Category: Tunes

I saw another version of this commercial five times yesterday:

Each time I saw or heard this commercial, I thought back to my childhood and my Parents’ green station wagon. Now, my brothers and I lovingly refer to it as the, “Tank.”

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I recently shared that meme on Facebook and sent out a shout out to anyone who had ridden in the Rios‘s station wagon. The entire neighborhood and school rode in that car at one point in their childhood!

Because of that BMW commercial, I most vividly remember riding in the very back of the station wagon with Heather Wells, my cousin, Melissa, and or my cousinT, Shannon, or a combination of the three. We used to think it was such a treat to ride in the very back of the car when really it was just giving my Mom a much-needed break.

My Mom and I recently talked about how bad it really was to have children in the very back because the exhaust fumes would go up and into the car. Retrospectively, we all could have died!

I just laugh about it now and think back to all of us taking our shoes off and putting our bare or stocking feet on the rear window and moving them back-and-forth and singing in unison, “Ooh, Ooh. Stinky feet!” And I think of my Mom listening to oldies on the radio and hearing this song:

I watched Across the Universe a few days ago and I absolutely love the soundtrack! I dig the Beatles because they always remind me of my cousinT, Shannon!

I have posted about songs from this movie but I’m going to add some of The other songs I dig! I don’t think I have posted these songs but if I have, you just get double sugar!

Not one of my favorite Beatles songs but I LOVE BONO!!!:

So all of these songs are basically the entire movie but I really take them! Because this soundtrack is completely Beatles music, it reminded me of another movie with the Beatles songs as the soundtrack, I Am Sam:

I used to sing this song to Sean when he was very small:

The impetus to going down this rabbit hole was a picture my cousinT, Shannon took of me from her third-floor apartment. I was thinking about driving my Parents’ car and listening to the I Am Sam soundtrack on loop. Sean was in the backseat at the time of this picture in his car seat carrier and I was still driving and walking. In other words, it was a lifetime ago! These two soundtracks reminded me of that lost time!

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I belong to many closed, MS support groups. I think of these groups as being very helpful to me! I can post things and ask, “The experts” (As I see it) questions because these people know exactly what it feels like in my body! It’s a feeling that you sometimes have difficulty putting into words but I can read their words/memes which is very helpful to me in trying to deal with this horrific disease!

I posed a question today because I have noticed that I have become quite, “Heavy-handed.” I noticed this “Heavy-handedness” by looking at my toothbrush. Sean and I got our teeth cleaned in mid-May and this is how my toothbrush looks now:

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I was immediately concerned because my tooth brushes have never looked like that because I get them replaced at my dentist every six months when I get my teeth cleaned. I wasn’t sure but I’m pretty sure this is an MS thing. I asked my friends for some help and immediately thought of this song from this movie:

I got multiple responses to my question and different things that may help. I think I will eventually have to get an electric toothbrush but I am concerned about what that would do for my overall hand strength, fine motor skills, and dexterity. As it is, I can’t hold a pen and write anymore.

Then, I got a reply for a less expensive thing that may help. I ordered it online today. I haven’t even researched electric toothbrushes yet but I already know that it won’t be difficult to afford and I need to get the BEST! I guess I can attribute that fact to me being, “High maintenance” as Sean says even though I prefer to call it, “High standards!”

She suggested that I get therapy putty.

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They even have purple! Except, the purple one is the, “Firm” strength so it will take me a while to build up to that. As I searched YouTube for a clip of that song of from Across the Universe, I came across this clip and couldn’t pass it up,(I HAD TO SHARE) because it is really the SAME song!:

These MS support groups really, “Get” me! I posted my question in my favorite group. And my friends DEFINITELY came through for me! When Sean was small, one Easter, I got him silly putty because it was in an egg. I think he may have been too young because he stretched it really thin so it got stuck on a fabric chair. Sean called the silly putty, “Fuddy-putty.” I remember loving that and thinking it was too cute!

The package will come tomorrow and I will remind Sean of the, “Fuddy-putty” but I don’t think he will get it on the couch this time!

So, I’ve seen this commercial a bunch of times:

I am really digging that song! I searched for it on YouTube and I found it:

I don’t really like Krispy Kreme doughnuts! I prefer Tim Hortons donuts. The chocolate dipped ones! Just Sayin’.

I think it is a little bit crazy that so many of my nieces and nephews are Michigan State fans! I got both of my bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from U of M!!! My niece, Alyssa, came over last week and it took a while for me to realize that she was wearing a Michigan State t-shirt. When I discovered this, I gasped and told her that I couldn’t believe that she was wearing that in my house!!

