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So, I am thinking about my next blog post as my Mom is in the kitchen baking pies. I am half watching Hallmark movies I have seen before and absentmindedly scrolling through my phone.

The commercial break started and I started to pay more attention to my phone until I heard, “Auld Lang Syne.” That is definitely a song that gets me in my feels so I looked at the TV.

I gasped and immediately started to cry! It was NOT a, “Feel Good” Christmas commercial that I expected. In fact, I was so shaken that it took me a couple commercial breaks to compose myself.

As a word of warning: I would brace yourself before you see this commercial if you even do:

This morning, when my Mom had Leia on a walk, I put some Gavin DeGraw on my Apple Music on my phone on shuffle. Has he played on my phone and I absentmindedly played solitaire, my mind shifted to our first apartment. I vividly remember washing dishes standing at the sink. Even in my second apartment, I still did dishes at the sink but this time, I sat in my, “Cooking chair.” That was an Amish stool that I bought from Art Van after my Mom let me use hers and I had to have one for myself!

I can vividly see both of our apartments and I am somewhat saddened and how less, “Able” I am now. When my Mom got back into the house after Leia’s walk, I just started thinking about living in our house and cleaning up the kitchen and Saturday mornings back when I still used to work and how different things are for me now in terms of mobility.

My Mom walked by me and she saw my face. Apparently, me being lost in my memories showed on my face. She commented on it and I told her that I was lost in my memories. Deeply! At this point, when I am that deep into my memories, I don’t cry but rather, it is an ache in my chest. And ache of longing. After I got ready for the day, my knee started hurting really badly!

With all of these thoughts swirling around in my hand, my knee started to hurt excruciatingly! That is a whole ‘nother layer of things. After my Mom turned my tens unit on, I asked her to get me a mug of milk. The milk was for me to take with the pain pill and I decided that I needed two pieces of chocolate to eat to finish the milk as I started to cry a little bit. I cannot always live in my memories but I spend an awful lot of time there when I think of my current inabilities.

I saw this commercial a while ago and it was the second commercial I saw for this medication. I liked it better than the first one, the one with the talking dog.

I didn’t really think much about it. That is, until Leia started itching and then she started chewing. She has the red spot on her belly to prove it.

I had a TeleTails consult with the vet today and tomorrow, we are going to pick up some Apoquel and we have to give her a probiotic while we give her the medication because of her super sensitive stomach! We are only up to 11 kibbles for each meal she gets of her prescription food, otherwise, it is still a bland diet.

I am really surprised that I am not an ASPCA member by now!!! Probably will only take a few more commercials…

I’ve been watching the news during this whole pandemic and I was extremely concerned about what I was going to do for the upcoming presidential election. How was that going to vote? I requested my absentee ballot a while ago and was able to fill it out on Monday. My Mom also requested an absentee ballot and she filled hers out on Tuesday. Just this morning this video popped up in my YouTube feed:

And today, my brother took our completed ballots to the dropbox in our city. He sent us this video and I still can’t figure out how to embed it into my blog post after the latest update so I will just write another post on both Facebook and Twitter. I’m not even ashamed to say that I cried because I did! It’s NOT a sticker but… I like it!!!!

STILL NOT in order and I didn’t even share this song on Facebook before posting it here on my blog. This song came up in my YouTube feed and ALWAYS reminds me of my brother, Dave! What a perfect time for this song to oh man after he stopped by, made our dog bark for the first time, and brought over some cookies then made me break my diet! It was worth it! I had two!!!

We got Leia on April 28, 2020. Since that day, she is pretty much silent. Occasionally, when she’s sleeping, she will give off little baby sounds and twice when we were watching TV, she barked at the dog who was barking on TV. Other than that, for the past almost six months, she doesn’t bark. I don’t mind that at all!

Well, all of that changed today. My brother Dave stopped by on his lunch with some groceries for us and my Mom gave him some lunch to eat. We kept the front door open because we knew he was on his way. As soon as he got onto the porch, Leia started to bark! I was completely startled by the sounds that are coming out of her mouth! I backed up and started to record it.

She is not a big dog and her bark isn’t that big either but having never really heard it, it startled me and I laughed!

I cannot figure out how to put the video here on my blog so I will just post the video directly to Facebook and to Twitter. On the video, I missed out on her more powerful barks at the front door and once she was back in her bed, they started to lessen in intensity. My brother laughed and he told me that she was protecting us (my Mom and me).

I nce my brother left to go back to work, I looked at her and smiled, I thanked her for protecting us and my Mom rubbed her up and kissed her. I can’t reach her sitting in my chair. Once we shut the front door, she curled up and went to sleep. What a sweet girl?!!!

I have been seeing so many posts of this new challenge on Facebook, the #blondetodarkhaurchaalenge. Lots of my friends have posted pictures and even one of my brothers! I have never died my hair and I am a little bummed that I can’t participate. I came across some old pictures in my phone today and posted my own version of the challenge. To put this in context. I think I was about 32 or 33 years old so we’re talking five or six years ago. It made me laugh to post pictures and these are the ones I posted:

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I think that I had to be above 32 because if Sean was a new older than 12, he would not have taken these pictures of me. I also was still working and still driving. I posted in the comments on Facebook that retrospectively, I wish I would have purchased the Medusa wig but, I had to be responsible and I had bills to pay so I couldn’t justify spending $24 I think on silly nonsense. I really DO wish I could’ve been irresponsible and just bought the wig. I STILL would be wearing it and laughing about it today! So, I really haven’t done this challenge because I’ve never dyed my hair but I wanted to post something!

So, this is my hair back then when I still had a manual chair and still worked:

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So many things have changed since I took this picture so long ago, or had Sean take it. Or maybe it was my Mom?

I haven’t been out of my house since October 1 for my dental cleaning. It was overdue because I had to cancel my appointment early in this pandemic. Dental health is EXTREMELY important for me because I have MS. When I was out of my house, the leaves had not yet started changing. I started wearing a winter hat indoors a couple days ago because I feel so much colder since I can no longer control my internal temperature!

I love Fall the season and I love to watch the leaves change color. I don’t think that I will make it to cider mill this year to get cider and roasted, cinnamonsugared almonds and that kind of bums me out.

My Mom took Leia for a walk this morning and she brought Fall to me:

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I smiled and I am so touched by her gesture! Just like in Sense and Sensibility, when Willabe brings the flowers to Marianne because she is injured, he tells her, “Since you cannot venture out to nature, nature must be brought to you!” That’s exactly what my Mom did for me!

My nephews’ fiancé tagged me in the picture she posted on Facebook:

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This picture really made me laugh and especially today because in the beginning of us having, #MyGirlL, all of the Chewy boxes were either treats or toys. I thought of this picture because now that Leia has a sensitive stomach, the Chewy deliveries are more for us and not her.

I ordered her new prescription dog food yesterday and it arrived this morning. She is still on a bland diet that she has been for over a month. We are “slow walking” introducing dog food back into her diet. She already has had her teaspoon of food mixed in with her rice/hamburger for the day.

Because of her sensitive stomach and her new food, we no longer can give her chewies for her heart worm. We talked to the vet yesterday and we are going to combine both her heartworm and flea and tick medicine to be administered in one application. So I will be placing another Chewy order sometime this week to Chewy Pharmacy. Coupled with the food, I had to add two squeeze balls that were pretty cheap to have enough to get free shipping. This new combination of heartworm and flea and tick prevention is pretty pricey so I don’t need to add any toys with that order.