Month: March 2024

A Week from Today.

My brother, Dave, texted this picture to me and my Mom on February 28:


I was extremely quiet when I looked at this picture. I watched Baby Boom the next day. I just watched it again today. This picture of my Mom and me and my aunt Rita really got to me! I remember hugging my aunt Rita when she was wearing that lavender sweater and that’s my favorite outfit that I am wearing! I’m trying to remember the sweetness of her perfume!

I don’t remember where we were at not even sure how my brother got that picture but either way, I really like seeing it! I cried! I have been crying! You see, my aunt Rita died four days after I turned eight. She was 42. I remember adults telling my Mom that she was so young when I was eight and I couldn’t understand that! She was not young! She was over 40 years old!

Well, that will be me a week from today. Having had MS for so long makes me feel old. But I really can’t believe that my aunt was this young when we lost her?!!!!

Planned… with One Exception.

I woke up today on a mission and I completed it with one exception. Today, I planned my entire 2024 chronic illness care plan!!! I made three of the remaining four appointment for this year.

So, my year is planned with one exception, and that exception is my virtual neurology appointment! I have been seeing the neurologist once a year for the past 23 years. I was supposed to go every six months, but as a single mother, I couldn’t pay for Specialists more than once a year!

I seem to have made due. I told my speech pathologist that I seem to be collecting doctors! I told her that after I made my first appointment with an endocrinologist. She told me that it’s a more useful collection than collecting stamps. She told me that all they do is draw blood. Well, I’m okay with that then.

So, my year is planned. I have some doctors who I see every year. And others who I see every two years. I like that this scheduling makes sense to me! It makes sense to me and I know now that I can only do one appointment a month. There are some exceptions that can’t be helped, but that is usually a difficult day! I have a couple of those days coming up on both March 20 and March 22!

Because my year is planned, that means that my van rental schedule is also planned! All of this on March 4 I didn’t get that you scheduled until April of last year for 2023. So it seems that I’m getting better at this? Maybe it’s just because my world is so small and all I think about are my doctors appointments and renting vans. I’m not mad about that. At least I can do it?!

March 2024 Faves

I was completely affected by Toby Keith’s death! My Mom and I listened to Toby Keith often right after my Dad‘s death. Here are just a few of our faves:

I heard this one back in high school when I would watch CMT (Country Music Television) in the summers and then it changed over to GAC (Great American Country):


My Mom and I listened to this one a lot just after my Dad died:


I’ve only dipped my toe into country music! I listened to it in high school probably junior and senior year and I worked at Lonestar this summer after high school.

I have owned three country albums in my life! I have two Dixie Chicks albums, who are just The Chicks now, and Carrie Underwood’s first album. if I really think about it, I think I had a Shania Twain single when I was a sophomore? And I bought the Chris Gaines album (who is really Garth Brooks) used from Dearborn Music.

So, I think I am putting both feet in right now, because I constantly listen to my Country playlist on Apple Music on shuffle so I get a good mix! But I think that the universe is working with me because that new Beyoncé song?!

I’ve downloaded it on Apple Music and I have seen five different shorts of people dancing to it. One of them were two Irish, tap dancers!!! I also have received an email about country music stations not playing that song, but I really dig it! If I could dance, I would do it! I will put this here so you guys can enjoy!:


I’m also going to put the clean version here because my Mom doesn’t like the swearing: