Author: Jen Rios

I watched Meet Joe Black yesterday. I was able to watch it on Prime video. I had seen this movie in high school and I remember really liking it, so much so that I bought the two video set so I could own it before I went to college. I took it with me to college. I never watched it.

Not too long ago, my Mom saw the movie and we tried watching it on my TV, but we were streaming it on some platform and it kept glitching after about 20 minutes of watching the movie.

I was thinking about it yesterday so I checked the watch options and it was available on Prime. I have Prime because I order medical supplies every single month!

I knew there was a reason why I owned the movie and I bought it with two videos so it was like 20 bucks when I was in high school.

well, I watched it yesterday and I completely understand why I liked it so much. I thought that I was going to have a life like that! And Brad Pitt is in My preferential color palette. I swoon over guys with blue eyes! I prefer a little darker hair, but I’ll take it.

This was back before I was diagnosed with MSback when I could fully dream of a life I wanted! The life that I wanted and expected to live is definitely t the life I am currently living is not quite that, but I’m enduring it.

I got an email yesterday saying that the Vanilla Maple chapstick. I ordered from Burt’s Bees had shipped. That’s good because I just have three nubs left of my previous fall chapstick. Let me ‘splain ya:

I think it may have been three or four years ago when I ordered a bunch of chapstick because they had the flavors I really liked for the Fall and Winter. But, here’s the thing, I thought it was Ginger Spice but instead, it was Salted Caramel. I don’t like Salted Caramel. It sounds like I would, but I don’t. I had to use it all up, though which took three or four years.

I had decided years ago that I liked to Vanilla Maple the best and I ordered it this year when it became available on October 6. So, I got word that they shipped and I currently have three nubs left over from Pumpkin Spice, Chai, and Vanilla Maple.

So I get this email and I know that I have about two weeks left of chapstick from my nubs so it will work out. I would normally put a picture of my nubs on my post, but my site is still a little bit wonky. What I will do is post a picture on Facebook with this blog post. Most of my readers are from Facebook.

I am spending my time writing about frivolous things because I don’t want to write about something that is gnawing at me. I watched The Accountant today because I needed to calm down. I don’t think that I’ll write about it today either though… I got ready for my virtual appointment with my neurologist next week and yesterday, I had to fill out seven questionnaires. That has been the most questionnaires I’ve had to answer in the past 25 years. I’m not sure they even read them, but I filled them out. I think I’ll talk about that tomorrow? in the meantime, I have my 3 nubs of chapstick.

Yesterday, my friend texted me and asked me how my eyes are doing. I must say that when I saw the Lions play opening weekend, I could tell that I could not see as well as I have been able to. That shocked me.

I thought about a supplement that I took a couple of years ago. Dr. Clark’s office offered it and I was on it for a while until they could no longer get it. So I stopped taking that maybe for a couple months. But after watching that opening weekend, I could see that my eyes had faded so much so I restarted supplement. I found it on Amazon.

I watched the Rams last weekend and I saw before they lost and I could see the lineup so much better! I think that it’s that supplement.

We spoke about my eyes and I told him that they are not darkening like I have diabetes. Things are just a little bit more blurry. I told him when my optometrist just told me. My left eye is 20/70and my right eye is 20/100. I’m not sure which eye was my Dad’s good eye, but he was the same. One was 20/70 and the other was 20/100.

I remember that shortly before my Dad‘s death, he stopped wearing his glasses. I am not there yet. Years ago an optometrist told me that my eyesight is so bad that it’s better that I have a contact that is directly on my eyeball rather than space between my eye and a pair of glasses. Now that I have the expensive contacts, I can put them in so much easier so that seems to work.

it really stinks. I still hear that d*mn doctor from when I was first diagnosed! “Look, [I] have MS, I’m going to go blind and then I’m going to die. I’m hanging on though… Just barely!!!

Today, I finished the seasonal Fall Werther’s caramels. I’m going to change it up a bit next year because we went through them way too fast! So, I will keep them in the desk under the TV until October 1, when I watch Hocus Pocus.

I spoke with Sean and I have decided that I’m going to get two bags of Pumpkin Spice because that is Sean‘s fave. I prefer the Maple ones so I’ll get bag of those. I liked the green apple, but I was the only one eating them and I like the Maple ones better.

I tried the Maple ones last and I tried them the day before Sean did. When I saw him the next day, I told him that they taste ‘fall-y’. He tried them and my Mom asked him what they taste like and he said ‘fall-y’ and that made me laugh. Look at me, making up words!

it was another late start to the day. I ate dinner pretty late and because it’s chilly, I changed over to Turkey Stove Top stuffing. I will probably go back to chicken in March or April, possibly May. Now it’s cold weather eating.

It’s a late night pillaging again like last weekend. However, I did not drop any of my pills and that makes me feel good. I can’t believe that this is my entire life now?!