Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Rando Tune #4

I think that I am just thinking of songs to put on my blog to make me feel better because my feet are killing me! And my Mom too! But I haven’t posted a U2 song in a long time and it got me thinking about my first year teaching.

It is the fall of 2005, my first year teaching, and the first time I would administer the MEAP test. I remember making a really cool Road Runner poster that I probably still have in my basement somewhere and I had Word bubbles that said, “MEAP! MEAP!”

That poster didn’t come around until after a few years of administering that test But I clearly remember Mr. Astalos giving me a mixed CD of great songs to to prepare us for the stressful time that was going to come administering the MEAP test.

I am ashamed to say that this was the first time I heard this song what it was and I LOVED it!:

June 2022 Faves

I think because the conversations I have been having with Sean lately have me thinking about Daniel Powter. Daniel often is overshadowed by Gavin DeGraw because Gavin is a lot of my two apartments! But, when I really think about it, this album is playing in the soundtrack in my head when we first got our apartment!:

A Name

Lichen Aureus.

Today was a doubleheader with the van. I needed blood work done and then I had an appointment with a doctor who my Mom has a lot of faith in! I have asked 4 different doctors about the lines on way shin toward my foot. It absolutely made me crazy! I thought my leg was going to have to be cut off because it was some kind of blood clot but it did not hurt. But then in the past week, I got another line on my left leg?!

The moment Dr. Koger opened the door and greeted us, he looked at my feet and told me what it was! He then explained it to me and my Mom that it’s rare but there’s nothing to worry about.

I will write about this more tomorrow because I DID just play a doubleheader and I am tired but I am anxious to tell you about my feet and how they are going to be the death of me! But, before they kill me, they will kill my Mom!

“Step into Millennium”

Well, my feet still hurt but I wanted to write about this before I forget. As if I could forget any of this?! I was thinking to write about our second to last stop in our three day van excursion. It was supposed to be the first day but Brian gave us the wrong directions so that day was a bust!

That’s right, I am going to talk about my compression socks! I am a little bit disappointed that they were ordered on Wednesday afternoon and they still have not arrived to my house! But let me splain ya my compression sock journey does far! In this process, I am going to have to share embarrassing pictures of myself but I’m OK with that.

I definitely need to get my medical records so I can get the dates straight but I remember that I tore my left hamstring and was prescribed compression socks because my leg swelled up tremendously! The tech who measured me told me that he had to measure my thigh and I agreed but told him not to tell me what the results were and we both laughed because we saw how swollen my leg was!:

Retrospectively, I know that my socks were a size 3 back then to accommodate my very swollen Say because of my torn hamstring

I just had to wear a compression sock on my left leg to get the swelling down and myMom put them on. She has always made it look easy but I guess it’s not very easy at all! I think I took this picture a couple of days after I started wearing them:

So, my hamstring got better but my ankles started to swell and then it was decided that I needed to wear compression socks all of the time:

My Mom and I have talked about this and in the beginning of me starting to wear them. I would wear them for a few days and take a couple days off before putting them back on. I still had enough blood flow but that wasn’t a problem. This is no longer the case! I actually had to switch to a size down from size 3 to a size 2 in August 2021. Because I did not want to feel like an old lady, I opted to purchase the black ones as if that makes any difference.

I would say in the past six months, my compression socks have felt strange like they were too loose. I knew that it was time for new socks because laying in bed at night my legs would scream with a tingling sensation! So, on Wednesday I got fitted.

The woman measured my ankle and my thigh and both of my legs and she was writing down a bunch of things as she was measuring and then when she was finished, while my mom still was holding my leg, I asked her what size. She looked at her paperwork and then at me and said, “One.”

When I heard her say that, my mind drifted back to high school and a song that was my boyfriend’s favorite song! So, of course I had to learn the words! When she said one, without even thinking I just said, “For this sun. Step into millennium.”

I have so many things to say regarding our three day van excursion but I’m choosing to reference a methodman song?! Well, here it is:

‘Easy”

My bounce back from my three day van excursion is taking a lot longer than anticipated. I thought I would write about it today but I guess not. My feet are killing me! STILL. Hopefully I can write about it tomorrow. But for right now, it’s easy. This song has been in my head since this morning and I prefer a more mature Lionel:

Hopefully Just ‘Bent’


My feet really hurt today and A Facebook friend and fellow and MSer posted this and I paused and gasped:

It looks like this recovery time is taking longer and I didn’t even put my contacts in again today. My feet hurt so much though! Hopefully tomorrow, I will tell you all about it. I hope I am NOT broken and I am just bent which will ALWAYS remind me of Sean and this song:

A dj on the Pulse while we were driving to Barwis Methods, “It looks like it’s Pink and Nate at number one for the 13th week. So a little 13 week old baby does not know a world without Pink and Nate at #1”