I think it may have been Tuesday when Jane Slater, who is sitting in for Kay Adams, talked about a combine prospect having this smoothie with Colleen Wolfe:
Grits. Bananas. Peanut Butter. Scrambled eggs. Gatorade. This smoothie helped Ben Bartch gain 60 pounds at the NFL Combine 🥴
So, she made this exact smoothie with the guys in the break room. I did not see this segment until I watched the Week in Review today. I couldn’t believe that Jane Slater sang this song as she poured the red Gatorade in:
This song is my JAM and it used to be a ringtone for my house in number 2003 I think. U2 is my ultimate, favorite band and I loved hearing her sing a line in the refrain of this song even just for a moment. I’m sorry I didn’t get to see the segment live!
Thanks for hanging at the breakfast table another week!
I will joke with my Mom and even Sean that Sean and I grew up together. And it’s pretty much true. I was so young when I had them that we really have! I used to joke with him that when he graduates, the next day, I am booking myself on a singles cruise! Well, his graduation is coming up in a little over two months and I will NOT be traveling on a cruise.
I remember when he was young and into High School Musical; I watched it with him. My Mom and Sean still joke about the look on my face when Troy and Gabriella broke up in the second movie!
I think this was when I realized my guilty pleasure was watching, “Teenybopper” movies even though I was an adult. It was okay though because Sean was still a kid. I didn’t mind watching all of the shows on TV that he watched when we lived in our second apartment. I didn’t mind watching Zoey 101:
Sonny with a Chance:
And Shake It Up at all:
I remember reading the John Green book, The Fault in Our Stars and taking the sixth grade Sean (I think he was in sixth grade) with me to watch the movie adaptation. I even went with a box of Kleenex because I cried so much reading the book. He also had read my copy of the book and I enjoyed sharing reading experiences with him.
I was still teaching middle school back then so I continued reading young adult novels so I could suggest good books to my kids. Sean didn’t read the next books But I recommended them to a number of my students
But back then, Sean also watched movies with me that fed my ”Teenybopper” movie addiction:
Starstruck was my jam and I liked Geek Charming as well!
Now, Sean is too old to share books with me or even watch TV with me. I do, however, have conversations with my niece who is 14. She also is an avid reader which I tell her is a, “Rios Girl” trait and I can say that with the upmost confidence because the previous generation only had one girl in my family (That was me) and I was an avid reader!
So, even after I stopped working, I watched this movie but I did not read the book but I really like John Green:
But after I watched the movie, I found that I didn’t love it as much as I used to love movies and books like this. So, yesterday, as is the life of a homebound person, I put Netflix on and I was going to search for a movie to watch. This was the preview that shows up almost full screen so I clicked on it and watched it:
After I finished watching it all by myself, I decided that maybe I’m too old to enjoy it like I used to. Maybe it’s because Sean is too old to enjoy it with me, maybe it’s because I no longer teach middle school students to discuss books and movies with. It kind of is a sad realization for me to realize that I am too old. I watched the movie yesterday, a week before My 38th birthday. With an 18-year-old kid, I suppose I am too old now!
I first met Ben in the spring or the summer after my first year teaching. We were still living in our first apartment. He was the new security guard in our guard shack of our gated community. I was still pretty new there and since he was new, I stopped my car to introduce myself and Sean and tell him where we lived.
I remember one evening, Sean and I went to get Slurpee‘s and it was a really warm night. I offered to bring him back one when we came back home. That was when Ben and I became friends. He is slightly younger than me and he worked there for a number of years. We were living in our second apartment when he left. He came by to see our house when we first moved in and he doesn’t even live in Michigan anymore but we text.
It wasn’t until after I saw the movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days that I started calling him, “Benny-Bear.” I don’t know that I have called him that to his face but he is saved in my phone as, “Benny” so I probably did! Well, last night I put Gavin DeGraw on shuffle and I heard this song:
It made me think of Benny and our first apartment. More Gavin DeGraw songs played and I thought vividly about cleaning the kitchen or the fridge and doing laundry when Sean slept. This morning, I still was thinking about those times and I texted Ben this picture:
I told him that I was thinking of him yesterday and in our texting conversation, realized that I have known him for some 15 years now. That’s kind of crazy!
I first heard my Mom humming this song a few days ago. I recognizes that song but it wasn’t until last night that I asked her to play it as she took the patches off of my knee. This song came out in 1986 when I was four years old. I am having a vivid memory of being outside Father Yagley Hall after a Girl Scouts meeting, so I must have been in fifth grade.
My friend and I were outside waiting for her mom to wrap things up inside so we could go home. She was the troop leader and my friend and I lived roughly a block away from each other, on the same street. I don’t recall what we were talking about but somehow our conversation led us to begin singing this song:
We both knew the words and because it was out when we were so young, the only reason we knew the words was because of our parents listening to this song on the radio stations when we were driving in the car with them. My friend and I didn’t see anything wrong with knowing this song but we both were just belting it out in the parking lot. I really had forgotten about this song until my Mom was humming it.
