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So, I wrote about that Maroon 5 song that I added to my “Daddy” playlist. I hadn’t heard it for a while so I played it last night when I read over my blog post. Well, I lost it!… Again. 17 years later!!!

I turned this song on and as I heard the opening bars, I saw myself driving to the School of Education at U of M Dearborn. It was just off main campus and driving there from my work, seeing that I have lived in Dearborn for my entire life, certain landmarks hold deep memories for me!

I think that I have written about this memory before, but it was just after my Dad died when I was still in school to get my masters degree. The School of Education building is on the way to the Henry Ford dialysis center. I think it had been just months after my Dad had died and I was driving to school after I had to teach for the day.

Something that I have realized now that I no longer work, it was SO BEYOND tiring to work for the 12 years that I did work! So, I was tired and I still needed to go to class. As I was driving to school in a familiar environment, I saw a car that was my Dad’s car! My Dad had stopped driving for a few years before he died but you couldn’t tell me that then when that car turned into the dialysis center.

I gasped and turned into the parking lot of the building where my class was. I always parked in the front in the disabled parking. I pulled into the spot, and I lost it! I told Sean that the other day. I never told him that before. He was only four. but 17 years later, I thought I could handle it, but when I heard the bars, turns out that I can’t!!!:

I chose this video of this song because I think it’s more dramatic and I can’t believe that it affected as much as it did, correction: as much as it DOES! 17 years later?!!!

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.