March 13, 2009: Silent (Signing) Dinner at Cracker Barrel

That Friday early evening, I went to a Silent (Signing) Dinner at Cracker Barrel on a popular tourist strip, International Speedway Blvd.  Cracker Barrel is a country restaurant.  This is not my type of food but I kind of like it.  I decided to go there cuz I don't like staying home too much on weekends and staying home makes me boring.  Thank God, I got out of my family's mansion.  I wanted to have fun there and meeting some people that I don't know but my hearing interperter, Nova, knew.  My hearing interpreter, Nova, was a host there but still do being it.  Silent Dinner is where u can't allow to talk with anyone.  Hearing and deaf people must learn how to sign each other at the table.  Some hearing people are ASL students and teachers.  Other deafies taught them correctly if hearing people are trying to remember ASL.  As my bus arrived there on time, I recongized few of my friends from the deaf club were about entering into that restaurant but I didn't see Nova in a person yet.  I guess someone is calling the group when the table is ready.  I recongized some people I know from the deaf club when I found them at the table.  Oh, boy, the restaurant was so full of hungry customers cuz it's Friday.  Can't u believe it?  Wow!  Waiters and waitresses were sooooo busy and kept running around it back and forth.  I saw Nova at the end of table with her boyfriend, Tom.  I was glad to see Nova again.  She was chatting with other friends there.  And then I ordered a dinner:  A cheeseburger with bacon and fried steaks and a drink of raspberry lemonade.  Shoot, I forgot about the drink of apple cider.  OOPS, next time I will order a different one.  The apple cider is one of my favorite drinks and a very delicious.  A cheeseburger with bacon looks so huge but very delicious.  Yummmmmy!  Anyways, I met unknown people at the table.  I learned that a hearing woman is an ASL teacher at an elementary school in Palm Coast, north of Ormond Beach.  She's also a mother of 3 kids but 2 of them were with her.  I had fun chatted with people.  They were nice.  After dinner, I ordered a hot fudge ice cream mug.  Yummy!  I took 2 boxes to home.  A halfway of cheeseburger and the other box is many fried steaks but I did eat some of them at the table, not much, and plastic bag of biscuits.  After my friends and I left the table, I can't push the wheelchair myself cuz I carried an ice cream mug but I got a help from a young, female ASL student.  I carried it while I looked at merchandises around the shop as an ASL student pushed my wheelchair.  I decided to buy a bottle of water.  I did.  And then we went outside.  I had a plenty of time to enjoy the outside that night cuz my Dad could come to get me in 30 minutes.  I was not worrying if I would keep Dad waiting too long, u know.  However, I played a game called checkers at the table with the other young woman while waiting for Dad to pick me up.  I won it.  Ha, Ha.  I almost figured out how to play checkers as if I am trying to remember that kind of game.  I haven't playing it in a long time.  I did it few times when I was a young girl.  Then suddenly, all of people I was with at the table had to go right away.  Here is I was alone again after they left.  I think my hearing interperter don't understand what I said in a sign language when Nova came back to get her binder that she forgot.  I figured she's confusing and districting due to her brain surgery when Nova was 14.  I tried to tell her that I don't want to be alone until my father arrives.  Finally, my father arrived at the restaurant and picked me up from there.  Then I went home.  I had a wonderful evening that night.  I enjoyed the dinner and chatting with other people.

Wal-Mart. The Chart House Restaurant. Emmy Awards.

Last Saturday, I felt boring as if I have had no plans but yesterday I had a fun.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to do a grocery at Wal-Mart.  I asked Wal-Mart employee if she has a new battery to be exchanged for my watch cuz I discovered my watch was not working that afternoon before I left home.  But she said Wal-Mart doesn't have one.  I was disappointed but I think I forgot about it.  I had to buy a different size of battery for my small wireless clock.that I could put in my bathroom.  And then I went on to buy more food until I've decided I am finished.

When Mom and I arrived home in her car that late Sunday afternoon, I got unexpected plans.  Joe made me staying in the car and wanted to take me out to eat.  I was surprised.  That was so unexpected.  I didn't know what he has in his mind.  We went to The Chart House, an expensive seafood restaurant in Daytona Beach.  The Chart House is located on the Halifax River surrounding by many boats everywhere and between 2 condos.  I had been there few times but not much.  That was a long time ago.  The last time I went there was in the Winter of 2005 or 2006.  I recall Joe brought his guests and our parents to celebrate my birthday there but it was belated.  Anyways, the outside that night looks shining and beautiful and quiet.  Joe and I were talked on other things personally.  Our food was so delicious.  I ordered coconut shrimps with rices but this food look so big.  Wow!  I had a salad from the bar before the dinner arrives.  I took this meal to home so Dad can have it cuz I know he would like it very much.

Did u watch Emmy Awards show last night?  I missed watching the first of 3 hours Emmy Awards show that night cuz we were about coming home from a trip to the restaurant in Daytona Beach.  I was looking at Joe's watch by checking out what time while I was at the restaurant.  I realized I am going to miss watching it.  I can't wait to get home but I've got to be patient.  After I got home from a trip to Wal-Mart where Joe had to buy a cologne for Dad, I am so glad that "Recount" won an award.  I haven't seen it but I will rent that DVD movie one day when I have time.  I really wanted to see it badly.  I can't believe Tina Fey won 3 awards.  Tina looks so pretty and sexy but much alike Sarah Palin, Vice President hopeful.  LOL!  Tina is so funny when she played Sarah Palin on SNL. on "TODAY" show.  She dressed up so nicely in it next to Hillary Clinton.  Wow, so many awards went to "John Adams".  I want to see that DVD movie, too.

Harp Therapy. A Lunch At Love, A Health Food Store.

I had a harp therapy at Melody's house in Daytona Beach this late morning.  Melody and I were discussing my hopeless about Todd.  She said he's nothing to help me.  He's also worthless.  Yeah, she's right.  I guess Todd already knows what my problem with him is cuz I told him about my feelings in an e-mail to him few times but I can't give u some private details about between us.  Anyways, I had a feeling that come out of my head like a flow.  During a harp therapy, I had thoughts about Todd but I did not tell Melody some of those details afterwards.  Her music was wonderful.  Wow, my brain acted funny right after the therapy.

After a harp therapy with Melody, Mom and I went to Love, a health food store in Ormond Beach, for our lunch.  I bought Mom a lunch.  Mom and I ate lunch together at the table outside.  We ate spinch wraps with some carrots, a package of healthy chips, and a soda but I kind of disliked it cuz that soda has a sugar free.  It tastes like a funny little bit.  I would like rather having a regular sugar of soda.  Next time, I will get a different one.  Anyways, my lunch was delicious.  So was Mom's.  I enjoyed eating it.  Yummy!  And then we left there for going to do a shopping at Bealls'.