Category: Tunes

So, I left my house today. My hair is cut and my eyebrows are waxed. I am set to meet my endocrinologist tomorrow. I think that I’m a little bit nervous. My Mom asked me why I was nervous yesterday and I told her, “Because this is serious now.”

I really seem to be collecting doctors now. I got two new ones this year and that was AFTER my bone density scan in February. I will need to go get bone density scans every two years now. I have never had one of those (bone density test) but I think it’s some thing that now I KNOW that I have osteoporosis. So this MS is serious. I never thought that it would get this serious in a million years!!!

But that’s enough talk about that. While I was getting my haircut, I heard this song and I had two memories that came to the forefront of my mind:

I have been thinking about this. The last few times we went to get our haircut, I always was hearing songs from my childhood, and this is one of them! I first thought of an abstract painting from an art fair somewhere that hangs in my dentist. Well, it used to. I still go to the same dentist that I did when I was a child! My Mom, me, and Sean go there!

But just after I thought about that painting, I thought about a conversation I had with someone that was quite intimate! I asked him what kind of music he listens to when he’s working out! I asked him that because the day before at Barwis, it was a big deal between the trainers about which Playlist/radio station that we would listen to!

I was completely floored by his answer!!! He very matter-of-factly, told me without hesitation. He even told me about his rituals. He told me that he put his earbuds in (this was probably eight or nine years ago) and then puts his hood on and he jams out to 80s Rock Love Songs!!! (maybe he said power Ballads) but I completely completely knew what he was talking about!!!

When I heard that song at Classic Cutz, I immediately thought of my dentist, but directly after that, I thought of this person and working out to this song. We are close in age so it’s believable that he could dig 80s rock love songs! I know that I do!

This song came on after my Maroon 5 playlist finished playing last night. There are only two albums on that playlist!:

I searched when this song came out because I remember hearing this song in my second apartment. It came out in 2009 so I think that could be true. I didn’t close on my house until June 26, 2009 so I guess I must’ve been hearing it before that because I can see myself hearing this song while standing in my second apartment. I still stood back then! Seems like a lifetime ago…

I was absentmindedly scrolling through my phone and I see this video, and I click on it!:

I can definitely get into a Whitney Houston cover! But a Whitney cover by a man?! I kind of like this, and it made me think of another man covering a Whitney song so I have to put it here too:

I am reminded of singing these Whitney Houston songs in the bus going to basketball game in grade school! That was pretty cool to see Whitney covers by men!!!

I am aware of the background music every time I get my haircut and conversations take me away from it sometimes but I still hear the music. On Wednesday, my hair was cut and my eyebrows waxed. My Mom’s was getting cut by her hairdresser so I sat in the waiting area and I heard two songs from my youth! I am in high school and just graduated! I heard the songs and I smiled:

I sat there and thought about my more able-bodied days, and I smiled. I never thought that would be something in my past, but I’m so grateful that I experienced it!

Today was a little more tolerable than yesterday. Yesterday with the rain my head hurt so badly. My hips did not feel well at all and my knees were throbbing. Both of them. I will not go see my endocrinologist until May 16.

Today I was nervous when my left hip kind of slipped out. By that, it reminds me of when I bought Sean the light sabers when he was about five. The light saber is in segments, and you push it all down when you put it away. But that’s what I feel with my hips. It kind of slips. The segment comes out a little bit. My Mom asked me about that o when my left hip slipped for the first time, I told her, “Well, my hips don’t lie…”

Recently, I can’t seem to find the humor in finding a song that fits. But today was not as bad as yesterday I have never liked Shakira’s voice But this one is fitting I suppose…

I called Sean today and opened with this question,” Do you want to hear the most exciting news?! He was a little bit startled, but he could hear that I was excited, and he agreed to hear the news.

I was so excited that I blurted it out right away! I just said, very excitedly, “Abuela found the tree skirt!” Sean was silent and then he started to laugh. He told me that he was not expecting that statement! I told him that it is so exciting because it is vintage! 2005! I told him that I AM excited about it! My Mom told me that she boxed up the tree skirt in 2016 because that’s what she wrote on the box.

I am going to consult my records but I want to say that I did NOT put my tree up in 2017 because that was the Christmas I had my second knee surgery, and then I was fired. I was a little bit bummed to say the least!!! I’m not even sure when we started putting it back up. I think that was in 2022 or something.

I’m just excited that this year. I will have my Christmas decorations complete!!!

I saw footage of this song song at Taylor Swift’s concert, and that sent me back as soon as I started to hear the song, I was back teaching, and I was still driving and going to Barwis, but I was on the cusp of doing none of that and being homebound. But I didn’t know that back then:

Everything seems to have a tinge of sadness these days… I texted my best friend that this is difficult now and I’ve never had MS this long… I hope this funk is not lasting…

My Mom washed my hair on Friday night (Yeah, I no longer can do that myself) and she said that she wanted to put the The Thomas Crown Affair on. I had already taken my contacts out for the day, but I was cool with just listening to it because I couldn’t see a thing.

My Mom knows that I dig that movie so I guess that’s why she wanted to put it on. She had a ton of questions, and I could answer them to the best of my ability because it had been a while since I saw this movie. I watched it again today with my contacts on! Yep, I still did it! I especially like this song and I have no idea why:

We talked about the painting of “The Son of Man in my art history class at U of M Dearborn but I don’t remember what we said about it. I DO remember that I lent my book to a friend who was in school with me because it was $98 and she was going to take this class the following semester so I just put my name and phone number in the front thinking that I would get it back but I never did! But I still feel good about sharing it with her!

She told me today that this is a remake and we’re gonna watch the movie from 1968 with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway tomorrow. It’ll be a good comparison!

I received this text yesterday from a friend:

I’ve known Benny since we had our first department! I called him Benny-Bear but he is saved in my phone as just Benny. He lives in Vegas now. He always reminded me of the lead singer of Kings of Leon and just because of that I need to add this song here because dig it:

So, yesterday, my Mom and I watched The Intern. My Mom told me about it and I remembered that I thought it sounded interesting when it first came out and I wanted to see it, so we watched it yesterday.

It is my custom now to watch movies two days in a row. The first time I see a movie I tend to miss a lot of things because my vision is not as as I would like it. That just comes with the territory now, after having MS for 23 years, and my Mom is not adversed to watching movies over and over again. That’s where I get it from!

During my second viewing, I noticed this?!:

The second time looking at him, he looked familiar, extremely familiar!!! I had to rack my brain a little bit but then I recognized him. He was in The Fault in our Stars, but that is not what I was thinking about! I looked him up when I thought that it was him back then. He IS who I thought he was!!! He is Nat from The Naked Brothers Band!!!

I am not ashamed to say at all that their album played in my car on loop for months! That was back when we lived in our second department Sean and I would watch The Naked Brothers Band all the time! It was on Nickelodeon and this was my favorite song:

My Mom could NOT believe that I listened to this song because he says ‘Aventually’ not ‘Eventually’ She couldn’t believe that because I was an English teacher! I told her it was ‘artistic freedom’ and it was fine.

This was them back in 2007 when we were still living at our second apartment: