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Life Update - Azalea's new school, rant, photos.
Monday, April 30, 2007

Gee, let's see.. an update.. Okay. I don't even know where to start, I guess I will start with last Monday, heh. I was very nervous as it was and the day did not go well, so I haven't really talked about it, but we were supposed to have Azalea's district meeting on Monday.

A district meeting is when we meet with the Chairman of Education of our district, Azalea's teachers, her therapists and some other therapists from the district. This is necessary because.. for those that do not know, my daughter has been in Early Intervention since she was about 2.

Early Intervention IS the following -

Early Childhood Intervention is a support system for children with developmental delays and/or disabilities and their families.

If a child experiences a developmental delay, this can compound over time. The principle of early intervention is to provide appropriate therapies for children with disabilities, to minimize these delays and maximize their chances of reaching normal milestones in development.

Early intervention begins from birth or first diagnosis, and continues until school age. It involves specialised education and therapy services for the child, as well as support for the whole family through information, advocacy, and emotional support.


People falsely accused her of being autistic (people I hate), but I had to get someone to tell them because they wouldn't believe or listen to me, so she was put into therapy, where she got speech therapy and since services change when a child is 3 years old, they gave her as much as they could from January until July, which was two hours a day, five days a week. This went on from January to August, actually and then, that July she turned 3, which meant that the services were changed from the state to the district and for services to continue she had to be in school, so we were forced to put her in Nursery school and they wanted to try a typical nursery school and this means that it had children that were all developing perfectly normally.. I only say forced because we only had one school in town and it was a Catholic Private School.. and it was over 200 dollars a month.. she went two days a week, for two hours a day and we had to drive her to and from work. Kell's dad came home those days and Kell got out early to pick her up and then often went back to work after that. Roberta and Jessie, who were her therapists, still came each week, Jessie for an hour three days a week and Roberta one hour a week at home and twice at school with her. I hated that school. Roberta told me about how they only did one-on-one activities and that didn't really give her a chance to work in groups and socialize with other children, which is where her present problems were starting to appear and is now, also where they are.

THIS YEAR, she started a new school, which was... an integrated pre-school, which means that there are children that have developed normally, children with just speech and behavioral issues like Azalea, and then children with more disabilities than that. The 'behavorial' issues are new, but apparently they are in her .. disability to tell people what she wants to do and she doesn't express her anger and frustration well. She'll just do what others do, and she whines. She's whiny, but only if you let her. I just tell her to stop crying and acting like a baby and then she stops. That might sound mean, but that's what she needs to hear. I know she's pretty and that makes everyone baby her, but she needs to be told she can't get her way because of how she looks.. and not many people do that. However the school is 5,000 times better? Roberta and Jessie stopped coming in June, but then she started again September and this time.. her school was free, she got a bus that comes right to the door, she goes five days a week.. however, it's three districts away.

So. Yes. We had a meeting for when she originally got her services, when she went into the Catholic Nursery School here, when she went into the far off district last year and now we had one for what she's doing next year. Each year I had Roberta with me, though, but this year it was just Kell and I. Luckily, even Roberta and Jessie told me this, the Chairman of Education of our district is one of the nicest on the island, because they have dealt with others. Sometimes they won't listen to the therapists at all, or any of the parents' suggestions and just do what they had already had planned, but ours is a very nice man. No, normal parents do not have to do this, and yet, if it sounds scary, it is! You go to the Administrative Building.. which, going at 21, I hadn't even been out of school very long.. and you sit in this little room, with a round table and with a recording device in the middle. You all sit around and get offered coffee and snacks and strange things, then you all sign an attendance sheet and then the therapists and teachers go off one by one with what they think is wrong and what has progressed in Azalea.

Well.. The meeting was supposed to be at 3 pm, on Monday.. I know this is true because I have the paper, plus Kell made sure he marked it on the calendar at work over a month ago when we got the paper to make sure we could get there in time. Well, I was sitting in here cleaning and singing and doing whatever before that time, when I went out there to call Kell and ask him where the battery charger went because I couldn't find it and there was a message.. it was from the school.. yay. They wanted to know why I wasn't there.. it was 1:40 and the meeting was supposed to start at 1:15 and they were going to start without me and she did not sound happy. I instantly started crying and called Kell and was like, fucking damn it.. then.. I calmed down and called them back, like they asked, and we had a phone meeting.

