I wanted to try another flavor of my new chapstick today. I liked the strawberry I had yesterday and was a bit excited for the next flavor. It was watermelon and I thought of this vintage commercial:
So here was the second flavor of my new chapstick:
Watermelon is my favorite blow pop flavor so I was excited to try out the chapstick. I have to say that it is NOT a ‘Ta-Da’ like in the commercial. I reapplied it multiple times but it still was not good.
It smelled really waxy even though my Mom said it smells like watermelon. I told myself that I would give it the benefit of the day trail before I changed it but after dinner today, I had to go back to my Strawberry Fields from yesterday!:
And just in case you forgot, I want to be able to hear this song again:
My hair is shaggy and overgrown and I only have one eyebrow now but, I still HAVE to have my chapstick! I noticed a little while ago that my pink grapefruit chapstick had almost come to its end. I only use Burt’s Bees So, I ordered a nice, summer-y 4 pack of chapstick. I like the flavors in that four pack but it was missing one. I ordered that one separately. It was strawberry! When my brother, Jimmy, brought me gum, it came in a nice plastic container and my chapstick fits perfectly in there so:
These new chapstick‘s arrived yesterday but I couldn’t try it out because I had already been wearing pink grapefruit for most of the day. I opened them up today:
The chapstick had to be placed in color order so I started with the first one. It was strawberry:
Once I opened it, it was a pleasant smell and one that reminded me of being young. It did not remind me of Strawberry Shortcake the cartoon which I still have a plate that I do still use often It reminded me of the St. Alphonsus festivals when I was very young. I have reapplied this chapstick often today and I dig it. I’m reminded of this song because I chose the strawberry one:
I have not been feeling well lately and I posted this song a few days ago and watched the video and was finally able to fall asleep because I love Michael Stipe’s voice and I also love live music!:
A while back, we had a TeleTails appointment with the vet that Leia was going to go to but her appointment wasn’t scheduled for a while. We called because Leia was losing hair in patches and we didn’t know what to do. I swore she had mange! The vet didn’t think so and she prescribed two tablets of Benadryl daily and two baths with oatmeal shampoo a week for Leia.
Now, I’m still pretty new at this whole, “Dog person” thing and Leia’s smell was difficult to get used to, for sure! But with her having so many baths, that’s not a problem anymore! This was her this morning, right after her bath:
She doesn’t really like her baths and they take a lot out of her! I think it’s funny that it always makes me think of this song:
That’s funny to me because I always would sing that song to Sean when he was dressed up for a formal at school. We also changed her food yesterday but I was too tired to write about it but this is what she eats now and she digs it:
This gem of a song showed up in my YouTube feed. I remember when I saw them perform live, that Bono started singing it wanting the audience to sing along with him. I was belting it out at the top of my lungs but I was too far away from the stage so he didn’t hear me and he stopped. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this song!!!:
I think it was last Sunday evening and my Mom and I decided that we would eat cereal for dinner. My Mom offered me spaghetti from the day before. I haven’t eaten spaghetti in years because I’ve known for a long time that carbs are not my friend.
I remember making it for young Sean to eat during football season and I would just have meatballs and spaghetti sauce because, again, carbs are NOT my friend! They haven’t been my friend for a very long time!
But when given the opportunity to eat cold spaghetti during this pandemic, I DEFINITELY jumped at it! As I ate the spaghetti, I was immediately reminded of a time when I worked at the credit union and I was pregnant. I was dressed and ready for work and I grabbed a bowl and put spaghetti in it for me to eat it for lunch. It looked so delicious to me so I loaded up my fork and put the really big bite in my mouth. It was delicious! What I did not think about though, however, was that the bite was a little bit too big for me to swallow all of it and some fell right on the top of my belly. I was wearing a white tank top with a button-down shirt over the top of it.
It was too late for me to change for work so I just buttoned one button of my oxford button-down shirt and went to work. I remember that I told and showed a few of my friends at work. I’ve told Sean the story many times and would laugh when that song was on The Wiggles. Sean used to watch The Wiggles when he was young. I had a heckuva time copying the link to share that song here but I figured out a way and you can see this song I heard 1 million times when Sean was young.
I have been jamming to a lot of Gavin DeGraw but I have a really shared my faves a bunch of times. This song showed up on my YouTube feed a couple days ago and I have since shared it on Facebook and put it on my blog:
I do not own this CD because I was more into third eye blind in high school. But then this album came out and this Train song reminded me of how good their songs are. Here are some of my faves for this month:
Hermana hand saying this song the first time I saw them perform and he didn’t have a shirt on and he had a hairy chest (which I thought it was kind of gross) but he suddenly got hot when he sang this song:
So I’ve only been listening to save me San Francisco and that’s a great album!
Maybe next month I will feature their next album but I can’t write about train without posting this picture:
The last live concert I went to was a while ago and Train headlined. I think this picture was taken the first time we went. It was a great time with my cousinT, Shannon!
Yesterday, after I posted about the three videos I saw in my YouTube feed, this one also showed up:
I saw them perform this song with my brother, Steve, and a few other former colleagues. As I searched for the video that showed up in my YouTube feed, I saw this one and this is what it looked like when I saw them:
I remember that I had such a great time at that concert that I ended up ordering the DVD of that concert in Chicago.
Then, this morning, there was this gem that will forever remind me of student-teaching:
Maybe these tunes are so random because, “Big Brother” knows that I needed to hear some of my favorite u2 songs right about now!
I think that, “Big Brother” wants to show me a little bit of mercy because these three songs showed up in my YouTube feed! I know I have shared a couple of them already but this was my joy and I tried to wake up this morning:
A great way to lift me up and I needed it today!!!