She told me that it was the only clean T-shirt she had and I Feel like she should have worn a dirty one! My niece, Natalie, is transferring to Michigan State for her second year of college and my nephew, Jonah, is starting college and Michigan State in the fall. What is going on?! No one is going to U of M?!

I think it was last Thanksgiving that my family had at my house where my nephew, Steven, showed up wearing a Michigan State hoodie. I told him that I hated his hoodie so he obligingly took it off to reveal and Michigan State T-shirt! I swear that it’s crazy that I am outnumbered!

My first year at Western, I learned to collect all kinds of T-shirts. I remember when I transferred to U of M (After my MS diagnosis) for my second year, my friend, Catherine, asked me if I did anything at Western other than collect T-shirts because I was ALWAYS wearing a WMU shirt! We had some classes together and we worked at DFCU together also. I collected a lot of Michigan shirts while I was an undergrad but that was 20 years ago! Many of those shirts have since died!

I pretty much live in sweatpants and T-shirts all year round! I have been collecting college shirts recently. I got two Texas Tech T-shirts when they knocked MSU out of the basketball finals! I also have a USC football T-shirt because my Dad had wanted to go there. And, OF COURSE, I had to get a Georgia Bulldogs Football T-shirt because that is where Matthew Stafford went to college!!!

So, I have a bunch of college football T-shirts in addition to my MS Awareness T-shirts and my GMFB shirt (Which I LOVE!!!) but I do not own a Michigan T-shirt. My Mom, bought me a Michigan T-shirt to wear which got me a really excited!

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When I put it on today, my Mom asked me what it felt like. I told her that it, “Feels Like Home!” Right after I said that, I thought of this movie and this song:

After I put this T-shirt on, I got cold in my house because the air is on and I can’t control my body temperature anymore. I put on the Georgia Bulldogs sweatshirt Sean got me for my birthday but I know I am wearing the Michigan shirt underneath and that makes me feel good because it, “Feels Like Home!”

I recently saw a post on Facebook and immediately thought of my cousinT, Shannon.

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She tagged me in that same post today. She explained that we would already be rich and cited the time we watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothwrs seven times in a row. That’s our thing! We have watched countless movies over and over again and I don’t think watching a movie continuously for 24 hours would be difficult at all!

She told me that the only problem would be choosing the movie because we have so many to choose from! I laughed at this post today! She is 100% correct! We have already done this so many times! To Sir with Love, Willy Wonka abd the Chocolate Factory, are just a couple movies we have already done this with!

We usually sing along with whichever movie we are watching but we really could do this with ANY movie! We just find it fun to sing! Even though I can’t sing like I used to be able to, I still want to watch the same movie repeatedly! You’ve Got Mail, Burnt, Laws of Attraction, The Accountant, I can watch pretty much ANY movie repeatedly even without $1 million at stake!

Right now, I am watching Labyrinth. I can watch this movie over and over again because I am a little girl at my aunt Linda’s house whenever I watch it! I’ve always loved that Sarah has dark hair! I think I may have wanted a woody dress like her dress at the ball…

It was rough waking up this morning. The weather is wreaking havoc on me and I just felt, “Off” today. As I waited for my Mom to come over, after I woke up and called her; I listened to, “Electrical Storm” as is my new routine.

I checked my YouTube feed as I waited for her. I came across this song and was immediately reminded of high school. I was driving in my car with the window down and singing this song at the top of my longs! I shared it on Facebook before I clicked on it and placed my phone next to me and kind of laid there almost listlessly as I waited for my Mom:

I laid in my bed without singing. I just listened and remembered my able-bodied times for high school. I think it’s kind of crazy that I have to remember being able-bodied. It really stinks that I no longer am! I was a little bit sad when the song ended and I scrolled through my YouTube feed.

I came across another song that lives in my memory. It’s a more recent memory of being an adult and even living in my house; so it’s not that long ago. Back then, I could barely sing along with this song but remembered washing the dishes to that song and/or falling asleep to it in my bed before my renovations while I still had to wake up in the morning for work:

Immediately after I listened to this song, my Mom came over. She helps me get out of bed and as soon as I was seated in my chair, I was reminded of how bad things have gotten. I appreciated those memories before I got up out of bed and realized how much it stinks having MS and then I became aware of how badly my knee STULL hurts.