Author: Jen Rios

The Tree Skirt?!

I noticed this yesterday, as I was about to go to sleep, I glanced at the tree, and I saw that the skirt is there, I exclaimed, “t”The tree skirt?!”

I haven’t seen that in years! I thought it got thrown away when Sean was maybe 13 or 14. I’m so glad it’s here! I remember my Mom brought it up the basement in July but then I forgot about it but now it’s here on my tree!!!:

I would’ve made sure that it was completely flat though, I’m just a little OCD I think. Maybe a little bit MORE than ‘a little.’

Feliz Navidad

I had Christmas music playing on shuffle the other day, and José Felicíano came on. I asked John if he knew that he was blind. That information shocked him. I’ve never talked about it, but this song is just as much in Sean’s child as it is mine because I make sure of that because I listen to it a lot.

I just told my Mom that I remembered before basketball practice at Saint Clemens (we had to borrow their gym some nights and they are located in Dearborn) that me, and my friend Jenny Sauceda were hugging each other and dancing in a circle while singing this song. There’s not very many words, and we knew all of them because I’m sure this song was just as much a part of her Christmases as it was a part of mine!:

20 Years

Yesterday was ‘go time’ and Dr. Clark had canceled his appointment appointment earlier in the week changing the days he is doing his energy work. I would see him on Wednesdays when I got my haircut but he changed over Tuesdays for next year.

I made an appointment for the Tuesday after 15 January when I get paid. We will discuss further appointments later because I don’t think that change works with my schedule.

I am finished leaving the house for the year. It is getting MORE difficult and my disease is progressing and this ALL scares me so much!

We were able to go to the lights last night as well after we got our haircut because we had the van. It had been 20 years since I had gone to the lights! I took Sean when he was three. I was nervous about being able to see all of the displays because my eyes are getting worse.

When we went to the lights, nobody was there, so we could go slowly through, and I was able to see all of the displays clearly because a lot of them, I remembered! There was one display that I had to ask my Mom what it was. Both she and Sean told me what it was and because there was no one in line, my Mom reversed, and I was able to see it. Because I knew what I was looking at!

I have been so nervous about my eyesight lately, but I’m happy that I still was able to enjoy the lights. It had been 20 years since I took Sean when he was three.

My Mom asked me which one I like the best and I told her that I love the snowflakes! I normally decorate my Christmas tree with them, so of course I would say that! I also liked the marching band! I think that one was new.

5th and Final Tine

I watched Love Actually today and I think that is going to be the fifth and final time this year. I absolutely LOVE this movie and I didn’t see it until 2019. When it came out, I was busy watching kids stuff because Sean was just a kid. I had heard stuff about this movie so I finally watched it in 2019. I couldn’t get over how weird Alan Rickman looked!!!

And I love this song in this movie as well!!!

But this scene with this song is what sealed the deal for me!!! That song is my soundtrack for my first year at Western!!!:

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.