Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Recalibrate

Yesterday morning just after I took my vitamins, I had to pause a moment to take a breath because my body was KILLING me! I took a number of slow breaths and and pressed the heels of my palms to my eyes to keep me from tearing up. It took a little while for me to relax and my palms did get a little bit wet. With the snow coming yesterday, I had to re-calibrate and realize that with all the precipitation, I was just going to feel pretty badly. I did feel pretty badly yesterday, ALL. DAY. LONG!!!

This morning it was even more rough with all the accumulation of the snow! I didn’t cry though, and I think the recalibration I did yesterday helped a little bit for me to handle how I was going to feel and how I am going to feel until all the snow goes away. I had to listen to this song and even though it doesn’t apply, it means something to me because feeling like this with all the precipitation outside is hard. And, “No one said that it would be this hard” but it is:


Golden Birthday

For my entire 38 years, I always thought that a golden birthday was the day you were born. I looked it up today and I saw this:

I was excited to share a song that has been in my head for a while and I was 12 when this song came out. That would be my golden birthday and “12 year old Jenny” did not understand so much of the movie, Reality Bites, and I think that might warrant a rewatch soon. It’s lucky that I have NOTHING at all to do right now! Bit this song was my favorite of the movie back then:

“A Little 13 Week Old Baby…”

Sean texted me from work this evening:

I don’t know what kind of car/truck he was driving but he then added this text to the picture:

“A little thirteen week old baby does not know a world w out pink and Nate ruess at #1”

This made me laugh really hard because I was driving to Barwis in the summer with him and he was 11 years old and that is what the DJ said because this song had been #1 for 13 weeks:

I couldn’t believe he remembered that but I remembered it too! I love that he shared that with me!!! 😍😍😍

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #100 OR “Those Were the Days!”

A couple days ago, my mom and I were listening to music just before I was getting ready for bed. My Mom is NOT a big fan of my music but she WILL listen to some U2 songs with me sometimes. We put on a playlist in Apple Music. My Mom tells me that it was the 60s playlist. I was okay with listening to the songs with her and just before my Mom went to turn her phone off, the beginning bars of this song came on and my eyes got really wide!

I never have paid attention to who sings this song but once they started singing the words, I sing along with them! I was immediately taken back to my childhood and this song specifically reminds me of going to the Apple Orchard with my friend Shannon. She has two brothers just my brothers’ ages and I remember us all sitting in the back of their van and singing this song at the top of our lungs! This memory is over 30 years old but it was clear in my mind and warmed my heart and reminded me of simpler times! Retrospectively, those REALLY were the days!!!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #99

I checked the weather as I opened my eyes this morning.:

Oh! 0°. No wonder! Before my Mom came to help me out of bed, I thought of this song and remembered putting together Sean’s storage for his toys when we still lived with my Parents. We kept the storage shelf in both of our apartments. I don’t know where it is now.

My 18-year-old memory is of me playing this song on loop as I put the shelf together. I sat on the floor in our bedroom and put it together. Today, it’s pretty “hard.” #MSsucks!!!

February 2021 Faves

I’m posting this a day late and it’s not faves, but rather just one song. I don’t know that I would even categorize this as a, “Fave” but I am currently immersed in this song:

Since I heard this song a few days ago, I can’t seem to listen to it without crying. It starts off as ugly cries and then just tears. The first three lines ABSOLUTELY tear my heart out!!!:

I wonder how long it will take for me to stop crying when I hear this song…

But Then…

This morning, this video randomly showed up in my Facebook feed and this song reminds me of my first night at Western and driving down E. Pond Dr.:

I had written a blog post about this song a few days ago and this was more spring time at Western after I was diagnosed and I was pretty sure I wasn’t coming back to go to school there…:

So, I was lost in my memories of being a carefree student at Western and being able to drive. I was just going to write this blog about that.

But then…

I got a notification from my MS support group that specifically focuses on music. I absolutely love this group because it’s pretty large and I can see and hear random songs that I have forgotten about. I had never heard this song before but when I did, I listen to it three separate times before I stopped ugly crying. So many lyrics spoke directly to me and I just allowed myself to cry:


Retrospectively

This song showed up randomly in my Facebook feed and I saw it once I woke up. I had to listen to it as my Mom helped me out of bed. I was taken back 20 years as I drove on E. Pond Dr. on Western’s campus. Retrospectively, I think we needed a little more and then patience. But this is a great song!:

I am quiet today.

Big Brother Does NOT Disappoint!!!

I am so grateful that Big Brother knows my soul and today he did not disappoint! I remember Bono playing a green guitar when when my brother, Steve, and I saw them in 2006. I watched the whole video when it showed up in my YouTube feed and I’m not even ashamed to say that I cried! This song is definitely one of my top five faves!!!: