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!:
Category: Tunes
Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.
November 2018 FAVES
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!
Yes. Chris Cornell. His solo stuff.
In My Soul
I cried.
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.
Millionaires
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!
ALMOST Forgotten Tune #33
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!
Book Ends
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!
ALMOST Forgotten Tune #32
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.
ALMOST Forgotten Tune #31
I think it was watching Chase Winovich sing along to this song that reminded me of this song and 1999. My Junior year; the best time of my High school career! Sean is a Junior now. In Winovich’s words, after tonight‘s “smack down,” “The “Revenge Tour” has officially commenced.” I love football!
I am old and how did he know this song?!:
T-30
When Sean got up for school on October 2nd, I told him that it was T-30. He didn’t know what that meant. So, as an explanation, I played him this song:
It COMPLETELY blows my mind that my baby is going to be 17! It blows my mind that 17 years ago, I was entering the last month of my only pregnancy. Sean always makes fun of me that when my birthday comes around, I celebrate for the whole month. I told him that we can celebrate for two months for his 17th birthday!
As it has turned out, lately, Sean has not gotten me out of bed and I go back to sleep when he goes off to school because I’m not sleeping very well through the night. Before he leaves, he comes to tell me he’s leaving and often times he will kiss me on my forehead. I will grab my phone and play this song that I downloaded on Apple Music! I also will play this song when he gets home from school too!
Since I’ve been doing it for a week now, Sean will roll his eyes A little, smile, and will dance a little to this song because he sees how excited I am. The other day, I only played it once and I told him that that fact kind of bummed me out. He said it was OK and I told him that this was the last month of my pregnancy. He asked me if I, “Really was going to make this about me?”
I told him that it was because I birthed him and have the scars to prove it and I grew him so, yes it is about me too!
Since I have played him the song so far about 20 times, he smiles when I know all the words and I will tell him about when my friend turned 17. I drove her to school and the morning of her birthday, I drove past her house to get to school so Mr. Flint could let me in early and I decorated her locker before I drove back to pick her up. When she got into the car, I played ABBA for her too!
It wasn’t really T -30 anyway because there’s 31 days in October but he got that his birthday was a month away! Tomato, tamahto. He will be 17 soon and until that day, I will play him ABBA every single day!