I have done this numerous times but let me take it one step further, Back in the days of listening to CDs. Once I bought a CD, I would listen to it in its entirety ready to fully get the Full experience before I listened to the specific song I’ve bought the CD for.
But now, rather than listening to CDs, have playlists on Apple Music, it’s a little bit different. To be fully immersed in the artist, I will hit, “Shuffle” and just wait for my song to come on! But then there are days like this where I haven’t heard this particular song in a really long time so, I will just post it here and then I will be able to listen to it whenever I want because I am the administrator of this website.
I have been hearing this song in many different circles. When I go down rabbit holes in the middle of the night on YouTube I see lots of videos of contestants on The Voice singing the song. I know that I have posted this song on my blog before but I am especially reminded of Mr. Curl when I was teaching out of a classroom adjacent to the cafeteria/gym.
I call it a classroom because it is where I taught my classes for reading but really, it was a storage closet for the PE teacher. Mr. Curl ran his physical education classes where it sounded like they were having so much fun! On Fridays, it was established that it was, “Dodgeball Friday.” I would hear this song often toward the end of my teaching career but I did not know it was nearing its end at the time. All of the PE students figured out that if they screamed for the entire time while they played dodgeball, they would do better! At least, that’s what they did which made teaching reading a pleasure on Fridays!
I think it’s crazy how random songs pop into your head out of the blue and because you have memories, specific memories, attached to that song and with people you no longer know. It makes things just a little bit painful! I can’t seem to get this song out of my head but I still like it even though a little bit of pain accompanies it. I figure if I post it maybe it will leave:
Sean texted me this yesterday and I have decided that I really like it:
I never owned any Rob Thomas CDs but this one got A LOT of radio play! I’m sure we heard it in the car often! I really like that he is old enough to recognize, “A mom song” and one that is not one of my top three! My top three favorite performing artists are: U2, Gavin Degraw, and Sara Bareilles. My Mom says that I listen to, “Wah-wah, cry-cry” songs.
Thinking about it now, I suppose that it’s true but for a good reason! I couldn’t allow myself to be an overly dramatic young woman dealing with heartbreak while raising my son by myself! I chose to feel and express that sadness vicariously through songs!
My heart was squeezed when I saw the Barwis Methods post a few days ago:
Looking at the pictures that were part of this post made me miss it so much and I had so much fun there! I was there from July 12, 2013 to October 20, 2016. There was always loud, “Pump-you-up” music on which was a topic of discussion for me and all of my trainers!:
Mike Barwis:
Jesse:
This picture was taken the first summer I was there and standing and squatting at the Keiser machine was our beginning routine. This song will always remind me of joking around with Jesse at the Kaiser machine:
Jesse was from West Virginia. I never heard this song at Barwis but I was listening to this album a lot on loop driving there and the song reminded me of him as well:
My favorite picture with Jesse:
Jesse‘s last day:
“Phil” whose real name is Adam:
The beginning of us working together and my, “Lollipop Kid” socks.
My favorite picture with, “Phil:
I would hear this song on, ”Camo Wednesdays” and I told “Phil” that reminds me of him because he would always sing along with the radio:
“Phil” and I had a lot of fun working together:
#Matchers!!! #JenandPhil
I never heard this song at Barwis either but it reminds me of “Walking Wednesdays” with Phil:
Michael Rhoades:
This song reminds me of him because I had just posted this video on my blog and we talked about it:
We heard this song at Barwis and Michael said that he liked it even though it was, “Pop-y:
I had just posted this song on my blog as well.
Nick Montoni:
I knew Nick Montoni for the longest. I saw him without a beard when he was an intern and then bearded once he was a full-time employee. His mom worked at Sean’s grade school.
These two songs remind me of my final day at Barwis and Nick told deeds to play these songs just for me because he knew this was my favorite band:
The final song I heard driving away from Barwis for the last time but I did not know it at the time:
I had an hours of conversation with all of these men and I think about them with fondness often!!! 💜💜💜
I went down one of my YouTube rabbit holes and discovered this song. Come on now?! First of all, it’s Santana so I knew I would get goosebumps hearing him play. I didn’t expect to cry though! The tears came when she started to effortlessly sing. I remember singing that song in high school just as effortlessly! The tears came because I KNOW that I cannot sing like that anymore! #MSsucks!!!
Okay, so while I was writing my last blog post, I received a YouTube alert on my phone. It interrupted me editing my blog post but I had to click on it because it was for this song
I finished my blog post before watching the video but after I finished, I listened to the song and it was immediately taken back to still being in college and working at the credit union. I have two different college experiences. The first one was at WMU when I didn’t have a child and the second experience is living back at my Parents’ house and commuting to U of M Dearborn with an infant and later a toddler once I graduated and Sean and I moved out on our own.
Yesterday, I was talking to Sean on the phone and he asked me what song this was and he started to kind of sung this tune to me:
I is mmediately recognize this song and knew that it was a song that I listened to often when Sean was growing up. I really didn’t think about it! I have always underestimated my influence on Sean’s musical tastes but I guess I DID influence him!
I thought about this a lot today regarding this post. I’ve been thinking about it for a while but I remember my colleague and friend telling me that,” you know that you’re old when you keep listening to the same music from your youth.“. Well, I have felt old for a while but then this happened and I’m totally OK with sharing my jams from my youth:
My Mom has told me that I’m not allowed to go gray in her lifetime and I will wait for this hair to get some friends before I will let my hairdresser caokor my hair. She has been dying to put highlights in my hair for years! So now that I am officially, “Old,” I don’t mind sharing these songs because I seriously had forgotten how much good music was on, somgs about Jane:
Today is the third day that my body is going through a whole lot! This change in the weather is KILLING me! On the first day, it was, “Tiring” and yesterday I tried to deflect but I couldn’t get ahead of the pain. I checked the weather last night and knew it wasn’t going to be good before I fell asleep but to wake up and FEEL it not being good it’s EXTREMELY difficult!
Sean would always marvel at the fact that I grew up during The Pistons three peat. I was young and I didn’t really think about it back then. But now, as an adult, and seeing how badly destroyed sports are struggling, I should’ve appreciated it. But this, these last three days, are my three peat and it stinks! I was supposed to wash my hair today but that is NOT happening! I don’t feel embarrassed by saying that and it just goes to show that sometimes people with MS just can’t!
Usually, on days when I feel this badly, I will post a song because it doesn’t take a lot of effort. A couple days ago, my MS Music Lovers Group posted this song and I had never seen the video but I remember it coming out and I remember that I liked in a whole lot:
I will hope for better weather tomorrow. I hope it’s “like cinnamon.”
