Author: Jen Rios

For-Til B12

I think it was in the first few months of the, “Stay at home” orders when my hair started to grow out, that I realized that in the past couple years, my hair has really started to thin. My hair thinned out extremely when I was on my chosen shots. It was a side-effect from that shot. Once I stopped that shot, my hair started to grow back. I was very pleased about that!

But in the past few months, as my hair grow out, I noticed that it had begun to thin again. I’m not sure if you can notice it, but I do!:

But I just took a picture yesterday of my hair hand as it is longer, the waves have gone and it has gone back to my straight hair.

It just FEELS thicker! Which I Really like all a supplement that my chiropractor:/natropath told me about. I will like when I feel safe enough to go back there again! In the meantime, I will just order my supplements and I have them mailed to me. He recommended For-Til B12:

#blondetodarkhairchallenge

I have been seeing so many posts of this new challenge on Facebook, the #blondetodarkhaurchaalenge. Lots of my friends have posted pictures and even one of my brothers! I have never died my hair and I am a little bummed that I can’t participate. I came across some old pictures in my phone today and posted my own version of the challenge. To put this in context. I think I was about 32 or 33 years old so we’re talking five or six years ago. It made me laugh to post pictures and these are the ones I posted:

I think that I had to be above 32 because if Sean was a new older than 12, he would not have taken these pictures of me. I also was still working and still driving. I posted in the comments on Facebook that retrospectively, I wish I would have purchased the Medusa wig but, I had to be responsible and I had bills to pay so I couldn’t justify spending $24 I think on silly nonsense. I really DO wish I could’ve been irresponsible and just bought the wig. I STILL would be wearing it and laughing about it today! So, I really haven’t done this challenge because I’ve never dyed my hair but I wanted to post something!

So, this is my hair back then when I still had a manual chair and still worked:

So many things have changed since I took this picture so long ago, or had Sean take it. Or maybe it was my Mom?

To Me

I haven’t been out of my house since October 1 for my dental cleaning. It was overdue because I had to cancel my appointment early in this pandemic. Dental health is EXTREMELY important for me because I have MS. When I was out of my house, the leaves had not yet started changing. I started wearing a winter hat indoors a couple days ago because I feel so much colder since I can no longer control my internal temperature!

I love Fall the season and I love to watch the leaves change color. I don’t think that I will make it to cider mill this year to get cider and roasted, cinnamonsugared almonds and that kind of bums me out.

My Mom took Leia for a walk this morning and she brought Fall to me:

I smiled and I am so touched by her gesture! Just like in Sense and Sensibility, when Willabe brings the flowers to Marianne because she is injured, he tells her, “Since you cannot venture out to nature, nature must be brought to you!” That’s exactly what my Mom did for me!

Sean’s Hat

So, today was day six of watching Hocus Pocus and it is also day two of wearing a hat in my house! My Mom says that it is not really cold outside but I have a chill and I am cold! My internal temperature gauge has no rhyme or reason.

I started wearing my hat yesterday. By that I mean I wore the hat from the second I woke up until the second I laid down to sleep. Apparently, my hat cannot be found. It was misplaced so my Mom handed me one of Sean‘s hats.

It was a lined Piston’s hat and I put it on. He got this hat last year and has not worn it very much and I am grateful for that because it is NOT stretched out! That’s how it is with Sean’s hats because his head is bigger than mine! My brothers used to make fun of them when Sean was young but I would tell them that, “He has to have some place for all those brains to go! I’m very grateful for Sean’s hat today because it is very warm!

Random Tune #73 in my YouTube Feed

This is COMPLETELY out of water because I have a few songs posted on Facebook that I have not put on my blog but this one came this morning and brought with it TONS of memories! She opened for a Maroon 5 and introduce yourself as: “ Hi, I’m Sara and this is my band“ and she’s sat at her piano and started jamming! The person who I went to the cancer with, looked and me and we both said that she is really good! It was just before her first single came out but I remember hearing/seeing her play this song:

October 2020 Faves

I went to the dentist yesterday so was unable to post these but I have been listening to this song every day since August 26. More about that in a bit…:

But, it’s October or so of course, I’ve been listening to this one too:

I didn’t post these songs yesterday so I have already watched Hocus Pocus twice but I really love this song:


Chewy Pharmacy

My nephews’ fiancé tagged me in the picture she posted on Facebook:

This picture really made me laugh and especially today because in the beginning of us having, #MyGirlL, all of the Chewy boxes were either treats or toys. I thought of this picture because now that Leia has a sensitive stomach, the Chewy deliveries are more for us and not her.

I ordered her new prescription dog food yesterday and it arrived this morning. She is still on a bland diet that she has been for over a month. We are “slow walking” introducing dog food back into her diet. She already has had her teaspoon of food mixed in with her rice/hamburger for the day.

Because of her sensitive stomach and her new food, we no longer can give her chewies for her heart worm. We talked to the vet yesterday and we are going to combine both her heartworm and flea and tick medicine to be administered in one application. So I will be placing another Chewy order sometime this week to Chewy Pharmacy. Coupled with the food, I had to add two squeeze balls that were pretty cheap to have enough to get free shipping. This new combination of heartworm and flea and tick prevention is pretty pricey so I don’t need to add any toys with that order.

#MyGirlL: Wabbit

So, the problems we’ve been having with Leia have finally been sorted out a bit. The throwing up and diarrhea were caused by her having a sensitive stomach. After the ultrasound, fecal diagnostics, and bloodwork, it was decided that this was the culprit. So, her vet prescribed prescription food.

I ordered it on Chewy today. The prescription was for rabbit.

She can no longer have her heartworm chewies and we will therefore combine her heartworm and flea and tick medicine in a different medicine that is administered between her shoulders once a month. This is a whole lot of information for me to take in but, she is completely worth it! As I ordered the food today, I could not get this Elmer Fudd cartoon out of my mind. It’s the first one but I could only find it in a compilation video:

Tune #72 in my YouTube Feed OR “Magnificent”

So, my Lions were 0-2 before today. Of course, I stood by them regardless because I LOVE Matthew Stafford!!! I have from the very beginning when Sean was playing pee-wee football for the Dearborn Lions! The past two losses were brutal.

But then, there was today. It was not pretty at all and if I was still a nailbiter, I wouldn’t have bitten my nails to the nub!!! But, they:we pulled it off in the end with a Matt Prater field goal!

it was magnificent!

Just like waking up just before midnight to see u2 play on David Letterman in my second apartment when I was 26 years old, I can finally share this video that showed up in my YouTube feed and I shared on Facebook on September 10. The win was magnificent!: