lot. I needed to get more shampoo and deodorant and so I went to the store. I hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch yet, so I decided to get some salmon and pesto pasta. It was so great, totally worth the investment all the way. I also got some Fiji water which by the way I love a lot now. Mom posted something yesterday about how the silica in the water can help purge your system of aluminum. I've never had a reason to drink expensive water until now. Apparently the PH of most bottled waters sucks as well. Fiji is actually one of the best and definitely better than Disani and Aquafina. I think they actually add salt to their water so you'll be more thirsty. The whole business is pretty dirty in my opinion.

I did go for a walk, but it was only four laps around the track because it was so hot today. I love the heat, but if I don't have the right clothes on it can get miserable. It was more bearable today because of the water.

Drinking the Ocaen

It was a hot start to this week. I just mostly went for walks today and drank a lot of water. I'd guess over a gallon today, it was crazy. That's what happens when you love going outside like I do. I forsee a lot of sunburns in my future probably, or at least a lot of tanning. I am already pretty tan. I love the heat. i used to hate to tan, but I hate sunscreen so I've given up on staying like a porcelain doll. That was pretty wise of me I guess. I don't miss the days when I was depressed and inside all the time. Even if it means I sometimes feel like I could drink the ocean I feel like going outside is a big part of me now.

The Big Three

Today Sam (my nephew) turned three! We had coconut cream pie, and chocolate strawberry mini cupcakes. Sam opened presents like pay doh, a play cleanup set, and other things. It was pretty fun and Sam was so cute. Other than this I took a nap and went to church. I honestly don't really feel like writing today, so I'll just leave it like this. I have a busy week ahead of me. Oh yeah, the desserts were made by Kayla (Sam's mom). I knw that can be a bit confusing because my niece is also named Kayla. Otherwise i wouldn't bother emphasizing that.

Chaos at Cinnabon

Today when I worked it was chaos the first 3 hours. I work four hours, so that is nearly the entire time. I guess the person that had the morning shift didn't get a lot of things done so that left a lot for us. First off it was a big mess when Rachel, Heidi and I all got in at 3. There was nothing in the roll proofer, none of the cut up centers of the roll were made, and there were no cinnastix for a start. Oh yes, there was some minions on the hot plate, so at least we had those to give our customers. Rachel basically rolled the entire time and Heidi and I took care of everything else. The cleanup was a team effort and Rachel had to go down to our storage closet near the food court to get some supplies we were missing. Probably the hardest thing I did today was pull frosting.That gives you a real workout because the frosting bag weighs like 30 or 40 pounds. You have to turn it upside down over a bucket and pull up so the frosting comes out of the bag and into the bucket. I easily got 5 minutes of cardio doing that, it is really had, but kind of fun. I love working out, so that makes sense for me. I loved the challenge. Things calmed down at work around the 4th hour, but we went through so much. After work i got a cake batter ice cream with Kit Kat and butterfinger.  I love how I got along with everyone really well this week, it has been great. When mom picked me up we went to Toys R Us to get a present for Sam's 3rd birthday (my nephew). Tomorrow we are going to Kayla's house and celebrating. Anyway, this is all I'm going to write today. :)

Visually Impaired People

I spent most of the day searching for visually impaired  people on YouTube. I have found some pretty great ones. I want to post some videos by them today.

Molly Burke

Fashioneyesta

KCfan7989

Chloelli

I will post more people some other time. For now let's just start with these.

I Love Clupons

So the last time I went to Farr's I got a coupon for my first 3 ounces free. Today since I don't have my debit card yet, I decided to go get some cash. I also wanted to get some kind of treat, because I love doing that at least once a week. I decided to have mom drop me off at Farr's Fresh and I got some ice cream. It was only around $2.50 or so with the coupon. I had a lot of trouble deciding what i wanted just like last time so i got a bunch of different flavors. I got pistachio and coconut swirled, then a little bit of marshmallow and a little bit of cotton candy with a couple of pretzels.

I looked around the mall, Best Buy, Michael's, and Shoe Carnival for a while. I didn't look for anything in particular, except for when I went to Best buy and looked at TV's for fun. I love the big fancy ones, and so do my eyes for some reason. I'll have to get a picture of my favorite one sometime. Oh, and I also got a chillata from Cinnabon for some reason after I got ice cream. I know it was weird, but I just felt like one for some reason. I think I got the Oreo Strawberry one. Anyway, so when I decided that I was done I called mom when I was at Shoe Carnival around 2 hours later and I went back to Best Buy. Mom needed to get something from Best Buy, but turned out that she didn't really need it so we left. I don't think I need to talk about the rest of the day, so I'll just leave it like this. I am glad I got to go out and have some fun. I've been kind of a homebody lately.

Self Image

Today I did another video. This time it was about self image and how my eyesight affects this.

