I greatly dislike opening my eyes to hear rain falling on my roof and my air conditioner. That’s what I heard this morning and I felt it as well! This rain is continuing and it feels awful in my body! I wanted to write about my refurbished chair but maybe tomorrow it won’t be raining because with this rain, that’s just not possible.
Author: Jen Rios
Spicy OR “There it Is!”
I have never liked or had any affinity to spicy food. When I was in high school, I used to get the question because I am Mexican, I should like spicy food! I don’t. I figured out how to remedy that when people would ask me about not liking spicy food. I would just look at them and say, “I am Mexican. I’m spicy enough!“
I’ve said that to Sean as well! I remember years ago, when Sean was still in high school, my nephew was coming to pick him up. I asked Sean to pick me up some dinner because they were going to be out for the evening so I wanted him to drop it off at the house before he left. Sean asked me what I wanted and I told him my Taco Bell order. This was back when I could still chew!
Sean told me to give him my order so Nathan can pick it up before he comes to our house. I told him, I want to Mexican pizzas with no sauce. So, Nathan came over with my Taco Bell order in his hand. He handed me the bag as Sean came out of his room. He looked at me and said, “Aunt Jenny, how can you have a Mexican pizza without the sauce?!”
Sean had just walked out of his room and he said, ”Ew, mom!” I laughed at both of them and I told them that the sauce at Taco Bell is “White people food.” And then we all laughed and they said that I have to have the sauce with the pizza. I looked at them and said, “You two are white, and I am not!
Wednesday when Sean was here when my chair was getting refurbished (I am still trying to gather my thoughts regarding that refurbishment!) he told me a story about someone saying to him that he looks like a white guy but they thought he was ‘spicy white’ which made Sean laugh. He responded, “I’m half Mexican” To which they replied,”There it is!”
That story made me laugh and it’s funny that I would say that I am spicy enough because I am Mexican and now Sean is also spicy but he is a ‘spicy white guy.’
Time to Pillage
It’s Saturday. I drank both of my shakes for my breakfast and lunch and so now it’s time to Pillage!!!:
This comic reminds me of the comics I would read when I was a kid. My Dad would discard the comics and the sale papers every week and I would read the comics on Sunday and I would go shopping with the sale papers and then put the papers in the recycle bin at the base of the stairs in the basement when I was finished.
Just Another Day
My Mom got me out of my bed kind of early today because I did not sleep very well last night. I am sitting in my chair drinking my shake and taking my vitamins. I checked my phone to see what day it was and when I saw that it is August 26. I paused! My heart stopped.
Ttoday was the day that I was hired for my only “Big Girl” job in 2005. My only teaching position. I taught for 12 years until MS decided that I can no longer do it.
I remember that my school leader used to write on an index card because we had to fill out paperwork and our date of hire was a question that we were asked every single year and I remember getting those index cards with his writing on it.
I was thinking about that today and I had to pause my prayers and my water drinking to jot this post because I didn’t wanna forget it. That’s happening a lot now these days…:
this song reminds me of summertime when I was in middle school. My friend’s babysitter really liked Jon Secada so we listened to him a lot!
Grounding
So, after some hesitation, I have a new phone and I also have a new chair (at least that’s what it feels like). I thought that everything was transferred over to my new phone but I have lost some of my subscriptions on YouTube so I am blindly scrolling through YouTube to find something to watch. But then I received the grounding I needed:
I was at WMU when this song came out. I think that I needed to be reminded of a simpler time because this is proving to be so real!!! At least somewhere in there, my phone still knows me!!!
The SAME Damn Phone?!!!!
So, my Mom had to take both of my phones back to the Verizon store today. With my old phone, I could text and get on the Internet. My new phone had all of my updated contacts. I had her snap this picture today before she took the old phone in with the new phone. With all of the two day fiasco to get it activated, it’s the SAME damn phone!:
The one on the left is my new phone and the one on the right, which I was not even finished paying for, is on the left. The only way I can tell them apart is because I have Super Bowl T-shirt stickers from the Super Bowl this past year. Matty won!!! The one on the left is a 12 and the one on the right is an 11 that I was not finished paying for! I had to pay it off before I got the new one!!! Grrr!!!
FI-AS-CO!!!
Absolute insanity!!! Last month, my Mom’s phone got messed up and she needed a new phone. Sharing a phone while her phone came was a little bit trying! I hooked her up with the new phone! I have no problem with that at all! I got her her cell phone back when Sean was born when she was his nanny because I needed to get a hold of her at all times. We’ve just kept it that way! No problem!
But, last week, my phone died. Given how important my phone is to me now with being chronically ill, I had to figure that out as well. I am on a fixed income and you can’t bleed a turnip! So, I ordered my phone on Monday and it arrived on Wednesday and my Mom who had rented a van to take my power chair to be refurbished, made the appointment to get the screen protector put on and to get the phone activated for later yesterday.
I She was with the manager for an hour and 15 minutes and they still could not get it. He could not load a Sim card into the phone! He tried three times before my Mom told him that she will come the next morning.
That’s what she did this morning so now I have a working phone! It was a two day fiasco for sure with some colorful people at the Verizon store as she waited this morning!!!
I’m Still Blinking!
Well, 21 years of MS ain’t no joke! It’s really hitting me with all it has right now and my head is reeling a bit. I watched a movie with my Mom not too long ago that I had seen 1 million times in my childhood and it’s resonating with me now:
It will take me a moment but I will ‘grab my guts’ and deal with it as I have for the past 20 years but you’re 21 is giving me a run for my money!!!
Rando Tune #26
I can see myself driving to college, when I was an undergrad. I am turning onto the campus and this song is playing in my car. I used to be able to drive back then… I don’t know why this song popped into my head but it did:
My MRI Uniform
On the 18th, I was going to wear one of my sweatshirts but we discovered that there are metal grommets in it and then I remembered that I have an MRI uniform!
When I went for an MRI in 2021, I was wearing my Michigan sweatshirt. A woman was coming in the opposite direction and she asked, “Football or basketball?” To which I responded with a smile, “Both.” I thought of that exchange as I was going to put on a different sweatshirt. There is no metal in the sweatshirt I wore, I chose the sweatshirt I wore last year.