Author: Jen Rios

Drained.

I have felt absolutely drained all day long !!! I thought it would wear off and I would eventually have more energy but that did not happen today. After watching Love Actually, my Mom and I watched The Holiday. Those are two holiday movies that I love and that helps because I am so drained today! I think it may have been from It’s a Wonderful Life yesterday because I cried the whole time! That’s why I am drained! I just figured that out right now!!!

I KNEW It!!!

Today, I decided to watch It’s a Wonderful Life on TV. It was just as I thought it would be, actually how I KNEW it would be!!!

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I BAWLED MY EYES OUT!!!

FROM BEGINNING TO END!!!

I started crying when Janie and Zu Zu were praying for George. I also had tears streaming down my face when George is holding Zu Zu and she reads the letter in the book from Clarence!

I have watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the ONLY time I will watch it this Christmas and I cried my eyes out, but I knew [That I would]!!! I still LOVE it and I know ALL of the words!!!

#MyGirlL: A 4th Round

So, Leia has been a sickie for a while now! We are going to change her food for a third time! She was on prescription food for almost a year and we changed it to salmon but but my Mom talked to the vet and we are going to change her over to a different prescription food.

It’s a little bit cheaper than her first prescription food and I am going to say that three is a charm and my girl will get better! But, she needs a fourth round of steroids to let her body calm down because she is absolutely inflamed and it’s awful! Sean is going to pick up the ‘roids tomorrow.

I have been thinking now that she is three, maybe I can put my ornaments back on the tree because she will be on steroids the whole time the tree is up so she’s going to be a little bit listless and won’t bother them. My Mom sent me this picture the other day and it made me miss our beautiful tree:

I think Sean was a senior in this picture and I don’t know why my star is not on the tree but I miss this even though I still can’t find my tree skirt!!!


My ‘Abuela Chapstick’

Well, I am coming to the end of my chapstick right now. But this time, there is NO bag-o-chapstick because my ‘Abuela chapstick’ knows how to behave!:

The ginger spice flavor will always remind me of my Abuela and I’m just feeling the hint of a scrape on my lips so I think I need a new tube for tomorrow! Oh, I have plenty!

Phase 2 = Completed.

When I awoke today, which was I think about 1:30 in the afternoon, my Mom had placed the ladder in the way for me to get into my normal spot so I waited by the bathroom and she moved the ladder and then she hit the light switch and my tree lit up!!!

I gasped even though I did not have my contacts in! I could see the lights and it made me excited! I tried to get a good picture today of the lights but I have already taken my contacts out tonight and I’m really not feeling it right now but I snap this one for you all. Phase 2 is now completed!:

The lights are up but I fear that it’s a bad MS-y day… again…

Sleeping

My, “2 Sacreds” are both asleep right now heart is full. Sean is sleeping on the couch and my mom is sleeping in his room and my old bed. I’m listening to my Christmas faves on Apple Music and I don’t even feel badly about crying with this one came on!!!:

December 2022 Faves

So, I’ve been listening to my Christmas playlist since December 1! But there is something going on as well. I did not realize this until last night because I was eating a lot of chocolate! I can have the dove dark and mint chocolate and I bite it into four pieces. I usually just have one or three at most but I was eating them a lot and I couldn’t figure out why!

But then, it hit me. It’s December. December 28 is coming. This year, it will be 22 years since I was diagnosed with MS. I have had that for years more than half of my life and that just kind of hurts. So, I can’t get rid of the melancholy feel around this time as well so I’ll post the two songs that help me get through it:

#MyGirlL: Bad Girl!!!

So, today, my Mom was going to watch me put my contacts in when we both heard a crash of breaking glass! It was coming from the kitchen where Leia was so my Mom instead of watching me put my contacts in, want to see what it was.

When my Mom saw it, the litany of, ”Bad girl!” And this is how Leia reacted:


My Mom is still cleaning it up and she will randomly reiterate that Leia is a bad girl! I don’t have my contacts in, I have not brush my teeth or even eaten my lunch. All I’m thinking about now is that I have a movie to watch! Leia still is not moving!:

#MyGirlL: Yakked

I think I need to tell you a little bit of a backstory before I tell you what happened last night. My house was built in 1951. In 1951, disabled people didn’t own houses, especially disabled people using a Power chair! As the homeowner of this house that was built in 1951, it poses a bit of a problem seeing that as the homeowner, I am disabled and I use a power chair!

Basically everything now has a process. The process that we utilize is to make a non-handicapped accessible area, accessible to me.

So, long story short, my power chair is just outside the bathroom as I am inside using the bathroom. Last night, Leia got out of her bed and walked over to the bathroom and just yakked on the floor and turned around.

I thanked her and told her that I appreciated that she did that on the tile but then I had to call my mom to clean it up because having had MS for 21+ years, my sense of smell is so acute!!!

It’s December 1 so I have a Christmas movie to watch now…