Author: Jen Rios

Sweet Strawberry Mandarin

I didn’t sleep at all last night and my eyes hurt right now. My Mom went to go pick up the van because I’m going to the dermatologist for a return appointment regarding my feet because they look bad!

The first application of my strawberry Chapstick was a little bit too much of a scrape from the plunger. As I took my vitamins and drank my shake, I had another application and I could just blot because the could feel the plastic scraping my lips.

So, because I wear so much Chapstick all day, it looks like today will be a sweet strawberry Mandarin day because I am going to use both of them!:

Rando Tune #8

I really have been thinking about my eclectic musical taste in high school. I just posted about music videos in the 90s. A friend posted this and I had to write about it!:

It was fun for me to think about my high school days! Things were so different back then! I wasn’t even diagnosed with MS until after high school. Just months after graduation.

So, thinking about all this old music, I am thinking of my Rando Tune #6 (makes me think of my Dad). I am not sure why I am hearing this song in my head and it kind of is embarrassing and I did not want to share music that I didn’t absolutely love on my blog but this one’s aim my head and I have to put in here because sleep was not an option last night. #MSsucks!!!:

6 Hours Ago…

So, six hours ago, a Facebook friend of mine posted this and I have not stopped thinking about it since she posted it:


Well Jackie: my first instinct was Missy Elliott:

But then I thought about Mase. I had a HUGE crush on him in high school!!!:

These two videos have scenes that one talk like an inside of a cheese grater but I didn’t comment it could have been this one as well, because it could!:

Man, I have loved late 90s rap!!!

A Hint of a Scrape

Yesterday, I wore my strawberry Chapstick. But I think that it will soon be a one-man race because I’m pretty sure that strawberry is going to win because yesterday before I went to bed, as I put my Chapstick on, I felt a hint of a scrape from the plunger on my lips. I think tomorrow will be the last day for strawberry. I knew it was going to win!

Once I am finished with the sweet Mandarin bag of Chapstick, I will go into my new phase of spring/summer flavors:

I have a four pack of cucumber mint already in a different container but I wanted to try strawberry sorbet. If I like it, I will get three more chapsticks to have in the wings for next summer. So then I will just have two flavors. My fall flavors are a lot. I have four of them and three winter flavors.

I have thought about this way too much but it gives me something to focus on.

Not 1, but 2!!!

It was not too long ago when Sean commenting on the fact that I have a, “Bag of Chapstick.” He made fun of me and said that I am so bougie about some things but I have my Chapstick it is a Ziploc bag!

I explained to him that when you get that low on the Chapstick the little plunger will fall out so that’s why I put it in a bag until I finish it. He told me that he did not know that because he has never finished a tube of Chapstick and he usually loses it first.

Well now, hold up just a minute! I may be a little ghetto with my Ziploc bag of Chapstick but let me just clarify that right now it is not one, but two bags of Chapstick!!!:

Rando Tune #7

I thought of this song last night as I was starting to fall asleep and I started singing it in my head and I got all the way to, “ I wish I could scream out loud that I love you! I wish I could say to you don’t go! 😂😂😂

I looked it up and the album was released in 1993! I was 11 years old! I thought about the festival being put together under the overhang at Saint Alphonsus! For all of you who know, you know!

I think it is crazy that I remembered basically all of the words to a song from when I was 11 but don’t ask me to remember my passwords!!!

Rando Tune #6

Okay, let me start off by saying that I have never been a huge Christina Aguilera fan per se. But I got the most random song in my head yesterday and it took a moment for me to figure out what the song was and who sang it.

I was just hearing one line over and over in my head but I was able to retrieve this song and I watched the video for the first time today. I had never seen the video before but seeing in today made me miss my Dad something fierce!!!:

Hm.

My Mom took my left sock off this morning, well, really this afternoon to wash my feet. She looked at the sore on my heel and just said, “Hm.” That was a very succinct sound that had extremely concerning undertones to it. I immediately got concerned!

She took my right sock off and told me that we should probably see the dermatologist again. It’s starting to look infected.

I called the dermatologist’s office immediately! There were no appointments available where we went the first time but I was able to get in on Monday for downtown. Immediately after I got that appointment, I called the van rental place to see if we could get one for Monday. One was available so it seems that things are working out!

Maybe after this doctor’s appointment my feet will finally stop hurting so much…

Rando Tune #4

I think that I am just thinking of songs to put on my blog to make me feel better because my feet are killing me! And my Mom too! But I haven’t posted a U2 song in a long time and it got me thinking about my first year teaching.

It is the fall of 2005, my first year teaching, and the first time I would administer the MEAP test. I remember making a really cool Road Runner poster that I probably still have in my basement somewhere and I had Word bubbles that said, “MEAP! MEAP!”

That poster didn’t come around until after a few years of administering that test But I clearly remember Mr. Astalos giving me a mixed CD of great songs to to prepare us for the stressful time that was going to come administering the MEAP test.

I am ashamed to say that this was the first time I heard this song what it was and I LOVED it!: