I wanted to try another flavor of my new chapstick today. I liked the strawberry I had yesterday and was a bit excited for the next flavor. It was watermelon and I thought of this vintage commercial:
So here was the second flavor of my new chapstick:
Watermelon is my favorite blow pop flavor so I was excited to try out the chapstick. I have to say that it is NOT a ‘Ta-Da’ like in the commercial. I reapplied it multiple times but it still was not good.
It smelled really waxy even though my Mom said it smells like watermelon. I told myself that I would give it the benefit of the day trail before I changed it but after dinner today, I had to go back to my Strawberry Fields from yesterday!:
And just in case you forgot, I want to be able to hear this song again:
My hair is shaggy and overgrown and I only have one eyebrow now but, I still HAVE to have my chapstick! I noticed a little while ago that my pink grapefruit chapstick had almost come to its end. I only use Burt’s Bees So, I ordered a nice, summer-y 4 pack of chapstick. I like the flavors in that four pack but it was missing one. I ordered that one separately. It was strawberry! When my brother, Jimmy, brought me gum, it came in a nice plastic container and my chapstick fits perfectly in there so:
These new chapstick‘s arrived yesterday but I couldn’t try it out because I had already been wearing pink grapefruit for most of the day. I opened them up today:
The chapstick had to be placed in color order so I started with the first one. It was strawberry:
Once I opened it, it was a pleasant smell and one that reminded me of being young. It did not remind me of Strawberry Shortcake the cartoon which I still have a plate that I do still use often It reminded me of the St. Alphonsus festivals when I was very young. I have reapplied this chapstick often today and I dig it. I’m reminded of this song because I chose the strawberry one:
My brother, Steve, brought this picture to me last week and I cried. This picture was from 21 years ago and it was before 9 of my Parents’ 11 grandchildren were born and it’s DEFINITELY a #TBT:
I searched for this cartoon awhile back because I remembered watching it fondly with my cousinTs:
And I thought of this one probably about a week ago:
So yesterday, this cartoon popped up in my YouTube feed:
I kind of got excited when this cartoon showed up and I vaguely remember it watching it when I was a kid. I laid on the green carpet in my Parents’ house back when there was still carpet there and my Dad was still alive. I’m excited for other cartoons to show up in my YouTube feed as well! Has it really been about 33 years? I’m so old!!!
I have not been feeling well lately and I posted this song a few days ago and watched the video and was finally able to fall asleep because I love Michael Stipe’s voice and I also love live music!:
I received an email yesterday. It was regarding Sean‘s commencements. When I started to read that email, that was my sixth Covid-19 tears.
The email detailed procedures for the baccalaureate mass and commencements. Only the students are allowed in the church for the baccalaureate mask and it will be live streamed. I had to stop reading because I was crying too much. Sean’s prom and senior lock-in have been canceled.
This morning, my Mom read me the email and it’s entirety and my seventh COVID-19 tears started. I cried today be cause I wanted to be at commencements because this would be the combination of 12 years of hard work and it was supposed to be wonderful. At the end of the email, there was a caveat saying that maybe it will be canceled completely as everything is changing so rapidly.
I cried because there is so much uncertainty right now. I also cried because I die in the heat now but I have to be there for my only son’s graduation! Don’t I?!
Today was the day for Leia’s Frontline tick medicine. I did not get to have her lay across my lap and put my cheek in her head; but my girl is so chill that she was napping and my Mom was able to apply it while Leia laid in her bed.
She did pick her head up once but she did not move. Once my Mom was finished applying the medicine, I told her that she was, “Like a champ!” Leia lazily lifted her hand and I looked at her and told her, “Both of you!”
I missed having her on my lap but she has gotten a little bit bigger and I liked how easy this was for both of them! Now, both of them are sleeping:
A while back, we had a TeleTails appointment with the vet that Leia was going to go to but her appointment wasn’t scheduled for a while. We called because Leia was losing hair in patches and we didn’t know what to do. I swore she had mange! The vet didn’t think so and she prescribed two tablets of Benadryl daily and two baths with oatmeal shampoo a week for Leia.
Now, I’m still pretty new at this whole, “Dog person” thing and Leia’s smell was difficult to get used to, for sure! But with her having so many baths, that’s not a problem anymore! This was her this morning, right after her bath:
She doesn’t really like her baths and they take a lot out of her! I think it’s funny that it always makes me think of this song:
That’s funny to me because I always would sing that song to Sean when he was dressed up for a formal at school. We also changed her food yesterday but I was too tired to write about it but this is what she eats now and she digs it:
I’ve been searching for two days in vain to find a picture of a poster I hung in all of my classrooms. That poster is somewhere in my basement now. It’s based on this song:
It wasn’t until this version of the song showed up in my YouTube feed today when I realized why I had that poster!
The poster I had was just an handmade poster in large font writing. It hung over all of my desks with my computer. It said:
“There is no failure here – just when you quit.”
I chose to just put a dash in because I did not know what I would call my kids and I didn’t really dig the, “Sweetheart” part and didn’t know that I would be comfortable having that posted on my wall. As it turns out, I ended up calling my kids, “Honey.” The video that showed up in my YouTube feed was the live version of the song and I have decided that I really do LOVE Bono!!!
So, I am new at being a, “Dog person” and I am also a new Chewy account holder. I never anticipated and spending so much money on her nor did I anticipate loving her so much! She truly is, #MyGirlL!!! I recently looked at my Chewy account history and have found out that I have ordered her 16 toys (both Tug and Chew) and she has destroyed most of them! It took some time for me to realize that she is an extreme chewer so of course, I HAD to place another order for more appropriate chew toys. Sean got her this toy when he brought her home for the first time:
She loves to play with it and if I can grab a knot at one of the ends, I can successfully play tug-of-war with her. A couple drawbacks of this toy though; it stinks! I told you I am new at being a dog person! We have washed it a couple times in the little over two months that we’ve had her though. Not too long ago, this happened:
It’s settled into a thin red line on my arm. So I immediately looked for a longer toy so as NOT to be scratched by her. Here is what I found:
I originally purchased it for Sean to play with it with her in the yard but now since it been so warm these past few days, I can play with it and her in the house.. It didn’t take me very long to realize how much my physical limitations hamper my time to play with her. But, as long as I have a good hold of it, I can play with it with her for a while!
My Mom was quite concerned that she was going to pull me out of my wheelchair. I told my Mom that my chair is 400 pounds and I am belted into it. She thought for a moment and told me that Leia was going to pull my arm out of its socket. I dismissed that by telling my Mom that she is not even 40 pounds and if it gets that serious, I would just let go of the toy.
I played with her and it for the first time on Wednesday. It was super fun to watch her wiggle her hand trying to get the toy. I kept teasing her by saying, “I got it!” as I shook my hand. She eventually got me to fall over to my left and subsequently I got dizzy so I am let the toy go.
Thursday, I did some re-calculations in my head and if I hold on to the right arm of my chair, I wasn’t going to fall over and get dizzy. This time as she tried to get an away from me, I kept saying, “Get it, girl!” and I laughed.
But yesterday, she has been here for a while and knows how lethargic I am in the morning and that my hands are pretty numb when I wake up. She trotted it over to me pretty early in the morning as I was still trying to wake up with it in her mouth so I grabbed the other side and tried to hold on but not very successfully. She won that round for sure!
I’m sure that we will have a rematch sometime today and it WILL be ready for it! My favorite part of tugging this with her is watching her stop for a moment and I can see her brain working. Each day, she tries to put her shoulder between her mouth abd my hand to get leverage over me. It’s so cute! Or, she will shake her head really fast trying to wiggle it out of my hand which just makes me laugh. It’s taken 16 different tries to get the toys that work for her and I think this one might be the sweet 16th!
