Summer Days

It's been three weeks since she graduated high school and Miranda has stayed busy. The first week she worked at CSDF as part of the annual end of the year clean-up crew. Then she spent the second week hanging out with her boyfriend Dack and getting her four wisdom teeth removed.


The past week was spent recovering from wisdom teeth removal. She showed me the 4 removed teeth and that totally grossed me out. One evening when her cheeks were still swollen, I took her to Jamba Juice for "dinner."


On Wednesday eve when she was feeling almost fully recovered from her wisdom teeth extraction, I drove Miranda and Dack to Stoneridge Mall to "window shop" at the Apple Store. I had agreed to buy her a MacBook for a graduation gift and because she'd need one for college. [I videotaped some of our experience using her graduation gift to myself - a Flip camcorder. I made it into a little movie using the Flip software that came with it. For $200, this is a killer product that makes video so much easier. And the quality's excellent. Check it out on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PsychicRich#play/all/uploads-all/0/6VcpmqY5Wvc]

I wasn't really planning to buy the laptop yet, because I wanted to shop around, but my Apple-expert friend said there weren't really any better deals than the $50 college student discount Apple was offering. In addition to that, Apple was also offering college students a "free" iPod Touch with the purchase of a laptop. So needless to say Apple got my credit card and we left the store (as documented) with both a new MacBook and an iPod Touch.

I was skeptcial about how useful an iPod would be to my deaf daughter, but she showed me there were lots of other features on the Touch version in addition to iTunes...photos, games, etc. I figured she could at least share it with her brother...that was he's expectation too, when he found out about it. His enthusiasm is tempered by his life experience with her though, "You know, how she is sometimes...'Mine!'" I had to laugh at that. This is true... They may be adults but your kids are still kids, sometimes, eh?

Next week Randi goes back to CSDF to work as an aide for summer school...And next month, August 19 she turns 18 and then around August 25, she goes to Washington, DC to begin her college career. No, I'm not ready yet to believe that's actually going to happen.