Okay, so, the day before yesterday, I read for 45 minutes because the timer on my phone goes off after 45 minutes and I was still reading 101 off! I try to read every single day and I just now I’m starting to really get into this book. Because it’s reading month and my birthday month, of course I’m going to read!
I have bread almost every day of my entire life! However, it is a new occurrence and hi wrote about it previously on my blog when it started to happen. It’s been a brain for about a year now but my vision is beginning to go. It’s difficult to read small print and sometimes I just can’t focus at all! It’s really quite awful but I will read for as long as I can. I have to hit my reading goal for this year because I won’t be displaced the next time the power goes out because I have a generator now.
So, two days ago, I was able to read for the full 45 minutes without the beard is getting the, “Green leopard print” on them. Yesterday, I was only able to read for 25 minutes before my eyes started to fade but today, I soldier through and ran for a total of 45 minutes today as well. I would say after about a half hour, I will be in to see the beginnings of little green spots but I wanted to continue reading.
I don’t know if it’s a bad thing or not to push my vision to be able to read but I have an eye doctor appointment on my birthday so I will ask then. Normally, when I start seeing green spots, I stop reading because it scares me a little bit. But today, I was into the book and I wanted to rain for the full 45 minutes because I wanted to let myself know that reading for the full 45 minutes is MORE than a brief, shiny moment!
Regretfully, I was not able to watch much of GMFB yesterday. I missed hearing the breakfast table talk about the Lions and the draft pick and reasoning behind it. I caught the show about an hour late this morning so I watched the re-broadcast.
During the first broadcast, Kyle was talking about the first picks in this year‘s draft. The Giants are in at #5 and before Kyle started talking, he begin to sing. He sang, “Dave Gettleman” (New York Giants GM)
to this tune:
which got me to laugh! I absolutely love that song!
At the beginning of the second broadcast, Nate introduced the show and they begin talking about artist trilogies. They went around the table and asked for everyone’s favorite Group of three. Jane Slater was sitting in for Kay and she chose En Vogue but I remember them being a group of five. I think it was safe for Nate to choose The Chipmunks and I’m not ashamed to say that I was like 12 before I realized that it wasn’t real people singing like them.
I was hoping to hear Run DMC or Cypress Hill but the chipmunks was a solid choice. Kyle chose TLC and they specifically talked about this song:
That was also a solid choice that I can’t argue with. I ABSOLUTELY love this show and I am excited for what the off-season will hold!!!
I watched an ad a couple years ago that explained that an adult should read 45 minutes a day and therefore, read most books in one week. I really liked seeing this late in the night before I went to sleep. That’s why I started last year to avidly read because I was no longer working.
I had a goal of reading a certain number of books last year but because of the power outage in late May and my subsequent displacement, I was unable to reach that goal. After the power outage and displacement of a week, I could not focus on the pages in front of me to be able to read.
It really frustrated me but I realized that that was something new that was happening to me. Reading proved to put a lot of strain on my occipital lobe. I saw green, “Leopard print” on the pages which made it impossible to read.
it hurt me most greatly that this was happening. Reading has always been my love! I restarted my goal of daily reading for 45 minutes each day with the hopes of reading my goal number of books. I started a book on January 1
I had started reading it last year but when the power outage happened, I had to abandoned all of my unfinished books. So, this year, I told myself I was going to read this book! I restarted it on January 1 and expected to be finished well before today. Sadly, I am STILL NOT completed! The reason for this is that although I tried to read every day, some days I could only read for 10 minutes before the ”Leopard print” that I saw forced me to stop.
it will take me a lot of time because I am not yet halfway finished. But, today, for the first time since last May, I was able to read for a full 45 minutes! That made me feel really good! I hope I can keep it up but either way, I wanted to crackle that today I did just that! It’s all about simple pleasures, man!
I am currently on season three, episode two of The Last Kingdom On Netflix. It was suggested to me by my brother, Dave. It’s about Vikings in 800s A.D. it’s pretty brutal but I loved the first two seasons! My brother told me that the third season is a nailbiter until the end but I needed to take a break because of the events happening in season three, episode two. As I am watching the show, I am reminded of is song that a friend shared with me during my first year teaching. I hear it playing in my head as soldiers it going into battle:
I’ve heard it playing in my head so many times and I’m a little nervous for the end of the show but I still have 6 1/2 episodes to go. I just needed a breather for a moment.
I am hard-core binging this show and can’t have other songs playing in my head at all until the show is finished. I think it’s crazy that it was in 2005 when I was first told about the song and I bought the CD that has it, but I hear it the entire time watching that show!
