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 added my Mom to my Netflix account and I will say that the movies she chooses are usually hit or miss. The other day, she wanted to watch this one on my TV in the living room so I went with it.
I kind of really dug it! We watched in a number of times since then but I have design and that the farmers market is my favorite scene!
I also dug in this scene and downloaded this song on Apple Music:
I’m cheesy but, I am okay with that! You guys should check this movie out. It’s on Netflix.
Leia had an appointment with the vet yesterday. It was to restart a administration of a vaccine. When she was sick, she Had a fever so she could not get the second dose. We had to start and then doses over yesterday. She gets the second dose a little bit after she goes for The ultrasound on her mass on her stomach that the vet found at the previous appointment.
A receptionist called us to get my credit card information when she was on the way home. My Mom asked if she saw Leia when she was there. The receptionist laughed and said that she did and that she is, “Just a sweetheart!” I think so too but I think that’s because I think she is but she’s ours; it was nice to hear that from people who see dogs all the time!
Today, the three act play to dry my hair was really long! It’s taking longer and longer to get my hair dry but having wet hair it’s not an option for me with all of my temperature sensitivities. I haven’t had a haircut since February because I had to cancel my appointment at the beginning of the pandemic. So in the five months that I’ve been sheltering in place with my Mom and the sixt ones since I have cut my hair this is what it looks like:
And here’s how my hair looked after it took FOREVER to fully blow dry it:
I kind of wish I was wearing a lighter shirt today to show the waves in my hair better but it has been 12 years since I have I had any hair on my back and to be honest, I don’t like it very much and I’m kind of over it.
Yesterday, and about seven in the morning, I was somewhere in between sleep and wake when I heard my window air conditioner stop. Once I heard silence in my house, my eyeshot open! I groaned a little bit. But, 30 seconds later, The air conditioner beeped and restarted. Once I realized that my generator had kicked in, I smiled to myself and drifted off back to sleep.
So I am extremely grateful to have a generator especially when my power went out yesterday for a total of 10 hours. But the rain started. And it lasted all day long and I felt awful! In addition to that, the surge of my generator kicking in did something to my dryer. I’m still coming off all the rain from yesterday and feeling awful so I’m not sure what I’m going to do so I’m extremely grateful, but…
Although this picture is not the technical “Alpha,” I just loved how he wore a red gown for his kindergarten graduation. His preschool graduation had a blue gown and it was his second preschool. The first one was more social than academic so I like the Dearborn Early Learning Center so much better! I just found this button yesterday and even though it’s not throwback Thursday, I thought I’d share:
I have an 8 x 10 of this picture but it’s somewhere in my basement in a box. I wanted to show this picture because I just received his graduation ceremony pictures in the mail yesterday. My Mom hung this up yesterday in place of Sean’s Jackson Pollock cross that he made in school.
I had my Mom take a picture because she can get up closer than I can from my wheelchair.
So this isn’t the technical, “Omega” but it is for now. At least his grade and high school education is complete!
So, it seems that my Mom has struck AGAIN!!! Yesterday, she suggested another Netflix movie that we ended up watching, All Together Now. I really dug it but it DEFINITELY was a tear-jerker!!! I even had to lift my eyepatch up to wipe my eye because I was crying so much!!!
I can’t even share pictures of the movie because I still have an iPhone 7S and my storage is full because I have over one million pictures and I am working on clearing out old emails. But I was able to, however, share this song which is the reason that I will watch the movie again today.
I currently am watching my favorite Hallmark movie, A Country Wedding and when it is over, I will watch All Together Now again and cry (which I am not embarrassed at all to admit!)
Sean has suggested the series, The Umbrella Academy to me for a while now. He told me that I would like it and I watched the first episode last night (really, early this morning) as I tried to fall asleep. Well, I really dug it and I especially liked when #1 (Luther) played this song that all of the, “Kids” danced to simultaneously in their own rooms:
I shared this video with Sean last night:
I really haven’t seen this video in 30 years!
I liked it so much then I was able to watch episode two today. I don’t like watching on my big TV though. First of all, I have to wear my eye patch because It is pretty fast moving but number two, I need to be laying in my bed relaxing and on my way to sleeping. So tonight, I will watch episode three.
Now, I think anyone reading this knows that I can “Super Binge” with the best of them! I am most proud of my “Game of Thrones” binge but I also binged, “New Girl,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and other shows pretty quickly also! But, it looks like I have to, “Slow Walk” this one. But I’m okay with that.
Thursday has been my favorite day of the week for a really long time and I kind of like the whole #ThowbackThursday thing! I am recently changed over a lot of my pictures in my phone to my iCloud account. I was searching for a certain picture and I came across this gem:
This picture wasn’t the throwback picture I was looking for but it startled me a little bit. I think I was a junior in high school and I was still driving then. I used to love wearing my Doc Martens which I haven’t been able to in almost 2 decades. So I shared this one on Facebook but continued looking for the picture I wanted. I finally found it and posted it on Facebook as well. It is the ultimate #TBT:
This picture was a screenshot of a home video my cousinT shared on Facebook. My friend from high school sent the screenshot to me and I really like it! So, this #ThrowbackThursday I shared two pictures on Facebook. The picture of me and Sean was taken probably about three years later than the first picture I shared but I also commented that this picture has a soundtrack and I shared two songs that remind me of my life back then:
And I couldn’t share this song without sharing another one that reminded me of Sean being this young:
So, all day today, I have been thinking about my able-bodied self. I do have a tinge of sadness seeing these pictures and hearing these songs but I won’t dwell and then so much because it’s Thursday! And that IS my favorite day of the week!
So, last night I watched episode 9 and 10 of season 1 of, The Umbrella Academy. I really did not think I could be EVEN MORE mind blown; but, I WAS!!! I stayed up until past 2:30 this morning to finish both episodes! I really am loving this soundtrack by the way!
For example:
It’s SO GOOD and I will start season two tonight!
The specialist who performed Leia’s ultrasound a week ago, called this afternoon. He told us the results of her fecal sample were normal and he did not see a mass on her ultrasound but he was concerned with some of the results of her bloodwork.
Some levels were elevated and he said that what he would recommend would be prescription food… for life. He is calling her normal vet to make a plan and then we will be called. We just started introducing normal dog food back into your diet few days ago and one day after doing that, the diarrhea started again.
Awhile ago, we noticed that she was not drinking her water. We keep her water bowl filled all day and she just wasn’t drinking it. We asked the vet about that and she suggested that we use bottled water. Once she saw my Mom pour water into her bowl, she started drinking it again.
Leia is still on the bland diet of rice and boiled hamburger. My Mom will just add the water to the rice and hamburger mixture. Every time she has gone to the vet (which is kind of a lot in her young life) she has been properly hydrated. I texted Sean while he was at work to explain her need to have prescription dog food. He texted back, “Prescription dog food and bottled water smh.”
I laughed and responded that of course any dog who lives with ME will definitely be, “High Standards!” But, I’m thinking because she is just a dog that she would just be considered, “High Maintenance.” I have no problem clarifying to people that I am, “High Standards” and NOT, “High Maintenance!” But she is a dog. But she isOUR dog so I guess she can be, “High Standards” too because I love her so much!!!