Category: Tunes

So, I normally don’t write blog posts in the morning but yesterday my eyes were really wonky even with my contacts so I didn’t post yesterday. I have an appointment tomorrow to talk about the contacts but I think it’s more of an MS thing with my vision and I have an appointment with Dr. Skarf in the new year. He is a neural ophthalmologist.

But one thing I noticed probably the second time I saw this movie and definitely the third. My mom suggested this Netflix movie that we have watched three times so far:

It showed me the difference 10 years makes. I saw a Train with my cousinT, Shannon, right after I bought my house. I think it was the following year.

This is my favorite pictures of us and it’s from about 10 years ago when we went to the Train concert. Pat took his shirt off and he had a hairy chest. I didn’t really dig that. He sings about it and I think that’s gross!

At least I did 10 years ago. I never liked hairy chests on men growing up and my dad had a hairy chest. Fast forward to 10 years later and I see this:

but it wasn’t so bad. What a difference 10 years can make. The 38-year-old woman I am now doesn’t really mind it so much…

My eyes are still a little bit wonky and we made an appointment for next week if the wonkiness continues. It’s lessening every day and I’m still having difficulty seeing my phone. Putting my contacts in this morning was super easy and my Mom said it was, “Magnificent“ so of course, this song popped into my head because I am me;

First of all, I am so beyond grateful and lucky that my son talks to me on the phone all of the time because he no longer lives in this house because me and my Mom are in a bubble and he went out into the world of the working. Today, he thanked me for his good eating habits. He told me that it is because of me that he eats so healthy. He mentioned spinach and I laughed and reminded him that in our second apartment, he would lay on the floor watching TV and I would put a bowl of raw spinach on the floor next to him to snack on.

I also remember a guy I used to know commenting on the fact that Sean was sitting at the table and eating peas with his fingers. He looked at him almost incredulously and said that Sean was eating the peas, “Like they are good!” I also laughed at that statement because I told him that they were good for Sean.

A random thing that I did not remember until he reminded me of it also made me laugh. He told me that he listens to XM radio all of the time when he is driving cars at Les Stanford. I bought myself an XM radio subscription for my car as a graduation present when I finished grad school and received the last overage check for my tuition. That purchase has proven to be sound because I have it for the life of my car and my car is currently eight years old.

He reminded me of some thing a DJ had said while we were on our way to Target on the hill. He told me that he’s been listening to this song a lot and that I liked it because I used to listen to it a lot. The DJ said, before it played that the original band name was, “Rainbow Bitt Monkeys.” He reminded me that he said that name and laughed about 20 times here for I told him that it was not THAT funny! He laughed well telling me the story because he said, “To say that name in front of an 11-year-old boy, how could it not be hilarious?!”

Well, I had almost forgotten the story and I thought it was pretty hilarious! The band name is Finger Eleven and here is the song but when Sean recounted the story to me, I remembered that and I laughed!:

Yesterday, a group I belong to on Facebook posed the question of what our first concert was that we went to. I looked at the comments and people were commenting the songs as well as opening acts. I posted the following and have been living there since then. My first concert was Third Eye Blind and Vertical Horizon opened for them:

I was stuck in the summer before college since yesterday. I clearly remember dancing on the lawn at DTE.

But then my aunt and Facebook friend posted a video that reminded me of Sean‘s first haircut. I still have his hair clippings somewhere in an envelope. The woman who did it still cuts my hair and waxes my eyebrows! I can’t figure out how to post the video here from Facebook but I took a couple screenshots of this cute little boy and even though Sean does not have blue eyes, it reminded me of him. I think it’s the nose in relation to his eyes and the overalls he is wearing!:

I kissed Sean between his eyes all the time when he was that small! So even though these memories are a couple years apart me living in my (able-bodies) memories continues…

Well, it’s the end of Thanksgiving weekend and even though I am still eating leftovers, my back is still hurting me. I guess it is stress! And even though I wrote that in my life it’s a bowl of cherries, it’s really not. Feel free to CashApp me $50! i’m kidding!

this morning as I tried to gather myself, I thought of it Gavin Degraw song. A song that I listen to when I was living in our second apartment in lot. It doesn’t really go with how I am feeling but there is a line that I am hearing over and over in my head. I no longer drive but I’ll post the entire verse here:

So that is what I am doing right now, I have to push on through the pain because I have a tree decoration to supervise! And I still have to post my All-Time Christmas Faves this year. So, I just need a minute to, “Grab my guts” and to put on through the pain!

here’s the whole song anyway even though it does not fit with how I’m feeling today: