I realized this late last night, which was really this morning, it is three weeks until I will have had MS for 24 years. I told that to my Mom last night before we went to sleep and I cried a lot more than I thought I would!!!
I pillaged today and I will on the 28th as well:
I never would have expected 24 years of MS to look how it looks now… #MSsucks!!!… 😒😒😒…
Well, I got all excited that Christmas puzzles were available to do in my app. I had to purchase them because they didn’t have good christmasy, or winter scenes:
I buy these collections for 4000 points. It’s 10 puzzles with the same theme. I do these puzzles because it helps with my hand-eye coordination which, at this point is quite suspect!
While I am puzzling,’ my Mom tells me that I look like I am doing the most important thing in the world. I tell her that I am. I am working on my hand-eye coordination. And that’s really difficult now! I always loved doing puzzles, but now that I can’t control my hands that well, doing it on my phone is an acceptable replacement. At least that’s what I tell myself. Here are some of my winter puzzles that I’ve finished so far:
I completed this one and texted it to Sean and told him to, “Hand me another mallow.” Which is an inside joke from a barbecue in my brother’s house when he was like 10.
This puzzle of the owl, is technically NOT Christmasy to me, but it is 100% Labyrinth!!! Now that I have a picture of it, I think that I will send it to my cousinT, Shannon, we LOVE Labyrinth!!!
I chose these presents because I thought they looked so pretty and once I did giveaway a gold paper wrapped present, but I accented it with a green ribbon.
I was actually surprised at how difficult this puzzle was, but I sent it to Sean because I want them to tell me how many points are on it.
So now, I will crank up my Christmas tunes, and do some more puzzlin’ because my Mom is still napping.
I remember when I first heard this song. Completely blew me away! I wish CeeLo Green’s career was better than it turned out, but this is a beautiful song!
I have a Christmas playlist of every song that I put on my blog and that’s what I’m currently listening to. When I heard about Mary, kissing the face of God, I began to cry!
I have been a member of the Virtual Front Pew since week 17 of Ordinary Time 2021. I go to mass in my living room every week now that I’m homebound and going out to church isn’t a thing for me anymore after Covid.
I really love that Fr. Mike is my spiritual guide and last week, he talked about Barbra Streisand’s Christmas albums. He was reminded of being a child and hearing his mom sing along with her on these albums in their house.
I thought I would give her Christmas albums a try. I listened to a couple songs from both albums, and it did NOT knock my socks off so I just went back to listening to Wham!.
I have a couple generic holiday playlists in my Apple Music. I put my four from 2023 on and then it just starts playing other Christmas music after my selections are over.
Well, I heard this song from one of Barbra Streisand’s Christmas albums today, and I must tell you that this one MOST DEFINITELY knocked my socks off!!!
I told my Mom that I had never heard this version of the song and I really dig it! I told her that Fr. Mike is listening to this song as well! His mom died last year.
This evening, I was by myself, so I decided to watch a movie from my youth:
I have seen this many movie since my youth! I can’t even tell you how many times I saw it every single year! As I was watching today, I was taken back to my Parents’ living room with the green carpet! My Mom has hardwood for now, as do I. My brother did it for us!
it is still just how I remember it, even the three guys singing! I was not prepared for was how emotional I got at the very end!:
it is dusk, and he needed to sell his donkey before he goes back home. They are both dejected, and then Joseph shows up and asks about the donkey. The little boy was told to sell him for one piece of silver, which is all that Joseph can offer.
I lost it at the ending scene! After seeing the auctioneer make fun of him! This is such a great movie and I found it on Disney+! 25 minutes long and I really liked it!!! I really liked the singing!!! “Clink, clink. Clank, clank…” 😂😂😂😂😂
OK, I just have to hear the Train Christmas song so I will post it here:
https://youtu.be/J-8VCL4uSUc?si=1FJRk94DMu9MaME-
I am really not liking how the video is not posting as a video, it’s just a link. Think it’s because I have an iPhone 12 which is our archaic right now. But just click the hyperlink and you will hear this song.
I remember I saw him in a Hallmark movie. I think it was when of the song first came out. He was. a music teacher or something. I didn’t like seeing him act! He looked like a very small man and I did not like it. It was far cry different from the shirtless guy and tight pants singing “Marry Me” as he walked through the crowd! I will always remember that that was the first time that I saw a hairy chest and I was not disgusted by it because I was already 28 years old!
Regardless, I really dig this song! It came out the second year of living in our house.
I have been seeing this commercial pretty much before every video I watch on my phone:
I must tell you that I really do NOT dig how clubbing songs are in commercials for Applebee’s and Kroger!!! I am so old, but when I saw this commercial, I thought of The Little People. Sean was really into them until he was about 3 1/2 I think.
I was trying to find the Aaron Neville intro song for The Little People that used to start every DVD I bought Sean. I really like that one. This was 20 years ago so it’s not there but I found this one. This was after Sean’s time but it made me think of the Kroger commercial as well (without the song from the club, by the way)
it’s starting to feel real now. In 26 days, I will have had MS for 24 years. I am reminded of my first year teaching. It was in my first year when I turned 24.
I was still a kid back then and birthdays have always been so Important to me! I had a countdown to my birthday written on the board in the front of my room!
I told my kids that I am going to be, “24 karat” with a smile! Birthdays are a big deal for me but I really don’t celebrate them very much. I mean I don’t need presents or anything! But I was thinking about that memory today but I don’t think I’m going to be smiling on December 28 and I won’t say that I’m “24 karat.”
I remember when Sean turned 17 and I played for him ABBA as he got ready for school. I was already not working. then, but I still was used to getting up super early so I would wake him up from my bed with that song for a month before his birthday.
All of that seems like a lifetime ago. I’m pretty sure that December 28 is going to be like the last 23. I am quiet on that day. I really can’t believe this is my life now…
I’ve seen this commercial so many times, and I think I have decided that the people wearing these socks are actually dancers!;:
https://youtu.be/xsG2kcJ4aG8?si=JFoJmDvVOj9V8XPG
Everytime I see it, it kind of takes my breath away because they all can control their feet! I haven’t been able to do that for so long…
I finally found out what commercial it was, and then I could share this commercial!!! Think this was the first one that I saw, but I couldn’t find it to share it on my blog. But I found it today, Yat!: