Category: Tunes

Yesterday was super warm, and I did NOT feel well at all! My mantra in this heat for this entire summer has been, “I’m hanging in.” And man, has it been difficult?!!! Last night, when we were almost ready to get ready for bed, I told my Mom in a monotone voice, “ I hate feeling like a zombie.”

Because that is how I feel. I feel it in my face, I am dragging so much! So, you know exactly what song was in my head immediately after I said that?! It was so warm that I did not even look it up on YouTube yesterday. I looked it up today before I started drafting this blog post:

It’s been a while since I have watched this music video for sure! One thing I noticed that is different from my 12-year-old Jenny’s impression of this video is at 12 years old, I could not understand why she did NOT have a flat stomach?!

But now, watching this video right now as a 42 year old woman who has had a child I completely understand why her stomach is NOT flat! Duh!!!

I had a hard time believing that today was even warmer than yesterday, and I had to force myself to eat my lunch at 90° weather! It took me so long to eat my lunch! But it won’t be summer all year so that is something to look forward to. The temperatures have come down a little bit in the evening, so I can breathe a little easier now.

I watched the video today before I posted this blog post, and as I was watching it, I started to cry. I’m not even sure why I did but I think it’s probably the heat but I vaguely thought about the fact that she is dead now…

I am reclined in my chair with my eyes slightly closed, and this song just had to get an encore presentation! This song reminds me of summer! I’m so uncomfortable!

But September IS coming soon…

OK, here’s the deal. “Go time” is supposed to be on Wednesday. But here’s what happened…:

I think I noticed this in the beginning of blast week, when I was reclining back in my chair to slide back so I am seated in my chair properly. It was creaking a whole lot! I told my mom that it sounds like the tin man. I got this chair in December and my previous chair NEVER creaked like it was creaking this past week. But on Saturday night, I was adjusting my chair a little bit and I smelled something, “Chemically.”

I texted my Mom last night to tell her to to call Ray or Sarah at NSM (National Seating and Mobility) and tell them that I am smelling hydraulic fluid. I then told her that I will forgo my haircut on Wednesday to get my chair looked at. I spent the morning devising the plan as I was praying.

I remember probably in February or March when my hairdresser noticed that I am getting curly hair. She asked me who has the curls and I told her that my Dad did. She also has curly hair and she looked at me and asked if my Mom would blow dry it. I told her that she wouldn’t and then she suggested product. I shook my head at that too. I think it was April when she cut my hair the length that is now. I get my curls cut off every single month. But now I think I’m going to have to just ‘let the curls come out’ and this song is in my head as I say that;

I think I might post a ‘grow out’ picture because usually just before I get my haircut, like now, I feel curls roll up on my head in the morning when I comb my hair. I want to know what it will look like a month overgrown?

I often will watch videos on YouTube about songs. I watched the Miss Mojo video on covers that ended up being more popular than the original! Of course, Hurt was on there and I’ve talked about that tons but I saw this one. And man…

I had to put this one on here! This was my jam! This is singing at the top of my lungs in the back of the bus and Washington DC in eighth grade! I remember that Ms. Duffin and Mr. Rashid were NOT happy about it because it was late so I had to stop. I listened to the entire song, and I no longer can sing along with it, but I loved it!!!

There are two albums on my Train playlist. Save Me, San Francisco, and California 37. I remember listening to this album in its entirety and then I would pick songs that I liked. I seem to be hearing this song a whole lot now as I am doing puzzles or playing the car game and I kinda dig it!

Because it is August now, I was listening to my Train Apple Music playlist, and I heard this song:

I have a very vivid memory of driving to work, and I was listening to this album for the first time, and this song came on just as I was making that very weird Isosceles triangle type turn off of Dix and onto Goldsmith to go to work.

This album came out in 2009 and I think I was still in our 2nd apartment so I thought I had a social life ahead of me. Well, that didn’t happen, but I love this song!!!

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I was thinking about my eye doctor appointment yesterday and it is going to take me a few more days to process, but thinking about the last time I got weighed. It was in June when I saw my PCP. That was the appointment where she told me that my weight is of no concern. Well, that’s the first time I heard that in my lifetime!

I thought of this song because based on my last weight and given my current weight, this song popped into my head because I lost ‘10 pounds’ without doing anything. But I don’t think I am in danger because I’ve been on nutrition shakes for over a year. I just thought of this song and I love her:

I think it is strange that now I am completely in the realm of the infirmed… 😒😒😒…