Author: Jen Rios

I started season three this evening:

The season finale of season two blew my mind! I can’t believe that Jim and Pam kissed!! I really dug seeing Jim and Pam kiss and I know they end up together but I like laughing until then! I REALLY love laughing in the meantime and can’t believe how un-PC Michael is!!!

So, I’m still on season two and I just watched the Christmas party episode.

I think I really appreciate the escape from my anxiety anxiety with the coronavirus. I kind of like hearing myself laugh and it doesn’t really matter because I’m by myself! Sean warned me that this would happen, I just keep watching episodes because they continually play on Netflix without commercials.

Seeing the Christmas party episode with the Secret Santa fiasco made me laugh especially! I thought of an OG CCA Christmas party and I really started to laugh! It was probably my second or third year teaching and it was a great time and Beck when all of my colleagues and I were all really great friends!

So, my Facebook friend shared this yesterday and it’s pretty true!:

In the middle of this pandemic, my life really hasn’t changed very much. In the winter, I’m pretty much only left my house once a month to get my eyebrows waxed. Since I have made the executive decision to NOT venture out to get them done, today is day one of, “The Growth Project.” I should be getting my hair cut and my eyebrows waxed today, but I am not.

Today also marks the second day of my The Office binge. I watched six episodes yesterday which I found out today was the entire first season. Now, I am on season two, episode six.

I figured out that I can comfortably watch two hours of The Office in a day. I wonder how long I can keep that pace up because I know there are a bunch of seasons but what else is there to do?

I am completely in on the show in Sean cannot believe that it is taken me so long to watch it. Like I said yesterday, it’s better late than never and the show is pretty funny!

So, I am a pretty big binger. I binged New Girl fairly quickly and Game of Thrones in 10 days. I completed a binge of Euphoria in a matter of days. I, most recently, binged The Last Kingdom in just a few days.

When Sean came home from school one day, I chose to brag about it to him and he told me that he didn’t appreciate my binge because I have NOT binged The Office. I laughed when he said that to me but he has also told me that I have a lot of, “Irresponsible TV time” under my belt.

Now that I am no longer working, I suppose that is true. But today, I decided to change that. Today marked the first day of my The Office binge:

I watched six episodes today. I know that I have a long way to go but within the first five minutes, I laughed out loud! I I am also glad that I got to understand the reference of seeing Dwight in a basketball mask. Sean just showed me that the other day and I laughed even harder when I saw in myself in the episode.

I wonder how long this binge will take but I know I have a lot of TV to watch. I will be excited to tell Sean that I watched it and it’s entirely. He has told me that I am only about 15 years to late. He is told me that he has watched it in it’s entirety about 9 times and he was a kid when it first came out. He says that since I was an adult when it came out that is even worse. Well, I have begun my The Office binge. It’s better late than never, I suppose…

I remained a silent observer in tonight’s #ChatMS. The group discussed the coronavirus and I could not bring myself to add my two cents to any of the questions. I just read everyone’s answers. I have had MS for 19 years now and like everyone in the #ChatMS group have a compromised immune system. We are all in the group who is most vulnerable to this virus. I just watched and read everyone’s answers that are the same as mine would be. I even cried a little bit.

A question was posed about what would be something you wish people understood about MS and this virus. Bottom line = if I get it, that would NOT be good to say the least. I am grateful that my Mom takes excellent care of me! I even had to cancel my dentist appointment because of the virus. One thing that I was not going to discontinue was getting my hair cut and my eyebrows waxed. I have budgeted my money so that every month, when I get my disability check, I can get my hair cut and my eyebrows waxed at the same time and in the same place I have been going to for the last 17 years.

The more I watch the news, which I am glued to every day until it makes me cry because I get so afraid; has made me really reassess that decision this month. I told Sean yesterday that I made the executive decision to, “Let my hair and eyebrows ago.” Originally, when I decided this, I thought of an old episode of the 90s game show, Singled Out with Jenny McCarthy.

In that episode, it was the final round and the three finalists answer “Either/or”questions to advance to get closer to the person they will go on a date with. The girl who ultimately ended up winning in the show, decided to let her eyebrows grow rather than keep them groomed and trimmed. I remember she was a really cute girl and I thought her answer was fun. However, “Fun” it was, it definitely would NOT be the answer I would give and I was only about 14 when I saw the episode.

I get my disability check soon and I’m NOT going to go to the salon to get my haircut or my eyebrows waxed. I think it is more of the principle of my decision that makes me MOST sad. I rarely leave my house except for my monthly eyebrow appointment but now, going out and being in the world just doesn’t seem like a good idea with my compromised immune system.