Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #59

I woke up this morning and called my Mom. As I waited for assistance to get out, I checked my Twitter feed and saw a tweet from someone I just recently followed. It said, in part, “Grey sky morning.” OF COURSE I thought of this song and of better, more able-bodied days. They opened for up Third Eye Blind the summer after my senior year.

Also, I have to find out how I can watch this show in this video. Sean got me out of bed.

“SaQUAD” OR Tune #40 Inspired by GMFB

My Mom was over at my house on Sunday when I could catch the second half of the Lions game. Things were going pretty well but then I saw Saquon Barkley‘s run. He shed three guys for a first down. My Mom was in the kitchen but I called her to come see the replay because it was so amazing (Even though it was so not cool!).

I explained to my Mom about last year, the breakfast table naming him,”SaQUAD” because of this picture.

We scrolled through the images and also saw this one:

My Mom saw the pictures and asked me if he works on his legs. Well, YE-AH!!! I told Sean later in the day that she asked me that and then we both laughed.

I remember seeing him work out because he was injured a few weeks ago so they had footage of him working out on GMFB when I first saw the video, I wondered why he always wears spandex. Then, I thought about it more and those aren’t spandex! His quads are just HUGE!!!

So, GMFB had their #AngryRuns segment yesterday and I knew this run was going to be on it. What I didn’t know or expect was the unanimous vote!

I tweeted them after the segment was over:

I wanted to post about that segment yesterday but my Dad was on my mind pretty heavily! At the end of the segment, Kyle references Gnarls Barkley so, here you go:

Tune #39 Inspired by GMFB

Shaun O’Hara covered for Kyle today and he covered for Nate for the beginning of the week. He did a really good job! His eyes were so much more striking than when he would be in a suit for Total Access. He looked really at home today at the breakfast table:

They talked about Ron Rivera wearing his GMFB shirt and his presser and copied this picture from Twitter, I tweeted it out too:

I DEFINITELY will have to get one of those shirts! I think Shaun held his own and this song is playing over and over again in my head (It reminds me of my oldest brother) since he referenced it when talking about Aaron Donald:

Tune #36, #37, #38 Inspired by GMFB

I wasn’t up and in front of my TV until almost 8 o’clock this morning. So, I missed the first hour but I would catch that on the replay right after. I haven’t been feeling very well in the morning lately so I haven’t Tweeted the breakfast table much. I still was able to get out a few though. Kyle was talking with Kay he said, “Discombobulated” which made me laugh and I thought of young Sean and his deductive reasoning of a five-year-old and thinking that “Combobulated” was word. A follower of mine let me know that Kyle muted her a while ago.

I wondered about that because I annoy all of them with tweets constantly and wonder if I will ever be muted on Twitter. I did send a tweet to Kyle regarding Peter’s top-five underrated quarterbacks:

When Peter talked about #4, Kyle said that, “He moves in mysterious ways.“. Well, OF COURSE!!!:

Then the conversation switched to back up quarterbacks. Seeing that this is pretty much the year of the back up quarterback, Peter talked about replacements for Hollywood roles that I wasn’t aware of! He said that Chris Farley was supposed to be Shrek but due to his untimely death, Mike Myers filled in with his Scottish accent. Kyle said something about Smash Mouth which got me thinking about my senior year and this song played in my car when I was with my friends all the time!:

Lastly, I watched the beginning of the show after it ended at ten-o’clock. Shaun O’Jara (filling in for Nate) was talking about the Panthers and Cam not playing in the back of did you get into the rhythm and he talked about Janet Jackson’s, Rhythm Nation:

When I searched for information regarding this post on gmfb’s Twitter page, I saw this picture of Ron Rivera and I HAVE TO get that shirt!

PT, OT, and Barwis

After I saw my neurologist in September, my neurologist’s nurse arranged for me to receive physical therapy in my home. A woman named Sajada came over to see me a few weeks ago. She took my blood pressure and asked me a bunch of medical questions. She asked me what my pain was on the pain scale that I am very familiar with. She is a doctor of physical therapy and she told me I need to get an occupational therapist to come see me because she was not able to work with my legs. She had me work on a portable arm bike and put weights on my wrists to do certain exercises. She left Thera Bands for me to work with.

I was extremely familiar with all the exercises I completed with her and it made me miss Barwis a lot. I saw an occupational therapist named Guen last week and she watched how I navigate in through my home. She documented how I transfer with my Mom and wrote orders for an electric Hoyer lift. Sadly, it’s like that now. We talked about my pain level and the fact that I experience most of my pain in my right knee and I told her about my injury and subsequent surgery. She asked how the rest of my body feels and I told her that I have been in pain for so long that I can’t gauge what my pain level is.

She accepted my answer and it made me miss Barwis even more! It is my hope to get back there one day but I have some difficulty imagining that my knee will stop hurting so much. Given that both of my teams lost this weekend (Michigan and the Detroit Lions), everything hurts more. I’m not even finding solace in that Jewel song even though it’s in my head a lot.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #58

So, I am binge watching Ballers at the suggestion of a representative for Xfinity. This was her second suggestion for a show to binge and her first one was good as well! It was Euphoria.I think I have binged the entire first season in four or five days.

I am about to start the second season finale and on Season 3, episode 8, Spencer get fired and he is driving around town and this song is playing in his car:

I can’t remember what the situation had to be but my Dad talked about renting a flatbed truck and playing this song at his work. He never did but I remember him singing this song in our house when I was young. I REALLY miss my Dad!!!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #57

I sat in my kitchen eating my lunch by myself today and I turned my Apple Music U2 playlist on shuffle. I heard this song and I think it enormously strange that I seriously, ALMOST forgot about it because it’s not foremost in my wheelhouse of favorite U2 songs but once it started, I was immediately taken back to being an undergrad and working at the Livonia branch of dfcu financial. It was during the winter when I was playing the Best of 1990 – 2000 album on loop in my car.

I heard this song off and I’m on my way to work or maybe it was on my way home:

U2 has always been my favorite band! I started thinking about this, I think, when I saw this video show up on my YouTube feed.

I shared the video on Facebook on October 2, 2019 when I saw it and I had to say this about it:

That video is showing up again in my YouTube feed now. I can ALWAYS listen to some U2 songs! That’s how I thought of my #57th ALMOST Forgotten Tune. I also have had U2 on my brain because of Sean‘s Parent-Teacher conferences that I went to last Wednesday. Because it is Sean’s senior year, he has “Senior Privilege” which means that he has a shorter school day (only six classes) and multiple classes are electives because he has already obtained a majority of credits needed for graduation. He currently has a, “Music Appreciation” class.

I have asked Sean pretty much every day since school started if they talked about u2 in class. He shakes his head and smiles at me and tells me that they haven’t. I gave Sean basic facts about them, just in case. I told him that U2 formed the band in 1975 and their first album was not released until 1981 and it was titled, Boy.

I told Sean‘s teacher about this in our conference and he asked me which album. I told him that I like both best of albums but I cited one of my favorite songs:

I also told him about another one of my favorite songs that they played when I saw them in concert in 2006 but the crowd didn’t pick up the song so he stopped singing it. I was singing! But I think I was too far away from the stage so..,