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!
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!
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!
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:
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!
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!
Late in the show on GMFB today, Peter Schrager talked about Garner Minshew. He is the starting quarterback for the Jacksonville jaguars. He became the starting quarterback after the first quarter of the week one game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Nick Foles injured his clavicle. They say he is going to be out for eight weeks. Garner Minshew just got the win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
I asked Sean if he knew what Garner Minshew looked like after that first week. He didn’t know so I texted him these pictures that the breakfast table shared on TV.:
I told Sean that he is a character and Sean laughed!
The whole breakfast table wore mustaches like his during a segment about him couple weeks ago.
Then, they showed a picture of Garner with uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.
It made me laugh to see that picture because that movie made me laugh a whole lot!
Today, Peter was speaking and he said that he wasn’t going to talk about the fact that Garner is a, “Cult of Personality.” He wanted to talk more about the win but my mind went completely to this song:
I immediately was a six year old, little kid once I searched for the video on YouTube. Again, I thought of my two oldest brothers! Most especially, my second oldest brother, Steve.
I heard this song while watching the Lions game. I checked and I can’t believe that I have NOT put this on my blog before today! Lenny has ALWAYS been so cool! He has been on the news with all the work he is doing with the Bahamas after the hurricane and he still is SO delicious! I had Sean watch the video with me and I told him that THIS is how I knew Lenny, before he was Cinna in The Hunger Games and before he played the Super Bowl with Katy Perry!
It was 3:22 am this morning when I opened my eyes. MS has deprive me of so much sleep! Because it took a while for me to fall back to sleep, I checked my Facebook alerts. Another person reacted to a song I posted a few days ago that ended up in my YouTube feed. When I saw that, I was immediately taken back to my time as an undergrad:
My Mom had to wash my hair this morning because, well, “Sometimes it bees like that” and MS ain’t no joke! I closed my eyes as my Mom combed shampoo through my hair with her fingers. She began to talk about my Dad. She was not talking about my Dad as my Dad but my Dad as a high school student on retreat with her. For some reason this song came into her head and she wasn’t sure of who sang it. I let her know that it was Otis Redding:
My Mom told me that my Dad really liked this song and it was one of his favorites. I asked her why he liked it and she said that he said that, “It was easy. It was peaceful,” I told her that Sara Bareilles had a cover of this song:
I couldn’t see her face as she scrubbed my scalp but I could hear in her voice that she was NOT here with me in 2019 but somewhere back in time and on retreat probably in 1969 with my Dad.
I vaguely remember hearing my Dad say something about, “The ‘Frisco Bay” in conversation when we were driving when I was about eight or nine. I told my Mom that I tell everyone about my favorite ANYTHING. When she was finished pulling the soap suds out of my hair and was going to rinse it, I raised both open hands over my head and yelled,
“Daddy! I could use a little, “peaceful” right about now!“ with my head and eyes slightly tilted toward the ceiling because I REALLY could use some of that right now and I knew to ask my Dad to intervene on my behalf to God because I am CERTAIN that is where he is now!