We got another paper from a kindergarten right here in town a few days ago, talking about Azalea's orientation for her kindergarten class, which we figured went along with the meeting setup, but apparently not. I was happy because that school is not only in town, but it's like.. within 5 minutes walking distance. We live right next to an overpass, and it's right over it and through a field behind another school. It would have been nice for nice, warm days, but alas, no, but I am still pleased! The school will be at least in town, but since she is still going to require services, it will be in the other kindergarten / Elementary school across town, but at least it is in town. It's annoying having her school so far away, when she gets home at 3:30 anyway and Kell gets home later, it kind of makes it hard to go and play, but with a school in town, that'll be better. Once again, she will have a bus that comes right to the door (Yes, it's a minibus) and she will have a person come in 45 minutes a week to set up a kind of reward system with her and the others that are in need of therapy. She will also get pulled out of class with 5 others from her class and six from the others, and then they will have a large group therapy, but a half an hour of one-on-one. And! She will be going all day!

That might sound mean, too, but I haven't had that long to myself in ... uh.. ever? Lived with my parents.. I had my first boyfriend at about 12 and haven't been single since.. I had an abusive rapist cheating boyfriend, a psychotic pedofile boyfriend, parents moved me at 17 to a new school Senior year, then I had an alcoholic boyfriend, hung around with a bunch of alcohlic and drug addicts, did a bunch of drugs, became a hardocre alcoholic, got pregnant, five years and top that with ... god.. with before I had her while I was pregnant, I lived with Dawn the psycho crackhead evil mother skank that put me into labor, then I lived in a shelter - home for unwed mothers with disgusting housemates filled with cockroaches as my roommates, then I moved back home and then Kell's brother and his girlfriend moved in and they accused Azalea of being autistic, I nearly killed myself, they used airhorns to wake her up and their drunk friends put holes in our walls, and so on.. then they moved out, but I was still stuck with two hours of therapy from speech therapists for my daughter and then she started going to school, but it's still only from 12:30-3:30, so yes.. time alone.. for the first time in years... will be nice.

That reminds me.. I have been seriously considering starting up my auto-biography again, but who knows if I will.. No one would ever believe me - or people would find it boring! Who knows. Nerves are no fun.

Well.. Yes. After I got off the phone, I was a bit more relieved, but we still had to go and sign the paperwork in between 2:30 - 3:00 and I figured since Kell was ALREADY taking off early he would have been home on time, but still.. no. I was not in a good mood, but we went there, met the lady, signed the paperwork, and I had to call Jamie because since he was late getting home, that meant we were late going there, which meant we wouldn't be there to get Azalea off the bus, but the lady specifically wanted me to come, so I asked Jamie to get her off the bus, then we went home. Not a fun day, I can tell you, heh.

A good thing about Monday is that Heroes was on! After a month of being off, Heroes was on and I was so happy. It was an awesome episode and now I have so many theories about Heroes, which I will now share!

When Peter jumps to the future and is screaming that he "Took it all" and he "Can't control it!" I originally thought he meant Ted, since he's obviously a bomb, and I think that, but I also think that he is saying he took it all because he finally thought about Sylar. He already must somewhat think of Sylar when he uses his telekinetic power because he has to think of people to use powers, and since Sylar has touched him... I am thinking maybe he doesn't think of him until around that point and then he gets hit with everything Sylar has taken since the last time Sylar touched him, which would be the Sound, the ability to melt metal, the ability to freeze people (comic books) and who knows what else. That would totally flip him out, but that's just theory. That's the point of shows like Heroes! Theories!

Another one is... since Peter needs to think of people to use his power, what would happen is he got amnesia or the Haitian erased his memory? Would that help with the bomb and stop him from using his powers?

I think Mr. Linderman is going to heal Nathan's wife and that'll be a turning point of evil for him.

I think the ability to see the future is going to destroy the Sylar and I wouldn't be surprised that in the alternate universe episode, if he is good.. But either way, I think it is going to seriously mess with his way of thinking and his mind.

I think Hiro is obsessed with his failures.

And. Yes, that's enough for now.

What else. We have been discussing another kitty, like, omg, but this time I am not going to keep mentioning it until Kell gets it, he has to get it on his own, so who knows if that will happen. I really want a little white one.. I love kitties, or maybe even A PUPPY. I've never had one and I really want an animal to take for walks, but we were also talking about seriously getting cat leashes, so who knows.

Planet Earth is over. It was amazing. Now they are airing the behind the scenes and how they got the shots and this is what I really wanted to see because every other minute I was going, "What the hell, who went there and filmed that?" And now they are showing me and it's awesome.

Oh! Something else funny... The Pussycat Dolls. I watched it since it took the place of Veronica Mars when it went off the air for a month or two, and in the first episode I decided I liked Asia, the single bitchy mommy from New York, Chelsea the ex-chubby girl who I found exotically gorgeous and the little Japanese girl, Melissa. My favorite was Asia, though, just because every time I would see her mention how much she missed her baby, my heart reached out to her and I really thought she was the best performer. Chelsea, when they cut her hair... was amazingly gorgeous, and her voice was beautiful, but.. three weeks in a row they made her sing Christina Aguilera songs, and she kept singing them exactly like her and it was driving me insane - you'd think she'd get the idea to sing them her own way, and she really couldn't dance very amazingly well, which I thought was very necessary for that group. Melissa I thought was kind of average.. she could dance and sing... but she was also so tiny, but didn't really do amazingly well, either. I kept thinking that if Chelsea won, since her strong point was her vocals, she would have to be like the new main singer, and I don't think they wanted that and as for Melissa, I kept thinking that if she won, she would have to be centered in the middle a lot due to her tiny size, which is also not what I thought they wanted. Then there was Asia. I really felt that The Pussycat Dolls needed something other than white girls, so I thought a black girl would look very good, she also totally had her own style, could dance her own special way, could sing with her own unique sound and I really liked her in general. Her personality was good, too. She was a bit violent in the past, as she had stated, but I respsected that she hated the talking behind peoples backs and was very honest with such things because I would think they wouldn't want some kind of bitchy, rude, attention-whoring, jealous girl to join the group because it's a team performance not a competition anymore. Yay for Asia and her winning! It was crazy that they were the three finalists, though, since I liked them the most. I also loved Mariella's dancing!

Some people from Blackout came to me asking about the apparent rumors of them going around, but I could only respond with the fact that I know that even though I was friends with one of them, and barely knew the other, they asked my very close friends and CLOSEST friend to actually get me to pay for their server, and give them money, even though we barely talked, so them acting all innocent and naive when it comes to such things, when, after the fact that my friends said no, they tried to group bombard me, guilt trip me and then tried other ways, I know they are not as innocent as they seem and I told them that instead of .. causing a bunch of drama over such things, I just decided I wouldn't be particuarly close with either of them anymore. I would be civil, polite, but that's about it, but now they can't come to me with their apparent cries of woe claiming defamation when they know that I know what they did.

Oh! I had off for a week from school after my Fundamentals of Marketing class ended, but starting today I start English Composition and Computer Applications today, which is also the first week of accelerated classes, meaning I am taking two instead of one. That means at least 4 2-3 page assignments a week, but I am excited about these courses, yay!

I started a theme on Azalea's journal over at . I am going to take a picture of her everyday and update it there until I give her the journal when she's much older. I have tried to update with some of the older ones that were already on her gallery, but I have to work on the ones from last week.

I have horrific cramps at the moment. I already took three excedrin, but it's not going anyway. How annoying. Sometimes I worry about my pain tolerance because it is so high. I didn't go to the hospital until 12 hours after my water started breaking and until I couldn't sit anymore because her head was so close.. so.. when I have other pain, I worry if I can tolerate too much, but .. we'll see, I guess.

Pictures: me, Azalea, kitties, miscellaneous.



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Azalea and her bow.








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