Category: Tunes

My feet hurt a lot today which is so strange because I have NOT felt my feet in over 20 years! My Mom is resting and my phone is about to die. I decided to listen to some music on my iPad in case my phone dies. I thought about all of my pay playlists on my Apple Music and I decided on my James Blunt, Back to Bedlam album because that allows me to escape back to my apartment living on I could still drive and just started teaching. I was so hopeful for the future…

I have been on the verge of tears all day so far! tears have been stinging my eyes and I wipe them away with my sleeve. I am completely sleep deprived! I was able to doze off a little bit before four in the morning and was wide awake at 7:30. That Suzanne Vega song was paying in my head and it was pure torture!!!:

Instead of being ripped from my sleep I couldn’t even fall asleep to begin with. I reposted earlier today a post from June 2021. That’s when I got the socks I am currently wearing. But the compression is no longer tight enough because my legs have gotten thinner. That is a whole ‘nother discussion for later but I could not fall asleep because my legs felt so terrible!

I was able to get a new prescription from my neurologist who I am seeing at the end of June and on Monday, we are going to get new socks! I don’t think they get smaller than a size one. And that’s a different discussion for a different day but I just need to handle three more sleeps until my legs feel better!

I completed five puzzles last night while my Mom rested. I have completed 295 puzzles. I am becoming increasingly aware of how small my world actually has become. It’s kind of really sad and I will choose to think about something else…

I was told in the first years of my teaching that you know someone is old when they listen to music from their era instead of listening to new music. Well, I am officially old! I am 40!! Some new songs I like but I got to stick with my ‘oldies but goodies’!!!

While I am puzzling, I listen to Apple Music on shuffle but I always start with the Sara Bareilles song and I let the music take me wherever it will. I do skip some artists though. I am NOT a John Mayer fan. I skip songs that come on from him but one band that I constantly hear and I’m not sure if I like them or I like what the band’s sound reminds me of?:

I’m embarrassed now to say that I owned this CD. I was too old to get into the ‘doomed youth’crowd but I was teaching middle school so my kids listen to this!

I’ve been hearing so many songs from The Fray but I never skip them because they remind me clearly of my second apartment living where I was mostly in the land of the able-bodied. It’s nice to think about that time and remember…

This puzzle was free and I can’t figure out what it is. Why is there a tortilla chip?!:

As I was completing the puzzle which TOTALLY distracts me from my pain and discomfort, I heard this song and I remember hearing it and singing along with the radio. I think about the fact that I no longer can sing all of the time but I don’t have the strength to get that much air into my lungs anymore which is really sad when you think about it…

It was a pretty laid-back day today. I started to use my strawberry Chapstick this morning and Sean, my Mom and I had dinner. Once he left and my Mom laid down, I started puzzlin.’ I knew that strawberries were the theme for today and I completed this puzzle in honor of it:

It’s supposed to be really warm tomorrow so it’s good that I started my summer chapsticks. I heard this song and I bought the CD for Sean when he was like seven but I never heard this song. I put this on my blog because it deserves a second listen by me. I was definitely in a different place when Sean was seven! If I would have known about this song it probably would have been one of my jams:

I had just finished this puzzle:

I was in the process of choosing another puzzle when this song came on and I had to stop and share it because this song is so near and so dear to my heart!

I was puzzlin’ last night and this song came on as I was completing this puzzle:

it was free! I do love Gerber daisies though! When this song came on, I was taken back to my last classroom adjacent to the cafeteria where I would hear the gym class playing music all the time! I remember one time in the beginning of the year, Mr. Curl, the PE teacher, was explaining his class and it was a pretty good explanation and because I didn’t have a class first hour, I opened the door to hear him better and he was doing jumping jacks the entire time he was talking!!! I cannot tell he was exerting himself at all! I was quite impressed with that and I told him. When I heard this song, I was reminded of that exchange:

I didn’t even put my contacts in today. I think that I will watch Burnt because I don’t need to see to know what’s going on! I can probably recite it verbatim at this point… I love this song!

I guess that I just need some music therapy right about now…

I was playing solitaire tonight and I was listening to music. This song came on and I had to stop playing solitaire and look at the lyrics. Then I played this song a second time. How did I miss this one?! I love her! She sings my walking song!:

I completed a Google search and this song came out in 2013. So much of my life was different back then! I was still working, still driving, and still in a manual wheelchair. But back in 2013, I think my abilities had just begun to slip…

I went down the rabbit hole of information about her in my Google search and I saw this that made me smile. She’s Catholic just like me:

I no longer go to mass in person but I think this is my new favorite song even though it is so old but… so am I now!:

I wish I could still sing! But at this point, for me, there is NOTHING beautiful about having MS.

So, I’ve started listening to music again while I am in puzzlin’ and my mom is resting. Of course I started with my old reliable standby:

And it morphed into a few different songs but the first one I heard after that one took me back to my teaching and driving days:

These are two things that I did NOT think that I will NOT be doing right now and that’s sad ending of itself but, I completed the puzzle to this song:

And the puzzle:

I like that I was east into listening to music while I puzzled. The sounds made it into a very familiar ease!