Last night someone from work asked me to cover for them for just two hours today. i gladly accepted because I needed as much time as I could. More work hours means more work experience and I really want that. I helped make cinnastix and cleaned up a bit, it wasn't too busy. I did accidentally give myself eyestrain when i was making the sticks though. I sometimes forget to relax my eyes when I get occupied and that causes me to have eyestrain sometimes. It happens if I am reading for a long period of time as well when I am not careful. Other than that Mikayla was at work today, I'mjust mentioning this because she was actually closing for Coldstone today. I thought that was interesting because she used to work for Coldstone a few years back for 5 years. I guess I'm not surprised they would let her do that. They usually don't let us work on both sides, but I guess her experience makes her the exception.

Anyway, nothing much more than this to tell. If i forgot anything which happens sometimes because I am a bit of a space case I'll talk about it in another post. :)

White Cane Tips and Customization

Continuing the subject of my eyes, I talked more about the tips that go on my white canes.

those mint brownies I brought home last night were a complete hit. They were gone by this afternoon. I really want to get more sometime. I didn't do much today, I just hung out at home and took it wasy pretty much.

Talkin Bout Eyes Again

I know I've been going off and on about this subject for a while, but every once in a while sometimes I just feel like ignoring my eyes. I feel like ever since I went to California two years ago to visit Linda I have been avoiding my vision and my white cane. It's pretty easy for me to do that because I am only legally blind and I function very well.

My vision is a very important thing however. I have n plans on dwelling on it again, but sometimes it is nessicary to talk about it so people understand. I don't talk about it too much though because even if I want you to understand it, I don't want to make a big deal out of it. Here is the video I did today. I talked about my vision and my white canes. I don't use my cane mostly because I actually don't need it most of the time and using it gives me anxiety because I don't like the attention I get.

Anyway, other than that I got my basic doctor visit doe today. Mom needed something signed and we couldn't get it signed by my doctor unless if I had an appointment. Basically I usually never go see him because I've never needed to. I had my blood checked too though I'm pretty sure everything will be fine. I'm not afraid of needles, so I just watched the nurse stick it into my arm and draw blood. To me medical stuff like that is fascinating. It was a pretty simple visit. Blood pressure, heart and lungs, questions, etc.

I was going to go hiking with my ward today, but it started getting cloudy and then the rain came, so we decided to cancel. We are going to go up to Stuart Falls some other time. We went to the bishops house instead tonight, watched basketball, played pool, other games, and ate snacks. Bishop Luke got some brownies and ice cream from BYU Creamery. I love mint brownies, but I also love the fruit snacks he got as well. The ice cream was Tin roof Sundae and the second one was vanilla. I didn't watch basketball much, but I did talk to people and play pool. I actually think billiard games are pretty fun. The rain stopped while

Anyway, so I brought home one of the boxes of brownies and a couple packages of fruit snacks after we were done. Two of the brownies out of nine are already gone, so those are a hit at home. I'm just going to relax and play games until I go to sleep. Today was an interesting day and i can't wait until we reschedule the hike.

Southern Banana Pudding

Tonight we had southern banana pudding. We celebrated Kayla's (Paul's wife) birthday which is actually tomorrow. We just find it easier to get together on Sunday so we usually do this for birthdays. Southern banana pudding is basically pudding, bananas and vanilla wafers layered. It's so good and I recommend you try it. I think the pudding flavor is banana.

For dinner we had texas beef skillet with chips and cheese. There was a salad, but I only like salad for lunch so I skipped out. I took a nap earlier and went to church of course. It was just another relaxing Sunday.

Card Declined

Today wasn't as busy as I thought it would be. R.C. Willey was serving free hot dogs and drinks today before work. This Saved me the trouble of having to look for lunch. I had Western Family Magic Stars cereal for breakfast. It's a generic brand of Lucky Charms pretty much. I was a bit stumped on breakfast and so I did that as a last resort. I wasn't looking forward to having to think up lunch later, so what happened was good.

We probably sold a bit faster today at work than we usually do, but other than that it was pretty quiet. I got hungry again pretty fast though. It was so hard not buying something from work for my shift. We just did normal stuff today like roll out rolls, keep stuff stocked, dishes, and other stuff. It felt like time slowed down today though. It rained during my shift and I wonder how this affected the people at Summerfedt because it stopped by the time I got there later. I guess I'll never know, though I bet if someone was selling umbrellas they got a lot of customers.

I think I was excited to get off my shift for the first time ever. I think it was the combination of how slow the last hour of my shift was and me being hungry. I actually almost asked if I could leave early, but I got through somehow.

Today the owner of Cinnabon here in Utah stopped by. There is really only one in Utah and that is ours. I was out cleaning tables and stuff in the lobby and he noticed that there were no classic rolls out in the display. He tried telling me this, but I wasn't looking at him at the time so I didn't register who was talking to me. I was daydreaming and didn't realize that I accidentally ignored him. I thought he was just a customer and so I didn't say anything to him and walked by. I thought he was just a normal customer and let someone else reply because they were talking care of it. When he was leaving he asked me if I knew he was the owner and I said yes. He then told me to not walk past him when he is talking to me and I actually was really confused and at the time I had no clue what he was talking about. I half thought he was joking actually. I plan on apologizing via text as soon as possible.

After work the fun started. Well, half of what happened was more dramatic and exciting than fun. It all started after work when I tried to purchase a center of the roll and an Oreo chillata from work. I was buying it but for some reason my card was declined. I was confused and I tried it 3 separate times. I was actually worried at this point as well and when I called mom to see if she was picking me up I told her about what happened. She was worried too at this point and so when she picked me up we checked my bank account. At first I thought everything was okay, but I looked more closely at the two top charges. They were for $9.47 at the Channel Inn. Channel inn? I had no idea what that was. I googled it and found out it's an actual inn and not just something I forgot I purchased under an unrecognized name. Funnily enough that did actually happen to me once.

I called the bank after telling mom I thought it was suspicious. Plus it was from today and I had made no purchases today. I got it straightened out, confirmed other purchases and am planning on taking extra safety measures in the future. The guy I talked to got me through everything over the phone really smoothly. It's going to be kind of annoying not having a card for a few days, but it is probably for the best. I need to use cash more anyway.

Later tonight I went to Summerfest with Laura, Natalie and Kayla. The rain made it a little chilly this evening, but not too much. It had stopped by the time I got off work and so we didn't have to worry about it there. Laura and Kayla rode on the spinning strawberries, Natalie and Kayla rode on the Sizzler, and Natalie and Ben rode on the Ferris wheel. I didn't go on anything because I was too hungry to want to. I did enjoy watching all the different color changing lights on the sizzler ride. Each line took a long time, at least a half an hour. Ben met up with us when I was in the line with Natalie for the Ferris wheel. I let Ben go with her and I went to Laura and Kayla and waited for them at the strawberry ride. The fireworks were going on during this time and they missed some when they were on the ride. Natalie and Ben got on the Ferris wheel just in the nick of time because it closed soon after that.

We went to a nearby McDonalds after everything was done. I had a chocolate sundae, chicken nuggets and a chicken sandwich. The food wasn't bad. I usually hate McDonald's but for tonight it was okay. We went home after this.


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Holding it Up

Wow, today at work was crazy.

My day started out just like any other. I slept in today, cleaned up for work and went to Costco with mom after playing some games on my phone. I was going to go some other places with mom before work, but we had to take our groceries home before we went anywhere else so i decided to stay behind and walk around the mall. I had grilled cheese at Melty Way today. I got pepperjack cheese, pesto sauce, and chicken. This is my favorite combination. I ate this right before I went to work. The drink was lemonade.

When I got to work 3 minutes later I realized that Jan was the only one there. I was expecting someone else to show up, but no one did. There was a lot of work to do, this became aparent just by looking around. Jan asked me to roll out some cinnamon rolls and seeing that there were none in the display besides some mini cinnamon rolls and none in the proofer I knew I had to be speedy. I'm not the fastest roller at work, but I got the job done in decent time. I started out with 4 classics and two minis.. Each dough sheet does two pans of six classics. To do the minis you just cut the dough sheet in half and roll them up separately. Rolling, buttering, cinnamon, proofer, and oven. That is the basic gist of how we made them. The minis are 18 in each pan and one dough sheet makes two pans. Or at least I think it's 18, I don't pay attention. I felt very much in control and like I was holding things up and it felt so good.

Anyway, after rolling I helped with some other things like customers, making samples, putting together the cups of cinnastix, restocking the dough sheets in the fridge, and later making packs of rolls with Miranda when she got there. It was exhausting work but I loved every miinute of it. Miranda and I did some more rolling after we did the boxes. I think e got along really well today which makes me happy. Oh, and the person that didn't show up (I forgot her name) couldn't come today because she had to take her son to the hospital or something. I did pretty great today and I'm very proud of myself. i got to stay an hour later than i usually work. Mom came in and I told her I was going to do more rolling. Orem Summerfest is going on tomorrow and today so we had to work extra hard today of course. I guess we are selling rolls tomorrow at the parade or something. I'm not sure exactly what, but something like that. I thoroughly enjoyed this shift and I hope tomorrow is just as good. I was so ready to go home hen I was finally off work though.

I hung out at R.C. Willey and was going to get a drink there, but the cafe closes after 7pm I guess. I did random stuff on my phone sitting in a comfy chair until mom and dad picked me up. I knew I was hungry, but didn't know what I felt like eating at the time. I thought about making a banana or orange shake, but ended up eating the last piece of pizza from Monday. That was good enough I guess.I was tempted to make a banana split as well, but decided not to. I am just finishing watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now.

UPDATE: I caved. haha.
Banana slices, vanilla ice cream, chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, marshmallow sauce, nuts, and whipped cream. Marshmallows on the side.