I am really not liking how the video is not posting as a video, it’s just a link. Think it’s because I have an iPhone 12 which is our archaic right now. But just click the hyperlink and you will hear this song.
I remember I saw him in a Hallmark movie. I think it was when of the song first came out. He was. a music teacher or something. I didn’t like seeing him act! He looked like a very small man and I did not like it. It was far cry different from the shirtless guy and tight pants singing “Marry Me” as he walked through the crowd! I will always remember that that was the first time that I saw a hairy chest and I was not disgusted by it because I was already 28 years old!
Regardless, I really dig this song! It came out the second year of living in our house.
I have just realized that I have not posted my ‘all-time Christmas faves list’ since 2015! That is because my knee was injured in October 2016 and the subsequent surgery in July 2017 did not leave me any room to think of anything other than the pain that I have been in!
But now that I am homebound, I have time. I think that I am just going to post my top five Christmas songs:
I got these Christmas songs because the first one is Wham! duh!!!
This second song is my Mom‘s favorite song and reminds me of my childhood at 6020:
This third song is Sean‘s favorite song. He’s such an old soul! I dig this one too!:
This one has been one of my favorite Christmas songs since I was seven years old and my cousins, Belinda and Sal, sang it at the piano with their friend! This was my only warm Christmas that we spent in Texas where we barbecued on the deck for Christmas Day?!!!!
this last song has to be on my list because this was a conversation with my cousinwhen I was 17 and she was 19. She does not like wham! but listens to it because I love it. So I don’t like this song but I listen to it because she loves it!!!:
I have a watched A California Christmas three times this year and it’s not even technically Christmas time officially yet! I was not feeling any of the Hallmark movies that were playing and were set to play for the rest of the evening, so I just put that movie back on.
My eyes are thing now that scares me. I knew that I recognize this song from back when I was working I think? Well, I found it again today:
I COMPLETELY need to hear/feel this one right about now!!!:
I’m really diggin’ a live version of this song!!! It’s STILL NOT my choice!!!:
Last month, I listen to a lot of my Sara Bareilles playlist that I would listen to as I was falling asleep. My Mom didn’t like it at all! She told me that she likes ‘upbeat music’ and I told her that I can’t even handle that anymore.
I finally told her that I used to belt Sara Bareilles out in both of my apartments and I think surely after I moved into my house, I could no longer sing along with the radio. I just mounted the words. my mom that I miss that. I’m so grateful that I didn’t do anything professional or anything but I think it’s sad that longer can do it. These were the songs I was listening to:
The lyric, “Come on in, tug at my seams” really gets me!!!!:
I actually told my Mom about this song being written for a play that Sara Bareilles wrote, and I told her about the movie it was based on. I have no interest in watching the movie again, but I also told her I was super into GMFB, that there was a billboard right outside the studio for that play that was on Broadway years ago:
I heard this song last night after my Sara Bareilles playlist ended. I was taken back to Barwis Methods in 2014 and a more able-bodied lifestyle. I remember being so hopeful! I miss everyone at Barwis!!!:
When my Mom went to the orthopedist a couple weeks ago about her finger I asked how the appointment went and asked her if she has a return appointment. She told me that the doctor says that her finger is healed but it hurts and then she said, “The 12th of November”
Immediately when she said that to me, my eyes welded up, and I started to cry! I completely surprised myself! But I cry all the time now! But I was specifically thinking about a time when my Mom sang to my Dad when he was in the hospital. I am pretty sure that this was near the end…
Sean came by and I asked him to pull this song up and I told him about my Mom and Dad. He pulled it up and I heard the opening bars and I lost it! I think it’s a little crazy that it Johnny Mathis song make me cry, but it does now:
I called Sean today on his way home from work. I asked him how his workday was and he asked me how things were where I’m at. I told him that I am using my Salted Caramel chapstick today. Then I promptly told him that it is my least favorite. He laughed at that and said that I am just forcing myself to suffer through this fall chapstick. Then I started to laugh, but I told him that this is the first time this Fall that I’ve used it and somehow it is a little bit ‘sweeter’ so you know what song popped into my head right then?!:
A few nights ago, my Mom and I were talking about music and she couldn’t understand why I listen to sad music all the time. She told me that she likes, “Upbeat music.” I just looked at her and I said with the straight face, “I can’t handle that anymore.”
She looked at me when I said that, and she just kind of understood I thought. I think of music in the past tense now. I have a soundtrack of my life and what I was doing when the songs came out. But now I just live in my memories. I told my mom a few days ago as well, “Nothing is the same.”
Because REALLY nothing is the same anymore and I don’t think that I really was expecting this. This is an upbeat song that I did not hear until my 20s that I post on my blog every October but now that I am in my 40s and my disease has progressed this much, sadly, I don’t think I can handle it anymore…:
I didn’t watch Hocus Pocus today. I think I’ll watch it during the weekend…
I had a memory last night, and as my Mom was getting me into bed and putting my feet up, I told her about it. I asked the question, “Do you remember when I was like 10 and I was at Kroger with you and Jimmy and we heard that ‘Jennifer’ song that Abuela used to sing to me?!”
I remember walking down an aisle toward the milk or the meat or something in the back of the store, and we heard the song that my Abuela used to me ALL OF THE TIME!!!
My brother, Jimmy and I were singing it, and I was so shocked! At that point, my Abuela had been dead for a couple years, and I looked at my Mom, and I said, “I thought Abuela made that up!”
She would sing my name, and then just, ‘la la la la la la la la.’ This song came out in 1968 so of course I would NOT know it!
So, I asked my Mom that not thinking that she would search for the song on her phone. She remembers my Abuela that song to me too! But then she started playing the song. I was totally shocked at how quickly I began crying!!!
I could hear my Abuela singing that to me, smelled burning tortillas in her kitchen, and hear her Chanclas on the floor, and she shuffled around in the kitchen. She had really bad Bunions so her chanklas were just on half of her foot, and her heels hung out the back. I cried last night thinking about it!
I thought about that again this morning as we were getting ready for our ‘go time,’ and I started crying again! As I am writing this, I’m still hearing my Abuela and I’m thinking about the stale cookies in her cookie jar that we all would eat when she offered them, the Christmas candy from the Goodfellows, the fact that she liked the show ‘Alf’ and she would say to us all, “You old fart!”
I am going to start my Ginger Spice chapstick right after Thanksgiving, and that completely reminds me of her!!! I can clearly hear the shuffle of her Chanclas!!!