When I didn’t make a haircut and wax appointment last March, I did not think it would be over an entire year that I did not cut my hair or wax my face and eyebrows! Since I’ve been living without haircuts for just over a year, I’ve decided one thing about long hair. It is INSANELY annoying!!! It’s almost as annoying as not being able to load pictures onto your blog post!!! I’ll post the picture of my hair as it currently stands but for right now, it’s in a fold-over (under) pony.
I wrote this yesterday but I can’t figure out how to insert more pictures so I will just share it now given that that is what Leia is doing right now!
Since the weather has begun to break, it’s obvious that Leia prefers to sunbathe. This is her on March 2nd when my Mom calls her in from outside:
She will think about coming in for a moment and sometimes my Mom can get her to come in by saying that she’s going to give her a, “Treat” but most times this is her reaction when my Mom calls her:
My Mom has told me that I should build a sunroom to my house for her. She has asked me a number of times and I tell her that I am NOT going to do that! This was Leia today:
My Mom went outside to see that Leia had gotten grass all over her back by laying on the ground:
Leia is still getting used to her outside bed because a.m. NOT A sunroom to my house for a dog!:
I am not sure how I went down this rabbit hole but I am not mad at all!!!
My internal clock has shifted tremendously! A combination of that and the fact that I am having more difficulty falling to sleep at night these days because #MSsucks!
It was late when I was fully dressed and ready for the day so it seems that my internal clock shift will continue today as well! I was sitting here and thinking about a lyric that I could not think of the song it came from. “Sleep don’t come easy.” That’s the only lyric I could think of. I finally just searched it on YouTube and no wonder I knew this lyric! But I forgot that it came from Mary J!
I am not going through a break up with anyone; but rather, it seems that I am just breaking up with my physical abilities and my capabilities of taking care of myself.
My first semester at U of M Dearborn, I was four months pregnant. After a huge mishap regarding my transcripts from my high school NOT being delivered to U of M, I think the new chancellor took pity on me and told me that I could drive to my high school which was probably about 10 minutes away, get my transcripts, bring them in a sealed envelope, and then I could be registered at U of M in time for the new semester that started the following Monday. It was Friday so time was of the essence!
Because I had only gone to Western for one year, U of M wanted my high school transcripts. I have so many memories of that day returning to my high school to get my transcripts and that was the first day I started wearing maternity clothes. I was such a strong student in high school that when I returned to the registration office, the chancellor unsealed the envelope and pulled my transcripts out. I think the paper was only about halfway out of the envelope when he looked at me and said, “Well, you’re in. Go make a, “Dummy” schedule and we will register you later.
I sat in a chair just outside of the window for the registrar’s desk and made my schedule. I already knew how to do that because my cousin helped me make my winter semester schedule at Western. One of the classes I chose was closed because it was already full so I just chose another class that fit in the same timeslot. I enrolled in a Women’s Studies class.
I chose that one because of the time slot but also because it filled one of my requirements for my degree. I have often told Sean that he did NOT like the class at all! That’s because of every class I sat in while I was pregnant, it was only in this class where Sean decided to kick, wildly I might add. He continued to do that throughout that semester and especially when I barely fit into the desk!
I really liked my prof and she asked us all once toward the end of the semester if after everything we had talked about in class if there was anything in our lives that made us feel conflicted with everything we have learned in the class.
I thought of this memory specifically because this morning, my Mom told me that she had just gotten avocados and asked me if I wanted it with dinner. Dinner is the only meal I eat these days because I drink both my breakfast and lunch because swallowing is still an issue! I thought for a moment and told my Mom that eggs and avocados sounded delicious! Both of those things are easy to chew! My Mom offered to make tortillas and how can I turn that away?!
The fact that I am eating eggs for dinner tonight made me think of the instance I shared with my Women’s Studies class that made me feel conflicted.
It was late morning and I still lived with my Parents. Two of my brothers came over and were sitting at the dining room table and were talking with my Dad. My Mom was making tortillas and she asked me to make the eggs for us all to eat. I had just awakened and I was still barefoot. I remember that I felt very strange because here I was, barefoot, pregnant, and making food for us to eat. Both me and my Mom we’re cooking as my brothers and my Dad sat at the table.
I remember laughing as I made the eggs because it was a strange situation to be in with me barefoot and pregnant and cooking with my Mom making tortillas! I’ve been thinking about that a lot today because I’m having eggs for dinner! I think it’s crazy how clear that memory still is to me almost 20 years later!
I am extremely mindful of my Lenten promise because I can’t go to church for Stations now. I really like that I have kept my Lenten promise so far! Today, I focused on Pontius Pilate when I watched Jesus Christ Superstar.
His sunglasses in the beginning and the end are totally 1979 but I would prefer something more like Bono’s sunglasses. I still cried during the lepers song and Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. When Pilate washes his hands, the red water really gets to me! I see so many of my religion teachers in grade and high school while watching this movie! The story is so familiar to me but it STILL gets me!
So, after my birthday and even after St. Patrick’s Day, I saw this:
I joined the virtual tour and I am watching St. Patrick’s Day from Dublin concert! Just awesome! I don’t know how long I will stay but I will post it here for you all to enjoy;
I absolutely love them and I am attending their concert right now!!! 😍😍😍
A common theme in all of these Irish themed movies but I didn’t pay attention until I heard Darby O’Gill mentioned it that I started to think about it and I like Pierce Brosnan’s explanation in Laws of Attraction but I found this explanation on Wikipedia:
Still not a drinker anymore but I wonder what it tastes like. Julianne Moore says it taste like, “Poo.” Learn something new every day!
So, I have always wanted to be Irish! I love the accents and I’ve wanted red hair since I was a little girl. Over the years, I would tell people that in my past life I was an Irish dancer and my name was Bridgette. I wanted to say that I am a, “Wanna-be” but I cannot say that without posting a Spice Girls video and that’s not the point of this blog post.
Instead, dI will say that I am a poser because my son’s name is Sean. He was asked if he was Irish and he said that I was just weird. Well, I am but I really wish I could dance like that or speak like that or have gown up around all of that greenery!
Sean was 10 when that movie Brave came out in the movies and he agreed to go with me just because I was so excited to hear even the Scottish accents and I decided that I must have looked like Merida in my past life!
I stopped drinking alcohol about a decade ago because MS and alcohol do not mix but I definitely would like to someday have a Guinness and get a mustache when I drink it to take a picture of myself! But that really won’t happen I think but I can always enjoy Irish music! These songs are in my head today:
I saw U2 perform once and Bono started singing this song but no one was joining in even though I was screaming at the top of my lungs because it’s one of my faves! They didn’t perform this song:
I think of Fairlane mall when I was like 12 when I hear this song:
I saw The Script perform this one; it was their opening song:
I am going to watch Laws of Attraction because it has all of those great things! Dancers with curls, accents, and beautiful scenery!
Late last Saturday night and into Sunday morning, I absentmindedly scrolled through my YouTube feed to distract myself because sleep was evading me yet again. I don’t know how this one showed up but I didn’t mind it. This girl in. The Jayy Shoe, reviewed a U2 song. Because I watched the entire video, more videos of her reviewing other U2 songs popped up that night and Sunday morning.Since then:
I have NOT been able to get this song out of my head!: