Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Random Tune #53 in my YouTube Feed

This gem of a song showed up in my YouTube feed. I remember when I saw them perform live, that Bono started singing it wanting the audience to sing along with him. I was belting it out at the top of my lungs but I was too far away from the stage so he didn’t hear me and he stopped. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this song!!!:

Cold Spaghetti

I think it was last Sunday evening and my Mom and I decided that we would eat cereal for dinner. My Mom offered me spaghetti from the day before. I haven’t eaten spaghetti in years because I’ve known for a long time that carbs are not my friend.

I remember making it for young Sean to eat during football season and I would just have meatballs and spaghetti sauce because, again, carbs are NOT my friend! They haven’t been my friend for a very long time!

But when given the opportunity to eat cold spaghetti during this pandemic, I DEFINITELY jumped at it! As I ate the spaghetti, I was immediately reminded of a time when I worked at the credit union and I was pregnant. I was dressed and ready for work and I grabbed a bowl and put spaghetti in it for me to eat it for lunch. It looked so delicious to me so I loaded up my fork and put the really big bite in my mouth. It was delicious! What I did not think about though, however, was that the bite was a little bit too big for me to swallow all of it and some fell right on the top of my belly. I was wearing a white tank top with a button-down shirt over the top of it.

It was too late for me to change for work so I just buttoned one button of my oxford button-down shirt and went to work. I remember that I told and showed a few of my friends at work. I’ve told Sean the story many times and would laugh when that song was on The Wiggles. Sean used to watch The Wiggles when he was young. I had a heckuva time copying the link to share that song here but I figured out a way and you can see this song I heard 1 million times when Sean was young.

July 2020 Faves

I have been jamming to a lot of Gavin DeGraw but I have a really shared my faves a bunch of times. This song showed up on my YouTube feed a couple days ago and I have since shared it on Facebook and put it on my blog:

I do not own this CD because I was more into third eye blind in high school. But then this album came out and this Train song reminded me of how good their songs are. Here are some of my faves for this month:

Hermana hand saying this song the first time I saw them perform and he didn’t have a shirt on and he had a hairy chest (which I thought it was kind of gross) but he suddenly got hot when he sang this song:

So I’ve only been listening to save me San Francisco and that’s a great album!

Maybe next month I will feature their next album but I can’t write about train without posting this picture:

The last live concert I went to was a while ago and Train headlined. I think this picture was taken the first time we went. It was a great time with my cousinT, Shannon!

Random Tunes #48 and #49 in my YouTube Feed

Yesterday, after I posted about the three videos I saw in my YouTube feed, this one also showed up:

I saw them perform this song with my brother, Steve, and a few other former colleagues. As I searched for the video that showed up in my YouTube feed, I saw this one and this is what it looked like when I saw them:

I remember that I had such a great time at that concert that I ended up ordering the DVD of that concert in Chicago.

Then, this morning, there was this gem that will forever remind me of student-teaching:

Maybe these tunes are so random because, “Big Brother” knows that I needed to hear some of my favorite u2 songs right about now!

Me and my Boy

I’ve been listening to a lot of Gavin DeGraw‘s first album and it reminds me of when we got our first apartment:

It reminds me of walking on crutches and still driving. It reminds me of a life I had that is in the peripheral of clear memories. I can still remember the clock that home on the wall and the shower curtain we had. I still have them even though the shower curtain is tattered and the clock no longer works, it’s still haze in my kitchen.

Even though the curtain is tattered in the ac lock no longer works, it reminds me of being more able bodied and I really like that.

it has always been me and my boy for me:

That picture was taken the summer before we got our first apartment and this is the last picture we have taken together, just after he turned 18:

So, these songs remind me of the little boy and they reinforce that it has pretty much always been me and my boy.

Me and my Broken Immune System

I’ve read a lot of opinions about what exactly is wrong with my immune system and why it is attacking my nervous system. #MSsucks!!! Regardless, after I finished my silent tears in my driveway with my mask and sunglasses on, I took a moment to think about the fact that I was completely overwhelmed at having left my house yesterday for the first time in four months:

I thought of this song and how I told Mr. Wright about it while I was still working. I told them that I liked it and suggested it to him after hearing a live version on the radio the night before. He listened to it and told me that they were,“A boy band.” I laughed but I really liked hearing the live version of this song. Maybe they are but I dug it!:

Tunes. Tears, and “Good Teeth”

I hadn’t been in my car for four months and once I was loaded clearly into it (a really BIG ordeal), I turned the radio on. I bought myself ask somebody do you when I graduated from grad school. I have an extremely eclectic presets in my car and this was the first song I heard:

This song reminds me of the Olympics and eating at Logan‘s roadhouse with Sean. I took this as a good omen! Mom was reminded of my car radio ADD as a constantly changed the presets. She just let me change the station at will because she knows that I really don’t get out of the house often and especially now! I was EXTREMELY terrified to even be out of my house! As I change the stations, I heard some vintage Maroon 5 in Taylor Swift and I liked that. On the right there I heard this Bruno Mars song:

My Mom really didn’t like that song but on the way back, I heard:

We were about halfway there before I start really being attention to the radio and started to realize the magnitude of being outside. I begin to cry. I didn’t wipe my face and I knew my Mom couldn’t tell that I was crying anyway:

Once we get into the dentist, it was different with the masks and the questions but it really was the same because I have been going to the dentist for the past 30 years! Sean has gone there for the past 15 as well. Dr. Fox talked with me and my Mom showed him the gross pictures of my mouth before he began his exam. Just before he started his exam of my mouth, he told me that he did not think we would find anything because I have, “Always had good teeth!” That made me smile because I don’t know that he has ever told me that before.

he gave me a thorough exam and put my mouthguard in my mouth which still fit. He talked about possible electric toothbrushes because I explained about being heavy-handed and scratching my gums occasionally. He had Joan get me another toothbrush and since my Mom was with me, she got one too because Dr. Fox’s her dentist as well!

As we waited for the toothbrushes at the front desk, he begin writing in my file and he and my Mom talked about my brothers and my dental work that we all had there. As he was writing, I’d let him know that he was the first adult I met who was also left-handed! He laughed and said that he has been for the past 40 years as well! My Mom talked about my Dad and my brothers and my dental work again and he talked about my good exam again and I responded that, “My Dad would be proud!”

Once we got home, I waited in the car as my Mom went inside and attended to Leia because we had crated her. Something we haven’t done since we first got her. I stared off into space and vaguely remember hearing the music but not listening to it and I began to cry again because this whole thing was pretty overwhelming! I had the terror of being outside amid this virus but also I had thoughts of my Dad and all of the time we spent at that dentist office. It really did feel like, “Home!”