Category: Tunes

Oh, The profundity continues with one of my favorite MS support groups and my tears freely flow. I’m not sure that I want to be a fighter but I have to now…:

I posted this video because I was popped up in my YouTube feed last night and I watched it twice and cried and then I watched it again the next day and I’m not ashamed to say that I cried again:

But I want to explain how my two worlds were colliding…

I was born in 1982 and I have an older brother, Ray, who is 9 1/2 years older than me and my brother, Steve, he’s 7 years older than me and he recently told me about my brother Ray and him falling asleep to the new U2 album when they slept in the basement of my house growing up.

Retrospectively, this is why I absolutely love u2!!! They were falling asleep to the album and so was I sleeping just above them. I have always felt something about Bono’s voice and when he told me that, it all made sense!

Being born in 1982, made me fit perfectly into the 90s grunge era! Therefore, Eddie Vedder’s voice is so Iconic for that era!

Middle school Jenny:

Undergrad Jen:

I have written so extensively about U2’s song, ‘One’, on my blog over the years because it is easily one of my top five!!! Seeing and hearing Eddie Vedder singing my jam was a bit much for me!!!

I have been thinking about this for a while. Based on my last post, I will explain a little more. Granted, being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when you are 18 is QUITE traumatic but that is not even the reason that I watch movies over and over again!

I think I was NOT thinking about it because I didn’t WANT TO acknowledge the fact that my vision is going/dimming/fading just like that horrible doctor said 22 years ago! I did not want to handle it when I was 18 but now, when I am 40, I have no choice.

Having had MS for 22 years now, when I wake up, I put in one drop of eyedrops before I put my contacts in every day. Once my contacts are in, I put my glasses on which are $9 glasses from Amazon but I have a prism over my right eye to allow me to see single objects clearly.

I have another set of eyedrops that I put two drops in each eye when my eyes get dry (which is quite often!). When I watch the same movie multiple times, I do not have to strain my eyes to really focus on what I am looking at, I already know what’s going on in the movie. My eyes are relaxed each time I watch Hocus-Pocus in October and Love Actually in December!

I guess this was just to explain the method to my madness and this song fits as well (AND it’s in my head):

I am nothing if I am not consistent! Today is New Year’s Day:

You’re welcome!!! I have recently been thinking about this CD and I bought it back when I was still able bodied enough to shower in the bathroom in my room. I eventually had to move to the main bathroom to use the handicapped railing. But these songs are in my head now and I’m thinking of winter time and our second apartment:

I remember that I was listening to the CD and the song title was scrolling along the dash and Sean saw Ed and his eight year old self asked, ”What are you? A dog?!” I think I smirked and told him that I liked this song!:

I did everything that I needed to do. The crash is coming on! I think it sounds like this:

I don’t even mind that Dave ages me!

My Mom paid for the purchase of Last Christmas yesterday so of course we watched it! There are 15 George Michael songs in the soundtrack. I told my Mom about the ‘Freedom’ video and the supermodels so when it was over, I HAD TO show it to her:

She didn’t understand why he was burning the leather jacket and I told her that I vaguely remember some kind of label dispute with him and his record company. I showed her this video as well:

so this is a departure from my Christmas music but it is related because ‘last Christmas’ by Wham! is my favorite song! And George Michael is in that band!

Well, I am coming to the end of my chapstick right now. But this time, there is NO bag-o-chapstick because my ‘Abuela chapstick’ knows how to behave!:

The ginger spice flavor will always remind me of my Abuela and I’m just feeling the hint of a scrape on my lips so I think I need a new tube for tomorrow! Oh, I have plenty!

My, “2 Sacreds” are both asleep right now heart is full. Sean is sleeping on the couch and my mom is sleeping in his room and my old bed. I’m listening to my Christmas faves on Apple Music and I don’t even feel badly about crying with this one came on!!!:

So, I’ve been listening to my Christmas playlist since December 1! But there is something going on as well. I did not realize this until last night because I was eating a lot of chocolate! I can have the dove dark and mint chocolate and I bite it into four pieces. I usually just have one or three at most but I was eating them a lot and I couldn’t figure out why!

But then, it hit me. It’s December. December 28 is coming. This year, it will be 22 years since I was diagnosed with MS. I have had that for years more than half of my life and that just kind of hurts. So, I can’t get rid of the melancholy feel around this time as well so I’ll post the two songs that help me get through it:

I think I did this a couple Christmases ago. I made a playlist of all my favorite Christmas songs! The day after Thanksgiving, I am free to play that playlist constantly which is what I have been doing. I put my favorite song four times in a row on it to begin the playlist. Everyone knows by now what my favorite song is but if you have some sort of lapse in judgment, I will remind you:

I couldn’t understand why I had saved this song in my playlist. I grew up hearing it so I was familiar with it but I didn’t know why it was in my playlist until my Mom told me that she likes that song! That’s why?!

I have told everyone my favorite song and just this year, my Mom and I were watching The Santa Clause and my Mom mentioned that she likes the Carol of the Bells. So YOU KNOW that I had to add another song to my Christmas playlist!:

I added these two songs because my Mom likes them, that’s why!