Category: A Bit Of Randomness

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.

Favorite

My Mom had to wash my hair this morning because, well, “Sometimes it bees like that” and MS ain’t no joke! I closed my eyes as my Mom combed shampoo through my hair with her fingers. She began to talk about my Dad. She was not talking about my Dad as my Dad but my Dad as a high school student on retreat with her. For some reason this song came into her head and she wasn’t sure of who sang it. I let her know that it was Otis Redding:

My Mom told me that my Dad really liked this song and it was one of his favorites. I asked her why he liked it and she said that he said that, “It was easy. It was peaceful,” I told her that Sara Bareilles had a cover of this song:

I couldn’t see her face as she scrubbed my scalp but I could hear in her voice that she was NOT here with me in 2019 but somewhere back in time and on retreat probably in 1969 with my Dad.

I vaguely remember hearing my Dad say something about, “The ‘Frisco Bay” in conversation when we were driving when I was about eight or nine. I told my Mom that I tell everyone about my favorite ANYTHING. When she was finished pulling the soap suds out of my hair and was going to rinse it, I raised both open hands over my head and yelled,

“Daddy! I could use a little, “peaceful” right about now!“ with my head and eyes slightly tilted toward the ceiling because I REALLY could use some of that right now and I knew to ask my Dad to intervene on my behalf to God because I am CERTAIN that is where he is now!

A Lifetime of Sundays

A few days ago, I saw an advertising commercial during GMFB for this documentary titled, A Limetime of Sundays which chronicles the lives of four prominent women in football. Mrs. Halas-McClaskey, the owner of the Chicago Bears, Mrs. Martha Firestone-Ford, the owner of the Detroit Lions, Mrs. Patricia Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Mrs. Norma Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. Kay Adams said that she was surprised at how emotional the documentary was for her and she raved about it. During the next commercial break, I set my TV to record it and I was certain that I would watch it!

I began watching the documentary later that day. Kay Adams words 100% right! I cried so much as I watched the incredible stories of these women. I tweeted Kay to let her know that I was watching it and I was crying like she said that that I would.

Kay liked my tweet but just after I sent it, the documentary was interrupted for breaking news Regarding Antonio Brown being released from the New England Patriots. I was not able to watch the end of the documentary. That is, until today! I really watched the documentary from the beginning today and again, I cried my eyes out! There was no breaking news during my viewing of it and it is saved in my recorded items.

I will be watching this many times and I suggested that Sean watch it as well. I suggest that everyone watched it! It doesn’t even matter if your team is not the Bears, the Lions, the Steelers, or the Chiefs!

Round 2 OR 1 of 2

I just put together my niece’s package. Hopefully, it will get mailed out tomorrow:

I think these packages amuse both my niece and my nephew. I really like putting them together and I like it that they can laugh at all of my Michigan stickers even if it is going to Michigan State University.

I spoke with Natalie‘s aunt from the other side of her family not too long ago and I told her that I painstakingly put all the specific things these kids asked for in. The specific things they tell me that they like! Natalie’s other aunt laughed when she saw the picture but I told her that it contains all the things Natalie likes so she just has to put up with the Michigan stickers.

These kids are really good kids and I like sending them packages. I don’t even mind that I send these pages to MSU. I just have to make my allegiance clear!

Amused 😍😍😍!!!

I was thoroughly amused this morning watching GMFB!!!

This segment had me laughing hysterically!

Kyle Brant was absolutely hilarious as Dave Grohl! Later in the show, today is “Throw Down Thursday.” This segment always is he comparison between the two teams who play in tonight’s football game. It will be the Green Bay Packers versus the Philadelphia Eagles. The last comparison is usually a Pop Culture comparison. Today, it was the battle of the Bradleys which, really, there was NO BATTLE!!! It was between Bradley Whitford and Bradley Cooper.

Bradley Whitford:

He was the bad boyfriend in Adventures in Babysitting.

I will tell you right now that he does NOT hold a candle to Bradley Cooper! 😍😍😍

SERIOUSLY?!!!

Concerned

So, let me start off by saying that most of my days, I spend alone. I am by myself after my Mom and I complete our morning routine and while Sean is at school. I spend most of that time watching TV, posting on Twitter or Facebook, so my time is usually spent in silence.

I am still trying to muster up enough strength to read! It absolutely breaks my heart that I have not been able to read since the power outage at the end of May. Recovering from those six days away is still not 100%. I rarely leave my house because now that I am in a motorized chair, I don’t have a vehicle to transport it.

Yesterday, Sean took me to get my eyebrows waxed and my hair cut in the evening. I NEED TWO eyebrows! Sean is used to transferring me in and out of the car and pushing my wheelchair. We got to my haircut place and Sean sat down.

I’ve written about the woman who waxes my eyebrows and cuts my hair before. She has been doing it since Sean was very young! So, she knows me! You know, there is a special bond between a hairdresser and a client. That’s where we stand!

She pulled her chair out of the way to allow me to wheel up to her station. She always asks me how things are going and when I spoke, I saw her look of concern immediately. She asked me questions and then had to lean in to hear my answers because my speech was so jumbled that I spoke very slowly and not too loudly.

She asked me if I was OK and I told her that this has been a relatively new development. She cut my hair and then wheeled me over to get my eyebrows waxed. We still continued to have conversation as best as I could and she asked me if I needed to see a doctor.

How sweet! I told her that I talked to my neurologist’s nurse yesterday and this is just part of having MS. She looked so concerned and I felt badly for that. She told me that she has known me for a long time and that I have never sounded like I sounded last night!

So, now, I have two eyebrows and my hair is cut nicely. I didn’t leave my house today either. I’m OK with that though. It is what it is and MS still stinks!

“But, You Do!”

Johnny Cash was one of my Dad‘s favorite musicians. I grew up listening to his music. It is entwined within the fiber of my being! I saw this commercial a few times a couple weeks ago when watching TV with Sean. I am sure that we were watching some football game but I can’t remember what exactly it was.

Hearing Johnny Cash‘s voice will make my heart stop now. It makes me miss my Dad. I think it must’ve been the second or third time we saw this commercial together that Sean commented, “I don’t know what this is” but, it took him adding, “But, you do!” that got to me.

Upon hearing him say this, I gasped and sighed, “Awww!” I realized at that moment he was speaking about the fact that I grew up with four older brothers. Sean did not grow up with any siblings. Sean and I live alone in our house. It is just him and me on Christmas morning. He didn’t say that accusingly at all to me but I felt badly.

I remember that I dated a guy in high school who was an only child and I asked him who he opened his Christmas present with. He told me that he did so by himself which I thought was absolutely crazy because I have always opened my presents with my brothers! Sean opens his Christmas presents by himself.

Sean saw that I felt badly and told me that when he was growing up, he would fight with his cousins and that was close enough. I know that it’s not but I am NOT having any more children! After Sean told me that a couple weeks ago, I hey more attention to this commercial every time I see it now.

I grew up with chaos like in this commercial. Sean has not! Even when I was still working, we would get ready for the morning in silence. Now, he gets himself up and gets ready for school and most days I am still sleeping when he comes into my room to say goodbye and kiss my forehead..I’m not going to EVER say that my brothers were extremely nice or kind to me or anything but sibling rivalry nowadays is way different!

Sleep

Okay, so I’ve written about this a number of times that I am NOT a morning person and MS is a huge sleep depriver! I usually do not fall asleep until after 1:00 a.m. and I am up around 645 during the week. I usually get 4 to 5 interrupted hours of sleep.

However, last night, I fell asleep a little after 1 a.m. as usual but I didn’t wake up until after seven a.m.! I felt really good this morning! On Saturdays, I do not watch GMFB Weekend and instead come over and sit in my kitchen as my Mom brews her cup of coffee as I drink my Kiefer. Last week, just after I finished my Kiefer, I wheeled to the mouth of my kitchen and asked my Mom for a shake because she had the refrigerator open.

As she handed me my shake, she looked at me, and told me, “I don’t like your face.” I was pretty groggy and it was too early for me to answer her. It took most of our morning routine for me to ask her why she didn’t like my face. She told me that she didn’t like how pained it looked. I told her that I really hurt!

During last week, I told Sean a number of times that my Nom told me that she does not like my face. We both started to laugh but my Mom was kind of upset at that and she told me that she didn’t like the pain in my face! This morning, I didn’t feel the pain showing on my face and I think that was because I get so much sleep!

I’m not going to say that this will happen to me every Saturday morning but it feels pretty good right now that it happened to me this Saturday morning! Michigan’s dominating win probably helped with that as well.

My Mom asked me if Michigan State plays today at one just like Michigan. My answer to her was simple. “I don’t care!” And then I started to laugh! She told me that the only reason she asked is because Jonah goes there and I told her that I knew that. After Michigan’s excellent win, State was playing Indiana on the same channel right after. I listened to the postgame about Michigan but then I couldn’t bring myself to watch State play! I changed the channel. It would be really cool to have another night’s sleep like it did last night but I’m not going to hold my breath! I know that a night of sleep like I had last night is EXTREMELY rare and few and far between but I will take it whenever I can!

One Brief, Shining Moment

I fell to sleep last night at about 1 a.m. This morning, my eyes shot open a few minutes after 6 o’clock. I had five hours of sleep. That is pretty much the norm now and I guess The sleep that I got the night before was just one brief, shining moment. I don’t feel well rested today and my knee is KILLING me because it is raining!

Today was a reality check for me for sure because my knee STILL hurts, I am tired, and the Lions lost. BOO!!! Hi was on a high yesterday with Michigan’s when and all of the sleep I got the night before. But it is clear to me now that #MSsucks STILL!!!

Because of My Mom 💜💜💜!

My Mom changed my furnace filter and turned my heat on today because I was freezing in my house as I first watched, Hocus Pocus

Today. I am still not feeling much better but I know that it is coming and I continue to take the pills I’m supposed to to get better. I’ve been averaging watching Hocus Pocus twice a day because I like it and it calms me when I don’t feel well, which is right now.

The Lions are on a bye this week and Michigan won today so now I can just recline in my wheelchair and veg out and watch Hocus Pocus. again. I hope I sleep well tonight and I think I will because it is warm in my house now because of my Mom.

Tune #33 Inspired by GMFB OR “The Second Best Mustache in the Building”

Last week, the breakfast table had the recording artist, Sash at the breakfast table. He is only 19 years old and recorded this song in his bedroom with his brother. The NFL picked it up and I see/hear it on all this year’s game highlight reels. Sean listened to it yesterday and even though the Lions are NOT play this week, I played it and I still see highlight reels in my head.

Also from last week, I wasn’t able to tweet the show but they had Doug Marrone on via satellite, he is the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Kyle’s first question for him was about Gardner Minshew’s mustache.

The question amused me but Doug Marrone’s answer, amused me more! I am sure that he has heard about his quarterback’s mustache a lot! He kind of shook his head a little bit and let Kyle know that Garner has only, “The second best mustache in the building!” His answer really amused me because knowing who else is in the building at the Jaguars facility, Gardner is definitely second!

The winner of the best mustache is hands-down, the teams owner, Sha’d Khan!!! I searched the Internet to find a good picture of Sha’d Khan’s mustache and this is what I came up with. I couldn’t decide on just one picture:

I don’t know if this next picture was photoshopped or not, but if it is NOT, that is just awesome!