I got an email this morning from Leia’s vet. It was a birthday card! When setting up our account (because Sean is too young so she is registered under me), I filled out all the paperwork and we adopted her on April 28, 2020. She was roughly 6 months old, so her birthday is this week we think! I might make it Sean‘s birthday so they can be birthday twins but it really doesn’t matter. I love the sentiment of receiving that email! I never thought that I would think this way about a dog but she is just cute!
Thursday morning, when my Mom was getting things together to take her for a walk, Leia took it upon herself to climb into a Target box. Once I get paid, I place an order with Target for essentials that we need. Because my Mom and I are still sheltering in place it works out well and it tends to be a big box. I was pretty groggy and trying to wake up when my Mom sent this picture to me because I can’t turn my head that far when I am sitting in my wheelchair. This was the picture;
She took it upon herself to climb into the box and I’m not sure if she was trying to make a break for it to be shipped somewhere but my Mom said that puppies just like playing boxes too! The other day, she was outside while leaves were being raked:
I got her that bad for outside not too long ago specifically thinking about saving her from laying on the leaves. It’s crazy but I think that she is just cute!
I watched Michigan vs. Minnesota last night. I had forgotten how enjoyable college football is even with very few fans! We would have had a 50 burger if Moody would have hit at least one of his kicks! I really enjoyed last nights game and Michigan’s convincing win but I really missed Sean being here. My Mom is NOT a football fan at all! I really needed someone to celebrate with me!
That feeling continued today during the Lions game. It was definitely a nail-biter and a low scoring event but we pulled off the dub!
I’ve been watching the news during this whole pandemic and I was extremely concerned about what I was going to do for the upcoming presidential election. How was that going to vote? I requested my absentee ballot a while ago and was able to fill it out on Monday. My Mom also requested an absentee ballot and she filled hers out on Tuesday. Just this morning this video popped up in my YouTube feed:
And today, my brother took our completed ballots to the dropbox in our city. He sent us this video and I still can’t figure out how to embed it into my blog post after the latest update so I will just write another post on both Facebook and Twitter. I’m not even ashamed to say that I cried because I did! It’s NOT a sticker but… I like it!!!!
Our neighbors have a dog, Sado (Sp?). After taking some time with Leia recovering from her spading, waiting for her to receive all of her shots, and then her getting really sick. She is on the mend and now and he comes over for play dates. He is older (10 or 11) and she is not yet a year. She outweighs her by roughly 70 pounds but they still get along well;
Although I can’t be more involved in these play dates like I was almost 2 decades ago with Sean, I think it’s cute and Leia comes inside panting, exhausted, and goes straight to bed!
I lead a very small life now. I have written before that even amid this pandemic, my life really hasn’t changed that much. Yes, my hair is extremely overgrown along with my eyebrow but things have really, pretty much, stayed the same for me. I am still sheltering in place with my Mom in my house still so I am well taken care of.
I have a very routine life now. I am still drinking my breakfast and lunch because chewing is oftentimes vary difficult. I have only left my house twice for dental appointments The past eight months. Dental health is important for me considering my condition.
My mornings and afternoons consist of taking many vitamins and drinking my protein shakes for strength. I amuse myself by watching Hocus Pocus in October and that’s pretty much it. So, my life is very small but I did do something today that matters…
I have joined the 39 million people who have already cast their ballots for the upcoming election. My ballot was filled out, signed, sealed, and it will be delivered tomorrow to the clerks office!
I actually really do miss the sticker that I get by not going to the poll on election day but it’s safer for me voting absentee.
Sean’s Men’s Health magazine arrived today. Lenny Kravitz was on the cover and all shirtless and ripped!:
Sean asked me, “Isn’t he old?! I started to laugh and I agreed with him! I told him that he was coming out with songs when I was like 10. I told him that his daughter is like in her 20s now.
When I got off the phone with him because he was here to supervise Leia’s play date with the neighbors’ dog, I looked it up. Lenny Kravitz is 56 and his daughter, Zoe, is 31. That made me really made me feel old! Sean started humming the song that he told me makes him drive too fast:
I laughed and told him that is a great song and then he talked about Lennys mellow song that he digs:
I again started to laugh again and I commented on the fact that he knew this music! And then I told him to listen to this song which is more of a later Lenny Kravitz song but it was on a CD that his dad bought me for Christmas so it is part of his history:
I thought it was fun that Sean and I talked about good music and I really dig that even at 56, Lenny is pretty hot! (I didn’t tell Sean that!)
I’ve been debating on what to call this post since I wanted to write it Saturday morning! Some stuff went down Friday morning which change things in my house. My water heater broke! We did not discover this until Leia went to the landing by the back door as I was trying to wake up for the day. My Mom went to collect her and noticed that there was water on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. She thought that we had waited too long to take Leia out and she peed in the basement. Then she thought about it and realized the Leia doesn’t know how to go down the stairs. It couldn’t be pee!
My Mom went down the stairs and realized that the water was coming from my water heater that was on the other end of the basement and it had dripped on its way to the drain. She immediately texted my oldest brother a picture of the leaking water heater with the text, “WATER HEATER LEAKING!” He replied to her text with the text of his own. “Okay.” They made arrangements and he said he would drop in water heater off in between his jobs and come over to fix it when he was done working and he wanted to have Sean help him.
So, in the meantime, I still haven’t gotten ready for the day yet! It was like the, “Pioneer Days” because my Mom boiled water to use because she turned the water heater completely off to stop the leak that had ruined a throw rug I had in the basement that I got in my first apartment.
Welk, that rug is completely soaked and therefore, “Dead” and that stinks because I’m a pretty sentimental person and I have had it for 15 years but it was a $20 rug from Target and I have lots of pictures with it in the background but I will cherish more now.
I am not a pioneer but my Mom was wonderful at making it the easiest for me to get cleaned up. Obviously, I had dirty hair that day! I just put my winter hat on and I was able to not think about it.
So, during the day, my brother brought over the new water heater and he came in through the back door. My Mom was in the backyard with Leia when he came and that was Leia’s second bark! She obviously does not like 50% of my brothers! I asked my brother Dave what he thinks will happen after Covid and she sees us all together. We just laughed about it.
So then, Sean and my brother Ray came over to hook up the new water heater. Because they would be in the house for a prolonged amount of time, we both masked up:
But now to take Leia into account. She heard Sean‘s voice IN THE HOUSE as well as my brother, Ray’s. She was going nuts and whining because she wanted to be with Sean. My mom put her harness on her and hooked her leash up to my chair. She wasn’t going to be able to pull a 400 pound chair:
They were working until almost midnight but it all got hooked up. The next morning, my brother called my Mom when we were completing our routine and he asked how it was going. It’s crazy how much you take hot water for granted! He told that that water heater had a good run:
Even Sean said that that’s a long time to have a water heater! My Mom wrote the date on my new one and Ray said that it is NOT going to last that long at all!:
I think it’s crazy that major things in my house are starting to fail but when I bought my house, the inspector said I hand anywhere between 10 to 15 years on my water heater. It has been 11 but now it is reinstalled! Thanks To my brother, the plumber. It’s all about who you know!
I will ALWYwatch my Lions even if/since they lose! I was happy to find that they took the lead early and were able to hold on! I’m not going to say that I was NOT nervous because I was but we pulled off the dub and I’ll take it! Before the commercial breaks, they did have some really good music!:
I don’t care what Peter Schrager says about this tune but it’s one of my jams for sure!:
This jam is classic!:
And I’ve always liked this song but I really dug it especially today because my Lions finally finished!
A Chewy package arrived today. But it wasn’t for Leia. Actually, it was but she doesn’t care. I do though! Once my doorbell ring, I thought of this picture that my nephew’s fiancé tagged me in:
Leia wasn’t waiting by the truck, but rather, I was. It was a small package. This package was her medication. Because she is now eating special prescription food, She can no longer have her heartworm gummies. Instead, she has a liquid like her flea and tick medication which is both her flea and tick dosage as well as her heartworm.
it is NOT cheap at all but she is TOTALLY worth it! My Mom will give it to her between her shoulders in the next coming days. We have to keep her safe and healthy!
STILL NOT in order and I didn’t even share this song on Facebook before posting it here on my blog. This song came up in my YouTube feed and ALWAYS reminds me of my brother, Dave! What a perfect time for this song to oh man after he stopped by, made our dog bark for the first time, and brought over some cookies then made me break my diet! It was worth it! I had two!!!
