7 Days to My 365th Blog

The pic I chose today as a highlight from my "year in review" of blog pics is a pic I took on March 6, 2010 of the MU Tiger Wheelchair Basketball team.

On a side note, today went by so fast at work as I had many projects and things to do. After work, Paul and I had dinner with a friend from Columbia and her guy friend on the Plaza at a really good BBQ place. It was a fun night! Below is a pic of our friends that I took during tonight's dinner.

Busy Day

In the class I taught today we had members of the wheelchair basketball team come and talk to our class and address some "do's and dont's" as they relate to individuals with disabilities. We've had them come previous semesters and it's always a good class discussion. My "pic of the day" is from a wheelchair basketball tournament from last semester.

After that, I had 13 student appointments throughout the rest of the day, ran to the grocery store and got used produces boxes for moving at lunch, had a Happy Hour with a colleague, and chatted with a new friend who came to adopt one of our plants. Whew...a busy day.

Go, go go!

What a long day: Worked 10 hours in which I had 9 student appts. and taught a class; and then I came home and graded resumes for 2 hours. Gotta love Mondays! My "pic of the day" is another pic I took at Saturday's Wheelchair Relay's. I chose this pic because I feel like about all I am capable of doing after a 12 hr day is putting a bucket over my head and calling it a night!

Wheelchair Basketball Relay & Shopping

My "pic of the day" is from the Wheelchair Basketball Relay event held on campus today to raise awareness of disabilities and to serve as a fundraiser for the Wheelchair B-ball team (profiled in last Saturday's blog post). Many of my advisees, students, and professional fraternity members that I interact with on a weekly basis participated in this event. Students were to make teams of 4 and then they rotated through the various stations such as an obstacle course, hoop shoot and mine field to name a few. In the pic I've profiled, students were to carry as many items as possible and move them across the room while in a wheelchair. As you can see students developed some very creative ways to do this task.


After the Wheelchair Basketball Relay, I went shopping, yes I said shopping -- a word that has been absent from my vocab for a long time. With the legal settlement money we just received, I had enough to go shopping for the first time in over two years! I needed clothes, especially a spring/summer wardrobe for work. I shopped for a couple of hours, then had a hair appt. and then shopped for 3 more hours for total of 5 hours shopping! I'm tired but in a good way. How nice to go to the stores and actually have money to spend it's an entirely new feeling -- how accustomed I had become to the oppressive feeling of never having any money for anything beyond absolute necessities. I not only got to buy business casual clothes, but also earrings, necklaces, headbands, bras and even rain boots! I had a feeling of freedom that I had long forgotten. Too bad it is just temporary :( I did a fashion show for Paul and found that I do feel more confident in my new clothes and am excited to wear them to work this week.

MU Tiger Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

My husband and I had the honor of watching only 1 of 7 collegiate wheelchair basketball teams in the world play in a tournament at the University today. This was the same team that I referenced to in Tuesday's post regarding the player panel that came to my class and spoke about their disabilities. It was awesome to see them in action, and as they say a picture is worth a 1000 words so here is my "pic of the day" (along with several others).

Because there are so few collegiate teams, the MU team as to play community teams (teams made up of individuals in surrounding communities of all ages) and junior teams (teams from local high schools).

I do have to add that today was almost too nice to be indoors as it was sunny and in the 50s! Spring is on its way, finally!