Category: Tunes

I am in our second apartment and it is Fall outside and the apartment smells like candles:

So, I stopped posting my monthly Faves when it got too warm for me to think. So yesterday was the first of the month and I’m feeling an of the month and I’m feeling a little bit wonky still. So I posted what I posted on September 1, 2023.

Well, I reread that post and was immediately taken back to my work. I worked there for 12 years and I taught in three classrooms. One classroom when I taught English and two classrooms when I taught Reading. So I was thinking about all of this as I listened to the first song and it’s definitely worth a repost here as well:

We got haircuts today and also a Little Caesers deep dish pizza. I can eat those still. It was kind of busy today because Christina, my hair cutter had a bunch of people she was working with. I just sat there and waited until my turn, in the corner. I was hearing some pretty excellent tunes though. They all had different memories!!!

Memory #1: I am sitting in the backseat of my Mom’s green station wagon. Either with my friends or my cousins and we are ALL singing along:

Memory #2: I am sitting in my house by myself, watching, No Strings Attached which when I think about it, is a movie that I should watch again! I am no stranger to ‘heartbreak donut holes’!!! Sean knows!!! I thought that it was a godsend that our second apartment was so close to a Tim Hortons!!

I’m just not sure how I am going to watch this movie with my Mom in the house?

Memory #3: My Mom did NOT like this song until she heard this rendition and I kind of liked it too:

And this is the song I heard sitting in the corner, waiting to get my eyebrows waxed:

We see the same women getting their hair done when we get our haircuts. They had a really intriguing story today! I really LOVE getting lost in those three memories today! That’s where I live now, especially in this heat!

I wore my regular sweatshirt today just because I was too tired to switch to my T-shirt and zippy. I’m glad because it was a little bit chilly and I put my hood on. I think next month, I may have to wear my winter coat. I really wish that I could still control my body temperature, but I think that went away three or four years ago… #MSsucks!!! 😒😒😒…

last night, it was about 68° and I could breathe a whole lot easier! That made me excited that the weather is changing and do you know what song popped into my head that completely edges me because I was in high school. I was a Junior in high school:

It’s miserable today! I have barely spoken and my Mom went to pick up the van for my appointment tomorrow.

I can say Dr. K’s name when I am looking at it to check in for my appointment, but when I see her and she says her name, I can’t get it so I just called her Dr. K.

I spoke to Sean a little bit and I told him about why I am nervous. Dr. K is going to explain to me my prognosis for dealing with my future, calculi. Because they will happen again! But, it took 24 years for this one to get the size it was so maybe I can wait another 24 years? I don’t know.

I will have the cystoscopy when it is needed, but it kind of hurts and takes a while to heal. That’s why I’m nervous! We’ll just see what she says tomorrow.

As my Mom left to pick up the van, I thought of this song because I’ve barely spoken:

I thought of this song because of this line:

That song does not fit with anything at all, but I just wanted to hear her voice I guess.

I got good news at the doctor on Wednesday. So far, my eyes seem to be hanging on! At least my left one! But recovery is a WHOLE OTHER THING!!!

I keep telling my Mom that I have never had MS this long and it sucks to suck! That’s all I can be said, but this recovery time has been the worst so far and I’m not looking forward to future recovery when I hear bad news at the docto. I think that Wednesday’s appointment is not going to be great. I’m a little nervous about that.

I keep listening to this song because this is ‘not my choice.’ Yesterday, my Mom asked me if I was crying (as I was listening to it) and I just said, “Yes.”:

So, I read this article this morning once I woke up:

https://parade.com/news/korn-gets-disappointing-response-to-lollapalooza-set

I was immediately taken back to a time when I think I may have been 23?

I was driving (back when I still could do that) and this song came on the radio. I remember this song from high school and I loved it! What I did not expect was that my passenger who was a computer engineer when I met him started singing along right after, “Go!” he knew all of the words and that completely floored me! He was a hard-core rocker in high school, maybe goth? with long hair. I don’t know him anymore, but I guess that old habits die hard! I witnessed that! It was kind of crazy or off-putting:

I saw my optometrist today. He looked at Dr. Bansal’s notes and explained that my eyes haven’t changed. My contacts have not changed either. I’m still a -7.5. I’m happy because I have another box of contacts that is a whole 45 days so I don’t have to worry about ordering more contacts right away!

He did NOT dilate my eyes today and he checked the pressure, that was the last thing he did. When he was finished checking the pressure, he let me know that it looks like my left eye is holding on quite well! I smiled and kind of laughed a little bit, and said, “It knows that it’s the only hope!!!”

But know that this was immediately in my head when he said, Left Eye:

I heard, “Scrubs” last month at my haircut.

But this one reminds me of middle school basketball season. I think I’ll share this one:

He asked when I have to see Dr. Bansal again and I told him in one year and he said that I don’t need to see him until next year either!

This weather is still rough for me but I don’t need to leave the house until next Wednesday. That’s for Dr. K. There is already a Care Journey in my MyChart account. This all started in January and it will hopefully get to some resolve when I see her. I’m a little nervous about that one too!!!

My Mom has been listening to Carly Simon lately and she talked about this song and we listened to it as she put my compression socks on.

This song will always remind me of my aunt Rita!!! I remember when I must’ve been 24, no – I was 23 because I was student teaching when I was waiting in the living room of someone I used to know to get out of the shower. I was watching Baby Boom and they came downstairs. He asked me why I was watching a movie geared toward middle-aged women.

I completely ignored the sarcasm and simply told him, “It reminds me of my aunt Rita” as I changed the channel. So of course, we HAD TO watch that movie today (which I bought last year). My Mom got tired and decided to lay down for a nap just as this song was coming on, so I stopped the movie and we will watch it tomorrow.. Here is the song: