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Okay, this happened a couple days ago and I think that I LOVE my Facebook family and friends for their reaction to it!!!:

I looked at it and I think it was I had shared posts with misinformation. Apparently, the change in the zodiac signs was false and Betty White had a quote after death but that was not hers. it only took a couple of days before I started to see the true colors from my Facebook family and friends! I am glad that they did not think this was a bad thing and the comments they left were hilarious! A former teacher of mine told me that I couldn’t always be good and a cousin of mine told me that, “It’s a Rios thing.”

My favorite comment came from a DC parent and she was Sean‘s shotput coach when he was in fourth grade! He just simply wrote: “#FreeJenRios.” I left the most to add this one but then the gifs started and they kept making me laugh!

I love this little kid too!

And this one coming from my aunt whom I used to spend weekends at her house with my cousin made me laugh lots!!!

It’s not like I was sharing State secrets or anything but whatever! I just realize that today is the last Sunday that I will be 39. Next weekend, I turn 40 years old!!!

I posted this picture on my blog post yesterday. I’m pretty sure that I was 28 years old. Furthermore, I think this was the concert when we saw Maroon 5, The Script, and Train. We went to a different show the following year and there we saw Gavin DeGraw, The Script, and Train. I love this picture!!!

I thought about this picture more so when I started completing a puzzle on my puzzle app last night. I had written a post about those maybe a couple weeks ago and because I was using my iPad to edit things, my lack of hand control and dexterity caused me to permanently delete it. I will add a similar post to that one I posted yesterday, today just because I want to hear that Carrie Underwood song!:

I have completed maybe five or six more puzzles but it takes a long time to scroll through all of my completed puzzles but I’m still doing it and it keeps me calm. I have completed 150+ puzzles by now.

I posted this picture of my cousinT, Shannon and me at the concert because as I was completing my puzzles last night, I did not hear a Carrie Underwood song after my obligatory Sara Bareilles song completed. I kind of liked that I heard it when I did but I wish I would have heard it before when I was younger. Now, as I am just about 40 years old, everything is already undone and I handle stuff on my own now!:

But I did not hear Carrie Underwood yesterday, I heard this song from The Script which is one of my faves and I saw them sing it live when we saw them in concert:

So, as I am completing puzzles, I do about two or three a night, the music kept playing and it went from a song from The Script to a song by Gavin DeGraw which I LOVE and lastly, I finished flossing my teeth to a Maroon 5 song. That further gave me ANOTHER reason to post that picture of my cousinT and me!!!

So, yesterday was the fifth time I have watched the Super Bowl halftime show and yes, I cried AGAIN! Yesterday, I wrote about it and I was in a different mindset and I was looking forward to watch the halftime show that I already knew what was going to happen. I have decided that my favorite part is when Dr. Dre is playing the piano and toward the end of his playing; he smiles. That smile kind of reminds me of my Dad because my Dad had similar lips to Dr. Dre. So as I was reading my blog post, I was thinking like this because I loved the halftime show!:

so, as I was writing about the halftime show, I had this song playing over and over again in my head. It didn’t fit with what I was writing so I couldn’t add it to my post but I figured if I added an addendum, then I can tell you all what I was thinking yesterday as I was writing. I think they performed this song when I saw them with my cousinT, Shannon Over a decade ago now:

I really feel like this was MY OWN personal Super Bowl!! My man won (whom I have loved since 2009 when he entered the league and was playing for Detroit) and I ABSOLUTELY loved the halftime show!!! My Mom, not so much!!! And the only reason my Mom has seen it is because I have watched it three times on my TV and once on my phone!

On Sunday, when Sean and I were watching the game together, he also enjoyed the halftime show because he has been familiar with the music because of me. it wasn’t until Eminem came on when the tears started streaming down my face! (Add they seem to stream down that way each of the four times I have watched the halftime show already). Sean asked me why I was crying and I didn’t look at him but continued watching the show and just said, “I bought the CD and listened to it on loop in my car this summer after I graduated high school. It was before I started college, before I was diagnosed with MS and before I was a Mom. It was simpler times!”

I saw this post on Facebook just after the Super Bowl and it completely resonated with me for so many reasons!!!:

I think that I will queue up the game now for the fifth time on my DVR. Well, not the WHOLE game. I will start with the halftime show and I’ll watch the last 4 minutes of the game and the trophy ceremony. I am pretty sure, almost positive that I will cry again when Eminem performs…

I have been thinking about my Dad a lot lately. After 15 years, I have resigned myself to just live with this ache in my chest regarding him.

Anyone who knew my Dad, knows that he was NOT extremely demonstrative. That being the case, I DO have a few pictures of us together and I ALWAYS knew that my Dad loved me!

I think it was the Saturday before he died that I clearly remember him sitting at my Parents’ dining room table and I kissed him on the right side of his forehead and I just said, “I love you, Daddy.” I remember that he told me that he loves me too.

I also remember that and that Sunday, my Mom took Sean to Greenfield Village and I stayed at their house to be with my Dad. I remember that I called my Mom because my Dad did not sound well. She came home early from Greenfield Village with Sean. I was too chicken to say anything to my dad before I left and instead, told Sean to, “Kiss Grandfather goodbye.“

The last thing that I remember my Dad say was some thing like, “Come here, Handsome.”

