This song shown up on my Facebook end it was totally random but I loved it! I actually am posting a shorter version of the song because the, “I know” part (which I LOVE!!!) but it was a little bit it was a little bit much.
Big Brother has to know that this song is such a jam!:
After watching Ben-Hir yesterday, I felt very much into the Lenten season. So much so, I thought I would watch Jesus Christ Superstar. I started watching it this morning before my Mom washed my hair. Once this song came on though, my thoughts shifted and I was reminded of auditioning for a play in high school. I was in the A-B rooms just above the gym and I was going to sing for the Director. There was a piano in that large room with two doorways.
When I was in high school, I did not know all of the words but I knew most of them so I sang The ones that I knew and just kind of sang, “La, la, la” to the melody. As I listened to this song, I got lost in my memories of being in high school so I had to stop before my Mom washed my hair.
After my hair was washed and dried, I continued watching the movie. It was the passion of the Christ and I was reminded of taking Sean with me to Stations of the Cross at DC. He was in grade school and he went with me every Friday during lent even though he went during school. He knew that Stations meant something to me so he just went with it. I remember being on crutches for most of those but I think I did go a couple of years in my wheelchair.
As my strength and mobility worsened, I was not able to go and now that I have pretty much been excluded from my church (because of my health) I have not gone to Stations but I consciously thought of going there and taking young Sean with me every week.
Over the years, it has worked out that I have purchased both movies that I have watched since it is Lent. I think I will have to watch it again, maybe in Lou of going to Stations of the Cross. I don’t think I can hear Mary Magdalene’s first song without first thinking of high school but I think that God will understand.
So, we watched the second half of ben-Hur. I cried so much more and even 50 years after this movie was made, it is even more epic!!! We saw the second half of it and I was startled when the music for the chariot race started!
I have seen this movie for my whole life and I remember the first time Sean saw it. He must’ve been 10 because we saw it in our house and I told him it was epic! Sean has not cared for many movies I think are a big deal but he liked this one. I think. But, I love it so much! I will watch it again during lent. Probably on holy Thursday because that’s my favorite day of the Lenten season. Now that I wear glasses again when I watch movies, I constantly have to take them off and wipe my face. It was totally worth it and I would suggest it to anyone! Especially during Lent!
Today is my brother’s 41st birthday. He is the middle person in my family’s, “Birthday Moth.” I sent him this video clip this morning:
This was fitting because he’s 41 and because today is Ash Wednesday, my Mom and I are going to watch, Ben-Hur. I can’t watch this movie repeatedly because it makes me cry but I do watch it every year. I probably will watch it on Easter as well. Sean usually watches it with me but since he isn’t here, I can watch it with my Mom. We ARE Mirium and Tirzah!!!
Okay, I first need to preface this post by saying that I have WONDERFUL neighbors, and I am reminded of this every single winter I have lived here! My neighbor around the corner (we share a fence) will bring his snowblower around the corner and snow blow my walkway and if he does not do that, my next-door neighbor will come over and shovel the walkway for me! Sean will come over before or after work to shovel as well.
So, since my Mom does not need to shovel, she has done some thing for Leia now that it is so cold outside and she doesn’t take her for walks because it’s too cold and it can be icy if someone doesn’t shovel and salt and Leia’s paws is NOT good. So this is what my Mom did after she saw Leah’s attempt at playing in the yard. Her little body couldn’t Was too little to get through the snow. My Mom decided to make a track for her around the perimeter of my yard. Leia likes to do her business on the Fenceline. So she dug a trench in the entire perimeter of my yard. In the morning, she goes out and will pick up any of her business that she leaves there.
My Mom took a video to show me what the trench looks like and I think it’s adorable! The things you do for love! And my Mom loves her! We all do! I will post that video on Twitter as well as Facebook. There are actually two videos. The first video was too long so I was able to post the second one that shows Leia Liking it. My Mom says that sometimes Leia will run around in circles really fast for a while.
