Category: Tunes

Yesterday, we went to St. Alphonsus. My Mom took so many pictures and as I sat in the car I realized that that’s as much a blow to her as it is to me! She was an adult making all of the memories we all have from there and I was just a kid. My family LIVED at St. Alphonsus! I thought I would share a bunch of the pictures here today but I can’t. I looked at this picture it’s just began to cry… AGAIN!!:

I have ALWAYS been an overly dramatic teenager and especially while I was a student within these walls of both the grade and high school! This is the song that is playing in my head now:

This song seems super fitting to me and I wish I knew how to make a Flipagram and set the pictures I have to this song but I am 40 so I can’t do that!!!

The other day, we listened to Smokey Robinson music as my Mom washed my legs and tended to my feet. Smokey Robinson songs are so familiar to me! It reminds me of being a child because I heard so much of that music growing up! I grew up with so much Motown music so when I heard this song playing from the basement, I thought it was Smokey Robinson. I really like that song and I didn’t think I heard it before.

I went downstairs as my brother Steve was listening to music and I asked him to “Play that Smokey Robinson song!” I don’t think that my brother made fun of me too much when he corrected me to tell me that that song is sung by Lenny Kravitz. I really liked his voice and I think it sounded like Smokey Robinson and that is a hill that I will die on!!!

My Mom and I had a very productive afternoon today! We first left the house and went to the hospital downtown to the infectious disease clinic. Jen says my feet look wonderful and they are almost healed. Tomorrow, Sonya is coming to take pictures and measure my sores and take my blood pressure and temperature and stuff. We will talk about how long she will continue to come. Jen says that I don’t need to see her unless I get another sore and my Mom told her that we do NOT want to see her!

After my good report, my Mom and I drove to Saint Alphonsus. I had to get my OWN pictures! I rarely drive by there much these days even before the pandemic but I think I will be very saddened when it is gone.

I attended there from kindergarten through 12th grade graduation. It was strange to see it and I sat in the van in the parking lot as my Mom walked around to take pictures and I was flooded with 1 million memories! All ranging from kindergarten and playing ‘What Time is it Mr. Fox?’ under the overhang all the way to Homecoming dances and spirit week my senior year!

It was a very strange feeling and after we went there, because we had a van, we went to Dairy Queen and got ice cream! I rarely leave my house and there will only be a Thin Mint blizzards available during the summer and I HAD TO get one!!!

We also picked up a dozen partially cooked pierogi from Sabina’s because that is something I am still able to eat. As my Mom went to get the food, I sat in the van and looked at the pictures of my old school and I thought of this song and when it started playing on my phone, I started to cry! I was not prepared for all of this emotion at all and it will take me some time to unpack it but this is the song that popped into my head:

I want to start off this blog post by stating that I am so concerned about my vision! I currently am wearing my contacts and my glasses and therefore cannot read my phone. I place pictures and videos on my blog using my phone. I need to wait until it saves on my phone and in my blog dashboard so then I can edit my blog post using my iPad that I bought in January. So I am writing this here stating that I am super concerned about it but I was going to write a different blog post with that same name but I just want to say that it’s concerning!

But, about this particular blog post. My Mom got her hair colored today and she asked me to check the weather because her phone is not currently working. I told her that it was 94° but that it felt like 105°!!! I was so grateful that I am not going out of the house today! But then that concerned me because tomorrow I go back to the infectious disease clinic.

Every single time for a few years now, whenever I tell my mom that I am concerned, she sings this line from this song! She always would ask me if I knew what song she was talking about and I look at her straight in her eye and remind her, “I was born in 1982.” Of course I would not know that song! But we never tire of laughing when my mom sings that line because so much with my disease progression is concerning me and I constantly say that I am concerned and my Mom answers in turn like this:

I was being extremely careful with my chapstick because I did not want to have to have another, “Bag of Chapstick” even though that always makes me think of that student back when I taught English. Late last night, this happened:

I am going to finish this in probably a week but this song plays in my head every time this happens:

I think that it is a good sign that random songs pop into my head now that my feet are starting to feel better. Granted, they are just starting but it’s movement in the right direction. I just thought of this song and I am reminded of being in middle school at the parking lot across from Fr. Yagley Hall decorating cars for the homecoming parade! I think my brother was playing in the game because I was still maybe 11 or 12? And I remember my friend, Erica, singing this song as we were decorating cars before the parade endgame down the street on a crisp fall afternoon:

My optometrist appointment was last Thursday. I think it has taken until today, right now, to fully sink in. That horrible doctor was correct! I think I’m a long way from being blind but Dr. Harris did not change my prescription because he wants me to be able to see up close and if he strengthens my prescription, I would lose my nearsighted ability. He says that that is better in my situation then seeing far away.

I think that he is correct and as I was wiping the tears from my eyes with my left sleeve, because it is quite difficult not to be able to see clearly even with contacts or glasses. I thought of this song and I saw myself and either my cousin, Melissa, my cousinT, Shannon, or my friend, Heather growing up In the backseat of my Mom’s station wagon singing along with this song.

I just searched it on YouTube and had to listen to it just before I wrote this blog post and I still remember the words and I could see myself in the backseat of that station wagon, singing!