Category: A Bit Of Randomness

I have told Sean that I did NOT wish for him to be a teenage parent pretty much since he was seven years old. I would add, “Because this, is HARD!” as I pointed to myself. The, “This” I spoke of was single, teenage parenthood and Sean understood that. As Sean has grown, he understands that fact moreso. He has told me that he could NOT see himself having a child now.

Yesterday, he told me that he could NOT have a baby now and he didn’t know how I did it! I reassured him that he was an excellent baby! He was in NICU for a month and once he came home, for an additional month, he slept all but 20 minutes a day. I had to wake him up to feed him. When he was two months old, he slept from 8 to 8 every night. He also took 2, one hour long naps every day until he was three.

So, this morning, Leia woke up early! I heard Sean put her leash on to take her outside and I looked at my cell phone and it was 5:56 a.m. I usually wake up and get out of bed when she wakes up in the morning but this morning, I put my phone down and said to myself, “I’m NOT getting up!” and I went back to sleep until 8.

Thinking about it, my son IS a single, teenage parent and I am the one who bought him the dog! The amount of pride I have in him taking care of her is beyond immense! My Mom has taken her out a few times but I can’t help at all. I just get to pet her as she gets on her hind legs to put her paws on my armrest. My son will be an excellent dad because although he is tired today, he is an excellent Pet Daddy!!!

I thought of something from last week that I wanted to write about but I was hard-core into my, “The Office” binge. I need to write about this before I write my blog post about last night. It has to do with getting into bed at night. I need a lot of help to get into and situated in my bed at night. Sean has been able to help me and my Mom because he is home.

He is strong enough to just pick me up out of my chair and place me in my bed. When he did this, my Mom made fun of me being extremely, “High maintenance” and that I need all of my covers right up to my chin. I always explain to her that I am not, “High maintenance“ but rather; I am, “High standards.”

As my Mom pulled my covers up to my chin, Sean asked me if I ever let my leg out of the covers when I am too warm. I told him quite matter-of-factly, “No.” I wasn’t ready for his follow up question but he had one. He asked me if I do NOT put my leg out from under the covers because I am afraid of monsters. I answered him just as matter-of-factly as before, “Yes.”

It took a moment for my answer to sink in before we all started to laugh! I am not even ashamed to admit that at 38 years old, I am STILL afraid of monsters getting me while I sleep!

I saw this commercial awhile back and I thought it was funny. It wasn’t until I ACTUALLY became this lady that I thought it was even funnier. I am finally figured out what kind of commercial it was:

I am very happy with Verizon and I will not change but I take pictures of this dog all of the time! EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!!! This dog has been in my house since Tuesday so she has only been here six days and my camera roll is filled with her pictures!

My Mom helped me out of bed kind of early Sunday morning after my really bad Saturday night. My entire house wakes up early now we have a puppy. It was cooler in the morning so I was more comfortable. Something I witnessed that was truly heart-warming was that my Mom spoke to all of my brothers before 11 am. They all called her and she was elated to speak with each of them. She put most of them on speaker because she was doing things in the kitchen as I tried to wake up and let my body, “Thaw out.”

I half-overheard the conversation she had with my brother, Dave. He is a police sergeant in Detroit. My Mom asked about how work was the night before because he works midnights. I heard both of them laughing which I liked to hear as was still somewhat incoherent.

He talked about issuing citations to a lot of people loitering in groups. Deaths are rising in do United States and Michigan exponentially so I think that that fact had something to do with my tears the night before. My Mom asked about these young people who were loitering and the fact that they could spread the virus to vulnerable people in their houses.

Dave said that he didn’t care because, “My two vulnerables are safe in a house.” He was talking about my Mom and me! We both have been holed up in my house since the middle of March so my hair is long and my eyebrows are bushy but both of us are safe. I smiled to myself with my eyes closed as I tried to wake up because, Sean had taken Leia out to the yard and my Mom and I were really safe.

Late this morning, my Mom was washing dishes as I ate breakfast because she eats breakfast a lot earlier than I do while I am still trying to wake my body up. I ordered her a couple things to be delivered to my house for Mother’s Day. As she was washing one of the presents I got her, she said, “Blue IS my favorite color!“ I told her that I know that because I do. Blue actually used to be my favorite color when I was in high school!

