Today started out bad, but I feel okay right now :) I didn't feel well enough to go to my appointment with Judith at 11am. I called her to see if I could talk to her over the phone instead of at her house, but she never called me back. I wonder if she's mad at me because I missed our last appointment too. I guess I owe her $180 now even though I never got to talk to her. I'm thinking of ending my visits with her. Our counselling sessions, though helpful at first, seem unproductive now. I hate having to tell people (even though I'm the one paying her) that I want to end our relationship. I've been cutting back on my meds too because I don't want to see Dr. S anymore either. I'm hoping that within a month, I 'll be drug free :) The days till then are going to be hellish though :(

I tagged along with Mrs.Miyakita to her parent-teacher conference for her son, Yuki, mainly to be translator. Although I didn't feel like getting out of the house at all when I left, I felt much better after sitting in the sun for 10 min before the meeting. There was a flower garden at the school and I enjoyed looking at them moving in the slight breeze. The meeting went well. Since it ended earlier than I thought, I arrived at the Wadas at 3:30pm instead of 4pm. I only tutored Soyoka today because she had a major section of her report on parachutes due tomorrow as well as social studies and vocabulary homeworks. The vocabulary homework was vexing! We had to divide her spelling list words into 3 categories: words where the "g" was pronounced like "j" in "carriage," "j" as in "budget," and "j" as in "magic." Then we had to come up with 5 words in each category on our own. I needed to rely heavily on the dictionary to make sure the answers were correct--how embarrasing if it turns out what we did was wrong.

After tutoring I went to the gas station to fill up Dinky and spent $5 on a car wash. For me that's a rare thing. Now he's almost sparkling :)

Fishbone made it downstairs today. I had let her out and crawled back into bed. A little while later, I heard my Mom yelling "Paaaan-chaaan!! Paaaan-chaaan!!" She caught Fishbone in the family room and brought her back into her cage. I hope she didn't poop all over my Dad's room again. I didn't get out of bed until 40min later.