Month: December 2024

Iconic

I have only heard to this song twice this year but right now is the third time I’m hearing it but I saw this and I thought it was so iconic!!!:

I saw this and I thought it was so cool because this is from 1989 and did he know that that line would be so iconic! It’s one of the lines I love singing with this song!

I remember I saw a of an interview with Bono. In retrospect, he feels that he ‘over sang’his part in this song! Well, Bono can do no wrong in my eyes!

…From a Giggle to a Smile… OR MUCH BETTER

So, we got the washer and dryer last Sunday. December 8. I absolutely love the song that comes on each time a load in the wash or a load in the dryer finishes!!!

Since we will have had these in my house for almost a week, I have gone from a giggle to a smile each time a song plays at the end of a cycle!!!

I told my Mom that I have wanted these in my house for my entire life!!! I really have! I just couldn’t afford it before now!

I am most reminded of my cooperating teacher texting me one morning in the spring of ‘22 and asked me if I was getting a new roof. I was totally startled by that question because the day before, Tallon Roofing (which is closed now) had just come by and put the shingles on the roof that they’re going to do the next day.

I told him that and he responded that he just passed my house on his way to work. And I responded to him that now I am old enough to understand how important it is to have something new that looks exactly the same! I think that I texted him a picture of my roof. It looked exactly the same!

My washer and dryer don’t look the same, they look MUCH BETTER but they are doing the same thing that my old washer and dryer did but this one sounds so much more fun!

I have reminded Sean and I’m not sure if I will be here but I told him that the house needs a new roof in 2072. I was born in 1982 so I will be 90 years old.

Because, he just Does

it looks like, when you Google, “Jon Secada O,, holy night,” A bunch of other videos come on your feed! I decided to check this one out and I wasn’t that disappointed:

I decided to watch it because they were ‘The Texas Tenors.’ It was good, but Jon Secada has my heart!!!:

Because, he just does. I LOVE this version of this song!!!

One Grain of Salt

I was talking to Sean not too long ago and he let me know that every single one of my brothers are ‘salt and pepper’ now. My immediate family got together for Thanksgiving the week before Thanksgiving. I told him that I have no idea how that happened?! Because I really don’t! But we are all in our 40s now.

My Mom and I were just talking about that. I have one strand of white hair right now. I had a white hair when I was pregnant with Sean and my Mom was stroking my hair and she found it and I immediately gasped, and told her to pull it out. Two didn’t grow back, and I just have one on the top of my head now but I am 42 and NOT 19!

My Mom lets me know that it’s there, but she further told me that she doesn’t think that I am going to get any more That is because I am on a lot of supplements! It looks like I will have just one grain of salt for a long time, I hope!

I am going to see my naturopath on December 18 and as of right now, I take 44 pills a day! We will see what it’s like in a couple of weeks. That’s the only time that I am leaving the house in December and I am so nervous about this cold weather!!!

Oh, hi.

When I awoke with this afternoon, the work that my Mom and I do to get me out of bed is immensely involved to say the least!

Once I am ready to get out of my room when I’m all situated and in my chair, my Mom will walk to the dining room and turn the light on. After she does that, I can turn my bedroom light off. It’s like that now because my vision is fading fast.

After my Mom turns the light on, she will go to the kitchen sink to soap up the washcloth to help me wash my hands. Well, this morning I forgot that Sean put the tree up yesterday and fluffed and everything!

I usually stop my chair exactly where the Christmas tree is for my Mom to help me wash my hands. Well, today was different as soon as I looked up when I rolled into the living room, I had totally forgotten that Sean put the tree up and it startled me. I said audibly, “Oh hi.”

I smiled to myself because I absolutely LOVE my tree!!! Today was a low-key day and I’m not sure when Phase 2 will commence yet…

The BEST Christmas Present Ever!!!

Today, I had to wake up early. I hate, absolutely HATE waking up to an alarm! But this was necessary because I was getting a new washer and dryer today. Between 10:30 and 2:30 so I got out of bed at 9 o’clock.

Cleveland knocked on my door at 10 o’clock! I was excited and my Mom put Leia in her cage. He came in and started working on my washer and dryer and I could hear him doing stuff.

And then things started moving so fast! A second young man came to move my washer and dryer out of the house. They just strapped both the washer and dryer to their waist and carried them out together.

As they were bringing in the new washer and dryer, I called to them as they were almost in my room, “Best Christmas present ever!” and I thanked them. They put them on the lawn and my brother took them to be repurposed:

They had it all hooked up in ‘two shakes,’ and then Sean came over and put my Christmas tree up finally:

He put the tree up by himself and fluffed it. My Mom thought that she would always do that but it seems like Sean is starting to do it himself. He knows what to do!!!

My Christmas tree is 19 years old now. Sean was four years old and we were living in our first apartment when I bought it. I went with my Mom and called the building manager (we were friends) to see how tall the ceilings were in the apartment buildings.

He told me that they were 8 feet tall and I bought a 7 1/2 foot tree. It cost me $500!!! That was SO, SO, SO expensive for me at that point, but I LOVE my tree!!! even if we don’t put ornaments on this year, I still love it!

When Sean left today, he said that we will do Phase 2 tomorrow.

Tricky

so, I’m continuing doing my puzzles as my Mom naps, and I chose a puzzle that reminded me of the chalet in Last Christmas:

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There was another puzzle right next to it so I had to do it, but I think this one was a little more tricky!:

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It was a whole bunch of white, but I focus on the shape of the puzzle pieces, so I finished them tricky as they were!!!