Category: Tunes

I had a memory of my Dad a few days ago and I so appreciated thinking about it! Parts of the memory were very vivid and caused me to sing the opening bars to the refrain of this song over and over again! It made my Mom kind of roll her eyes every time I started to sing it. This song could not just be sung, I HAD to belt it out!

The memory I had is of my Dad sitting in his chair in my parents’ living room and flipping through the channels with the remote control. I remember my Mom standing by the doorway to the dining room and I must’ve been sitting on the couch against the wall that the kitchen is on the other side.

I do not know what channel he was watching but it was just a clip of Linda Rodstadt singing, “You’re no good” to a men’s prison. She was wearing a long dress and the moment she started to sing the refrain, the men jumped to their feet and roared! The part of this memory that is most vivid in my mind is my Dad laughing!

I remember it being funny that she was singing, “You’re no good” to a crowd full of men in prison but the funniest thing about that memory was hearing my Dad’s laughter! My dad had a really good, hearty laugh but he rarely laughed. I love that memory so much because I can hear my Dad’s laughter! I haven’t heard that in SO long!

I thought I could easily find that video on YouTube but I coyldn’t. The closest thing I found was this one which is in a men’s prison but it’s not the same video because I remember her being on a stage that looked similar to my high school and the inmates were in folding chairs in a large room.

I’ve been missing my Dad a whole lot lately and I wish I could find that video from the late 80s or early 90s! Since I can’t, the memory of his laughter will have to suffice and it makes me smile!

I made an appointment for Sean with an ophthalmologist a while ago because his right eye was looking a bit wonky! Today was NOT the day to leave my house but I, “grabbed my guts” and accompanied Sean as his sole responsible party. My Mom drove us to the doctor’s office because I knew Sean would not be able to drive home.

Sean hasn’t really been to the ophthalmologist and he had never gotten his eyes dilated before. I ALWAYS get my eyes dilated whenever I go to the eye doctor because I have optic neuritis in both eyes. We sat in a different waiting room for the doctor to come and get us. Sean was weirded out at how his vision was with his eyes dilated.

I suggested that he just close his eyes because he cannot focus on anything. He leaned forward and had me look at his eyes. I told him that they were not a full, “Black Hole Sun” but his pupils were larger than they normally are. I wasn’t sure that he would get that reference and I asked him if he knew what I was talking about. He did. He looked at me and said, “Soundgarden.” Well, yeah man!

The doctor said that his eyes looked really good but the nurse who dilated his eyes said that it was good that they have a record of the wonkiness in his right eye. When we were finished with the doctor, she handed Sean the roll of sunglasses and told us to wait in the waiting room for a bit for his eyes to calm down before we left.

Sean could not see anything and fumbled with the sunglasses roll in his hand. I grabbed them from him and pulled the sunglasses out of the paper roll and handed them to him. He thought that I broke them and I told him to just stick them to the side of his eyes. He was shocked that I knew what to do but like I said, I ALWAYS get my eyes dilated! He didn’t believe that I knew what I was talking about until he let go of the roll and it stuck to the sides of his face.

My Mom was almost to the doctor’s office when I told him that he needs to ask my Mom if he looks like a movie star because that is what my Dad asked her when he would get his eyes dilated and get the disposable sunglasses to wear out of the office.

Sean did not want to steal my Dad‘s line but he asked my mom anyway and she laughed. Her answer to his question was, “ABSOLUTELY.” Then she told Sean that my Dad just looked like a blind man but he looks like a movie star! I told him that he looked more like Frozone.

He even asked for his super suit just like him!

He tried to NOT wear the glasses when we got in the car but he learned the hard way that NOT wearing sunglasses when your eyes are dilated it is not a good idea! It was a good teachable moment. I told him that my eyes aren’t dilated but that is what it looks like when I don’t wear sunglasses outside. My eyes are so much more sensitive having optic neuritis in both of them.

Yesterday morning, just before Sean woke up for school, my knee popped out! It hurt really badly and I asked Sean to pop it back in before he got into the shower.   Usually, my Mom is the only one to pop my knee back in to its socket,  but she wasn’t here and it was pretty early in the morning.

I told him how to do it and as he popped it back into place, it made the biggest crack  in doing so!  Needless to say, my knee hurt  and throbbed all day yesterday.   As I fell asleep last night, I hoped that my knee would feel better today.

After I got into my first car accident where my car was totaled, people asked me how I felt the day after. I told them that yesterday, (the day of the accident)  I felt like I hit a pole (because I did) and today, I feel like I’ve hit two poles.

My knee he throbbed and hurt a lot yesterday but today, it throbs and hurts even more!   When my Mom came over this morning, I told her that my knee hurts even more and that I can feel it in my eyes! She said that she can tell! My face looks like it hurts even more!

I  would love to say that my knee has not popped out today at all but that would be a lie.  I still feel the pain in my eyes right now but it has gotten a little bit better after taking the pain meds and after hooking up my tens unit.   Since my knee has popped out again today, I’m nervous that tomorrow will be like the day after the accident that I totaled my car in!

To say that I haven’t sung this song a few times today would be a lie…

If you haven’t seen the  play or the movie –  don’t worry, Mimi DOESN’T die!

My Mom got two pot roasts on sale at the grocery store.   We figured out that if she put the pot roast on to cook at my house in the morning before we started our routine, but by the time we were finished, it would be close to being done. Then she could take it to her house and her dinner would be finished!

I don’t eat red meat anymore but it was really nice to have my house smell like my childhood because we used to eat roast all the time. It was my Dad’s favorite!   Once we were finished for the day, we added the finishing touches on my tree.

I see, “We” but really it was just my Mom putting the stuff on as I  supervised.   The tree is just about up and finished but the lightbulb on my star burnt out. So it’s not finished just yet because my star does not light up!   As the roast finished, my Mom decided to put in a batch of biscuits because  then her dinner would be finished and my oven was already warm.

It smelled so good that I asked my Mom if she could leave some of it and that would be dinner for Sean and me yesterday. It was a big roast and she agreed.   My Mom left a portion of the meat and potatoes in a glass dish in my warm oven and she put a few biscuits for us in a plastic container on the table.

I have not eaten red meat in years because it makes me extremely tired but I told my Mom now that I don’t leave my house I will just fall asleep sitting in my chair more often  during the day.  I have not eaten biscuits in a long time either but those also smelled delicious!

When Sean got home and when it was dinner time, I instructed him to get the food out of the oven. He put some meat and potatoes into a bowl to give me that would be easier to eat out of.  He brought it to me in the living room so I could look at the tree because I was extremely tired as I have been for the past few days.

As he went back into the kitchen, he asked me if I wanted a biscuit and I told him that I did. As I sat in my chair in the living room,  Then, I  said loudly, “Just  grab them by the biscuits!”  Yeah that’s right, I was quoting Digital Underground!   Sean and I sing the same songs so many times because, surprisingly, he really digs 90s rap and I grew up in the 90s! As he was still in the kitchen,

He told me that he said the same thing under his breath!  I  started to laugh and said, “Yeah,  because that’s really appropriate!”   He told me that’s why he said it under his breath.   I told him, “Great  minds think a like!”

I have not realized how inappropriate songs I grew up with are until I became a mom  but here it is!