Jen Rios

The Rabbit Hole at 4 a.m.

Sleeping is an issue these days, so I go down the rabbit hole of scrolling through videos but with the writers strike, it’s getting a little bit more difficult. But I stumbled across this one at about 4 o’clock this morning. I shared it with my Mom and I think we will watch Chicago tomorrow…

Magnificent

My Mom and I watched the first Narnia movie a few days ago. I haven’t seen it in so long that it was like watching a brand new movie. I liked it because I remember watching this with Sean when he was 7 or something?

But at the very end, when Aslan is giving everyone their crowns, he crowns Peter last, and he says that he crowns him, ‘Peter the Magnificent.’ When I heard that you know that I thought of our second apartment and when u2 was on Letterman all week:

But here’s the thing, on Monday of that week, I stayed up to watch letterman, even though it’s past my bedtime because I had to work the next morning but that Monday I realized that at 26, I am too old for their target audience, and I didn’t find it funny at all!

So, I just had to adjust my game plan. I set my alarm for 10 minutes before the show was over so then I could wake up and just watch them perform and then go back to sleep.

Unsubscribe Already!

I got this email a few days ago and let me ‘splain ya:

I have been shopping at Kids Footlocker since I started buying shoes for myself in high school. I didn’t get this email address until after Sean was out of kid’s shoes.

But, after problems with my feet in 2022, I changed to a different pair of shoes. I think that will be my last pair of shoes because I’ve had them for over a year and they still have not been on the outside sidewalk.

I clean out my email folders every morning when I wake up and I got a different email from kids footlocker but I just put it in the trash. When I see emails with Shelltoes on it, it makes me feel nostalgic and I remember rockin’ those shoes for years! I tell myself every time, “Unsubscribe already!” But I can’t seem to bring myself to do it…

Just for Show

I changed my bag of floss packs the other day. At the beginning of the year, I bought four of them because I cannot control my hands enough to use bag of 150 floss picks (because my hands are small) so I change them out every time I change out my toothbrush head I am changing out tomorrow morning.

So a few days ago, I ran out of floss picks, so I got a new bag of 75 because I will change out the head to my toothbrush tomorrow because it will be three months tomorrow. I cannot control my hands enough to use a manual toothbrush anymore.

My Mom knows that I have to have things done a certain way so the other day when I was changing out my floss pick bag, I was making sure that it would tear open at the perforated line. A few months ago, I tried doing that and I couldn’t so my Mom had to open it for me. Then, I keep my bag of floss picks semi-opened in the box with the remotes for my TV because that’s where I sit to brush my teeth because my chair won’t fit in my bathroom.

She tore off the top of the floss picks bag at the perforated line and handed it to me. I tried opening it up, but I could not even do that. I squeeze my therapy putty every day for 17 minutes and I think at this point, as much as it pains me to say, my hands are just for show.

Ned’s Declassified

I heard this sound coming out of my kitchen a couple nights ago, and I started to laugh, and immediately thought of Ned’s Declassified!!!

let me ‘splain ya:

I read this article a few days ago and sent it to my Mom:

I sent that article to her because she was talking about an increase of drain flies in both my kitchen sink and my tub. She told me something like “Well that’s in New York.” I told her that we are closer because we are five minutes away from Canada!

That statement made her think and she decided to do something about them a few days ago. My Mom knows that I am chemically sensitive so she decided to do something natural. She decided to pour a mixture of baking soda, salt, and vinegar. She started it in my kitchen, and as soon as I heard the fizz, I thought of Ned’s Declassified!:

I started to laugh when I heard her yelp! Baking soda, salt, and vinegar, is a science project!!!

That’s what made me think of Ned’s Declassified! Sean and I used to watch that all the time on Nickelodeon when we lived in our second apartment!

As for the drain flies, my Mom is going to do another science project tonight. She has done it for two nights, and the flies are lessening. I was looking for a picture for Ned’s Declassified. And I think it’s crazy that they are so old now.! Well, Sean was like 6 and he’s 21 now?!:

Big Brother is Betting 1000!!!

The writers strike is taking too long and last night while perusing YouTube, I watched this interview:

She has been popping up recently in my feed, and I waited a moment after watching that video and then I scrolled a few videos down and big brother is betting 1000!!!

I don’t know how many times I sang in this song in the bus with Girl Scouts or basketball, but we sang it all the time!!!

I’ve Decided to Fight

I did not sleep well last night to say the least! Abut waking this morning was not much better either. This weather ain’t no joke! Having MS for 22 years ain’t no joke either!!! Sitting an air conditioner doesn’t matter when it is so hot outside and I am in need of new windows.

I have never felt like this before!!! I am quite scared!!! I heard this song last night as I was playing Triple Tile 3-D and I heard this song and I have decided that in desperation, I have sent for a warrior. I really don’t feel like a Hercules and these tears just keep coming…:

3:51 a.m.

My sleep schedule is completely wonky in this heat, and after having MS for 22+ years so, with the writers strike continuing, this is the video I was forced to watch at 3:51 a.m. this morning:

I thought that Seth Meyers singing Since U Been Gone was hilarious, but I have never seen this video before, so I watched it today:

NOT as Effective

The weather was awful when I woke up, and I think it was during an audio rosary and just after I counted five of the biggest cracks of thunder in my life when I closed my eyes and got into the Power Stance.

I held my fists to my hips for a long while, as my eyes were closed as I tried to muster some kind of strength. But then I felt a tear threaten to creep out of my right eye. I tried to lock my jaw to make it stop, but then my right eye started to threaten a tear. And then the tears just started to fall.

My shoulders were shaking uncontrollably, as my face was completely drenched with tears, but I just let them fall. I did that until I couldn’t stand all the wetness on my face, and I needed to blow my nose.

I told my Mom that I have never felt like this before in my life because I haven’t and something tells me that a power stands with tears streaming is NOT as effective…