Month: October 2023

“It Got so Cold so Fast!”

I’ve worn my hat all day long as I am sitting in my living room, I was reminded of the specific moment when Windy is getting into the tent for the night with Helen and Helen says as Windy is zipping up the tent, “It got so cold so fast!” That is how I feel right now because that is what happened!!! I’m not from California like Windy, but almost 23 years of having MS the sentiment is the same…

A B+

Today is Saturday and that is my Pillage day:

I discovered today, that all of this red tape that we are dealing with has taken it’s toll on me! I forgot to take my lunchtime vitamins yesterday! What?! I have NEVER forgotten to take my vitamins! Or, at least, when I do, I take it at night before I go to bed. I shake the individual day’s vitamins to see if there’s anything in it but I guess I didn’t do that last night.

We have been on the phone for two weeks regarding all of the stuff! But I have a wheelchair coming. I should have gotten a new chair on July 18 but I did not. I am beyond frustrated. But Monday thinks might be different…

Discovering that I forgot to take my vitamins yesterday kind of reminded me when I got a B+ in grad school. That was absolutely devastating to me!!! That was the first time I had gotten a B+ my ENTIRE time at the University of Michigan-Dearborn!!!

The only solace I got from that B+ was the fact that I got an A+ in a class the semester before, so I rationalized it to myself that if I average it out, it’s an A-, NOT a B+!!! Not that that matters at all in the grand scheme of things!!!

Only Complicated for a Little While!!!

I asked my Mom for a snack sized Ziploc bag yesterday and she asked me how many I am going to ask for and I told her, “Just one more.” I told her that it’s only going to be complicated for a little while!

I am in the middle of the complicated ‘changing of the guard,’ but I do not need to leave my house until October 18. That’s my next haircut. I reserved the day after for my Mom and I to the Cider mill.

Let me ‘splain ya:

I started my fall flavors on October 1. This is how it is complicated.

What is normally my Spring flavored box looks like this:

The only reason my Spring box looks like this is because I left my house on Monday. I used my Chai Chapstick and I was not able to fully pull it out, and Friday, I’m sure I will have five Ziploc ‘bags of chapstick!’ But this is all only complicated for a little while!

I am just going to use my ‘’bags of chapstick until the remnant of the Chapstick is gone, and I think that will be BEFORE we go to the Cider mill this year!

Spent.

I had to leave my house today because my signature was needed and some bank documents. It took us over an hour at the bank.

Needless to say, I am spent. Beyond spent! I cannot even watch Hocus Pocus. today at all. I took my contacts out as soon as I got into my house, because of my eyes were aching so much!!!

Right off the Bat!!!

Today it was October 1, which is a big mile stone day for me! That is the day when I begin watching Hocus Pocus and it is when I change my chapstick to my fall box. I was reminded right off the bat, how complicated this ‘changing of the guard’ will be for me:

I was hoping to finish my Pomegranate chapstick before today, but I did not so I have to keep that in my remote control box until next Spring.

I changed over to Pumpkin Spice today and I knew that there wasn’t much Chapstick left in the tube so I checked it out I got stuck so now I have two bags of Chapstick. I am not using pumpkin spice tomorrow though so that one will just wait for a few more days.

I am well aware that my chapstick habits DO NOT matter at all, but it keeps my mind occupied and I have a feeling of accomplishment every time I finish a chapstick tube in its entirety!!!

Rando Tune #52

I have had a lyric in my head for almost a week now. And it’s just this:


I couldn’t remember where I heard that lyric from. But it persisted in my head for almost a week until right now as I’m laying in bed trying to fall asleep, it hit me! My freshman year at Western!!! I listened to this song the very first night I stayed there and my roommate wasn’t there yet. I was such a melo-dramatic kid! Here is the line right before:


I posted this song so many times on my blog because I really dig it and I dig the memory because that is where I live now…