Author: Jen Rios

Rando Tune #42

I can see 12 year old Jenny dancing with her friends!!! This was back when Fairlane mall was bumping’!!! It took me a couple of days to remember enough of these lyrics to search in YouTube for the video. it came out in 1994. The year I turned 12. I am so old! I don’t even mind though!:

Rando Tune #41

My son recommended the new White Men Can’t Jump movie. I liked it, but I had never seen the original one. I liked the soundtrack a lot! I really dig old music. Because I guess that’s what cool music is called nowadays by these young kids! I like this one the best I think:

Taye Diggs?!

I paid my car insurance today over the phone, that’s right, I am 41 years old, and I talk to people to pay my bills! That makes me feel so old! The woman I spoke with, was from Montana, and she understood that I was a Michigan and she asked about the weather.

She asked if it’s chilly because she had heard that it is and I told her it actually is! This weather is so insane and it’s doing terrible things to my body! And that, coupled with the fact that I am reducing my protein in my overnight oats, so I am a little bit tired.

I just finished watching my second Hallmark Christmas movie and it’s May?! The world is crazy now, so I’m just going with it. As I was watching a Christmas movie in May, I saw Taye Diggs as the spokesperson for some insomnia medication. Taye Diggs?! I can’t believe how old I am now?!!!!

MUCH Higher Than #36!!!

Scrolling through my phone lately has been not that exciting because of the writer’s strike but I was able to come across this video that I watched in its entirety. DUH!!!:

This song has easily fit into my top five for the past 22 years! It took me a while to watch this entire video, because I started crying within seconds of hearing the first bars with the drumsticks.

I have seen a number of people review this song after never hearing it before. I liked hearing her interpretation and breakdown.

I think I will want to hear that classical song that it reminds her of. I know Pachelbel Canon in D but I don’t know the other one. I guess that will be homework for me!

Full Circle

When Sean was young, probably about 10 because we were living in our house. I used to get dove milk chocolate bites, and we would eat them together and I would read the quote or fortune or whatever you want to call it.

It was then when I decided to get Dove Bunnies for Easter because they discontinued making the Crunch bunny with big feet that I used to get for Sean every year. I would often get Dove milk, chocolate bites for us to eat together. But then my disease began to progress…

I do not do research on the Internet regarding anything having to do with MS because, honestly, that sh*t is way too depressing!!! I do, however, ask questions for my MS support groups to answer. It was there, probably about a decade ago, that I switched over to dark chocolate instead of having milk chocolate. There’s better health benefits for people with MS.

I prefer dark chocolate, so it worked out for me. But now, let’s fast forward to present day and everything has come full circle! Dark chocolate is too difficult for me to bite into! I had to switch back to having milk chocolate, because that is easier to melt in my mouth.

I had a piece of milk chocolate tonight and I saw this and I remember seeing it was Sean when he was young:

The reason I had a piece of chocolate today is because I currently am cutting down my protein intake for my lunch and dinner. My nutritionist said that this would happen and I know what I need to do.

I have figured out in the last couple months that three scoops of protein is too much for me. I was just having two scoops of protein, but I was still feeling faint so my nutritionist increased it. But now, I am starting to gain weight, so I need to adjust that. I will just need to pay attention to my body and then when it’s feeling better, I can increase the protein a little bit.

A Bubble

I cut my hair on May 17. I had originally cut my hair to a reverse Bob on my 26th birthday. But now, 15 years and some change later, that has proved to be too long for me. Christina asked me if I was ready and I told her that my hair is the consistency of straw now and I need it shorter and added that she should just make it look good.

When she was finished, waxing my eyebrows, she gingerly asked, how is it going? I replied by saying,“I’m hanging, but it’s progressing!” She give me a side hug. And when I told her that I am not ready for a pixie yet, she said she is not ready to GIVE me a pixie yet! My Mom snapped these pictures right outside of the salon and it was windy. She said that my hair looks like a bubble now:

I was recovered enough to have my Mom wash my hair last night, and my Mom took this picture. It’s more comfortable for sure. It’s strange that I don’t have to put hair behind my ears!

#MyGirlL: Quality of Life

My Mom took Leia to the vet this morning while I slept. My Mom picked up her second dose of her therapy a while ago, but she has been scratching like crazy!

So, my Mom took her in and she saw a different vet and that that looked through her file and told my Mom that she has done everything for the Leaia and nothing seems to be working!

They had a frank conversation regarding it Leia. The vet talked about having a good quality of life. For that, she said that Lealu should be on a maintenance dose of steroids for the rest of her life.

they did a number of scrapings on her to check on her skin, and they drew blood to check for heartworm:

They told my mom to take the Band-Aid off after 10 minutes.