Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #84

I got my taxes done on Thursday and I got a haircut and eyebrows waxed on Friday. I told the woman who does them that now, I can stay holed up in my house for the next month while this impending snow goes away. She laughed and told me that I should NOT be an outside at all! I told her that now that my hair is cut and my eyebrows are done, I won’t need to be.

As we drove to the salon, my Mom lets me choose the station we will listen to because we drive in my car and I have XM radio. I DON’T listen to commercials! All of my preset stations are Mostly 90s and early 2000’s radio stations. I like them! As we drove there, I heard this song that I haven’t heard in so long!:

I laughed when it came on and I told my Mom that my co-teacher probably my second or third year teaching had this song as her entrance song when she and her husband entered the reception.

I’m not sure what it was but maybe it’s the fact that I miss teaching, or the fact that she and I had so much fun, or the fact that this is a really funny entrance song for a wedding reception but either way I will begin to cry.

My Mom asked me what was wrong and I just shrugged. I can no longer control my emotions and I cry at the drop of a hat and I never know why. I also laugh inappropriately as well. regardless, the song has not gotten out of my head since I heard it in my car!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #83 + Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #34

I shared this video on Facebook this morning when I saw it in my YouTube feed:

When I saw it, I waited until a commercial break on GMFB and watched the entire video. It brought back tons of memories! Memories of my first apartment with Sean and also, my first year teaching! I wrote that on my post on Facebook, “Vintage Ms. Rios in room 106” I pulled up the actual video and watched it and reminisced as it played as well.

Tune #49 and #50 Inspired by GMFB

I woke up a little late this morning but once I was out of bed and in my living room, I turned GMFB on. I still had not put my contacts in and I’m not sure one he was talking about but Nate said that a player would be, “Fresh and Clean” like Outkast. I was too tired to tweet at him but i immediately got that song in my head!

I think I didn’t tell Sean that he looked, “So fresh and so clean” until he go to high school and would be in his suit for homecoming or prom. I asked him if he knew what I was talking about and he nodded and told me that it was Outkast but it was really old! Wow, I am really old! It was cool 20 years ago when I came out!

Kyle started talking about the Packers versus 49ers upcoming game and he recalled the week 12 meaning in which the Packers laid an egg. He was specifically talking about Aaron Rodgers and I had my contacts in by that time so I tweeted him this:

This Eminem song came out when Sean was still really little and I could still drive back then. Just hearing Kyle drop the line,”Mom’s spaghetti” with search nonchalance made me laugh really hard! And really took me way back!

I absolutely love that I am contemporaries of the entire breakfast table (Kay is a little bit younger than me but…) and I completely get these random, off-the-cuff pop culture references.

Tune #48 Inspired by GMFB

So, this morning, Peter and Nate were talking about the Grammys and I can’t even remember how Nate got to singing “Rollin’ with my Homies” which launched a whole discussion about clueless with Nate, Peter, and Kyle. I ABSOLUTELY love the ease with which they have random conversations! I was too tired to tweet any of them but I have been singing this song all day long!

I wanted to find the movie clip and the best one I could find was this tribute to Brittany Murphy.:

I haven’t seen this movie in close to 20 years as a racer board I think I’m going to have to watch it again!

NUTS!!!

This afternoon while my Mom and I ate lunch, she was paying a bill and needed to talk to someone so she was on hold. Once she was placed on hold, they started saying something about services they offer or something and then once they stopped speaking, music came on. I was completely shocked at hearing that song! Then, they started saying something else so the music stopped but then a few seconds later, the music started again.

It was a song I was very familiar with and I remember hearing it and liking it in either my upper class men high school years or in my young adult years. It took me a minute to figure out who I was hearing as the music that plays when you are on hold. Basically, it was the ”Elevator music.” When I figured out who was singing, I told my Mom what it was and that hearing it while you were on hold is, “NUTS!!!

Dave Mathews is the coolest ever! The fact that he is playing as the music when you are on hold proves that I am SO old now!!!


Sometimes…

I have had MS for 19 years now. Over half of my life. I never liked when people in my various MS support groups would call themselves, “Warriors” and would tell all of us that we were,”Warriors” too. that is until it got real for me.

Damn right, I am a warrior! This is so difficult! I was asked once what hurts and I told them, “Just my nerves.” I paused a moment and let the person know that there are nerves in every inch of your body. Everything hurts. All of the time!

A woman in one of my MS groups shared this song and she said the lyrics spoke to her. Well, they speak to me too! When she posted it, she let everyone know that she was NOT suicidal but this song is real! I am NOT suicidal either and I know that I have too much to live for to do something like that but it’s enough to acknowledge just the fact that this is difficult and I need to acknowledge the feeling that to just, “Let go” Is really appealing at times.

My support groups come alive at night and I completely get that. I think it was a little after 1 AM when I shared this song on Facebook because I did not want to forget it. I listened to it two times last night and cried both times. I let my Mom hear it this morning when I was eating my eggs and I cried again.

My Mom didn’t like this song and I tried explaining it to her but she told me that neither my Dad nor my aunt Rita gave up, not even at the very end. I told my Mom that it is different because they both had. terminal illnesses. My aunt died of ovarian cancer and my Dad was a non-compliant diabetic for most of my life who had two open-heart surgeries and was on dialysis for 3 1/2 years.

I am just going to have MS for the rest of my life and have to and will have to continue dealing with whatever it decides to throw at me. Believe me, now, it’s throwing a lot at me! I tried to get my Mom to see this but she didn’t so I decided to just listen to this song when I am by myself. I will probably listen to it as I am trying to fall asleep at night but this is really difficult and having to be on high alert every second of the day is a lot. For me, this song was really good. I know I’m not going to do a thing deliberately but I needed to hear this song because sometimes…

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #82

I will say that there is nothing like watching a throwback movie with Sean. We are watching, Jumanji. We just saw the third Jumanji at the movies on Christmas and we laughed at how NOT state of the art this one is but it’s still a solid movie!

The Peloton commercial very cute saying really got to me:

I think it’s crazy that songs from my youth, my high school years, are selling things now. I really dig this song and I forgot how much I dug it until I saw this commercial:

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #81 + Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #33

When I woke up Friday morning, I texted my Mom that I was awake and while I waited for her to come and help me get out of bed, I watched some YouTube videos. This one showed up and I really dug the song! It reminded me of being a little girl and my Parent’s living room having green carpet. It’s hardwood now but when I was a kid, I used to lay on it and watch TV.

I watch video clips of The Voice in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep (Which is pretty much every night). I post the videos that make me cry because I can no longer sing like the videos I see. So, Friday morning I posted this guys rendition of Terence Trent D’Arby and Saturday morning this video showed up and I shared it on Facebook as well!

This song took me way back and I tagged two of my brothers when I posted The second video on Facebook of the actual video. It was proof that Big Brother is watching and listening through our phones I guess

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #80 + Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #32

This, “Oldie but goodie” showed up in my YouTube feed and January 2. I shared it on Facebook so not to forget but I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since!

When I first saw this video when it came out, I thought that Courtney Cox looked old but when I see it now, she looks so young! I guess I’m the one who is old now!