Yesterday morning just after I took my vitamins, I had to pause a moment to take a breath because my body was KILLING me! I took a number of slow breaths and and pressed the heels of my palms to my eyes to keep me from tearing up. It took a little while for me to relax and my palms did get a little bit wet. With the snow coming yesterday, I had to re-calibrate and realize that with all the precipitation, I was just going to feel pretty badly. I did feel pretty badly yesterday, ALL. DAY. LONG!!!
This morning it was even more rough with all the accumulation of the snow! I didn’t cry though, and I think the recalibration I did yesterday helped a little bit for me to handle how I was going to feel and how I am going to feel until all the snow goes away. I had to listen to this song and even though it doesn’t apply, it means something to me because feeling like this with all the precipitation outside is hard. And, “No one said that it would be this hard” but it is:
I have written before about the Hallmark channel being my guilty pleasure. I have seen most movies on this channel! This past weekend, there was a Rom-Com a-Thon weekend for Valentine’s Day. I watched it on Saturday and Sunday but did not see my two FAVORITE movies!
Saturday, I watched this movie:
I saw a movie I really liked but not my favorite and I saw half of this one:
But I was able to finish watching it on Valentine’s Day. The Rom-Com-athon continued on Monday (today). I am not a big fan of watching holiday movies after the holiday but I’ve decided to give it a chance because it snowed today and I wasn’t feeling well. As it turns out, just like discounted Valentine’s Day candy:
It was GREAT!!! I saw BOTH of my two faves!!!!:
This one was directly after it:
I was so happy to see both of these movies so I’m glad I kind of broke one of my “Rules!”
For my entire 38 years, I always thought that a golden birthday was the day you were born. I looked it up today and I saw this:
I was excited to share a song that has been in my head for a while and I was 12 when this song came out. That would be my golden birthday and “12 year old Jenny” did not understand so much of the movie, Reality Bites, and I think that might warrant a rewatch soon. It’s lucky that I have NOTHING at all to do right now! Bit this song was my favorite of the movie back then:
This video showed up in my YouTube feed early this morning. I HAD to watch it AND share it on Facebook. I have always LOVED watching Ice-skating on television! I have never been ice-skating and now that my movement is so limited if not nonexistent, I fear that I never will!
I was actually invited to go ice-skating the Saturday after I tore my ACL and a basketball game. My friend invited me and I met him when we were both in fifth grade. I told him that I do not know I know you scan and he played hockey growing up so he told me that he would teach me on the following Saturday.
I think it was the Tuesday before that that I tore my ACL while playing in a basketball game. The doctor told me NOT to go ice-skating! I did not go ice-skating then or ever because I had my first knee surgery. Not long after that, I was diagnosed with MS and now ice-skating is just NOT in the cards!
I still LOVE to watch it on TV because I will not be able to watch an in person because it would be too cold in there for me! I thought about my invitation to go ice-skating in high school that I never got to take part in because today is his birthday! I have known them since I was in fifth grade! I think it’s funny how some birthday so I will NEVER forget! His is one of them!
I think I remember this because when he told me That his birthday was February 12, I learned that was EXACTLY one month before mine! That’s right! My birthday is in T minus 30 days!!! I will not be 17 so it does NOT warrant a song like it did for Sean but it will be the last birthday I have in my 30s! I will be 39 on March 12!!! I don’t mind getting older but I am the ONLY one of my siblings still in my 30s for one more year and one month at least!
Sean texted me from work this evening:
I don’t know what kind of car/truck he was driving but he then added this text to the picture:
“A little thirteen week old baby does not know a world w out pink and Nate ruess at #1”
This made me laugh really hard because I was driving to Barwis in the summer with him and he was 11 years old and that is what the DJ said because this song had been #1 for 13 weeks:
I couldn’t believe he remembered that but I remembered it too! I love that he shared that with me!!! 😍😍😍