This morning, after Sean went to school, I fell back to sleep and dreamt about this song. I couldn’t quite remember the tune so I opened my eyes and searched it on Apple Music:
I laid in my bed and thought back to the summer of 2003 when I first heard this song. Seems like a lifetime ago!
I can’t post about Pink Floyd without including this song!:
The memories that come to mind when I hear this song are that I am watching a cover band at a bar perform it a couple of years before I started teaching. My first year teaching, in the old CCA building, as I sat in a colleague’s room is she decorated it before the beginning of this school year, I remember another colleague commenting in the hall and all three of us started singing it!
I wrote yesterday about Sean taking me to the polls to vote. I guess I had too much fun voting with him that I kind of pooped out today! It made me think of this song:
I thought of this song for a couple of reasons. First of all, my head feels like it is underwater and my whole body feels a bit wonky and my knee hurrs! Almost like it’s a, “ Sunday morning coming down.” Secondly, this song makes me think of my Dad. He picked me up at WMU and took me to vote in my first presidential election. We voted together. That was a special moment for me! One that I am pretty sure I’m going to remember forever!
Sean did not vote yesterday because he is not old enough but he helped me to cast my ballot. I have often spoken with him about the fact that pretty soon, we will vote together. That fact is exciting for me! I’m not sure about him (because he’s a boy) but this will be another special moment for me! It will be an EXTRA special moment because of what Sean meant to my Dad and Vice versa.
This song was playing in Gillette Stadium last night during Sunday Night Football. I think it was a close-up of Aaron Rodgers on the Green Bay sideline. I just heard a few seconds of this song but couldn’t get it out of my head. I really dug this song when it came out! I was 11. I even bought a cassette single of it!:
Sean has known me for his entire life. He knows my likes and dislikes. I like the color purple and I dislike onions on my food. He has watched me be in pain since my injury. He has watched me be basically homebound once I get my new motorized chair. He knows that I have a thing for Bradley Cooper! I showed him this trailer a while ago and told him that I wanted to see the movie!:
He watched me become a bit stir crazy so he took me to see this movie. I cried tears of joy in the beginning to see Bradley Cooper singing in an open air concert! I absolutely loved it! By the end of the movie, with the credits rolling, I was sobbing. Sean stood up and asked me if I wanted to go and as I was blabbering I held up my index finger and told him that I needed a minute. I downloaded the soundtrack on Apple Music shortly after it came out and before I saw the movie. I have been listening to these Bradley Cooper songs almost daily since!
This was the first song I heard him sing and it had a 70s rock vibe to it. I was reminded of Chris Cornell the more I listened to him.
I hard this song in the trailer and I knew I would absolutely love the movie! I knew I would love the movie when he tells Lady Gaga that he wanted to take another look at her! He’s so dreamy!
The guitar! Are you serious?! Can he get any hotter?!
Regretfully, I’ve always been a sucker for a bad boy but it’s true!
Yesterday, just before my Mom put the pads on my knees for my tens unit, my knee made the biggest crack! It wasn’t just a’pop;” it was a HUGE crack! My knee was bent and it felt funny so I shook my hands and asked my Mom to straighten it out in an almost breathless panic. As she did, it cracked louder than it ever has before! It was immediately accompanied with two of my screams just as crests stung my eyes.
There is no medical explanation for this for all the times I’ve been to see Dr. Moore since my surgery. I just saw him last Thursday and I will post about that a little bit later. So, I didn’t feel well yesterday following the big crack with my knee and it was raining! So you know, I’m just gonna blame it on the rain!:
I thought this song as I heard the rain outside and I knew that, “The rain don’t mind and the rain don’t care. You know you got to blame it on something…” I’ve figured out that when I am in this much pain, it’s best to just sleep.
I was in a very deep sleep but I dreamt about when I woke up from surgery. I didn’t even open my eyes and said, “My knee hurts!” I then looked over to a nurse on a computer and asked if I just had surgery. When she told me yes, I asked why it felt like was crying. She told me that’s because I was. I asked if that was normal. She told me that it was. Well, I woke up from my nap yesterday and my knee felt exactly like it did after surgery! Why on earth is this happening?! I looked at the lights on my tens unit that I keep clipped to the front pocket of my hoodie.
They were barely let up green. That’s why my knee hurt! I needed a new battery! I have already bought three batteries! These batteries are $9 a piece! My Nom came back by and I showed her my tens unit. I was sad. My knee hurts! She hugged me and I cried.
I convinced my Mom to buy us a mega millions lottery ticket Tuesday night. I got so excited to be a $1.6 billionaire! I figured that I could scrounge together a dollar and if she matched my dollar to get the ticket, we could buy one mega millions ticket and possibly be the winner of a $1.6 billion jackpot! I started to laugh as I dreamed of what I could do with all of that money.
I told her we probably would be taxed $500 million but that really didn’t matter because we’d have more millions to spend! I told her that it would be just like The Script’s song and began singing it for her! She didn’t know what song I was talking about and I offered to play it for her. I told her that it wasn’t one of my, “Wah, Wah. Cry, cry” songs and I’ve pulled it up on Apple Music as she put the pads for my tens unit on my knee.
She didn’t like this song even though it wasn’t one of my, Wah, Wah. Cry cry songs.” I didn’t care because I liked it! She showed me the ticket and Tuesday and I found out Tuesday night before I went to bed that we didn’t win, we didn’t even match one number! We do not live in South Carolina! My Mom got a little irritated that we could have bought a gallon of milk with that money but I said that it was an investment in our future and it was fun. I never buy a ticket unless it’s like $1 billion anyway! It’s fun to dream!
I hadn’t been out of my house for probably around a month but it was Sean’s first quarter conferences, so I made sure my tens unit was on and I had to go. My Mom and I got chicken Schwarnas afterward. I absolutely love having grown up in East Dearborn! Because I can fully appreciate Middle Eastern food!
There’s a place right by the school and we sat in the car to eat them. She went in to the restaurant to go grab them and when she came out, this song was on the radio. I was kind of surprised that I knew all the words still and that I didn’t have a hard time bulging them out. I was surprisingly on key as well!
My Mom got back into the car and didn’t mind that I was belting this song out at the top of my lungs. When the song was over, she kind of sighed and said, “Yrah, one of your Wah Wah, cry cry songs!” Yeah, I guess so! And, it might be official that I I am older because I stick to the 90s on nine or The early 2000‘s radio. They were songs that were cool when I was in high school!
The same time that I thought about that, “Hands Clean” song by Alamo’s Morrisette,, I also thought about my ALMOST Forgotten Tune #7:
I listened to this song a lot during my first days at WMU and the first days in my dorm. Yesterday morning, I saw this video on my YouTube feed;
These two songs served as bookends of my time at WMU. I had to click on the video when I saw it and I was immediately transported back to my dorm! I listened to Dido’s Album as I drove home for the last time from Kalamazoo. I had to click on the video when I saw it in my feed. I was immediately transported back to my dorm and my time at WMU.
My time there, although it was so long ago, it definitely feels like a LIFETIME ago because so many things in my life have changed!
I thought of this song yesterday and I’m not sure why. It probably had to do with washing my hands. I remember that this song got a lot of radio play but I couldn’t really remember more of the songs from the album. I borrowed the CD from a friend’s daughter. I will have to download it later. It came out just after Sean came home from the hospital so I’m trying to remember what was going on when I had a small baby and was still an undergrad.
Yes, it is DEFINITELY a lifetime ago because my son is going to be 17 soon! I haven’t thought about Alanis Morissette as an artist for a long time but now I’m going to have to.
