This category is full of randomness that really doesn’t fit nicely into any of the categories having to do with my road to walking.
I spoke to Sean while he was driving today and he said that it is the first hot day and I completely agreed with him.
The past month of this 50°and 60° back-and-forth has been brutal, but I don’t think I was ready for it to be 87° for the entire day!
It’s 76° right now and it’s 10 o’clock at night?! Thank the Lord that my AC is fixed! This would be so much more unbearable!!! This doesn’t feel great but a lot better than it could feel.
Today is June 4 and I had to make a bag-of-chapstick for my first Cucumber Mint tube of the season:
Already?! Seriously?! I cannot believe I have used that much chapstick in a short time because it didn’t get warm for a while.
Once I am finished with this bag-o-chapstick, I have three other tubes for this Spring/Summer season. I know that I will be finished with this bag-o-chapstick before I leave the house for haircuts on June 18.
I completely know that the flavor of chapstick I am using makes no difference in the real world, but I am no longer in the real world, and it’s something to focus on, I guess.
I had placed an order during the Memorial day sale for Duluth Trading Company. I bought Sean ‘Dry on the Fly’ pants for his irrigation season.
Because Sean is a guy, he did not know the exact pants size to get, so I got him the two sizes that I thought he would be. I thought that he would just try them on, give me the ones that didn’t work, and I will just return it.
I called the customer service department because my Speech Pathologist wants me to practice speaking to strangers to see if I still can be audible when I am not comfortable with the person. Well, I called and I spoke to Pam and she was absolutely lovely! I actually can just send the pants back and they will exchange them for the pants that fit Sean. They will send the pants to my house. Easy Peezy!
And on top of that, I still got to practice my SLOB techniques for speaking. I need to text Meira this information and tell her about that.
So here’s the deal, I have kept my Lenten promises all the way up until Pentecost. This is the first time that I have done this and that feels great! I really haven’t been listening to music. But now, since it is after Pentecost, I can resume normal activities.
I saw a reel of Prince wearing a red hat when he was inducted into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame with Tom Petty, Bob Seger and George Harrison was inducted posthumously.
Wait. What? How did I not know this? Well the reason is because on March 15, 2004. I was still an undergrad. I still lived with my Parents and my son was three years old. I did not watch things on TV for myself back then. It was a lot of Playhouse Disney.
After I watched that reel, I had to see the performance. It was mind blowing! The next day, the remastered versions of that video came with an explanation:
And here’s the explanation:
And then I started seeing reels of the Super Bowl performance, and I had to watch!!!
And this one too:
This one popped up in my phone last night and I had to include it:
I’m thinking that Prince reels started showing up in my phone because I talked about my friend Aseal talking about the hajj. She has loved Prince for my whole life! Seeing these videos popping up in my phone makes me think of her. I saw her once when I was teaching. She was also teaching, but it was in passing, and that was it.
I have been thinking about her since I read about the mayor of Dearborn going on the hajj and this Prince just make me smile.
A few days ago, my Mom wanted to listen to this song as she put my compression socks on and I was TOTLLY down because I put this song on my ‘faves’ back when I was still teaching and working out at Barwis!!!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard this song and it completely took way back to when I was teaching and working out at Barwis, just like I KNEW that it would!!!: 😍😍😍
I think today was the day where it’s going to be very warm outside now! The fact that it hit 80° today and it’s going to stay pretty much there the whole week and it’s ‘go time’ for me?! That is really stinky!
For example, today my Mom told me that I was a little bit testy and I told her, “Oh, I am 1000% because it’s hot outside! My body feels that!”
It’s going to be very strange for me this year because for the past nine years, I had window air conditioners. Even though I am comfortable in my house, my body feels how warm it is outside, I have cried three separate times today. Tears just stream out of my eyes because now that it’s warm for real, for real, existence is difficult to say the least!!!
I’ve spent the last three days with tears streaming out of my eyes with no control over it. It’s been brutal! But now, I am focused.
I’ve already e-checked in for my appointments next week and I paid my bill in MiChart. Who would have thought that a urogram would be $200?!
I’ve entered into a payment plan to pay for that while I will go over the next two months to address that development with my doctor.
This is getting so serious, but I am focused. I absolutely love that it’s not supposed to rain until after our haircuts.
I talked with Sean yesterday on his way home from work. He stopped to get gas and we were talking as he went into the gas station and I heard this song:
He told me that, “Wake up call” is gas station music now! I couldn’t believe that and I told him that I feel like I am in our second apartment. To which he answered, to my delight,”Mr too.”
I got my haircut today. It’s shorter. Shorter than I ever thought it would be in my whole entire life! Here was what I went in with:
I told Christina that I think that I needed to be shorter with all of this heat. This is what I left with:
When she finished, before she waxed my eyebrows and face, I told her, “It’s a far cry from Carmel highlights!” She just got a somewhat somber face and said, “Yeah.”
When she was cutting my hair, probably 15 years ago, she always told me that she wanted to give me caramel highlights and she thought that would look beautiful! It is a far cry from that and she waxed my face today. I’m sorry that I can’t muster a smile because this weather is brutal!!!:
Prince is still showing up in my feed a little bit, but it’s been a little while since the hajj, but I saw this and I think it’s just brilliant!