Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Found!

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!

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #14

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!

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #13

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.


Bad Day(s)

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!

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #9

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!”

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #62 + Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #7

Okay, I checked my YouTube feed and this song came on. This song is Barwis in 2015.It also is Fifty Shades of Grey.

Now, I read all 3 of the books and they’re so much more than just smut! I also have seen all three of the movies and I’m not sure what to say about them! They kind of are smut. But seeing this video clip montage of Pride & Prejudice set to this song put me over the edge! I sent the link to my Mom because I have gotten her to love that movie also!

This song reminds me of driving myself to Barwis three times a week in the winter. I haven’t thought about this song until I saw the montage on my YouTube feed so I will share both the montage and video here:

Tune #41 Inspired by GMFB

So, this morning, on GMFB Kale began talking about the #1 song in 2010. It was:

He was saying that because that was the last time Matthew Stafford did NOT start the game for the Detroit Lions. I begin receiving tweets and getting notifications from my NFL Network app that he may not play on Sunday. L That made me really nervous and he ultimately did NOT play:

Since Friday, I kept saying this because of Kyle’s statement in passing before they cut to a commercial.

I tweeted him on Friday and I said it 1 million times so my Mom called me a “Weirdo” and a “Goofball.” I thought my wish would be granted and the Lions would get a win. That didn’t happen. That really bummed me out on Sunday but hearing that Train was #1 in 2010 made me think of littlep Sean and constantly belting that song out in the car!

I was too tired to tweet Kyle this morning but I have been thinking of that song as well as Pee Wee’s Playhouse today as well!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #61

I’ve written about this before but in the spring of my senior year, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wiz. I bought this CD and listened to it constantly in my car and I belted it out all of the time! Stephanie Mills has some serious pipes and I was up for the challenge to sing these songs. It didn’t work out with the director and he was eventually fired before the show went on. I was crushed because I had worked really hard.

The school play it was a review that year instead and the new director knew that I had worked on the songs from The Wiz a lot so she incorporated this so into the show so I could sing it.

I’m not sure why this song popped into my head last night but I can’t stop hearing it play in my head and I see myself standing on the stage in my high school gym. I am barely awake but I put it up on YouTube and rested my phone on my chin as I t played. I still know all of the words but there is no way that I could get any of them out. I listened to the song play and began to cry.