Category: Tunes

Oh, man! My eyes hurt!!! Thought of this song as I recline in my chair with my eyes closed:

So my wonkiness is continuing for a second day. I didn’t even get my hair washed because I don’t feel well. I just put it up in a ponytail because I have one of those now.

It started yesterday when I sat in my chair in and out of sleep and I listened to Sara Bareilles. I used to sing along with her for all of her songs but I no longer can carry a tune like that but rest assured that I am singing along in my head!!! This song has been in my hand for two days now. I have never shared it before on my blog but here it is:

I saw this song not too long ago in my YouTube feed. Of course, I had to share it on Facebook and tag my brother because I remember sitting in the bleachers of Sean’s football game with the Dearborn Lions. We just Heard the introductory bars and I completely called this song! My brother and I have a pretty rich history with U2 songs!:

Today is my oldest nephew’s birthday. He is 24 years old. I had a heckuva time finding to sleep last night so at about 1:30, I wished him a happy birthday in a Facebook post and added this song:

I told him that I used to say that when I turned 24 so long ago! It was my first year teaching when I turned 24 and I told all my students and I was, “24 Karat.” it’s too bad this song was not around then but I can share it now!

So, today, after I reapplied my cucumber mint chapstick, I realized that my nephew is 15 inches taller than me! He told me that I am and shrimp which I am but I am grateful to have made the 5 feet tall plateau! Many females in my family have not made it that far so I am “#Blessed.” I can’t believe that being 24 was so long ago for me and I had so many more physical capabilities back then!

I wanted to try another flavor of my new chapstick today. I liked the strawberry I had yesterday and was a bit excited for the next flavor. It was watermelon and I thought of this vintage commercial:

So here was the second flavor of my new chapstick:

Watermelon is my favorite blow pop flavor so I was excited to try out the chapstick. I have to say that it is NOT a ‘Ta-Da’ like in the commercial. I reapplied it multiple times but it still was not good.

It smelled really waxy even though my Mom said it smells like watermelon. I told myself that I would give it the benefit of the day trail before I changed it but after dinner today, I had to go back to my Strawberry Fields from yesterday!:

And just in case you forgot, I want to be able to hear this song again:

My hair is shaggy and overgrown and I only have one eyebrow now but, I still HAVE to have my chapstick! I noticed a little while ago that my pink grapefruit chapstick had almost come to its end. I only use Burt’s Bees So, I ordered a nice, summer-y 4 pack of chapstick. I like the flavors in that four pack but it was missing one. I ordered that one separately. It was strawberry! When my brother, Jimmy, brought me gum, it came in a nice plastic container and my chapstick fits perfectly in there so:

These new chapstick‘s arrived yesterday but I couldn’t try it out because I had already been wearing pink grapefruit for most of the day. I opened them up today:

The chapstick had to be placed in color order so I started with the first one. It was strawberry:

Once I opened it, it was a pleasant smell and one that reminded me of being young. It did not remind me of Strawberry Shortcake the cartoon which I still have a plate that I do still use often
It reminded me of the St. Alphonsus festivals when I was very young. I have reapplied this chapstick often today and I dig it. I’m reminded of this song because I chose the strawberry one:

A while back, we had a TeleTails appointment with the vet that Leia was going to go to but her appointment wasn’t scheduled for a while. We called because Leia was losing hair in patches and we didn’t know what to do. I swore she had mange! The vet didn’t think so and she prescribed two tablets of Benadryl daily and two baths with oatmeal shampoo a week for Leia.

Now, I’m still pretty new at this whole, “Dog person” thing and Leia’s smell was difficult to get used to, for sure! But with her having so many baths, that’s not a problem anymore! This was her this morning, right after her bath:

She doesn’t really like her baths and they take a lot out of her! I think it’s funny that it always makes me think of this song:

That’s funny to me because I always would sing that song to Sean when he was dressed up for a formal at school. We also changed her food yesterday but I was too tired to write about it but this is what she eats now and she digs it: