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#MyGirlL: “More Mature Than Her Years”

Leia had her ultrasound today. The doctor called my Mom and me while Sean was there. The veterinary hospital he took her to for her appointment is still doing curbside so he was in the car when the doctor called us. He called us before her ultrasound to get some background information from us. He told us that he would call us back after he was finished with the ultrasound.

After a while, he did call us back and said that everything is good with Leia. Upon hearing this, my Mom and I let out breaths at the same time. I never could have imagined that I would be so worried about a dog but Leia isn’t just a dog. She’s #MyGirlL.

This doctor also called Leia. “A sweetheart.” He told my No m that she is, “More mature than her years.” He didn’t really expound on that and we were just so happy to hear that she was okay. The veterinary tech called us a little later and my Mom asked her what that meant. This woman laughed and said that normally puppies Leia’s age squirm, bark, or howl. She said that Leia just laid there and let them do what they had to do.

He is sharing her ultrasound results with another doctor in the office and will get back to us in a week when all of the results from her bloodwork and fecal exam are back. So, it was nice to hear that everything is okay with her and she has been getting back to her normal happy and playful self.

Cold OR #DirtyHairDontCare

I opened my eyes this morning and I was cold! I have a pretty heavy comforter and sleep with a wool blanket between my sheet and my comforter. I sleep with them right up to my chin and my Mom makes fun of me but it’s comfortable sleeping for me.

Well, this morning I was cold and it took me a really long time to warm up. I could tell that it was going to be one of those days because my eyelids felt heavy. That’s the telltale sign for me and it’s especially going to be a NOT good day! So much so, that I posted this on Facebook:

So when I was finally ready to complete our morning routine, it’s hair washing day and I just wasn’t feeling it! So today, it’s #DirtyHairDontCare but I’m not going anywhere.

A Double High-Five OR A Wise Investment

Last summer, after the prolonged power outage that I had to live through with multiple hotel stays, trying to find one that was accessible, I got a generator. Really, to be honest, my Mom got me a generator. (I’m STILL paying her back) It runs at noon every Wednesday for five minutes just to make sure that it still runs.

Well, today, after my mom transferred me back to my wheelchair after washing my hair, the power flickered and then it came back on. That’s how the generator works, it will take 30 seconds for the generator to kick in.

My Mom and I looked at each other and once the power came back on, we both smiled and gave each other double high-fives, two times as we laughed.

So, my subdivision does NOT have power and I just received an email saying it is supposed to be on at 7:30 tonight. Before I received that email, my Mom talked to one of my brothers and my Mom told him about our power situation. He laughed and told her that it was, “A wise investment!”

He told her that it is 94° outside right now. I’m so grateful that I don’t have to go anywhere until the power comes back on at 7:30 tonight, IF it comes back on. It definitely warranted double high-fives!!!

How Did I NOT know this?!

The night before last I could not fall asleep and I scrolled through my YouTube feed and at about 1:15 in the morning, I saw this one! How did I not know this?!

As I listen to it, I was reminded of how much I absolutely love Bono!!!

I’m not really digging this way of distributing music and I miss CDs but I also don’t own a Kindle and prefer paper books.

WE Did it!

So, Sean graduated yesterday. It was a personal blessing in the church and receiving his diploma with the principal. I did not go because I am still sheltering in place with my mom. Sean‘s great aunt Lee and his dad went in my place.

Lee sent me a real time pictures the whole time which I absolutely loved! I think Sean was gone about 30 minutes before I saw this:

I cried and Sean put his hands on the door and told me that, “We did it!” I smiled through my tears and told him that, “HE did it!” Then he said no the glass, “YOU paid for it! I smiled and agreed that, “WE did it.”

My mom masked and took a couple pictures of him:

I love this picture because it shows what Sean looked like for his senior pictures. Now, he has his, “Quarantine hair” I guess that is a memory that we will eventually cherish!

This was the extent of me experiencing my only son’s high school graduation:

It’s definitely not how I planned it but it’s how it is and he finished high school! And I guess I can take some credit for that seeing that I paid for it. Now, I have a DCHS alum!


“MS-y”

I’m not sure what it is that is causing me to feel as horrible as I do. I think it may be the weather change because I woke up very cold this morning and can’t seem to warm up. When the seasons change, it’s awful for at least a few days. I shared this on Facebook:

I’m having a pretty, “MS-y” day and I don’t like it AT ALL!!!

Ponytail

I have a vivid memory from the summer of 2013 where I was laying on the turf at Barwis Methods on my back and I told Jesse, my trainer, that I missed having a ponytail. I had cut my hair all off five years earlier on my 26th birthday.

I thought about this from the beginning of this pandemic and subsequent Florentine. Sean snapped this picture and I think I had not had my haircut for almost 2 months at that point:

I have since documented my hair growth during this:

So, check out my ponytail now:

I ordered ponytail holders from Target, some thing I haven’t done for 12 years but they arrived in yesterday and I put my hair in a ponytail for the first time in 12 years. I would have taken a picture then but my hair was dirty. I think it’s crazy that I have forgotten how to put a ponytail holder in my hair. Yesterday, it took me a few times to remember.

Christmas in July

The day before yesterday, my brother, Steve, asked me if I saw the movie Last Christmas because it was on Netflix. I just re-posted on Facebook the post I wrote last year after I saw the movie and after Sean’s Ring Day. (that post was one month late because it’s not good for me to book 2 things in one day) Anyway, so I saw it again yesterday because it’s named after my Christmas jam!

I watched it yesterday because it IS July and I have participated in my sister-in-law‘s “Christmas in July” festivities for her Paparazzi jewelry and I participated in a 31 “Christmas in July” party. I was okay with watching this movie because I have watched a few Hallmark Christmas movies this July as well.

I still dug this movie and I even cried but I don’t have a problem with that because I cry at a lot of movies even when I see them more than once!