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.

Facial Hair

I haven’t gotten my eyebrows waxed since June because the unforgiving heat has kept me inside. I think of it like, I want over a year without cutting my hair or waxing my eyebrows so a couple months isn’t so bad.

My brother waxed my face just before he left for Mexico because he comes to my house and we are both vaccinated. When I get my haircut, I just have her wax my eyebrows now because it is safer for me to keep my mascon at the salon. So my hair is a little bit overgrown and so are my eyebrows but I’m okay with that.

As for my arm and face: My arm still feels normal but I wonder if the, “Normal” that I feel is really even, “Normal”? It probably isn’t but for me, at this point, it is. I remember when I first started teaching that my friend and colleague, Suzie, told me that she is allergic to fruit.

She would leave an apple slicer in her mailbox in the teachers lounge. I thought that was so weird because if she’s allergic to fruit, why is she going to eat an apple? She told me that she likes the taste and she would just eat until her lips starting to tingle and then she would stop eating it for the day. My Mom and I talked with my brother, Dave, and he said he has the same thing going on but just with the green apples.

That is how my lips feel today. I imagine it is how her lips would feel when she ate apple. They are just the slightest bit tingly. I said yesterday that my face felt like I had a mustache like my grandpa:

It doesn’t feel like that today, it’s gradually starting to feel like a Charlie Chaplin mustache:

NOT THIS ONE!!!:

I wonder how my face will feel tomorrow. I wonder what kind of facial hair I will have even though I prefer to wax!

Thanks, Bono!

I had a tearful moment last night. I was kind of feeling at a loss when I put on my U2 playlist in my Apple Music as a brushed and flossed my teeth and reapplied Chapstick. I put the song that came on on repeat and listened to it five times because my soul was comforted at hearing Bono telling me that my tears are going nowhere fast. Thanks, Bono! I needed this:

3-Peat

I’ve gotten into the habit of listening to an Apple Music playlist as I am brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed. This month, I have been listening to u2 on shuffle. The order of the songs that played last night we’re definitely on fire! So much so, that I posted them on Facebook and on the final post. I told my friends, “You’re welcome.” It all started with this song. I guess when I heard it because I have not heard it in a long time! What I would have given to hear these words:

And it continued with this one. I love this lyric:

And the 3-peat continued with this song. I am Catholic and I took Sean to the stations of the cross every week during Lent from one he was in second grade until his freshman year when I couldn’t drive anymore. I like this lyric:

Bono’s Voice speaks to my soul!!!

“Out Went the Lights”

Last night, we had huge winds and I actually was a little bit concerned. It was really loud and since I have window air conditioners, the wind blew right into my house because it was so strong! It took me a moment to realize that the wind was just making the noise is it came through the flaps around the air conditioner.

The wind was blowing super strong for not even five minutes when the lights went out! My Mom started to count and before she got to 30, I think it was at 16, the lights flickered back on and the air conditioners restarted.

I told my Mom that the generator was the BEST thing that I have! When the lights went out and in that 16 seconds before they came back on and the air conditioners restarted, I osat in the dark and I could feel the air getting warm. But then, because of my generator, because of my Mom, I didn’t need to find a place to stay and I fell asleep in my own house and in my own bed with the air conditioner running and the neighborhood’s power was still out.

I didn’t need to find a place to stay and I fell asleep in my own house with the air conditioner running and the neighborhoods power was still out. I smiled as I fell asleep and comfort.

I smiled as I fell asleep in comfort. In the few years that I have had my generator, it hasn’t turned on often but the fact that I haven’t is wonderful when I need it!

I spoke with my Mom today as she washed my hair and for some reason, I remembered a rhyme I used to say when I was young. I just started saying it and somehow I remembered the words from 35 years ago. I remember Ms. Gusfa playing the piano as we recited it. But the fifth pumpkin send, “Isn’t Halloween fun!”

Miss Sarajevo

I posted on my blog on November 18, 2013 about my favorite u2 songs. I couldn’t find a link to one of them so I opted for this song which I really dig a lot!

