Category: Tunes

Last night, when I put my chapstick on before I went to bed, I felt the plastic edge of the chapstick tube scratching my lips.

I opened a new chapstick today so cue of the drum beat and and I can hear Freddie Mercury!

Yesterday, I had to text Sean even though he was at work and this is what I said;

I watched this show with Sean all of the time! We watched it for a couple years and I got completely invested in the characters!:

I texted Sean which episodes I was watching and I told him about one that Michael is learning how to drive a stick shift and he responded with this:

It was a lot of fun to watch this show on Teen Nock and I couldn’t believe that I was watching in but I really liked it! I also texted Sean that Zoey broke up with James (I never liked him and wanted Chase to come back). As that episode progressed, I realized that was my favorite episode!!!:

I speak every text I send because my hands don’t have the dexterity needed to type but sometimes what I say is not what the text writes. It’s not Cheese, it’s Chase!

Sean texted me that they don’t show that episode very often and I was grateful that I got to see it and the random day that I didn’t watch the news or watch a Hallmark channel movie (which I am watching right now!). So, since seeing that final episode yesterday, I am reminded clearly of our second apartment and that final episode aired on May 2, 2008. I’m thinking about all of the trailers for that final episode and I hear this song in my head;

My internal clock has shifted tremendously! A combination of that and the fact that I am having more difficulty falling to sleep at night these days because #MSsucks!

It was late when I was fully dressed and ready for the day so it seems that my internal clock shift will continue today as well! I was sitting here and thinking about a lyric that I could not think of the song it came from. “Sleep don’t come easy.” That’s the only lyric I could think of. I finally just searched it on YouTube and no wonder I knew this lyric! But I forgot that it came from Mary J!

I am not going through a break up with anyone; but rather, it seems that I am just breaking up with my physical abilities and my capabilities of taking care of myself.

So, I have always wanted to be Irish! I love the accents and I’ve wanted red hair since I was a little girl. Over the years, I would tell people that in my past life I was an Irish dancer and my name was Bridgette. I wanted to say that I am a, “Wanna-be” but I cannot say that without posting a Spice Girls video and that’s not the point of this blog post.

Instead, dI will say that I am a poser because my son’s name is Sean. He was asked if he was Irish and he said that I was just weird. Well, I am but I really wish I could dance like that or speak like that or have gown up around all of that greenery!

Sean was 10 when that movie Brave came out in the movies and he agreed to go with me just because I was so excited to hear even the Scottish accents and I decided that I must have looked like Merida in my past life!

I stopped drinking alcohol about a decade ago because MS and alcohol do not mix but I definitely would like to someday have a Guinness and get a mustache when I drink it to take a picture of myself! But that really won’t happen I think but I can always enjoy Irish music! These songs are in my head today:

I saw U2 perform once and Bono started singing this song but no one was joining in even though I was screaming at the top of my lungs because it’s one of my faves! They didn’t perform this song:

I think of Fairlane mall when I was like 12 when I hear this song:

I saw The Script perform this one; it was their opening song:

I am going to watch Laws of Attraction because it has all of those great things! Dancers with curls, accents, and beautiful scenery!

Last week, my Mom told me that she would watch Laws of Attraction with me and I was totally cool with it! We watched it and she got tired and took a nap halfway through. So the next day, she asked if we could watch it so she could see the rest of it. Of course I didn’t mind at all! I love that movie! We watched that movie three days in a row and each day she missed part of it but I got to hear this song all three times it was a win for me! Makes me think of Marilyn’s wedding! 😍😍😍

A Facebook friend of mine and former colleague posted a picture of a song she heard while she was driving and it made me laugh! But before I share that song I have to go back about 11 days to a friend I’ve had since I was a little girl.

She was my neighbor, actually, she lived across the street 15 houses down, an empty lot, and a big backyard away! Our older brothers were in Boy Scouts together. We went to school together and she was one year older than me. We played basketball and softball together, we’re in plays together, and before that, we were Girl Scouts together! She texted me a song that she heard that reminded her of being in high school with me!:

I’ve shared this song before on my blog but remember jammin’ to it with her as well! We had so many great times together growing up and living so close to each other!

But then, yesterday, a friend and former colleague posted a song that also reminded her of me. We were hired in the same year and we were members of the same, “Freshman class“ (how I referred to people hired in at the same time to teach at the school). We had a pretty strong, “Freshman class!” There were five of us hired in that year and sadly, none of us are still at the school.

We were hired in at the same time I had just moved in to my first apartment. I recently reminded her that she gave me a set of extra cups that she had. I was just thinking about her driving with me to our first school kick off luncheon for the staff that was downtown at Cobo Hall. They had really big balloon arrangements that looked really cool and the last speaker told us that it was okay to take the balloon arrangement home if we wanted to.

Sean was three years old then and he really liked balloons, helium balloons. So she helped me to make cram the big balloon cluster into my car. It was crazy and I remember laughing but when my Mom brought Sean to our apartment, they opened the door and when Sean saw the balloons in our living room and his eyes got really big and he said, “Ba-woons!” And that made it completely worth the struggle to cram them into my car! She posted this picture on Facebook:

This song came out the first year we taught and we both got to work at about 6 o’clock in the morning back then.

So, both of these songs I have shared on my blog before and the memories of these friends are decades apart but they remind me that I have great friends and great music that reminds me of them!!!