I am aware of the background music every time I get my haircut and conversations take me away from it sometimes but I still hear the music. On Wednesday, my hair was cut and my eyebrows waxed. My Mom’s was getting cut by her hairdresser so I sat in the waiting area and I heard two songs from my youth! I am in high school and just graduated! I heard the songs and I smiled:
I sat there and thought about my more able-bodied days, and I smiled. I never thought that would be something in my past, but I’m so grateful that I experienced it!
Today was a little more tolerable than yesterday. Yesterday with the rain my head hurt so badly. My hips did not feel well at all and my knees were throbbing. Both of them. I will not go see my endocrinologist until May 16.
Today I was nervous when my left hip kind of slipped out. By that, it reminds me of when I bought Sean the light sabers when he was about five. The light saber is in segments, and you push it all down when you put it away. But that’s what I feel with my hips. It kind of slips. The segment comes out a little bit. My Mom asked me about that o when my left hip slipped for the first time, I told her, “Well, my hips don’t lie…”
Recently, I can’t seem to find the humor in finding a song that fits. But today was not as bad as yesterday I have never liked Shakira’s voice But this one is fitting I suppose…
I called Sean today and opened with this question,” Do you want to hear the most exciting news?! He was a little bit startled, but he could hear that I was excited, and he agreed to hear the news.
I was so excited that I blurted it out right away! I just said, very excitedly, “Abuela found the tree skirt!” Sean was silent and then he started to laugh. He told me that he was not expecting that statement! I told him that it is so exciting because it is vintage! 2005! I told him that I AM excited about it! My Mom told me that she boxed up the tree skirt in 2016 because that’s what she wrote on the box.
I am going to consult my records but I want to say that I did NOT put my tree up in 2017 because that was the Christmas I had my second knee surgery, and then I was fired. I was a little bit bummed to say the least!!! I’m not even sure when we started putting it back up. I think that was in 2022 or something.
I’m just excited that this year. I will have my Christmas decorations complete!!!
I saw footage of this song song at Taylor Swift’s concert, and that sent me back as soon as I started to hear the song, I was back teaching, and I was still driving and going to Barwis, but I was on the cusp of doing none of that and being homebound. But I didn’t know that back then:
Everything seems to have a tinge of sadness these days… I texted my best friend that this is difficult now and I’ve never had MS this long… I hope this funk is not lasting…
My Mom washed my hair on Friday night (Yeah, I no longer can do that myself) and she said that she wanted to put the The Thomas Crown Affair on. I had already taken my contacts out for the day, but I was cool with just listening to it because I couldn’t see a thing.
My Mom knows that I dig that movie so I guess that’s why she wanted to put it on. She had a ton of questions, and I could answer them to the best of my ability because it had been a while since I saw this movie. I watched it again today with my contacts on! Yep, I still did it! I especially like this song and I have no idea why:
We talked about the painting of “The Son of Man in my art history class at U of M Dearborn but I don’t remember what we said about it. I DO remember that I lent my book to a friend who was in school with me because it was $98 and she was going to take this class the following semester so I just put my name and phone number in the front thinking that I would get it back but I never did! But I still feel good about sharing it with her!
She told me today that this is a remake and we’re gonna watch the movie from 1968 with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway tomorrow. It’ll be a good comparison!
I’ve known Benny since we had our first department! I called him Benny-Bear but he is saved in my phone as just Benny. He lives in Vegas now. He always reminded me of the lead singer of Kings of Leon and just because of that I need to add this song here because dig it:
So, yesterday, my Mom and I watched The Intern. My Mom told me about it and I remembered that I thought it sounded interesting when it first came out and I wanted to see it, so we watched it yesterday.
It is my custom now to watch movies two days in a row. The first time I see a movie I tend to miss a lot of things because my vision is not as as I would like it. That just comes with the territory now, after having MS for 23 years, and my Mom is not adversed to watching movies over and over again. That’s where I get it from!
During my second viewing, I noticed this?!:
The second time looking at him, he looked familiar, extremely familiar!!! I had to rack my brain a little bit but then I recognized him. He was in The Fault in our Stars, but that is not what I was thinking about! I looked him up when I thought that it was him back then. He IS who I thought he was!!! He is Nat from The Naked Brothers Band!!!
I am not ashamed to say at all that their album played in my car on loop for months! That was back when we lived in our second department Sean and I would watch The Naked Brothers Band all the time! It was on Nickelodeon and this was my favorite song:
My Mom could NOT believe that I listened to this song because he says ‘Aventually’ not ‘Eventually’ She couldn’t believe that because I was an English teacher! I told her it was ‘artistic freedom’ and it was fine.
This was them back in 2007 when we were still living at our second apartment:
A few days ago, I saw a video in my YouTube feed. It was super random, but I thought I would watch it. It was video of professional singers pranking the judges on The Voice. I just wanted to see who would be singing soI clicked on the video and I a man’s hands were playing the piano. It only took me a moment for me to realize who that man was, and what song he was playing!!!
I played this song, so much in our second apartment, and in the beginning years of living in our house and when I watched him sing it on The Voice, I began to cry!:
I actually called Sean a few days ago and told on myself! As I was telling him, he just began seeing the song just like James Blunt. I started laughing, and he told me that he does not have that song in his playlists at all but he told me that he still knows all of the words!!!
I remember that one of Sean’s friends in grade school knew that song, for the same reason that Sean knew it! I just told Sean, “A woman scorned…” I think after so many years, this song is cathartic for me, and it hurts so good so I don’t even feel bad about crying anymore…
I wrote yesterday, how this song popped into my head once I saw myself in the elevator mirror:
I was originally thinking this was a second department song, but it didn’t come out until I was living in my house! I was already teaching Reading! Sean was not a Selena Gomez fan! He was when we lived in our second apartment, because he was all about Wizards of Waverly Place!
It took me a minute, but, this is 100% Dodgeball!!! I heard this song so much because on Fridays the kids played dodgeball in their PE class! That’s why I know that song because my classroom was just off of the cafeteria/gym. retrospectively, that really wasn’t the best place for me to teach reading to below level students but that’s what we did.
