Yesterday, while I was talking with Sean and dealing with his anti-climactic reaction to our tree skirt being found. Our vintage tree skirt that matches our Stockings?!
We were just having conversation, and in passing, I told him that I was invited to a Pampered Chef Facebook party, and I ordered chocolate banana bread, and it had just arrived yesterday:
He was silent for a moment, and then he said, “You should have led with that!” it was my turn to laugh! Sean has said that his favorite is banana bread and I saw that option so I got it! I told him that we will go this week to get bananas then wait for them to Brown up
I called Sean today and opened with this question,” Do you want to hear the most exciting news?! He was a little bit startled, but he could hear that I was excited, and he agreed to hear the news.
I was so excited that I blurted it out right away! I just said, very excitedly, “Abuela found the tree skirt!” Sean was silent and then he started to laugh. He told me that he was not expecting that statement! I told him that it is so exciting because it is vintage! 2005! I told him that I AM excited about it! My Mom told me that she boxed up the tree skirt in 2016 because that’s what she wrote on the box.
I am going to consult my records but I want to say that I did NOT put my tree up in 2017 because that was the Christmas I had my second knee surgery, and then I was fired. I was a little bit bummed to say the least!!! I’m not even sure when we started putting it back up. I think that was in 2022 or something.
I’m just excited that this year. I will have my Christmas decorations complete!!!
I saw footage of this song song at Taylor Swift’s concert, and that sent me back as soon as I started to hear the song, I was back teaching, and I was still driving and going to Barwis, but I was on the cusp of doing none of that and being homebound. But I didn’t know that back then:
Everything seems to have a tinge of sadness these days… I texted my best friend that this is difficult now and I’ve never had MS this long… I hope this funk is not lasting…
My Mom washed my hair on Friday night (Yeah, I no longer can do that myself) and she said that she wanted to put the The Thomas Crown Affair on. I had already taken my contacts out for the day, but I was cool with just listening to it because I couldn’t see a thing.
My Mom knows that I dig that movie so I guess that’s why she wanted to put it on. She had a ton of questions, and I could answer them to the best of my ability because it had been a while since I saw this movie. I watched it again today with my contacts on! Yep, I still did it! I especially like this song and I have no idea why:
We talked about the painting of “The Son of Man in my art history class at U of M Dearborn but I don’t remember what we said about it. I DO remember that I lent my book to a friend who was in school with me because it was $98 and she was going to take this class the following semester so I just put my name and phone number in the front thinking that I would get it back but I never did! But I still feel good about sharing it with her!
She told me today that this is a remake and we’re gonna watch the movie from 1968 with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway tomorrow. It’ll be a good comparison!
I’ve known Benny since we had our first department! I called him Benny-Bear but he is saved in my phone as just Benny. He lives in Vegas now. He always reminded me of the lead singer of Kings of Leon and just because of that I need to add this song here because dig it:
My Mom went to get her hair colored today and then she is going to see my aunt Linda because she will be close to her house for her appointment. I was thinking that I was going to watch Me Before You:
Of course, I cried when I watched it! I took a breath, and then I searched another movie. The Upside:
And, I cried at this one as well! These two movies prove the point that “Disability is for the Rich.” I am NOT rich! I think that I just wanted to watch these movies because both of those actors in power chairs are NOT disabled and I AM and I am IN a power chair! I winced at the horse races scene in You Before Me and I groaned when Lily was eating dinner with Philip. I knew that it would be cathartic for me to see both of these movies. I’m glad I watched them but it was kind of difficult today!
So, yesterday, my Mom and I watched The Intern. My Mom told me about it and I remembered that I thought it sounded interesting when it first came out and I wanted to see it, so we watched it yesterday.
It is my custom now to watch movies two days in a row. The first time I see a movie I tend to miss a lot of things because my vision is not as as I would like it. That just comes with the territory now, after having MS for 23 years, and my Mom is not adversed to watching movies over and over again. That’s where I get it from!
During my second viewing, I noticed this?!:
The second time looking at him, he looked familiar, extremely familiar!!! I had to rack my brain a little bit but then I recognized him. He was in The Fault in our Stars, but that is not what I was thinking about! I looked him up when I thought that it was him back then. He IS who I thought he was!!! He is Nat from The Naked Brothers Band!!!
I am not ashamed to say at all that their album played in my car on loop for months! That was back when we lived in our second department Sean and I would watch The Naked Brothers Band all the time! It was on Nickelodeon and this was my favorite song:
My Mom could NOT believe that I listened to this song because he says ‘Aventually’ not ‘Eventually’ She couldn’t believe that because I was an English teacher! I told her it was ‘artistic freedom’ and it was fine.
This was them back in 2007 when we were still living at our second apartment:
