Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” OR “Stud”

I still haven’t found one of my favorite pictures of Sean when he was young but I will still look for it! Guns ‘n’ Roses’ song,”Sweet Child o’ Mine” showed up in my YouTube feed this morning. I started to play it while still in bed but then I stopped and looked up my favorite cover of that song! Sheryl Crow:

I really like her version of the song and I haven’t heard it in years! Of coarse I would really dig it because I have a son and he is my only child. I wanted him to have blue eyes and they were gray for the first few weeks of his life. Just before he left the hospital after he was a month and a day old, they turned brown. He looked nothing like me and I actually liked that they turned brown because I KNEW that he got those from me!

I recently came across a bunch of pictures from Sean’s youth. Because it’s, #ThrowbavkThursday, I thought to share some of these pictures until I find the one that I really, really like again! I remember taking this picture of Sean. He must’ve been six and it was when we would go to the Home Depot to complete projects for him. He went with his Cub Scout troop and we went a few times after that.

I told Sean that I remembered taking this picture because it was the day that he smashed my thumb with the hammer. It hurt pretty badly and I gasped and could feel the tears stinging my eyes. The young woman in this picture is named Star and she supervise the boys and she saw him hit my thumb. She talked to him to distract him while I gathered myself.

I asked Sean to choose which picture I could share between a couple pictures that he was okay with me sharing and he chose this one because, “It shows that I am a stud!”

Crazy!

Recently, because I watch so much TV, I have noticed that songs that I grew up with are being used to sell things! The first commercial I saw that I heard a popular song from my youth was the T-Mobile commercial. Then, I saw the Ram commercial. It was when I saw a commercial for the new, “Call of Duty” video game that I realized that I am old. It’s COMPLETELY crazy but I am old!

I just found this commercial on YouTube but I will share the actual song also.

The T-Mobile commercial song:

I couldn’t find the Ram commercial but here is this song:

The new call of duty commercial:

Sean always tells me that I am old but he is my son so of course I am! Hearing these commercials really made me feel old though! It’s just CRAZY!!!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #56

I woke up this morning to a picture and article on Facebook that kind of rocked me to my core! I recently saw a picture from wayback that I wanted to share today because it is Throwback Thursday. I couldn’t find the picture so I don’t want to write this blog post yet. I will get a week to find the picture and I will post it next week.

Sean has agreed to watch, A Million Little Things with me but he worked last Thursday so I didn’t watch the episode so we could watch it together. It’s not often that he will want to watch TV with me given that he will be 18 in 23 days. We used to watch, This Is Us until it got, “NOT cool!“ Jack’s death was difficult and I told my Mom NOT to watch that episode. Episodes with Vietnam in it were hard for me too; but I definitely drew the line when the writers messed with Randall and Beth. I didn’t want to see their demise so I stopped watching the show.

Sean binged the first season of A Million Little Things with me and we will watch the second season together. He’s working tonight so I am not watching it even though it is on right now. Yesterday, we finally watched last week’s episode and the song that played at the end when Delilah was talking to her baby came out kind of really got me! I knew this song but for some reason it seemed sad for me but I wanted to remember it so:

Tune #34 & #35 Inspired by GMFB OR “The Final Countdown”

I didn’t watch much of Monday Night Football yesterday; but apparently, I watched just enough because pretty much all of what I watched ended up on the highlight reel this morning on GMFB. Nate talked about, Tevon Coleman. He plays for the 49ers and he had a game from what I saw! Great minds think a like because when he said his name, he said it sounded like Tevin Campbell. I tweeted him telling him that I thought of that last night every time they said his name! So this song has been in my head from last night and it was reinforced this morning. It’s good that I am NOT the only one who thought of this! I sang this song in my head right after Nate talked about him:

That is until Kyle made the point that the 49ers are 5-0 and the last time they started the season like this, was it in 1990 and Sinead O’Connor was number one on the charts! The 49ers had a bye the week before so Kyle said that it had been, “15 days” since the played last. So, Tevin was out and Sinead was in but they have been switching all day.

That is until I leveled up for the last time. I am an extra firm, “Fuddy Putty” now. It took a little over two months to get there:

This is really difficult but it is my final countdown so, naturally, this song popped into my head:

Random songs pop into my head all of the time! It’s too bad that they can’t come out of my mouth anymore.

The Final Countdown

Well, it has happened. I have finally leveled up to extra firm! When I originally got the red, “Fuddy putty” out of its container, this song began to play over and over again in my head:

This IS my final countdown! It is now my habit for a little over two months to squeeze this putty as I watch TV. This one is difficult! Extra difficult!

