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This is how I rang and my New Year:

All of these holidays seem to run together now…

I guess that it’s better late than never but I woke up to phase 3 being completed. I felt just like Gus-Gus!:

I cannot believe that Cinderella was made in 1950!?! I grew up watching that movie! Here she is!:

I waited until night time to take a picture with just the lights on the tree on in the room.

This year, I have made the executive decision to put ornaments on the top half of my tree, because Leia is 4 now. My Mom and I will choose the ornaments to put on together probably tomorrow at the earliest.

I woke up to phase 2 being completed. I have resigned myself to being just a spectator for Christmas decorations! Today was the first day I sat in the living room with no lights on except for the Christmas tree, and I really like that!!!:

This was our Christmas movie today:

My Mom fell asleep before it was over because we have seen it before but it’s a Christmas movie so we decided to watch it today. We were going to watch it free on Peacock. There was a little bit of a problem, so Mom just bought it for us will probably Tomorrow or something.

I think it must have been about five or six years ago on Twitter, that someone posed the question of our favorite version of, “O Holy Night.” It was a survey with probably three or four options of singers. The only one I can remember was Josh Groban but I remember that none of the options were my favorite version. The final option was, “Other” and I checked that box and added this video:

I remember I got a response from the person who posted it on Twitter and they just said, “Wow!” I responded with, “Right?!”

Jon Secada is my favorite version of O Holy Night hands-down!!! I first discovered his voice when I was about 12 years old and my friend Natalie‘s babysitter really liked his voice so that reminds me of being a kid. But this song?! it gives me such chills!!! So when I was confronted with my favorite version of this song I can’t forget about Jon!!!

I saw on Facebook the other day that a friend posted an image of a gingerbread man dancing because it was almost December! I thought it was so cute and I shared it. But really, that’s not how my Decembers go since 2000. I am not looking forward to December 28 because that will be 23 years that I will have had Multiple Sclerosis.

I tell my Mom that it is starting to get ‘real’ now and she asked me, “Hasn’t it always been?” I usually let out of sigh, a dejected sigh and I answer with, “Yeah.”

These are my December jams:

But this song is popping up in my head as well, and is reminding me of driving to Barwis. There was snow outside:

I noticed this last night, and I just thought to take a picture of it to let everyone know that it is no longer necessary for me to use a ‘bag o’-chapstick’ for the rest of the year because this happened yesterday:

The cap for this chapstick still fits on it and I don’t need to put it in a bag, but I will use it all just the same. I have a box of four sealed Ginger Spice flavors so I am always prepared to start a new tube! That flavor reminds me of MY Abuela!!! my Mom and I have been talking about her a lot and my Mom is telling me of how much of an extraordinary woman she was!!!

I totally am completely a planner! But I’m not even embarrassed about it anymore!!!

Sean stopped by again today and instead of putting the lights on, we watched this movie:

My Aunt Lola recommended it to my Mom and me a while ago and I thought we could watch it at Christmas time! It’s not available on any of my streaming platforms so my Mom bought it on Xfinity and we watched it yesterday. We watched it today with Sean.

We had a pause in our tree decorating for right now, but Sean will come over tomorrow so we can finish it.

I just changed my profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to the infamous #TriBotChristmas picture! I think Sean was six.

I have already posted that Thanksgiving for me this year was the very first in my chronic illness where it just felt like just another day. That completely startles me!!!

It has been a litany of me apologizing and constantly telling my Mom that I did not think it would ever get this bad! But, it’s really not that bad! Yes! This hurts a whole lot every second of every day for the rest of my life but I think I am in a Good headspace.

I am praying a lot more and that is helping me. Close to 23 years of dealing with this chronic illness definitely has me startled to say the least!!!

I am loving the sentimental commercials that I have been seeing, but I saw this one, I laughed, and I had to look it up!:

I did not see the entire commercial, so when I looked it up, I saw it, and I laughed even more! So now I have to put some Bee Gees here: