Author: Jen Rios

A B+

Today is Saturday and that is my Pillage day:

I discovered today, that all of this red tape that we are dealing with has taken it’s toll on me! I forgot to take my lunchtime vitamins yesterday! What?! I have NEVER forgotten to take my vitamins! Or, at least, when I do, I take it at night before I go to bed. I shake the individual day’s vitamins to see if there’s anything in it but I guess I didn’t do that last night.

We have been on the phone for two weeks regarding all of the stuff! But I have a wheelchair coming. I should have gotten a new chair on July 18 but I did not. I am beyond frustrated. But Monday thinks might be different…

Discovering that I forgot to take my vitamins yesterday kind of reminded me when I got a B+ in grad school. That was absolutely devastating to me!!! That was the first time I had gotten a B+ my ENTIRE time at the University of Michigan-Dearborn!!!

The only solace I got from that B+ was the fact that I got an A+ in a class the semester before, so I rationalized it to myself that if I average it out, it’s an A-, NOT a B+!!! Not that that matters at all in the grand scheme of things!!!

Only Complicated for a Little While!!!

I asked my Mom for a snack sized Ziploc bag yesterday and she asked me how many I am going to ask for and I told her, “Just one more.” I told her that it’s only going to be complicated for a little while!

I am in the middle of the complicated ‘changing of the guard,’ but I do not need to leave my house until October 18. That’s my next haircut. I reserved the day after for my Mom and I to the Cider mill.

Let me ‘splain ya:

I started my fall flavors on October 1. This is how it is complicated.

What is normally my Spring flavored box looks like this:

The only reason my Spring box looks like this is because I left my house on Monday. I used my Chai Chapstick and I was not able to fully pull it out, and Friday, I’m sure I will have five Ziploc ‘bags of chapstick!’ But this is all only complicated for a little while!

I am just going to use my ‘’bags of chapstick until the remnant of the Chapstick is gone, and I think that will be BEFORE we go to the Cider mill this year!

Spent.

I had to leave my house today because my signature was needed and some bank documents. It took us over an hour at the bank.

Needless to say, I am spent. Beyond spent! I cannot even watch Hocus Pocus. today at all. I took my contacts out as soon as I got into my house, because of my eyes were aching so much!!!

Right off the Bat!!!

Today it was October 1, which is a big mile stone day for me! That is the day when I begin watching Hocus Pocus and it is when I change my chapstick to my fall box. I was reminded right off the bat, how complicated this ‘changing of the guard’ will be for me:

I was hoping to finish my Pomegranate chapstick before today, but I did not so I have to keep that in my remote control box until next Spring.

I changed over to Pumpkin Spice today and I knew that there wasn’t much Chapstick left in the tube so I checked it out I got stuck so now I have two bags of Chapstick. I am not using pumpkin spice tomorrow though so that one will just wait for a few more days.

I am well aware that my chapstick habits DO NOT matter at all, but it keeps my mind occupied and I have a feeling of accomplishment every time I finish a chapstick tube in its entirety!!!

Rando Tune #52

I have had a lyric in my head for almost a week now. And it’s just this:


I couldn’t remember where I heard that lyric from. But it persisted in my head for almost a week until right now as I’m laying in bed trying to fall asleep, it hit me! My freshman year at Western!!! I listened to this song the very first night I stayed there and my roommate wasn’t there yet. I was such a melo-dramatic kid! Here is the line right before:


I posted this song so many times on my blog because I really dig it and I dig the memory because that is where I live now…

My Optic Neuritis Ridden Eyes

I am aware, but can’t believe it! I have known since December 28, 2000 that MS is a progressive and debilitating disease. Things are starting to catch up with me now! I can’t stop hearing that horrible doctor telling me that I have MS, will go blind, and then I will die.

We were too shocked to properly respond at the time, but I think that 22 years is where things start to go sideways because that’s what’s happening with me now.

Tomorrow is October 1! You know what that means?! I think I started doing this in 2018 and I think five years is the limit… at least for me and my optic neuritis, ridden eyes! This one is a tough one for me because I appreciate doing silly and repetitive things, but be sure that I will be watching it tomorrow at least and I will be rocking my fourth Sanderson sister shirt!

I think I will go back to sporadically watching it because my eyes can’t really handle a lot of TV these days. I’ve been listening to a lot more music instead.