I can barely squeeze it and it feels like a really hard, clay ball. It will take some time but I will be able to soften it eventually. Until then, I will constantly hear this song in my head! I am now at nine final level end it is really difficult!

Tune #33 Inspired by GMFB OR “The Second Best Mustache in the Building”

Last week, the breakfast table had the recording artist, Sash at the breakfast table. He is only 19 years old and recorded this song in his bedroom with his brother. The NFL picked it up and I see/hear it on all this year’s game highlight reels. Sean listened to it yesterday and even though the Lions are NOT play this week, I played it and I still see highlight reels in my head.

Also from last week, I wasn’t able to tweet the show but they had Doug Marrone on via satellite, he is the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Kyle’s first question for him was about Gardner Minshew’s mustache.

The question amused me but Doug Marrone’s answer, amused me more! I am sure that he has heard about his quarterback’s mustache a lot! He kind of shook his head a little bit and let Kyle know that Garner has only, “The second best mustache in the building!” His answer really amused me because knowing who else is in the building at the Jaguars facility, Gardner is definitely second!

The winner of the best mustache is hands-down, the teams owner, Sha’d Khan!!! I searched the Internet to find a good picture of Sha’d Khan’s mustache and this is what I came up with. I couldn’t decide on just one picture:

I don’t know if this next picture was photoshopped or not, but if it is NOT, that is just awesome!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #55

Matchbox 20’s album, Mad Season came out in May 2000. I was working at 7-Eleven and was about to graduate from high school. I’ve talked about that being the MOST disgusting summer job ever because it was but I listened to that CD on loop in the mornings when I drove there.

The song I am going to post was one of the primary singles released. I can’t get it out of my head because I don’t feel well right now! Hopefully, tomorrow, I can write about watching GMFB this morning Because I can’t just yet. I am failing in and out of sleep a lot but I am not, “Talking to myself in public” nor am I, “Dodging glances on the train” but I will be happy when I can finally kick this! #MSsucks because everything takes longer to get better! Case in point: my knee still hurts!

Tune #30, #31, and #32 Inspired by GMFB

My Mom brought me pills from my doctor’s office yesterday afternoon. I took two doses yesterday and I’ve had three doses today thus far. Maybe I am feeling a little bit better… I was still a bit out of it as I watched GMFB this morning. I haven’t even tweeted anyone on the show in two days! It hurt me that I didn’t tweet Kay after I watched her bang her gavel with her left hand! We lefties have to stick together!

The breakfast table talked to Omar Ruiz this morning (Whom I recently followed on Twitter) and Kyle asked him about being disappointed after going to a Pearl Jam show. Omar said that he loves Pearl Jam (Who doesn’t?!) but at this particular concert they did NOT play Jeremy, Yellow Ledbetter, or Black. I would have been disappointed too!

I added those three songs in this post. I know that I have posted them before, but this time, I posted the unplugged versions because I am feeling pretty mellow:

Tune #29 Inspired by GMFB

I didn’t feel well AGAIN this morning! I watched GMFB but I dozed off a few times. I was excited because today is #WhiteboardWednesday. The guys always have hilarious answers! I actually missed most of the sacrament because I was sleeping but I msaw Kyle‘s answer and I searched Twitter to find the question Kay asked.

Kay Asked which song Daniel Jones, the Quarterback for the New York Giants, should enter the stadium to?

Kyle’s answer:

I laughed when I saw his answer because I knew that song! I have listened to it a few times today and I couldn’t even make the sound at the beginning back before I had MS and could speak clearly. Believe me, I tried today as I listened to this song multiple times. I still can’t do it!

October 2019 Faves

Last week, Sean was making himself a sandwich or something and we both were in the kitchen and he has access to all of my music on our Apple Music account and he told me that when he was growing up, remembers that, “[You] listened to some good music! Black Crowes?! That’s really good!” I kind of laughed and thought about my Black Crowes CD that I played on loop for months. (Back when I could still drive) He must’ve been about six or seven?

Surprisingly, the Shake Your Money Maker album is NOT downloaded on my Apple Music; so, I downloaded that and I have been listening to it and remembering our second apartment. That IS a really good album! I’m completely immersed!



I tried jamming out to Struttin’ Blues because I was by myself so there was no one to hear. I couldn’t do it and I started to cry so then I just started listening to the more mellow tunes.

Then I listened to this song which makes me cry for an entirely different reason!