Category: Tunes

Today was the first day I drank the Sweet Vanilla Orgain nutrition shake. I drank it just before I pillaged this week and I have decided that it is, “Sweeter” than the chocolate ones. I’m not sure if it’s the taste or because now because I get them from Target that they are five dollars cheaper. So I’m not sure but you know I thought of this song for sure:

This song randomly popped up in my phone and I have no idea why:

I couldn’t place why this song was so familiar. I couldn’t remember where I was but her voice reminded me of WMU and then it hit me! I was in the Rec. Center and I am in my groove riding the elliptical back when I was able bodied. And I love how music can put me right back there:

I think that it must have been a couple weeks ago when my mom and I somehow stumbled on to watching YouTube videos and we ended up watching videos about both Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. Sean said that we were very GenZ because we were watching YouTube videos on my TV.

I really liked watching the documentary and I told my Mom that I wanted to rewatch the movie, Dumplin’ and we watched 9 to 5. I couldn’t get over the fact that she is such a great songwriter and I put her playlist on my Apple Music as I was playing solitaire. I think it’s crazy that I heard this one and it’s new and she is 77 years old and STILL singing! I am SO late to this party!:

A Facebook friend posted this and it made me laugh way too hard and I was back in my dorm at WMU because this song was my wall mate, Marissa’s favorite band:

I may as well post the song here right now because I am not sleeping…:

I thought about this song late last night. Well, actually, it was early this morning. Probably about 1 o’clock! I know that because I texted this video to Sean and asked him if he remembered this one because this song was playing in, The Fsult in Our Stars. As we were leaving the theater, I mentioned that I liked this song to Sean and he agreed that he liked it as well! I was still in a manual chair back then and was still driving:

I think that it is really strange how thoughts of these memories change so much over time. At least my perspective has…

I have been in a funk since talking with my nutritionist on January 11. I thought I would be better after I talk to my Speech Pathologist on January 25 but that is NOT the case!!!

I have been listening to my Gavin DeGraw playlist on loop since then. I have a discovered that when I am in a really big funk like I was and still pretty much STILL AM, I listen to Gavin DeGraw. That was the album I listen to most often when I first bought our first apartment. That was when I became a grown-up.

I have shared Gavin DeGraw songs so much on my blog! I was searching through my Apple Music playlists and I noticed that there were some duplicate playlists. I’m not sure how that happened but I deleted the duplicates. I came across a playlist that I didn’t know what was in it. It was titled, “Seanie” and I know that Sean does not call himself that so I clicked on it and I saw the two songs that were contained in that playlist! That’s why I named the playlist ‘Seanie’!!!

The first song on this playlist:

This song was my jam in high school! And because I had Sean two minutes after high school, I still had the CD in my room! I can remember from the earliest days of going to the grocery store with my infant in a car seat carrier! I have always pictured Sean and I dancing to the song at his wedding one day but as my disease has been progressing quite steadily, i’m not so sure.

The second and last song on the playlist:

This song was the first song that played in the car that I bought at Bill Wink Chevrolet dealership that closed not too long afterward. This song was playing as I drove down Ford Road to get back to our second apartment and I pulled into the carport just as this song ended.

My Mom and I started watching a movie today. It’s a movie that we have seen before but we hadn’t seen it for a long time!

She went to lay down about halfway through it but I continued watching it for this song, it’s worth the rewatch !!!:

So, I had a Speech Pathology appointment last Wednesday and we worked on tongue twisters. She gave me homework to find difficult tongue twisters and dictate them in a text to her. I found 13 of them and they were really good! I shared one with her on Wednesday after my appointment.

But then the snow came and my Mom made Leia’s track. I was happy to see how happy that makes my Mom but I told her that all of that precipitation that is outside in the form of snow is also inside my body! And that hurts terribly!!!

So, Thursday was kind of a rough day but I was happy to see my Mom so happy. I thought I would just have to re-calibrate myself for the winter to get used to how my body feels with snow on the ground. I went to sleep on Thursday night with the hope that Friday would be better!

My hopes were dashed the moment I opened my eyes. I thought I was going to re-calibrate and feel better but that was definitely NOT the case! Friday, I spent the day groaning because it hurt so badly!!! I couldn’t believe that I spent the entire day in pain as I was trying to drift off to sleep. I thought, it’s, “Worse-er,” and that thought made me laugh!

You know what I was thinking!!!

I have shared that memory of my first night at WMU so many times on my blog and that’s what I thought of last night as I was beginning to drift off to sleep in the early hours of this morning. I saw myself driving (back when I could still drive) down E. Pond Dr. on my way to Wendy’s to get something to eat (back when I could eat normal food)

I was trying to find a radio station but I did not know them in Kalamazoo so I hit the shuffle button on my radio and started to drive. It was just at the bend of the road with the Inter-mural courts on my right when I heard the opening bars of this song and Axl asking me if I knew where I was?:

Today, when I drank my new nutrition shake for breakfast, to my surprise, it was a little bit sweeter. So much so that I am confident that I will be able to drink this for the next 34 days without a problem.

Since I met with my nutritionist on the 11th of this month, aside from watching High School Musical 3 (because we had to finish the trilogy!) I have just been listening to my Gavin DeGraw playlist because my new nutrition needs are a lot to deal with! Listening to Gavin DeGraw reminds me of our apartments and when I was really starting to grow up and I had a three-year-old child with me and I was a little more able-bodied back then. I was still driving:

Of course, I thought (and have heard this one a number of times) of this song: