Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #30

I’ve been watching the Hallmark Channel Fall Harvest Movie Countdown this whole weekend  when I was not watching football. Both Michigan and the Lions won!   During the commercials and between the movies, there was an advertisement for the countdown that had this song playing in the background. I haven’t heard this song in a really long time and it’s fitting because it’s October.   It doesn’t really feel like that because I can’t tell being cooped up in my house  since I got my motorized chair.

I have already seen the number one movie in the 15 movie countdown but I really like it! It’s “Falling for Vermont.”  Stacy Hinkhouse, the, “Insane  psycho freak” from Freaky Friday is starring in it.   My Mom was the one who made that connection when I was watching another Hallmark movie she’s in.  She is older  and has darker hair but now I can’t NOT see Stacy Hinkhouse when I watch the movie.

Yes, Yes, and No.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what my Mom said to me at the post office after my last appointment with Dr. Moore. It’s true! I haven’t sang for a very long time! I wanted to change that and I knew that if I watched the movie, RENT, I could do that because I know all of the words because of singing it over 1 million times with my cousinT Shannon and  by myself in my car and in both of my apartments.

I finally started to watch it OnDemand yesterday and sang along with the entire show! However, I could only get a little bit past when Roger goes to the life-support meeting.  And then, I began to cry!

At the support group for people living with AIDS, they sing a song.  As I have said, I have listened to the  audio of this play and seen this play  performed once and the movie tons of times butI have never once thought to liken myself to these people singing this song:

I began to cry and paused the movie. For me, the answers to these questions are: yes, yes, and no. For me, living with MS,  I will lose my dignity (I feel it is undignified for my Mom and my 16-year-old son to have to cut up my food before I eat it and pick me up and place me into a car if I want to go anywhere among other things).  I am also BEYOND grateful that my Mom cares for me.   And lastly, even though I pray for it every night before I go to bed, I have yet to wake up from this nightmare.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #29

I sang A LOT with my cousinT, Shannon, during the last two years of high school.  When this song came out, I remember buying the CD single. My cousinT told me that I sing like her. When I told my brother about it, he agreed that  I sounded like her too.  I didn’t like that because  even though she sings well,  I don’t like her voice.

After my doctor’s appointment where Dr. Moore prescribed my tens unit, my Mom and I stopped at the post office  so she could mail a package that I put together for my niece, Natalie, who is away at college. When my Mom got back into the car, this song was playing  on the radio and I asked her if I sounded like her because Shannon and Jimmy think so. She told me that she hasn’t heard me sing in a VERY long time.

“Both a Yous!”

 My  Mom has ALWAYS thought that I have terrible taste in music! She tells me that I listen to, “Wah, wah.  Cry, cry.” music.   Though I won’t argue with her, she seems to forget that there is a reason I have that taste and it all begins with her!

 From  a very early age, probably about five or six, I can vividly remember sitting on the stool in the corner of my parents’ kitchen as she got something out of the oven )whether it be dinner or something she had baked) and she would sing this song.   She taught me the lyrics and we both would sing in our kitchen at the top of our lungs as she cooked/baked;

I then told her last night about the time where I was probably seven or eight.   My Dad wanted to know the lyrics to this song so my brother Jimmy, my brother Dave, and me laid on the floor in the living room on the green carpet and listened to this record over and over and over as he wrote down the lyrics.

My Mom pulled up the Charley Pride song on her phone and we both began singing.  She didn’t know the words to the second verse but it started playing and I sang right along. She was surprised and I started to laugh! I recalled how I heard this song over and over and over again as my Dad wrote down the lyrics.

When the song was over, I looked at her incredulously and said  accusingly, “It was both a yous!”   I told her that it was no wonder that I listened to, “Wah, Wah. Cry, cry” music.  Look at the two songs that I vividly remember from my childhood! It’s THEIR fault!  From an early age, I knew the words to two of the saddest and most pathetic songs in the world!  THANKS GUYS!!!   And by, “thanks,” I mean NO thanks; but I don’t mind. I like what I like!

 

 

 

 

 

October 2018 Faves

Sean told me not to long ago that Maroon 5 was playing the 2019 Super Bowl, Super Bowl LIII.  Well, here are my suggestions! First, Adam Levine needs to grow out his curls and they all should jam to these songs; we could all jam to them too!:

This one is more of a mellow jam so they probably won’t play it but it special for me because I have a son  and I always would like to have believed that, “The battle is almost done and we’re only several miles from the sun,” even though it isn’t and we aren’t.

