Category: Tunes

I watched Hope Floats yesterday because I was by myself and it was free OnDemand. That movie came out in 1999 and was during the time I had a brief country music kick. Hearing some of the songs from that movie, Took me way back to my Junior and Senior years of high school and waiting tables at Lonestar Steakhouse and Saloon. I had to pause the movie to listen to this song:

I know that I’ve referenced this song a few times in my blog somewhere but this is a crystal clear memory I have of walking. That restaurant is no longer a Lonestar but rather an IHOP now.

I know that I was not diagnosed with MS until I was 18 and I walked, ran, and played sports in Grade and high school; but now when I think about it, I can’t remember having control over my body and on days like today with the rain, I can’t remember my body NOT hurting. Those details have somehow slipped my mind.

i’ve listened to this song over and over probably about six times as Sean made us breakfast. I can clearly see in my mind walking from the bar to my tables across the restaurant. I had two bottles of beer intertwined in my fingers of one hand and. I held the handles of two chilled mugs in the other.

I can see everything crystal clearly in my mind down to how comfortable my jeans were that I wore to work. For a while, I had to wear my knee brace after ACL reconstruction surgery so it ripped the inside of my right knee but I didn’t care because the jeans were so comfortable. I wore them anyway.

That summer after high school graduation and before I started college at WMU, is the last time I can clearly remember walking. I remember that I really liked this song and I thought back then that my life would be so much easier than it is now.

Last night, because it is after Christmas, I didn’t want to watch a Christmas movie. Instead, I saw that Flu Away Home was OnDemand when I searched for Christmas movies to watch. I watched it last night by myself and cried my eyes out still! Sean was not here so I didn’t have to be strong in front of anyone and I think it’s crazy that. It’s been 13 years now and this song STILL gets to me!!!:

I can remember crystal clearly being in the middle of the left side of that movie theater with my Dad sitting on my right. I remember that my Dad read a review in the newspaper about the movie and it said that it was a good movie and a good father-daughter bonding movie. Given that I was his only daughter, he took me.

I hope to hold that memory in my mind for as long as I live! Also, I reposted about this movie because the links from my last post from January 29, 2014 no longer live. Go figure?! In the six years that I have had this blog, things have changed with the Internet a little bit.

Exactly one month ago today, it was Sean’s ring day at DC, in the church. I had made arrangements to procure a van so as to go to the church and see him in his graduation gown for the first time.

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My Mom took my phone to take pictures before the mass started. I was getting situated in the church. I thought the mass was absolutely beautiful and I’m not ashamed to say that I cried a little bit but I tend to do that when I am happy a lot these days. We were able to snap some pictures of Sean and his friends and the gathering space after mass:

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Connor and Sean have been going to school together since they were in preschool. When they graduate, in May, sadly, that will end:

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Sean went to lunch with a group of his friends and I felt that I was getting tired. He went by himself. Before my Mom and I left the church, I looked at her and told her that since we had the vehicle to accommodate my chair, we should go to the movies! I ordered the tickets on my phone. Last Christmas was already out and I really wanted to see it.

Retrospectively, putting two things in the day at once proved to be too much for me but I didn’t know that until after the movie. That’s why it’s been a month since I posted pictures of my Beeb in his gown. (He’s on the left).

The movie was in a smaller theater and only two other people were there. It was my aunt Crissy and my cousin, Layla. It was like it was the show just for us. I wanted to see this movie because it’s named after my Christmas jam!

I was also interested in the movie, I had no idea what the storyline was going to be:

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Because I saw this movie before Thanksgiving, my Christmas preparations were a little bit earlier this year. but I was cool with that!

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I dug the movie and I am looking forward for it to be one of the movies or watch leading up to Christmas next year on my TV. Emma Thompson was hilarious in it and there were a couple other George Michael songs that I really dug in it:

It’s a two whole days for me to begin to recover. I have only been out of my house one other time since then and that was to get my eyebrows waxed and my haircut for Christmas.

Day 23, Movie 23 This Christmas

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I saw this movie yesterday when watching, Last Holiday. It was a suggestion and I’ve always liked that song. Once I started watching, who could go wrong with some Idris Alba?! 😍😍😍

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I wasn’t sure how I felt about all the drama but there were five kids just like my family. However, there were two girls! Even though they didn’t get along for most of the movie, they know what it’s like to grow up with a sister! That’s something I do not know.

Day 14, Movie 14 How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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I had not yet had Sean when this movie came out. I wasn’t interested in seeing it back then but I watched it today. Maybe it’s because I’m 37, I really wasn’t feeling it! I paused it to eat dinner and I said that it was all Cindy Lou’s fault but the origin of his life was not good and his schoolmates were jerks! The fact that the mayor said that it was Cindy‘s fault after the Grinch stole Christmas, made me want to change my mind.

I had really forgotten about that Faith Hill song until I saw this movie:

Is the grinch was getting ready to still Christmas he saying bits of this song:

At least I finally saw it! I think that I may be some kind of expert in the field given that I have watched 14 Christmas movies this year and counting but…