I liked that Pavarotti sang in it. I remember years ago, probably my first year teaching that Jonathon and I talked about opera. I told him that I wished that I listened to jazz or opera or some thing that was super cool. He had seen operas and he told me that once I see one, musicals will seem very cheap. I couldn’t watch or listen to an opera after he said that. I really like musicals! I listened to this song when I was brushing my teeth last night and I cried. I have NEVER cried when I hear this song!

I cried because I was listening to music during the day and my Mom stopped when she heard Pavarotti‘s singing and asked if that was him because she heard Bono singing. I told her that it was and that they sing a song together. I also told her that they sing it together sometimes but they recorded it for the album.

My Mom got a faraway look when she asked me that. And I knew why! My Dad had a very eclectic taste in music! More so than I ever had realized! I am just beginning to learn about a lot of it through my Mom. I wish I could have had music conversations with my Dad now; or I wish I would have had them with him when he was alive!

He had a few Pavarotti CDs and he would talk to my Mom about it because she wasn’t interested in it and said he can’t even understand them. But my Dad told her that based on the emotion in their singing, you can figure out what’s going on! That’s what Jonathon told me!

So, I cried last night, I purposely listened to that song again and when I heard opera music as a brushed my teeth. I miss you, Daddy!

My NEW Fall Flavors

I have been constantly checking the Target website to see if my winter flavors are in. I was getting concerned because I CANNOT where summer flavored Chapstick on October 1 when I see Hocus Pocus the first time this year! So, when I get paid, to be on the safe side, I ordered this:

I ordered this one because I likeVanilla Bean. That has more of a cooler weather flavor for me. I thought about it later in the day and figured that I should scour the site more because it is almost October. Somehow, I came across this:

WHAT?! I HAD to place another order! When I added this Chapstick to my cart, I was able to see the, “Frequently Bought Together” options and I saw this which I bought as well!;

All three of them arrived yesterday. The Halloween chapsticks arrived before though Vanilla Bean ones but I was able to arrange them in a few of the boxes of gum that I got in the beginning of the pandemic:

HAVING ISSUES WITH PICTURE LOADUNG!!!

I’m kind of excited to see what these flavors taste like But I will not start using them until October 1. I am still working on my summer flavors until I finish them all and next summer can just use Cucumber Mint. That was the flavor I liked the best from last summer. Next fall, we will see you which one I like the best. I don’t know if I will use all of the Chapstick in the short time before Thanksgiving when I will definitely use my Ginger Spices until after Christmas!

“I’m Cold, Yo!”

I woke up this morning to complete my usual routine. I put a little bit of my Sweet Mandarin chapstick on. I continued my morning routine of taking my vitamins, drinking my Atkins shake, drinking my water. I decided it was a little chilly.

My Mom and I completed our abridged version of getting me ready for the day because she had a hair appointment. Once I was situated back into my place, I made the executive decision of starting my fall Chapstick today:

I oted for Pumpkin Spice and I have found that was NOT a bad decision! I’m cold, yo!!! I am so cold that I decided to wear a winter hat today. It is the first day I am doing this and since it is the first day of fall it seems to make sense! I was reminded of that fact when I saw this post in my memories on Facebook:

I clearly remember that day when my boy was so young! Each time I press my lips together, I am reminded of a chai tea which I really like! Drinking liquids is not really NOT a thing I can do anymore (aside from my morning water) and I appreciate having the taste and smell.

I am currently wearing my Detroit Lions hat which makes me feel a little bit weird. I DID watch the Lions’ game Monday night with Sean but I don’t recognize the team. That’s a very strange to me and I do not have any Rams gear yet.

I also really appreciate that I can busy myself with a chapstick choice so that I can ignore the fact that my entire face and head is numb. It was crazy getting my hair washed yesterday! I am choosing to think about chapstick flavor to not think about the fact that my face and hands are numb. My Mom told me that they look, “Normal” but they feel FAR different!