If these  aforementioned songs are a little too old school for them and Adam does not want to grow out his curls, I will accept these tunes as well!:

I think these suggestions show my age but I jammed to these songs in my second apartment and saw them in concert after both albums. I WILL be watching the Super Bowl so if you play any of these songs Adam, just give me a shout out! 😂😂😂

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #28

A few evenings ago, my Mom was watching Armageddon on her phone  when she came over.  (I added her to my Netflix account so she could watch movies).  She was watching the tail end of it and as the credits rolled, Aerosmith begin to play. I am mediately transported back to the summer before my junior year of high school. I had just gotten the newest Victoria’s Secret lotion. The one that had a shimmer to it.

As I heard the opening bars of the song, I recalled a time that I walked to my friend Natalie‘s house. I had the cutest tank top on that was cotton and buttoned all the way down the front. It had a green and brown plaid pattern.  I had a pair of darker jean shorts that didn’t have any pockets in the back and two small U-shaped patch pockets in the front. I absolutely loved that outfit!

What I loved the most about it will definitely show my age but I wore it with a pair of brown chunky heeled sandals that buckled in the back. I remembered humming this song as I walked with my arms,  shoulders, and legs shimmering in the sun from my lotion. I haven’t thought about those sandals or that lotion in a very long time but ever since hearing that song, I can’t get them out of my head!

The really cute tank top, the shorts, the shoes, the lotion, and this song!:

The memory of this outfit that went along with this song didn’t even get me depressed that I was WALKING to my friend’s house.   It DEFINITELY was a lifetime ago but I appreciated hearing this song and remembering my life back then.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #27

My knee popped out again today during the night. Well, it was almost morning but I was still laying in a dark house and bed and I am alone. Sean was still sleeping.  I felt the excruciating pain accompanied by a  cracking/popping feeling.  I had to roll over and over, back-and-forth until I felt another cracking/popping  of my knee popping back into its socket.   Which, honestly hurts just as much but it is followed by a relief that my knee no longer hurts. It will hurt all day though because it popped out before I even woke up again today.    I thought of this song:

I was watching the video when Sean got out of the shower this morning.   I called to him,  “my knee popped out again!”   I explained to him how it felt and that I thought of this song and that  it came out I was a freshman in college at WMU.

OBVIOUSLY, I cannot fall back asleep even though Sean has already left for school.  I think I will play this video a few more times. Notice that Brett kind of rubs his right knee in the beginning of the video. I wish rubbing my knee would make it feel better!  It’s been almost 2 years after surgery abd when this STILL happens!  I am  immediately stopped in my tracks! It looks like it’s going to be a “Bad Day” today!… AGAIN!   And, at this point, my speech is STILL messed up!

 

 

 

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #26

I recently watched a few of Emma Thompson’s interviews on The late show with Stephen Colbert and Good Morning America because I am very much interested in her new movie, The Children Act.  I’ll probably just check it at home, OnDemand when it gets there.   She mentioned her role in the movie, Love Actually.

I watched the movie, maybe I saw it before? But I heard this song and was immediately transported back to my time at WMU!   It  was just after my diagnosis and was even before I was pregnant! Seems like a lifetime ago!

Ah, simple times!  I was an able-bodied, college kid! I’ve since downloaded this on to my Apple Music playlist and have a listen ed to it a bunch!  Takes me back! Driving home on I-94 and stopping to pick up Burger King on the way, Halfway there!  DEFINITELY, a lifetime ago!

“Color Me Dadd”

I am so excited for the 2018 NFL football season to start tomorrow!    I will be watching the Falcons play the Eagles tomorrow night. I haven’t picked the games I’m gonna watch on Sunday but I definitely am watching the Lions on Monday!

At the tail end of a Good Morning Football this morning (The first  Broadcast), Kyle said that he would, “Color me Dadd” (he was talking about Kirk Cousins)  I started to laugh because Kyle is always good for making some obscure and random reference!   I am a few years younger than him so I pretty much get the reference all of the time.  This one made me think about the group, Color Me Badd.

Two of my brothers got me their tape for my birthday! I think I was in fourth grade and it may have been a single? When Kyle said that I was reminded of that tape and singing with the radio with girls in my Girl Scout troop. I had to search the video and laughed loud when I saw it. I remember thinking that they were so cool!

Things sure have changed since the  early ‘90s!