Month: October 2019

“Claw Nails”

I know that I have written previously about Adam calling my nails, “Claw nails” before. I reread a post from August 2015 and I talked about Adam telling me about my, “Claw nails.” He must have told me about my, “Claw nails” even before August 2015 because then, I was working with Mike Morfitt at Barwis. after Nick Montoni had already gone back to school.

I used to bite my nails until I was about 10 or 11. I don’t really place much importance on my nails now, but rather, just let them grow. When one of them breaks, I cut them all down and start again. I don’t really think about it until someone comments on my nails. I remember telling Adam I like to wash my hair with long fingernails. It feels cool on my scalp. I remember once being at ATI and my nails are pretty long and I held up my hand and told Brad that these nails were the nails of someone who was unemployed.

Well, I am still unemployed and these are my nails:

As you can see, one of them broke yesterday.

Now that my MS has progressed to where it is, I do not have much hand control. Meaning – I can no longer cut all of my nails down by myself. I have to ask my Mom to do it for me. She is a pretty busy lady and so, currently, I am left with my nails being uneven. It kind of drives me crazy! But, alas, like many things, I just have to wait. I try NOT to think about it because it feels weird but my nails will all be sure soon enough.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #56

I woke up this morning to a picture and article on Facebook that kind of rocked me to my core! I recently saw a picture from wayback that I wanted to share today because it is Throwback Thursday. I couldn’t find the picture so I don’t want to write this blog post yet. I will get a week to find the picture and I will post it next week.

Sean has agreed to watch, A Million Little Things with me but he worked last Thursday so I didn’t watch the episode so we could watch it together. It’s not often that he will want to watch TV with me given that he will be 18 in 23 days. We used to watch, This Is Us until it got, “NOT cool!“ Jack’s death was difficult and I told my Mom NOT to watch that episode. Episodes with Vietnam in it were hard for me too; but I definitely drew the line when the writers messed with Randall and Beth. I didn’t want to see their demise so I stopped watching the show.

Sean binged the first season of A Million Little Things with me and we will watch the second season together. He’s working tonight so I am not watching it even though it is on right now. Yesterday, we finally watched last week’s episode and the song that played at the end when Delilah was talking to her baby came out kind of really got me! I knew this song but for some reason it seemed sad for me but I wanted to remember it so:

“Wipe-Off Wednesday”

I think it’s crazy how I get random memories of my days teaching. The memory I had, had to be of my last four years teaching and my third classroom/office. My third office was a small converted closet adjacent to the cafeteria where the physical education classes were also held. The classes the time were no larger than 15 students and three of the classes had six students in them.

It was cozy and intimate. I’m sure I have pictures of it and I will look for one and post some here:

I thought of my last classroom because I saw this commercial:

The commercial made me think of, “Wipe-off Wednesdays.” I didn’t use Lysol wipes but rather Clorox wipes or the Target brand:

I would buy these canisters by the pair. My students preferred the green ones to the yellow but I wouldn’t get more until both canisters were gone. Because I was teaching in a manual wheelchair and in a very small room, I couldn’t navigate through the table in the back. That’s when I enlisted students to wipe the tables off toward the end of class. They always knew what it was, “Wipe-off Wednesday” and would remind me whenever I forgot which was pretty often.

I found that to be necessary because the tables would get pretty dirty and then the kids would get sick, especially when it was cold outside. My students were a great help to me for most of my time teaching. I was in a mirror wheelchair for in large part of my time teaching. I think it’s amazing that a random commercial will remind me of “Wipe-Off Wednesdays,” I can still smell them.

Tune #34 & #35 Inspired by GMFB OR “The Final Countdown”

I didn’t watch much of Monday Night Football yesterday; but apparently, I watched just enough because pretty much all of what I watched ended up on the highlight reel this morning on GMFB. Nate talked about, Tevon Coleman. He plays for the 49ers and he had a game from what I saw! Great minds think a like because when he said his name, he said it sounded like Tevin Campbell. I tweeted him telling him that I thought of that last night every time they said his name! So this song has been in my head from last night and it was reinforced this morning. It’s good that I am NOT the only one who thought of this! I sang this song in my head right after Nate talked about him:

That is until Kyle made the point that the 49ers are 5-0 and the last time they started the season like this, was it in 1990 and Sinead O’Connor was number one on the charts! The 49ers had a bye the week before so Kyle said that it had been, “15 days” since the played last. So, Tevin was out and Sinead was in but they have been switching all day.

That is until I leveled up for the last time. I am an extra firm, “Fuddy Putty” now. It took a little over two months to get there:

This is really difficult but it is my final countdown so, naturally, this song popped into my head:

Random songs pop into my head all of the time! It’s too bad that they can’t come out of my mouth anymore.

