Month: November 2023

“Queen Mariah”

I told Sean the other day when they put up the Christmas tree and he commented something about time for, “Queen Mariah!” that that Christmas song has ALWAYS been a banger! I was 12 years old when it came out!

I told him that was back when she was married to that record company executive. He was floored that she was married BEFORE Nick Cannon. That Christmas song always reminds me of driving to my grandparents house in the green station wagon. We would have birthday cake because my grandma’s birthday is on Christmas Eve.

I have loved that song since it came out, but I get to see it in Love Actually tomorrow!:

The Thing Called Love

I have been thinking about this movie for a really long time, but I do not own it so I will need to see if it is available One of my streaming platforms!:

I really started thinking about this movie when I saw this video of Taylor Swift, a lot of her videos are showing up in my YouTube feed and every now and then I HAVE to see what they’re about:

This one totally made me think about The Thing Called Love, and I really should watch it soon…

No Longer Necessary for the Rest of the Year

I noticed this last night, and I just thought to take a picture of it to let everyone know that it is no longer necessary for me to use a ‘bag o’-chapstick’ for the rest of the year because this happened yesterday:


The cap for this chapstick still fits on it and I don’t need to put it in a bag, but I will use it all just the same. I have a box of four sealed Ginger Spice flavors so I am always prepared to start a new tube! That flavor reminds me of MY Abuela!!! my Mom and I have been talking about her a lot and my Mom is telling me of how much of an extraordinary woman she was!!!

I totally am completely a planner! But I’m not even embarrassed about it anymore!!!

My Fifth Christmas Commercial 2023

I saw this commercial an few days ago and I searched for it. This commercial is from Meijer’s 2016 Christmas campaign. In 2016, I was still working and I did not have time to sit around and watch the Hallmark channel all day like I do now. 2016 was my final Christmas that I worked.

When I searched for this commercial, I watched the entire 1:31 commercial. Six years after this commercial was made, it was a truncated version and just the little boy giving Santa the cookie. The 1:31 version was totally worth it!!!

There is some serious power when it comes to Seeing Santa! I was not embarrassed AT ALL when I waved to Santa at Fairlane mall when I was working there and he was setting up. I was 16 and I waved like a child! But then again, I was 33 because Sean was 14.
We were getting our annual Christmas picture at Southland mall. That was our last family picture because Sean was in eighth grade. We did not take pictures when he was. in high school. I watched this commercial (and cried) as I posted this post:

https://apple.news/AIZmmOpWdRVKrUT0graXLTA

A Pause

Sean stopped by again today and instead of putting the lights on, we watched this movie:

My Aunt Lola recommended it to my Mom and me a while ago and I thought we could watch it at Christmas time! It’s not available on any of my streaming platforms so my Mom bought it on Xfinity and we watched it yesterday. We watched it today with Sean.

We had a pause in our tree decorating for right now, but Sean will come over tomorrow so we can finish it.

Phase 1 2023 = Complete

Sean came over today and got the tree up from the basement and set it up. My mom helped him open up the branches. I sat in the corner of the room watching them and playing my Christmas 2023 playlist on Apple Music. It’s all our faves!:

I really like that at least Christmas is NOT going to feel like Thanksgiving did for me!!! I can wait for all of the Christmas glory! I looked at the reflection in my TV just before I watched mass, and I saw this, and was vastly contented, I just can’t wait until it’s lit up and that’s happening tomorrow!!!:

Startled.

I just changed my profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to the infamous #TriBotChristmas picture! I think Sean was six.

I have already posted that Thanksgiving for me this year was the very first in my chronic illness where it just felt like just another day. That completely startles me!!!

It has been a litany of me apologizing and constantly telling my Mom that I did not think it would ever get this bad! But, it’s really not that bad! Yes! This hurts a whole lot every second of every day for the rest of my life but I think I am in a Good headspace.

I am praying a lot more and that is helping me. Close to 23 years of dealing with this chronic illness definitely has me startled to say the least!!!

A Merry Scottish Christmas

The Hallmark channel is on my TV whenever I turn it on. My Mom washed my hair today and we watched this for about the second or third time and I think my Mom has yet to be awake for the entire movie:


it took me a minute to realize why Scott Wolf looks so familiar… Party of Five, hello?!

It took me seeing the end of the movie all three times to figure out what song was playing! I was reminded of my teaching days and working out at Barwis:

My 2 “Sacreds” Christmas Faves

Everyone who knows me, KNOWS my favorite Christmas song! My oldest nephew texted me this on Tuesday:


I read that and my heart smiled! I texted him back:


Sean was over here when Lil Dave texted me that and he told me that, “EVERYONE knows that that is your song!” I smiled because it’s pretty much true so I will put that here now:

In the past couple years, my Mom has mentioned songs that she likes because I am crazy for a Wham! I actually put this song on an Apple Music playlist, so my Mom would enjoy it as well, but I forgot that I put it on because she likes it so I have to put them here as well:

Sean and I were recently talking and he told me that he thinks this is his favorite song:


OF COURSE this is my song’s favorite Christmas song! He is such an old soul! Has been for his entire life! I did this one too!!!