So I guess it’s a duel category for me these days. Random songs show up on my YouTube feed but then they are also almost forgotten tunes! I can’t just say they’re almost forgotten tunes because I saw the video I am a YouTube feed. This one showed up and it reminded me of more able-bodied days!
I no longer sing-along when I hear a good songs because I don’t have the strength to muster and get the air out of my lungs and sound out of my mouth. I think that most people I know now don’t know that I used to be able to sing but now I can’t.
This live version showed up in my YouTube feed so that’s why I am sharing here but it makes me think of other things I recently posted on Facebook.
I get my eyebrows waxed and hair cut yesterday because Sean’s Ring Day is tomorrow. I heard this song last night on my ride home. It made me think of my time at WMU. Bon Jovi will always remind me of my friend, Tonya, who lived on my floor, down the hall. I’m trying not to be overwhelmed at the fact that I will see Sean for the first time in his gown at mass. I think that may be pretty overwhelming for me and I’m not gonna lie about it! I most likely will cry!
Given the weather today, I paid for my shirt time out of the house yesterday because I feel absolutely terrible but I had to have clean eyebrows for tomorrow. Regardless of how I feel though, I NEED to be there tomorrow to see my Beeb in his graduation regalia. It will be good to see all of the kids, some of them home I have known since they were in preschool!
I heard this song last night and wanted to remember it so I could put it on my blog but then, it showed up in my YouTube feed anyway! I really do dig this song!:
This song showed up in my YouTube feed yesterday but I had almost completely forgotten about it! I shared it on Facebook so I could have that memory of this song and I’ve posted it on my blog to chronicle it forever:
This morning, I checked my YouTube feed and I guess I am going down The Voice rabbit hole. I clicked on this video and was amazed! I thought of these songs all day! I don’t even watch The Voice really, I don’t even know how old this video is but:
It took me a minute to find a clean version of this song but I found it!
I’m not a Harry Styles fan but I wanted to keep this in line with the original video and so this song is in there.
But then there is this one which I ABSOLUTELY LOVE!!!
I posted on my blog on Saturday and I spoke of going to Florida for treatment with Sean and my Mom when he was little. Here’s what I wrote in part:
“I thought of that random conversation because this song came out the summer after my first year teaching. It’s the summer I went to Florida for treatment. I’m sure I have pictures of Sean from then. He was really little back then. I will have to find them.”
I was speaking about this song:
Well, I found them! Actually, Sean found them in a collage he made in kindergarten. He brought it up to me to show me and I told him that I was just speaking of these specific pictures and when we went to Florida for me to get treatment:
That was me when I was getting treatment but this next picture is the picture I was thinking of:
I can still remember taking that picture! Sean really was SO little!
I only had one, “Big Girl” job for the entire time I was in the adult workforce. I only taught at one school for the entire 12 years I taught. A large part of those years, I taught with the same people. Recently, I have missed them and felt a longing ache To talk with people I saw pretty much every day during the school year. This song showed up in my YouTube feed early this morning and it made me miss talking football among other things with one particular coworker:
I dig Pretty Woman but it is mostly the song that is playing in the background for this video. 80s Romantic Pop, 80s Love Songs. It reminded me of many conversations I had on a daily basis with a former colleague. I miss him!
I saw this one very early this morning because I could not fall sleep last night. I didn’t fall i’m sorry but until about 2:00 a.m. I had to listen to this song because it took me way back to my beginning years of teaching and I thought about my friend, Joe, who made me this sign:
It’s modeled after the BET show, 106 & Park. My first classroom number was 106. He made me the sign that I hung in my classroom when I taught English. Instead of Park, it said “Rios.” I used that sign for the five years I taught from room 106. I still have it; it’s in my basement somewhere with all of my teacher things.
I used to call my friend Joe, “Seph” because I think he called me, “Fer.” He was brought up how people have nicknames and he wondered why they shorten the name to just the beginning, so why not the end?! I thought of that random conversation because this song came out the summer after my first year teaching. It’s the summer I went to Florida for treatment. I’m sure I have pictures of Sean from then. He was really little back then. I will have to find them.
Yesterday, for #WhiteboardWednesday, Kay asked the guys at the table for Lamar Jackson’s run out song. I really liked Nate’s answer and I tweeted him to let him know. I added Kay in as well because I liked what she said also:
So, yesterday was a bad day! A really bad day! Now, I will accept fault for the snow in Southeast Michigan. It is no secret that I have been setting my Christmas tree up and watching Hallmark Christmas movies as I do so. Well, as my Mom did so! I will admit that it is my fault that it has snowed because I can feel the Christmas vibes exuding from my house! So, I guess that snow would be in order. For that, I am truly sorry! My Mom, however, does not believe that I am that important in the grand scheme of God and the cosmos!
On Monday, a nurse from the Henry Ford Health System called my Mom because she has been listed as my caregiver. This woman, Geraldine, called to ask how I was doing. She wanted to make sure I was OK with the weather and the snow. She told my Mom that she usually calls all patients with mobility issues/restrictions when the weather changes. I am now listed on the patient list having met with both the physical therapist and occupational therapist. My Mom assured her that I do NOT go outside in the snow and this year, I was forced to turn my heat up by 3°.
My Mom saw how badly I felt yesterday and it was a continuation of Monday’s snow. It continues today as well but my Mom got me a present to make me feel better.
I am wearing it right now! I was excited to put it on today after my Mom washed my hair because it will help to keep me warmer. I don’t even care that it will smash my clean hair down! So, I apologize for making it snow with my premature Christmas tree setting up but know that I am gearing up for some bad days coming!
I saw this video clip in my YouTube feed late last night and I shared it on Facebook so I wouldn’t forget it I’m still digging this song and I dug this movie and cried when I read the book. I used to read books in between my classes as my students filed in. Before the second bell, as I read, I started to cry. When my students asked me if I was OK, I nodded and told them that, “You know you are reading good writing when it evokes emotion!”