The Final Countdown

Well, it has happened. I have finally leveled up to extra firm! When I originally got the red, “Fuddy putty” out of its container, this song began to play over and over again in my head:

This IS my final countdown! It is now my habit for a little over two months to squeeze this putty as I watch TV. This one is difficult! Extra difficult!

I can barely squeeze it and it feels like a really hard, clay ball. It will take some time but I will be able to soften it eventually. Until then, I will constantly hear this song in my head! I am now at nine final level end it is really difficult!

Round 2 2 of 2

I packed up Jonah‘s second package today:

I think my Mom will take it to the post office tomorrow. As I was packing it, Sean brought over the box of all of the things I have for both Natalie and Jonah to the kitchen table. As he put it on the table, he let me know that it is ONLY because I have so much fun sending these packages to them that he doesn’t eat all of the snacks because I keep the box of snacks in my room. He could get to it if you wanted to. I kind of laughed and thanked him for NOT eating all the snacks!

There were only a few Hershey kisses left, not enough to send to Jonah, so Sean ate them. When I was just about finished with putting the things in the package, Sean put one Hershey kiss inside. Sean laughed and said that it’s from him. I think I will have to tell Jonah that. I really DO dig sending these packages! Especially with the Michigan stickers! I have to order more stickers because I have gone through four pages of Michigan stickers because now I will have sent four packages to them.

It’s fun and it reminds me of when my Mom sent me packages when I was away at college.

Tune #33 Inspired by GMFB OR “The Second Best Mustache in the Building”

Last week, the breakfast table had the recording artist, Sash at the breakfast table. He is only 19 years old and recorded this song in his bedroom with his brother. The NFL picked it up and I see/hear it on all this year’s game highlight reels. Sean listened to it yesterday and even though the Lions are NOT play this week, I played it and I still see highlight reels in my head.

Also from last week, I wasn’t able to tweet the show but they had Doug Marrone on via satellite, he is the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Kyle’s first question for him was about Gardner Minshew’s mustache.

The question amused me but Doug Marrone’s answer, amused me more! I am sure that he has heard about his quarterback’s mustache a lot! He kind of shook his head a little bit and let Kyle know that Garner has only, “The second best mustache in the building!” His answer really amused me because knowing who else is in the building at the Jaguars facility, Gardner is definitely second!

The winner of the best mustache is hands-down, the teams owner, Sha’d Khan!!! I searched the Internet to find a good picture of Sha’d Khan’s mustache and this is what I came up with. I couldn’t decide on just one picture:

I don’t know if this next picture was photoshopped or not, but if it is NOT, that is just awesome!

Because of My Mom 💜💜💜!

My Mom changed my furnace filter and turned my heat on today because I was freezing in my house as I first watched, Hocus Pocus

Today. I am still not feeling much better but I know that it is coming and I continue to take the pills I’m supposed to to get better. I’ve been averaging watching Hocus Pocus twice a day because I like it and it calms me when I don’t feel well, which is right now.

The Lions are on a bye this week and Michigan won today so now I can just recline in my wheelchair and veg out and watch Hocus Pocus. again. I hope I sleep well tonight and I think I will because it is warm in my house now because of my Mom.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #55

Matchbox 20’s album, Mad Season came out in May 2000. I was working at 7-Eleven and was about to graduate from high school. I’ve talked about that being the MOST disgusting summer job ever because it was but I listened to that CD on loop in the mornings when I drove there.

The song I am going to post was one of the primary singles released. I can’t get it out of my head because I don’t feel well right now! Hopefully, tomorrow, I can write about watching GMFB this morning Because I can’t just yet. I am failing in and out of sleep a lot but I am not, “Talking to myself in public” nor am I, “Dodging glances on the train” but I will be happy when I can finally kick this! #MSsucks because everything takes longer to get better! Case in point: my knee still hurts!

Tune #30, #31, and #32 Inspired by GMFB

My Mom brought me pills from my doctor’s office yesterday afternoon. I took two doses yesterday and I’ve had three doses today thus far. Maybe I am feeling a little bit better… I was still a bit out of it as I watched GMFB this morning. I haven’t even tweeted anyone on the show in two days! It hurt me that I didn’t tweet Kay after I watched her bang her gavel with her left hand! We lefties have to stick together!

The breakfast table talked to Omar Ruiz this morning (Whom I recently followed on Twitter) and Kyle asked him about being disappointed after going to a Pearl Jam show. Omar said that he loves Pearl Jam (Who doesn’t?!) but at this particular concert they did NOT play Jeremy, Yellow Ledbetter, or Black. I would have been disappointed too!

I added those three songs in this post. I know that I have posted them before, but this time, I posted the unplugged versions because I am feeling pretty mellow: