Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

#MyGirlL: “So Fresh and So Clean”

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:

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!

Random Tunes #45, #46, and #47 in my YouTube Feed

I think that, “Big Brother” wants to show me a little bit of mercy because these three songs showed up in my YouTube feed! I know I have shared a couple of them already but this was my joy and I tried to wake up this morning:

A great way to lift me up and I needed it today!!!

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.