I have already watched the halftime show three times and the game twice. My friend texted me this video and I was speechless. I absolutely love Matthew Stafford and I have never had a daughter but hearing him say that he loved his girls made me think of my Dad:

Dad Stafford 💙💛@RamsNFL | @InsideTheNFL pic.twitter.com/ivtsx1dTaO

— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) February 15, 2022

I saw my Facebook memories on Valentine’s Day and I had just left a special message for my Dad 4 years ago:

I really DO miss him! My Dad used to always buy AL of us our Valentine’s day hearts the day AFTER Valentine’s Day. My Mom would get her Valentine’s Day heart, and my Dad would buy four red hearts and one pink heart. The pink heart was for me! I never knew that he bought our Valentine’s Day hearts the day AFTER Valentine’s Day because they were cheaper.

I told a colleague about that and he laughed and said that he was going to do that because it was Valentine’s Day and he would not see his wife or kids until super late at night.

I am NOT even going to eat a pink Valentine’s day heart AT ALL but I liked thinking about my Dad doing that for all of us the day AFTER Valentine’s Day! So, you know what today is, right?!

I have been frequenting The Feisty Ginger for long time! I really do LOVE my mugs and I was able to get two of them for my Mom and me for Valentine’s Day. My Mom’s mug is on the left because she walks Leia and the one on the right is mine because love KIND OF bites for me!

My Mom made me those cinnamon donuts for the Super Bowl because she knows how important my Super Bowl food was for me. Now, I can no longer chew very easily so I had pirogi for the Super Bowl. She made the donuts for me because I had the mix from the last Pampered Chef party I had. She just surprised me with a few of them yesterday during the Super Bowl.

The BEST part of this package that I received was that I received my first birthday present!!! Deirdre, the owner of the shop, was in my brother’s class in grade school.

So, it’s Valentine’s Day and I ate those three donuts but I don’t want to eat much more sweet things because I AM going to receive a pink Valentine’s Day heart tomorrow from my Dad. Right Daddy? And I was not being serious with that last sentence because my Dad hasn’t been around for 15 years…

I would always arrive one hour early to a movie that I was going to see. Sean has ALWAYS made fun of me! But I’m okay with that; besides, you should ALWAYS be prepared just in case. Maybe it’s because of that reasoning that I just received a package today from Amazon:

You may not tell what it is from the packaging but I am keeping it wrapped up until I need it. What I ordered, is back up extra flavors for the fall!:

I really liked that it had just the three fall flavors I wanted and I use the pomegranate between seasons as well! Because of Target’s sneaky trick, I have extra salted caramel (Which I never liked – but will use it until it’s gone).

So now, couple this delivery from a delivery from a few days ago, now my fall and winter months are set!!!

So, it has been three weeks to the day sensei lost the To my Chapstick and head to make a, “Bag of Chapstick.” I was waiting for my speech pathologist to join a video call and she actually saw me meticulously put the Chapstick back into the bag so the Chapstick that was hanging out did not get ruined. We had other things to talk about so I did not even address that with her. I think that tonight for the daily text messages that I send to her that have to be spoken I will tell her about it now that the, “Bag of Chapstick” is NOT a thing any longer.

i used this Chapstick until I could only press the Chapstick tube onto my lips because it hurt too badly to have the plastic scrape my lips. I blotted in my lips with cocoa mint and then I went to have my hair washed. By the time my Mom was finished washing my hair and my hair was dry, my lips were also dry so when I got back into my wheelchair, I wheeled over and put my Vanilla Bean Chapstick on EXTREMELY liberally!

I actually wanted to wait until tomorrow to change flavors but my lips couldn’t handle that. I used it all up! I could have my Mom scrape out Chapstick from the plastic; but it’s not that serious! I’m not going to say that I don’t have her do that because I do when we’re talking about deodorant but Chapstick is a little more affordable can you don’t need to use it until the absolute end but I used it until it hurt my lips.

so now, I am rubbing my lips together to keep them moisturized and I will have Vanilla Bean flavor on my lips until the weather breaks. Except for Mondays and Thursdays. On those days, I use my Shortbread Cookie Chapstick and I have been doing that since the beginning of January because I want to use the Shortbread Cookie chapstick up because I don’t think I will get it again for next year. I chose Monday and Wednesday because normally, that is my “cheese Day” but it’s too cold to eat fresh mozzarella cheese in the winter! That’s more of a spring and summer thing which will be a COMPLETELY different Chapstick flavor choice! I do feel completely accomplished by having used this entire tube of Chapstick.

I feel that I am having somewhat of an, “MS-y” day! I have been working with my speech pathologist and what we have started doing is to have me read children’s books. I understand this because my background in reading tells me that to read books with lots of alliteration helps with speaking. I decided to try this book because it is my absolute favorite and I must have read it to Sean 1 million times!:

I got lost in my memories the first time I read it. I was back living in my Parents’ house and sleeping in my bedroom growing up with a crib next to my bed. It was comforting to read the book and to read it out loud that helps with my speech but it reminded me of reading it to my child! I have decided that if I was going to pick up colors for today it would be brown. I have added the two pages that explain a “Brown day” and I think that’s how I feel right about now…

My speech pathologist wants me to read it aloud daily and I also have to dictate unedited text messages to her. I appreciate all of the work she is doing with me too help me to keep as much of my speech as I can for as long as I can. I still have a lot of work to do today but it is a brown day so I am not motivated…