Author: Jen Rios

Random Tune #58 in my YouTube Feed

So, I posted this tune on my Facebook page because it showed up in my YouTube feed and I did not want to forget about it. It really made me laugh when I saw this song there because I haven’t thought of this song in a super long time! It wasn’t my ultimate, favorite song but I could dig it. I was still teaching back then and I liked listening to songs that, “The kids” dug.

it was a catchy tune for sure! I laughed hysterically when I saw it show up in my YouTube feed because this song played in my car on my first trip to Barwis Methods with just me and Sean. The DJ on the radio, I don’t remember who it was, but he talked about this song being number one for 13 weeks in a row. Then he said, “A 13 week old baby does not know a world without Nate and Pink being number one! I remember that both Sean and I laughed at to hearing that! He was 11 back then. So when this song showed up randomly in my YouTube feed, I had to add it to my list here on my blog!

Even though I don’t remember what station we were listening to or the DJ who said this, I will always remember Sean and me laughing as I drove to Barwis because I still drive back then.

WE Did it!

So, Sean graduated yesterday. It was a personal blessing in the church and receiving his diploma with the principal. I did not go because I am still sheltering in place with my mom. Sean‘s great aunt Lee and his dad went in my place.

Lee sent me a real time pictures the whole time which I absolutely loved! I think Sean was gone about 30 minutes before I saw this:

I cried and Sean put his hands on the door and told me that, “We did it!” I smiled through my tears and told him that, “HE did it!” Then he said no the glass, “YOU paid for it! I smiled and agreed that, “WE did it.”

My mom masked and took a couple pictures of him:

I love this picture because it shows what Sean looked like for his senior pictures. Now, he has his, “Quarantine hair” I guess that is a memory that we will eventually cherish!

This was the extent of me experiencing my only son’s high school graduation:

It’s definitely not how I planned it but it’s how it is and he finished high school! And I guess I can take some credit for that seeing that I paid for it. Now, I have a DCHS alum!


NOT “MS-y“ Day 4

It was a rough start this morning but I told myself that I refused to succumb to, “MS-y Day 4!” I could hear my Dad‘s voice in my head and I grabbed my guts!!! It was that easy I know but I saw this on Facebook and I had to live it today!:

I look forward to being even stronger tomorrow because I have a lot of blogs to post!

“MS-y” Day 2

So my wonkiness is continuing for a second day. I didn’t even get my hair washed because I don’t feel well. I just put it up in a ponytail because I have one of those now.

It started yesterday when I sat in my chair in and out of sleep and I listened to Sara Bareilles. I used to sing along with her for all of her songs but I no longer can carry a tune like that but rest assured that I am singing along in my head!!! This song has been in my hand for two days now. I have never shared it before on my blog but here it is:

“MS-y”

I’m not sure what it is that is causing me to feel as horrible as I do. I think it may be the weather change because I woke up very cold this morning and can’t seem to warm up. When the seasons change, it’s awful for at least a few days. I shared this on Facebook:

I’m having a pretty, “MS-y” day and I don’t like it AT ALL!!!

August 2020 Faves

And addition to just posting a list of my favorite songs with their links, I want to say something about today.

It was 15 years ago today that I ventured out of my Parents’ house for the first time. I had my freshly signed first teaching contract and was able to lease an apartment for one year for my three year old son and me. We lived there for one year. It was a small, one bedroom apartment and Sean says he doesn’t really remember that one.

I was jamming to this CD back then and I know I have shared it so many times here but I really love it and these songs remind me of out first apartment. I’ve listen to this album twice today;

Ponytail

I have a vivid memory from the summer of 2013 where I was laying on the turf at Barwis Methods on my back and I told Jesse, my trainer, that I missed having a ponytail. I had cut my hair all off five years earlier on my 26th birthday.

I thought about this from the beginning of this pandemic and subsequent Florentine. Sean snapped this picture and I think I had not had my haircut for almost 2 months at that point:

I have since documented my hair growth during this:

So, check out my ponytail now:

I ordered ponytail holders from Target, some thing I haven’t done for 12 years but they arrived in yesterday and I put my hair in a ponytail for the first time in 12 years. I would have taken a picture then but my hair was dirty. I think it’s crazy that I have forgotten how to put a ponytail holder in my hair. Yesterday, it took me a few times to remember.