Xavier University in Cincinnati has an occupational therapy program.
Now I have even more of a desire to go there, which I didn't think was possible.
Mom and I are also going to discuss preliminary things with dad this weekend maybe. It includes the offer that Dad may be willing to take on my car payment for 3-8 months, maybe even a year, if I move out. Hopefully within 6 months I'll have a little more stable situation going on, but... in any case, I think mom is seeing just how much I want this to work, and I want to do this, and she wants to help. She says my happiness comes before, say, a fence for the backyard or a new sliding door for the kitchen. And while part of the reason I want to move out is so I don't need to rely on my parents, mom wants to do it and she wants to talk dad into it as well. She still reminds him that he had promised to pay for all my college like he did my brother, and I paid for the first 3 semesters. And yes, my parents paid half the down payment on my car, but mom said the down payment money came from a decent sum of money she inherited from my great-aunt's passing, and it's still only a fraction of what I paid for a year and a half of school (about $15,000, more like $13,000 if I don't include books and parking passes).
Not only that, but she was telling me that my dad's parents helped them out when my dad was going to law school from the mid-70's to 1980. Apparently they paid for half my dad's tuition for law school (he got a scholarship for the other half) and paid my parents' rent the whole time they were in North Carolina. I never knew that. Dad had always told me they made their own way. Mom said he was just saying that to lower my expectations. He's like that.
I still don't expect it. I'm going to plan as if I will still need rent money and pay my car payment (and it's not a low payment) among groceries and gas and some utilities and other things I will probably have to consider. But that would be an incredible help, especially at the beginning until I get back on my feet and figure out where my life is going.
I know I sometimes don't get along with my parents. But I'm the baby of the family and honestly I still think my dad is surprised I didn't drop out of high school and even more surprised that I did go to college (since I started a year and a half late... people always say the longer you are away from school, the harder it is to go back sometimes). They don't owe me anything. But I think it's starting to dawn on mom that I am starting to want things, now... I want my own life, I want to be with my boyfriend, I want to finally really go back to Ohio like I've desired since moving in 2005, I may want to start a family if it's possible and feasible (no rush, but still).
Anyway. Again... hoping and praying that University of Cincinnati accepts Cori. I'm sorry, it's just.. literally all I can think about nowadays.
~Rachel
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