Category: Tunes

When Happiness for Beginners started, my Mom asked me who sang the song that was playing when it began. That song sounded familiar, but I could not place it. I decided just to look at her and say, “I don’t know!”

I didn’t know this song but the song she was talking about was, “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities. That song came out when I was in the middle of teaching middle school! My kids, loved that song! I think I even posted that song on my blog years ago. It came out as a single in 2011 and on the album I’m 2013.

I was teaching Reading then, so I had smaller class sizes and I paid more attention to pop culture back then. But now, I am homebound, so I don’t have any pop-culture references anymore. But, I just looked up what song was playing in the beginning of Happiness for Beginners:

And since I put that song in here, I’m going to put the Capital Cities song in as well so you can hear the similarity that me and my Mom heard! Great minds think alike!:

My Mom suggested this movie yesterday and we watched it and I thought it was hilarious!

Today, I had my solo encore presentation just to get whatever I missed yesterday and to continue to laugh at all of their banter! Hugh was my fave!!!

I think I may make it a triple play because I think there are things that I was still missing. I will watch it without my contacts on on my phone. Optic Neuritis is not like what’s going on with Jake but I think it’s a bit close. May be a little too close for comfort…

The progression of my Optic Neuritis, although it started when I was pregnant in my right eye and my left eye joined the optic neuritis party when Sean was maybe 10? He’s 21 now so it has progressed but I get the gist of everything I see so it’s okay I think…

Besides, I love this song!:

I was scrolling through my phone last night, and I saw a short of Mariah Carey singing “My All.” Of course I had to click on it, and then I stopped halfway through because it was a live video and it wasn’t that great of a performance so I decided to wait until I got into bed so I could give it justice as I listened!

I was a Sophomore in high school again, and I liked thinking about that! I still know all of the words, but I no longer can sing them. I’ll just put the video here:

I am half done with ‘go-time’ for this month. Hair is cut. I am exhausted! We stopped and gassed up the van, and my Mom is taking it back right now. As I was sitting in the gas station, I heard this song and was back in college. Undergrad at U of M!:

I saw this short not too long ago:

When I saw that tour announcement, that really hit me hard I clearly remember when he was going to play at Saint Andrews hall in Detroit. It was the night before my second year teaching started, I would just need to report before the students came, but back then, I took it so seriously, so I did NOT see Gavin!

He released another album while we were living in our second apartment. I remained a huge fan and he got more successful. I didn’t get to see him until Sean and I were living in our house and I went with my cousinT, Shannon:

That was the last concert I attended! I immediately thought of that day when I saw Gavin DeGraw tour announcement. He was the second act and while Maroon 5 was playing, I went to the restroom. It was at DTE energy music theater! The restroom was extremely hot!!! Luckily, I was able to get myself out of the stall by myself, even though my cousinT offered to help!

I posted this short a few days later, and tagged my cousinT in that post:

I clearly remember the conversation we had when we came out of the restroom, and Gavin Degraw started singing!!!:

But that is how my brain thinks now. I’m just living in my memories ! Even though, as the years go by the memories become more distant and a little hazy but I appreciate thinking about that, and prefer that then thanking about my current existence…

I was watching the second half of the Hallmark movie with Meghan Markle and it and I heard a commercial with this song. I don’t even know what the commercial was about because I wasn’t looking at the TV so I don’t know what they were selling, but I liked hearing this song! It took me way back to our second department and the summer of Tim Bits!:

I was kind of sad to hear that Sinead O’Connor died and I pulled up her, “I Don’t Want What I Haven’t Got.” album. Once the album started playing, I was taken back to being eight years old when my brother, Steve, who slept in the room beneath me, would listen to that album and I heard it through the floor.

I pulled it up on Wednesday evening, and was completely surprised that I STILL knew all of the words! I started to cry!

I remember that a few years after he left for college and he had started a career. I was in high school and drove to Dearborn Music and bought the used cd! I’ve listened to this album a few times and I think that this has always been my favorite song of the album: