A few days ago, my Mom wanted to listen to this song as she put my compression socks on and I was TOTLLY down because I put this song on my ‘faves’ back when I was still teaching and working out at Barwis!!!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard this song and it completely took way back to when I was teaching and working out at Barwis, just like I KNEW that it would!!!: 😍😍😍
I have been thinking about this since we watched Hope Floats a couple nights ago. I heard and remembered some great tunes when watching this movie. Tunes that I listened to when I was 16. That was strange to me because I clearly remember being asked at Lonestar Steakhouse and Saloon if I listen to country music.
I clearly remember, smiling and saying no, as I shook my head thinking that that would be a dealbreaker in me being hired. It wasn’t a dealbreaker and she said to me, knowingly and without looking at me, “You will.”
And I did! I told my Mom that I guess thatI have always dabbled in listening to country music. I listen. to it in waves. And maybe that comes from my Dad because he liked country music. He wasn’t super overt about it, but I grew up listening to Johnny Cash and Charley Pride.
I remember jamming to Deana Carter and Shania Twain in high school. I owned two Dixie Chicks CDs.
I don’t know that I will watch Hope Floats again for a while, but it was really nice to think about all the great country music. I’ve listened to over the years
So here’s the deal, I have kept my Lenten promises all the way up until Pentecost. This is the first time that I have done this and that feels great! I really haven’t been listening to music. But now, since it is after Pentecost, I can resume normal activities.
I saw a reel of Prince wearing a red hat when he was inducted into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame with Tom Petty, Bob Seger and George Harrison was inducted posthumously.
Wait. What? How did I not know this? Well the reason is because on March 15, 2004. I was still an undergrad. I still lived with my Parents and my son was three years old. I did not watch things on TV for myself back then. It was a lot of Playhouse Disney.
After I watched that reel, I had to see the performance. It was mind blowing! The next day, the remastered versions of that video came with an explanation:
And here’s the explanation:
And then I started seeing reels of the Super Bowl performance, and I had to watch!!!
And this one too:
This one popped up in my phone last night and I had to include it:
I’m thinking that Prince reels started showing up in my phone because I talked about my friend Aseal talking about the hajj. She has loved Prince for my whole life! Seeing these videos popping up in my phone makes me think of her. I saw her once when I was teaching. She was also teaching, but it was in passing, and that was it.
I have been thinking about her since I read about the mayor of Dearborn going on the hajj and this Prince just make me smile.
We watched Hope Floats yesterday and I hadn’t seen it in so long! I think I was 16 when I first saw it. I played this song last night just so I be in that space for a little while longer:
I will find my Hope Floats posts later, but I remembered this song when we watched the movie tonight and I was completely back in high school! I think I was 16:
I had placed an order during the Memorial day sale for Duluth Trading Company. I bought Sean ‘Dry on the Fly’ pants for his irrigation season.
Because Sean is a guy, he did not know the exact pants size to get, so I got him the two sizes that I thought he would be. I thought that he would just try them on, give me the ones that didn’t work, and I will just return it.
I called the customer service department because my Speech Pathologist wants me to practice speaking to strangers to see if I still can be audible when I am not comfortable with the person. Well, I called and I spoke to Pam and she was absolutely lovely! I actually can just send the pants back and they will exchange them for the pants that fit Sean. They will send the pants to my house. Easy Peezy!
And on top of that, I still got to practice my SLOB techniques for speaking. I need to text Meira this information and tell her about that.
I saw and read an article about Dearborn yesterday. As I read it, I sobbed! I couldn’t really understand why I was sobbing and it took me a minute to realize why. I think I need to tell this story before I tell you about the that made me cry!:
I worked at dfcu for my sophomore year of college. There were four other part-time towers who were college students at U of M Dearborn as well!
Three of us worked at the Livonia branch (I had classes with Catherine and Joannabut Craig was in a different college but sometimes we would see him at the CASL building). On Saturdays, other part-time tellers would come to Livonia to work because it was open on Saturdays.
Another teller, her name is Laura, she went to U of M-Dearborn as well. She actually lived in Dearborn too. We would talk on our lunch breaks and toward the spring, she told me that she was going on the hajj.
I was surprised! She was older than me, but she was only about 22 or 23. My neighbor two doors down was my friend and she was muslim. I loved her mom‘s cooking!She talked to me about the hajj and all the rituals in the meanings big deal this was! I wished Laura luck and I was happy for her! But then we didn’t see each other for a while.
I was leaving the bathroom stall at dfcu at work and I’m met Laura at the sink to wash our hands! Of course, I asked her about the pilgrimage she looked so elated! She told me it was wonderful and I asked her about the seven times around the Kaaba.
This is the reason why I was crying and this is why I am still crying as I am trying to write this and why I cried when I told Sean about it! She told me that she felt like she was flying!
I read yesterday that the mayor of Dearborn was in Saudi Arabia on personal time to complete the hajj!:
As I was reading this article, I thought of Laura flying and I started to cry. Actually, I sobbed! I’m not Muslim, but I grew up in East Dearborn so I was around a lot of muslim people. Tomorrow will mark the end of the Easter season at Pentecost and I am 43 and this is the first time that I have felt this close to God!! it’s kind of amazing and I think that’s another reason that I sobbed!
Today is June 4 and I had to make a bag-of-chapstick for my first Cucumber Mint tube of the season:
Already?! Seriously?! I cannot believe I have used that much chapstick in a short time because it didn’t get warm for a while.
Once I am finished with this bag-o-chapstick, I have three other tubes for this Spring/Summer season. I know that I will be finished with this bag-o-chapstick before I leave the house for haircuts on June 18.
I completely know that the flavor of chapstick I am using makes no difference in the real world, but I am no longer in the real world, and it’s something to focus on, I guess.
This song is a lot longer than I remember! But it pops into my head when my body feels NOT GOOD!; which is now:
I spoke to Sean while he was driving today and he said that it is the first hot day and I completely agreed with him.
The past month of this 50°and 60° back-and-forth has been brutal, but I don’t think I was ready for it to be 87° for the entire day!
It’s 76° right now and it’s 10 o’clock at night?! Thank the Lord that my AC is fixed! This would be so much more unbearable!!! This doesn’t feel great but a lot better than it could feel.