Category: Tunes

This is the first February of my life where MY team, (the one that I want to win) is playing in it. Because they aren’t mine because they’re in California and I am in Michigan but Matthew Stafford is quarterbacking for the Rams and I have loved him since 2009 when he was in Detroit so I think that’s okay by extension?

And the BEST Super Bowl halftime show is not available, thanks NFL! It’s supposed to be Prince but maybe if you click on that you can still watch it…?

Or, there is the second best halftime show that I saw with Sean and and it was Bruno Mars’ drumming that impressed me the most! I love drummers!:

Or, I loved watching Lenny Kravitz play guitar but I think I loved it because Sean said that a bunch of girls in his class said on Monday that they didn’t know why or that Cinna from the The Hunger Games could play the guitar!

I remember Adam Levine getting a lot of bad press because of his choice of tank tops but I’dlike to this show because I felt like I was a young adult at a concert when I still had some control over my body.

But I am most excited for this year‘s halftime show!!! i’m not sure what to expect but I’m pretty sure it will be EPIC with the Superstar OG lineup!!!:

7 year old Sean. 😍😍😍

I have been listening to this Sara Bareilles song every day for a long while! I only listen to it when my Mom is taking Leia for a walk because she says it is depressing.

for me, it is NOT depressing! It actually is autobiographical. I saw this picture on Facebook not too long ago and it made me think of this song because for me, that girl really IS gone but she used to be mine!

My Mom is out taking Leia for a walk so you know what I am listening to and I am lost in memories of being able bodied…

And somehow, I am comforted with this song in this moment of sadness.

Very shortly after I joined Facebook (20 years too late), I, “Friended” and “Liked” their page. They are: MS Memes and more Multiple Sclerosis Awareness. There wasn’t a Multiple Sclerosis Awareness month when I was first diagnosed. It was about 10 years after I was diagnosed that there was one week in March. I have posted many pictures about my T-shirt sales back when I was working. Now, the ENTIRE month is dedicated to Multiple sclerosis Awareness!!!

Oh, I am aware of it every second of every single day for the past 21+ years!!! MS Awareness Month is approaching so I have been receiving a lot of posts from them in my Facebook feed. I feel special that they chose March to be that month of recognition because that is ALSO my “Birthday Month!” I saw this meme yesterday and have thought about it since:

When I read this meme, a song immediately popped into my head by India.Arie. That took me back to my college days when I was still driving and was just on crutches.

I reposted a blog post from 2018 because it talked about a poetry slam I did when I was in school for my African-American studies class. I listened to that song and stayed in my memories for a while. I listened to this song before I am about to post it and I revisited those same memories and seem to be there right now:

I didn’t text with any of my friends while I was watching the game last night because it was a little bit nervous!!!

today, I received a text message from my friend after sending him this::

He texted me this question:

I am not sure, it’s possible but I thought of this song immediately:

I usually will have my pic for the Super Bowl winner by now but I am not sure. I know what my heart wants but I don’t know if that will come to fruition. So, I am definitely going to watch the game next weekend an active realist on this one!

So, lately I have been thinking of the most random songs. These are all songs from my youth, even more specifically, high school. I was thinking about posting songs from The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks). The memory that came to mind as I heard the first bars of this song, is me going on a late night bike ride with my brother, Jimmy. It was probably 2 o’clock in the morning. It was in the summer and he had just come back from Mexico. He got the idea that we would ride our bikes, (his low rider bikes) to` his friend’s house who was the brother of my friend so we would kill two birds with one stone.

I don’t know that we ended up going to their house, or they weren’t home, but I remember talking with my brother and he asked, “So, you listen to country music now?’” I remember laughing and I told him I did because that was the rage back then.

My Mom and I listened to music as she washed my legs yesterday. It was time to change my compression socks. we pretty much have a routine down pat, it’s pretty much second nature. While we were doing this, we alternated choosing songs that we liked.

Random songs were popping into my head as I was trying to decide on a choice for my song. I chose random songs from my youth. Songs that would remind me of a guy or something. What I discovered is that there are only two things that will bring me to tears regarding songs. The first thing being if it is a song reminds me of my Dad. I will definitely cry then! The second thing that will make me cry is if if I listen to this song and I feel that it pertains to my disease. I am no longer a dramatic teenager and I am looking at being 40 years old in less than two months but some songs do evoke tears. I listened to this one last night and I listened to it again today and I cried both times:

I guess that I am on a posthumous celebration of Sidney Poitier. My Mom and I watched Lilies of the Field last night. I remember seeing this movie as a child and I remember singing, “AMEN” at the dining room table in jest with my Dad and two of my brothers. It was my Dad and, “The three little ones.”

I was taken with this movie and I was appreciative to see it as an adult who has more understanding of the events taking place:

As a child, I did not understand this nun’s faith. Absolute faith. And I liked watching it unfold!

It is a very simple set and the majority of the movie is set in the dining room at the table. It was so familiar to me to watch because I remember watching it as a child but now I understand what’s going on and I was extremely takenand continued watching even as my Mom was working in the kitchen and even when she laid down for a nap.

This scene really got to me!:

In the scene where they are discussing his pay for the work he has done and he wants to move on. The verse she quoted in Matthew is it also underlined in my Parent’s Bible! I sat there watching the movie was such Attention and I really felt like I was “churched” until the very end!

I told my Mom that, I am being #Churched by and over 60 year old movie! They even addressed race relations. Seeing that this movie came out in January of 1963, we had a long and tumultuous road ahead of us that we still seem to be on even today:

I saw this movie because it was free on one of the streaming applications on my TV. I will leave the trailer here if you feel so inclined to watch:

So, my Mom took my wheelchair today to get serviced and she was back by like 3:30 so I was able to get my hair washed. After she got back, I asked her what it was like. She told me it was big and she should have taken a picture. Just after she left, Sean asked where she was taking it and I told him that it is a place like at the end of The Upside. I saw that movie at the movies with both of my, “Sacreds,” (Sean and my Mom). I really liked that movie and I liked sharing it with my, “Sacreds.” When my mom told me that it was Big, I wanted to see it for myself to look at the website or something. I didn’t get a picture I was looking for but I saw a few more things that I kinda really liked because that is where my chair was being serviced:

That looked impressive to me and I kept scrolling through the pages :

Furor this last picture, I watched the woman use the mechanism to get her wheelchair out of the back of the car and go into the building probably about five or six times.

I looked through the site for way too long but I think this is a good place for me and my wheelchair to be at. Today, after my Mom washed my hair, and I can sit in my chair and the battery is fully charged because I have two, “Loan-er” batteries until new ones can be ordered. I am just 3 1/2 years into my five year prescription of this wheelchair. I never realized how much I change the tilt of my chair until my battery was bad and I had to keep it plugged in so I was not able to move the tilt up and down whenever I wanted, willy-nilly! My battery is still at 100% and I already have moved the tilts five or six times.

I really like this song and even though it’s not about a person, my tilting power chair DOES feel like home to me:

I know I have shared this commercial before but I love it and Sean always tells me when he hears songs on the radio that they are, “Mom songs”:

A song popped into my head not too long ago and I remember when I first heard it, I heard it in a movie, It was in The Fault in Our Stars. I remember liking it when I heard it and when we were leaving the movie theater, (I was still driving back then) I told Sean that I liked it. He said that he liked it as well! When I heard that, I smiled and thought about it and he DOES have half of my genes!!! it would only make sense that are like for this song was mutual! I DID grow him inside of me!!!