When my Mom and I went to pick up my new power chair, we asked both Diane and Dave if the joystick was fixed and both of them with the quickness, let us know that it’s NOT! I was making a conscious effort not to let the rubber on the joystick fall off. But, Dave and Diane were correct! It only took two months and a day because I got this chair on December 14 and on February 15, this happened:
This is stinky!!! I will have this chair for the next four years and 10 months?!!!!
Tomorrow I will put out my vitamin bottles for me to Pillage on Saturday. I was just about to take my dinner vitamins today when I realized how these days are flying by so quickly!!!;
I just took my Thursday dinner vitamins, and my Monday through Wednesday vitamin boxes are empty but I really can’t remember taking them! I know that I did! I have to! But this is crazy, these days are flying by for sure!!!
I was wondering if the feeling I had yesterday and the day before yesterday would go away. I don’t feel well today but I must let you know that it’s STILL there! That awesome feeling of wonder! God is still here! My house was totally protected! I am going to try to put the video that shows how close that car was to my gate but if that doesn’t work out, I will post a picture because I think I have one of those too:
Video is too big, but here are pictures from my wonderful photo journalist, I just took screenshots of her video:
I thought about it for a moment that if my gate was hit, it would be replaced because it needs to be replaced anyway, because Leia gets out from there. But I much rather prefer that my house was completely protected!!!
Yesterday, in preparation of Lent, I was given confession, anointing of the sick (to help me with my osteoporosis diagnosis that I have just received but I will see my naturopath on February 21 and we’ll go to the endocrinologist on May 16th) and first communion by a priest from Divine Child, Fr. Jeremy.
I felt extremely blessed yesterday, and I felt God’s presence in my house because I have NOT had communion in years. I have been a member of the Virtual Front Pew with Fr. Mike schmitz on YouTube since week 17 of ordinary time 2021. It felt really good because I was ready for Lent!
But then this happened to my house today whilst I slept. I didn’t know what had happened at all until it was way over. My Mom came into my room and explained it to me. I was just waking up but it was so huge of a story that I told her I had to see the pictures!
I sent these pictures to two of my friends, but I prefaced it by saying that I am going to send the ‘after’ pictures first. I will do that here as well. My Mom is an excellent photographic journalist!:
She is also an excellent videographer, which I will show you right now. My body feels like there’s electricity surging through it! I told my Mom that I didn’t think that I would feel God anymore than I did yesterday but then today is today!:
I tried posting the video here, but it’s too large so I took a bunch of screenshots to give you the gist of what happened:
These next two are so dramatic in the video!!!:
The car was smoking!!!:
I couldn’t believe it when I saw this! My property is completely unscathed!!! The driver of that white car was 17 and he was coming out of Edsel Ford and driving Eastward on Rotunda. There was a red truck that T-boned him as they were turning onto Pelham and this is what happened.
He was still in the car when my Mom videoed everything. When he got out, she said that he was completely dazed and she told him to get checked out in the hospital. He thought that she was going to yell at him, but anyone who knows my Mom knows that that’s not how she is!!!
He came back here and knocked on the door after he got out of the hospital and my Mom talked with him in his friend‘s car. He was extremely apologetic and said he would fix the grass but my Mom told him that it’s winter it probably will flatten itself out in the spring when grass starts to grow.
I talked with Sean and he explained that it is because of, “Paula’s tree” that the house is fine. Paula was my neighbor before the current neighbor and she moved probably 10 years ago and before she moved, she put in two poplar trees. I don’t like them at all. but Sean, let me know that that tree took a beating, and it saved our house!!!:
I guess that he is right I think it’s insane how I feel right now! I have never experienced the Glory of God like I am experiencing right now!!! And all of this whilst I slept?!
A Facebook friend of mine shared this song when it happened. This is a great song and so like that there are people all dressed up that as well!!!
This reminds me of my days serving at Lonestar steakhouse and saloon. I was 18.
This was my last year teaching English. I heard a colleague talk about this song with another colleague. They were both on my seventh grade team. I was just about to start teaching Reading. I heard it the other day after I listened to Sheryl Crow and I listened to the entire song!:
After Toby Keith‘s death, I really have been thinking about my short stent in the country music scene!!!
I pillaged today like I do every Saturday:
I don’t think that I was prepared for my life to be as small as it is now. But here we are. I’ve had to make a new accommodation in terms of applying Chapstick. I no longer have enough hand control to put the cap of the chapstick back on the tube very easily. This is what I do now:
I have to push the plunger all the way down, so as not to get chapstick everywhere. And this is what it looks like when I put it on:
I don’t apply chapstick like a normal person anymore. I apply at first on my lower lip by just smearing it on, three times. I start on my left and go all the way to my right and back and one more time. I still, however, use the Chapstick in the center of my upper lip, and I go to my left and then I start back in the center again and go to my right. But after I do that, I have to push the plunger all the way down.
What seems to be happening now, is that the days between my pillaging are getting shorter. I’ve never seen my chapstick look like that before, but that’s how it is now I guess.
Last night, after I listened to Sheryl Crow, my Apple Music playlist just randomly plays songs. I heard this one yesterday and I finished it today and a flood of memories came back!
This memory is almost 20 years old because I was still teaching English. I think it probably had to be in 2007 or 2008? I remember Mr. Vella came to my classroom after school with his guitar.
I don’t remember the conversation, but I told him that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar! He started playing a Jimmy Eat World song. I told him that if I ever learn to play the guitar, I want to play Melissa Etheridge songs! He was totally weirded out by my answer, but I told him that I love the emotion that she sings with.
Well, I never learned how to play the guitar and I can’t sing anymore anyway. I can’t even write my name anymore! #MSucks!!! 😒😒😒…
Yesterday, I was down the YouTube rabbit hole pretty deeply, and I came across this video, and I had to watch it:
I have been a Toby Keith fan since I was serving at Lonestar steakhouse, and Saloon. I always have liked his voice and I was saddened to hear that he had stomach cancer. When I heard that he passed, I was saddened, but I did not cry.
I’ve only cried at two celebrity deaths. The first one is obvious, Beverly, Clary! But I did cry when Sean Connery died as well. I named Sean after him based on that nurse in the hospital who told me that, “Sean Connery is so handsome” when Sean was three days old and did not have a name yet.
I am positive that I will cry at Bono’s death! But I was surprised at that fact, because my Mom and I listened to toby Keith’s Greatest Hits album on loop for months after my Dad died! But then I read this article and then the tears came:
I think that I will seriously think about putting all of my favorite Toby Keith songs and a blog post? Maybe just an Apple Music playlist.