My favorite color choice had to change when I had Sean. It has pretty much been me and Sean for his whole life! When given the choice between colors, I always have allowed Sean to choose the blue one. The options for the choice was most obvious when Sean started getting his teeth cleaned. I always made appointments for us to get our teeth cleaned simultaneously. Sean’s hygienist knew to give Sean the choice between a blue or green toothbrush. My hygienist knew to give me a purple toothbrush because our toothbrushes are in the same bathroom.

So, purple became my favorite color by default. Actually, aubergine is my favorite color:

This color is the color of my comforter. My really heavy comforter that I absolutely love! I didn’t learn this word until about five years ago from my former colleague, Mrs. Cochran. We worked together for my entire 12 years working there and it was in passing in the teacher lounge that she made reference to that color. I didn’t know what she was talking about so I asked her and she told me. When she showed me the color, I told her that that’s my favorite color! That and that word sounds really cool!

It just came to my attention yesterday that I had not posted by April 2020 Faves?! The lockdown had already started back then and I was hard-core into my, “The Office” binge. It was completely an oversight on my part which upsets me because I have been posting my monthly Faves in the Tunes Tab of my blog since December of 2013!!!

It seems that I am completely off with all that is going on with COVID-19. However, in my hard-core binge, I have posted at least 16 songs that I jammed to and noted on my blog during the month of April. My extreme apologies for not posting my April 2020 Faves but I did not post my May 2020 Faves until the third of the month!

***My posts from April can be viewed in the Tunes Tab on my blog.

Yesterday, my body finally started to relax late in the morning. My Mom asked me what I wanted to eat and I laughed a little and told her, “Cookies.”. She was puzzled by my answer so I made my way into the kitchen to recount the story of Sean.

I have to say that I haven’t had a cookie all year! I reserve my cookie eating for my extended family’s Christmas Eve party. My aunt Lala‘s cookies are to die for and well worth all of their calories and carbs!

I told my Mom that I wanted, “Cookies” because when Sean was young and we still lived with my parents, he climbed out of his crib one morning and got into bed with me on the other side of the room. I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he told me that he wanted pancakes. So, I got up and made him pancakes. The next day, it was either the weekend or on one of my college breaks, I asked him the same question.

He thought for a minute and answered, “Cookies.” I started to laugh because he fully expected me to allow him to have cookies… for breakfast! He didn’t get cookies for breakfast but that story always makes me laugh so when my mMom asked me what I wanted for breakfast, I told her, “Cookies.”

My Mom made me eggs because I wasn’t going to eat cookies. she poured me some milk and before she started washing the dishes, she placed two cookies by my milk. They weren’t just any cookies, they were, “Face Cookies”!!! I laughed because I didn’t even know we had cookies in our house and let alone, “Face Cookies!”

Now, when I say they were, “Face Cookies,” I am talking about the Keebler rainbow chocolate chip cookies. I have been calling those cookies theis for 20 years! My nephew, David, called them, “Face Cookies” when he was about three years old. The name stuck! Both my Mom and I call them that and see no problem WITH calling them that!

So, when my Mom placed those cookies by my milk, of course, I HAD to eat them! The, “Stay-at-Home” orders have been tough for me with my overgrown hair and my bushy eyebrows! I had to give myself a little bit of a break even though for years, carbs have NOT been my friend!

My Mom washed my hair today. That’s how it is now. It was difficult to accept at first but I have no choice but to accept it. Leia is completely chill about it. Sean was working online and this was her last time because we weren’t sitting in the living room with her:

My Mom washes my hair in the bathroom. I sit on the toilet seat and she uses the sink. We keep the door open when we do this. So, today it’s freezing and it snowed so it was NOT a three act play as a blow dried my hair. My hair is super long now (by my standards) and it took a REALLY long time to dry it completely but I appreciated the heat because I am having a really hard time staying warm today!

When my Mom transferred me back into my wheelchair, I rolled into my living room to see #MyGirlL in usual form!:

As soon as I got into the living room, even though my hair was just washed, I put on my winter hat!