This afternoon while my Mom and I ate lunch, she was paying a bill and needed to talk to someone so she was on hold. Once she was placed on hold, they started saying something about services they offer or something and then once they stopped speaking, music came on. I was completely shocked at hearing that song! Then, they started saying something else so the music stopped but then a few seconds later, the music started again.
It was a song I was very familiar with and I remember hearing it and liking it in either my upper class men high school years or in my young adult years. It took me a minute to figure out who I was hearing as the music that plays when you are on hold. Basically, it was the ”Elevator music.” When I figured out who was singing, I told my Mom what it was and that hearing it while you were on hold is, “NUTS!!!
Dave Mathews is the coolest ever! The fact that he is playing as the music when you are on hold proves that I am SO old now!!!
I recently saw this commercial and I laughed. But today, as I watched the Kansas City versus Houston game, Sean was with me. When that commercial started, I told Sean, “It’s you.” It wasn’t until the end of the commercial and he saw the little boy blowing the hairdryer at his mom that he started to laugh as well. I don’t have an iPhone 11 and I was never that way. But something tells me, if I was, Sean would definitely have held the blow dryer for me!
This morning, on GMFB, Kyle nentioned that his dad is a voracious reader yet, he refuses to buy a kindle. I am also like that! I prefer to read physical books. Kay responded by putting her fists in the air and yelling, “Paperbacks!” and she said that she still has a library card. Of course I had to tweet at her this:
I actually have two library cards. One for Dearborn and one for Deerborn Heights. My son also has two cards. I asked him when he got his Deerborn Heights card and neither one of us could remember but he had to be around 10.
I spent so much of my life when I was growing up in the Dearborn Public Library. I read 100 books The summer before either kindergarten or first grade. In the evenings, in the summer, my Mom would take my brothers, cousins, and sometimes neighborhood kids, and me to get ice cream and we would run around the fountain in front of the library and eat the ice cream.
I don’t really frequent that area anymore because I no longer drive but one time in 2016, we passed the Centenial library and I know that I had Sean take a picture of the fountain’s demolition but it is no longer there.
I haven’t been to the library and so long, I just order books on Amazon now. I think it’s crazy how reading has completely changed now for me. I find that my eyes get tired faster than I am finished reading but I just have to stop reading which is sad.
I have had MS for 19 years now. Over half of my life. I never liked when people in my various MS support groups would call themselves, “Warriors” and would tell all of us that we were,”Warriors” too. that is until it got real for me.
Damn right, I am a warrior! This is so difficult! I was asked once what hurts and I told them, “Just my nerves.” I paused a moment and let the person know that there are nerves in every inch of your body. Everything hurts. All of the time!
A woman in one of my MS groups shared this song and she said the lyrics spoke to her. Well, they speak to me too! When she posted it, she let everyone know that she was NOT suicidal but this song is real! I am NOT suicidal either and I know that I have too much to live for to do something like that but it’s enough to acknowledge just the fact that this is difficult and I need to acknowledge the feeling that to just, “Let go” Is really appealing at times.
My support groups come alive at night and I completely get that. I think it was a little after 1 AM when I shared this song on Facebook because I did not want to forget it. I listened to it two times last night and cried both times. I let my Mom hear it this morning when I was eating my eggs and I cried again.
My Mom didn’t like this song and I tried explaining it to her but she told me that neither my Dad nor my aunt Rita gave up, not even at the very end. I told my Mom that it is different because they both had. terminal illnesses. My aunt died of ovarian cancer and my Dad was a non-compliant diabetic for most of my life who had two open-heart surgeries and was on dialysis for 3 1/2 years.
I am just going to have MS for the rest of my life and have to and will have to continue dealing with whatever it decides to throw at me. Believe me, now, it’s throwing a lot at me! I tried to get my Mom to see this but she didn’t so I decided to just listen to this song when I am by myself. I will probably listen to it as I am trying to fall asleep at night but this is really difficult and having to be on high alert every second of the day is a lot. For me, this song was really good. I know I’m not going to do a thing deliberately but I needed to hear this song because sometimes…
I will say that there is nothing like watching a throwback movie with Sean. We are watching, Jumanji. We just saw the third Jumanji at the movies on Christmas and we laughed at how NOT state of the art this one is but it’s still a solid movie!
The Peloton commercial very cute saying really got to me:
I think it’s crazy that songs from my youth, my high school years, are selling things now. I really dig this song and I forgot how much I dug it until I saw this commercial:
I haven’t been tweeting anyone at the breakfast table for a while. I am watching but seem to be too tired to tweet. That changed today because Nate mistakenly called Peter, “‘Toya” when they were having a discussion. Toya is Nate’s wife. Kyle and Kay laughed hysterically and Peter called Nate, “Erica” at the end of the segment. I had to tweet both of them this;
They didn’t like it this time but I liked it enough for all of us! Hearing Nate call Peter his wife’s name, reminds me of the first time I was called, “Mom” by a student. She was insanely embarrassed and I deflected her embarrassment by telling her that I have ALEAYS wanted a daughter but I didn’t want one when I was 12 years old because it was my first year teaching and I was only 24. She was 12. Nate recovered nicely because he wasn’t even embarrassed! I love that show!!! I can’t wait for the off-season because I’m having a little difficulty getting into the playoffs because the Saints are already out. That really bums me out and I wanted to see them win the Super Bowl! Kay rapped about them and I tweeted her and she liked it immediately. I’m just sayin’…
When I woke up Friday morning, I texted my Mom that I was awake and while I waited for her to come and help me get out of bed, I watched some YouTube videos. This one showed up and I really dug the song! It reminded me of being a little girl and my Parent’s living room having green carpet. It’s hardwood now but when I was a kid, I used to lay on it and watch TV.
I watch video clips of The Voice in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep (Which is pretty much every night). I post the videos that make me cry because I can no longer sing like the videos I see. So, Friday morning I posted this guys rendition of Terence Trent D’Arby and Saturday morning this video showed up and I shared it on Facebook as well!
This song took me way back and I tagged two of my brothers when I posted The second video on Facebook of the actual video. It was proof that Big Brother is watching and listening through our phones I guess
This, “Oldie but goodie” showed up in my YouTube feed and January 2. I shared it on Facebook so not to forget but I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since!
When I first saw this video when it came out, I thought that Courtney Cox looked old but when I see it now, she looks so young! I guess I’m the one who is old now!
I was very pleased with the outcome of Saturday’s football games for wildcard weekend this year. I was hopeful that the 1 o’clock game would end with my team winning and I hadn’t really decided who I wanted to win the second game. I was OK if it was either the Seahawks or the Eagles.
But then, the Saints lost. And really upset me! I told Larry Foote In the summer of 2013 that I was a post-season Packers fan. Sean and I both have Cheeseheads that we would only wear during the post-season. But I’m not so sure that I am a post-season Packers fan anymore. I am a post-season Saints fan. I guess that is fitting given that I am a regular season Lions fan so I understand disappointment.
Well, I am super disappointed now because the Saints are out of the playoffs again. It reminds me of working with the Adam at Barwis. this had to be six years ago but there was a man who played in the CFL and was looking to get into the NFL, that’s why he was working out at Barwis. Adam was stretching me on the white table and the man was sitting on the turf not too far away and stretching after his work out. Adam asked him which NFL team he would want to play and if he had the choice.
Adam is a big Eagles fan and back then he was a Rex Ryan fan so he wanted the guy to play for them. I can still remember seeing the guy sitting on the turf and choosing the New Orleans Saints. I wasn’t listening to their discussion about reasons to play for the Saints but once it was over, I remember saying and kind of singing, “Because their uniforms are SWEEET!!!” I remember it amusing both of them and they agreed that the Saints uniforms are sweet because they are!
As Sean and I watched the Seahawks versus the Eagles, Eve’s song played as they were coming back from commercial. Sean was laying on the couch behind me and I had my left hand up and was bopping my head to the music. That song used to be my jam! Third album came out during my senior year of high school.
As I moved my hand completely with the music, Sean told me,”That’s enough!” I started to laugh and just be for the game restarted, I told him Sandra bullocks line in Hope Floats. I told him, “Once upon a time, your mama knew what it meant to shine!”
i’m not sure who I will root for in the playoffs (If any) because I wanted the Saints to go all the way and win the Super Bowl. I don’t know which team I will join the bandwagon for just yet.
