Category: Tunes

I was on the phone talking to Sean and I asked him if he had seen the new Diet Coke commercial. I texted it to him last week:

He laughed after he watched it and we talked again after that. I told him that I didn’t do anything with a Diet Coke in my hand and he agreed and said, ”Because it’s gross!” I laughed and told him that, “If it were Cherry Coke Zero, then we could talk!” He started to laugh then because he knows that is my pop of choice!

We continued to talk and he told me that he has been listening to, “One of, ‘Your songs’ a lot lately.” I didn’t say anything and waited to hear what song he was speaking of. He let me know that it was, “Hard to Handle.”:

I laughed and told him that Shake your Money maker was a great album! I remembered listening to it in the car on loop when he still sat in the backseat because he was so young. He told me that he has never listened to the album as a young adult and I told him that it’s great and he should listen to, “She Talks to Angels”!:

I told him the first line of a verse ”She has a lock of hair…” and he finished the verse for me! I laughed and told him that he HAS heard the album before and he corrected me by saying that he has heard the song over and over again when he was a kid and it was when I was listening to the album! I guess I did raise him listening to some really GOOD music!

For my third Irish themed movie for my, “Birthday Month,” I watched Leap Year. There were no traditional Irish dancers, but rather, Irish folk and rock music, plenty of greenery, a castle, and accents!!!

I was extremely frustrated with my final blog post today. I wanted to straighten it out now as I lay in my bed without my contacts. My eyes got pretty wonky today and, if I’m being honest, that really scared me!

What I was trying to say (and the pictures got messed up because I don’t like the updates here) is that I never noticed how much chapstick I wore until I was at Barwis and Eric commented on it because I was staring off into space and constantly applying it. I stopped when he said something about it but my lips NEVER felt overly greasy while I worked out there.

It wasn’t until recently that I noticed a lot of posts in my MS support groups where the question was posed asking what remedies we have for extremely dry and cracked lips. I guess that is a thing with MS. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a stash:

Since being sheltered in place with my Mom, I have actually used four complete tubes in their entirety.

This one was completed on August 3, 2020:

This one on November 8, 2020 :

This one on January 7, 2021:

This one the morning of February 27, 2021:

So my chapstick stash looks like this now:

I will have to restock next fall-winter favors because I have my spring-summer chapstick flavors still available. I will never use Açaí Berry unless I am at Barwis. I started using that one when I was working out at Barwis and it reminds me of that time. I can’t wear that without working out at Barwis. I think I have like 10 in a bag in the basement that I ordered and received just before my meniscus was torn.

I think it’s time to queue up by Bobby McFerrin because it REALLY is all about simple pleasures and not having dry and cracked lips makes me happy!:

I opened my eyes this morning as my Mom walked into the doorway of my room. She asked if I was awake and because I had just awakened, all I could do was raise my right hand and give her a “Thumbs up” because I could not get the words out of my mouth at that point. She pulled the covers off of me and rolled me over to my side to get me into an upright position after a number of steps in that process. I groaned when she did this and wondered if today was going to be as bad as yesterday was for me. Once I was in my wheelchair, she tilted it back to get me seated properly in it and continued to grunt. These are we’re not good signs and it made me concerned. As my legs got fully extended and I turned my wheelchair toward the bathroom to wash my hands, I smiled. I reminded my Mom that it’s Monday!

I had recently had this cheese and it was perfect for me because it was soft enough to just about melt in my mouth which is very helpful for me now. I recently learned that this cheese was available at Target. I ordered four of them and had Sean pick them up for me. I figured out that I can have half on Thursdays (my FAVORITE Day of the week) and I decided to space it out on have the other half of the cheese ball for lunch along with my protein shake on Mondays because who likes Mondays?! I have a number of reasons to NOT like Mondays and the biggest one is that my Dad died on a Monday. The least I could do is have that’s really good cheese mark that day for me!

I’ve written before about the fact that I really dig simple pleasures. This is a simple pleasure! I would title of this post #SimplePleasures but I had already titled a post that. I recently read a tweet that said when you write a hashtag, you should capitalize the beginning of each word to make it more inclusive for visually impaired people and then it would be read aloud properly. I always thought it was just me being OCD and picky but it’s inclusive! And, to say that I do not sing this song in my head every time I think of simple pleasures would be a lie!!:

This morning was super rough and it is only marginally getting better.

I saw this post on Facebook and took it as a note to myself. Today is one of those days and I will be happy when it is over and hope that tomorrow is better. I listened to this song and allowed myself to cry just a little bit:

No one said it would be THIS difficult but that’s how it is! UGGGHHH!!!