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ALMOST Forgotten Tune #20

I heard this gem as my son drove me to church yesterday. It’s pretty much the only time I leave the house and I still know all the words! I had to let my son know that I did by singing them VERY loudly!

I did 7th grade Jen proud!

Awful

I woke up this morning and put on my Apple Music playlist that is just a bunch of random songs that I need to categorize into a specific playlist. Sometimes I don’t get around to it. I was by myself and sat in my kitchen sipping my garlic tea while the songs played. I was jammin’! Well, as jammin’ as I could with a body that just woke up. All the jammin’ was in my head as I sat there very still. My mom came by to help me get ready for the day and the songs continued to play.

My body slowly adjusted so I turned the music off and told my mom we could begin. She told me that she wasn’t around when I was listening to music, and then she added, “It’s just awful!” I started to laugh really loudly! It was a very eclectic mix that I was kind of excited for. The songs were random but I knew all of the words. It would go from Bob Marley to Sheryl crow to Sara Bareilles to Gavin Degraw to The Script. There were even songs from musicals that I listen to. There were a couple of songs that played from Across the Universe and I Am Sam because they have really good soundtracks!

I REALLY like waking up laughing! I appreciated that my mom afforded me that privilege even though she was making fun of me! After I was ready for the day, I cleaned my kitchen and continued to listen to the playlist. It was really good random songs that I knew all of the words to! I just continued to laugh because my Mom thinks my music is, “Awful!” 😂😂😂

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #19

I heard Norah Jones referenced in a Mike & Molly episode and I remember loving her but I couldn’t remember the songs. So here I sit, in my feelings, sipping on my garlic tea, and listening to her album from 2002. A friend told me once that you know you’re old when you listen to old music. So be it.

I used to listen to this CD on loop in my Dad’s car that I used to drive before I got my own. I could still drive back then and I had a one-year-old. I chose this song because I have so many fond memories of Texas! 💜💜💜

June 2018 Faves

Was reminded of this first song on Good Morning Football and I just about forgot how much I liked this song! It prompted me to make a playlist of some of my favorite Sara Bareilles songs. I started playing this playlist when I fall asleep:

I was diagnosed in December. December 28, 2000.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #18

I was reminded of this song a few weeks ago. I meant to post it but I forgot. I think it was onGood Morning Football.

Did I really just hear this song that I was just reminded of and really dig on a Pine-Sol commercial?!

I guess that’s what happens when a song is 28 years old. A song that I think is really cool is a song that played on a Pine-Sol commercial. Yeah, yeah, I’m old! I know it!

Low Point OR “What I Wouldn’t Give”

I’ve been at a, “Low Point” for a few days now! At this point in the progression of my disease and with the ache in my knee; I just have to feel it. Today is my Dad’s 67th birthday and I figure that’s a good excuse to let the tears flow. Tears that have been building up for so many reasons! Today, as I make my garlic tea, a song popped into my head. I made my dad a mixed CD for his 55th birthday. I couldn’t find this song so it wasn’t on the mix 12 years ago. I thought about it, and searched it on YouTube. Well, I found it!

I was immediately taken back to a time laying on the green carpet of my parents’ living room with two of my brothers as my Dad played this record over and over as he tried to write down the lyrics. That last sentence completely showed my age but as I made my tea, I cried and had to listen to it twice:

This next song made it onto that mixed CD that I gave my Dad for his birthday. When I was young, I did not understand that this song was about a really bad hangover; I just remember my Dad referring to, his “cleanest dirty shirt” often. Now, when I hear this song as I fall asleep because I have a, “Daddy”playlist, I can only hear the line, “In the park I saw a Daddy with a laughing little girl that he was swinging.” My dad and I did not have memories like this but I have a number of gems that I play over it over in my mind That cause me to miss him tons and cry.

I’ve been listening to songs that remind me of him and crying all day long. I remember, the day of his funeral, in the church and at the mausoleum that I cried so much that I thought I was going to pass out three separate times. By the end of the Wake that followed at the hall, I felt so exhausted from crying that I passed out on my mom‘s couch at about 7 PM.

I woke up the next morning thinking that everything would be fine because his funeral was over. His was my first “adult funeral” (a funeral that I have attended as an adult and fully understood the loss) I had been to. I know now, almost 12 years later, that that is NOT the case. With the progression of my MS and the pain in my knee among other things, what I wouldn’t give to hear him tell me to, “Grab my guts” one more time!!!

5.24.18 Tune #13 TECHNICALLY Inspired by GMFB

They didn’t have a song for 90s Rap Week today on GMFB. There were some great nuggets today however! At a friend’s recommendation, I watched movie today. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! P Diddy had a cameo in which she performed one of his old school songs. That completely took me back to my high school days!

I had a thing for Mase! One of my friends gave me a picture of him from a magazine back then and I remember having bis magazine-sized picture in the front of my binder at school. Seeing P Diddy perform this song reminded me of Mase. My memory was hazy so I searched YouTube and I found this gem:

Here’s where the GMFB

tie-in comes; onMonday of this week, Kay Adams said that she really liked Mase. This further solidified the fact that we basically are the same person because we both are around 5 feet tall, are left-handed, have brown hair, don’t like to write, “Lol” in our texts, and I’m sure there’s a few more things. However, we do have differences! She can wear stilettos and I don’t remember the last time I wore high-heels (another reason #MSsucks!) But most glaringly is the fact that she is a Bears fan. I could never!

5.23.18. Tune #12 Inspired by GMFB

It’s day 3 of 90s Rap Week on GMFB. Peter Schrager was with the 49ers at an event they’re having tonight so Kay had to answer the questions for Whiteboard Wednesday with Nate and Kyle. I think she did a great job! I tweeted her and she liked it! 😄😄😄

I knew I was going to like her answers when her answer for the name of the Giants offense with the addition of Saquon Barkley was, “The Ambassadors of ‘Quon.” I love Jerry Maguire!

I wasn’t ready for her second answer though, it had asked for the 90s Rap Week song that Peter would come out onto the stage to. When she gave her answer, I started to laugh uncontrollably!

This song was a jam in ‘93 when it came out and it still got a lot of radio play in 2001 when I was pregnant. I constantly would sing along with, “Ha ha ha, you so crazy! I think I wanna have yo baby!” I would change, “I think I wanna” to, “I know I am gonna.” After I was finished saying that, I would burst in to gales of laughter! I thought it was so funny. Sean’s dad who would be in the car with me when we heard the song would kind of smirk and shake his head every time I did it. I still did it every time I heard this song! It amused me! I’ve been cheesy for a very long time!

5.22.18 Tune #10 & #11 Inspired by GMFB

90s Rap Week continues on GMFB!

Peter Schrager posed an East Coast v West Coast question: “Big Pimpin’” or “The Next Episode.” I’m with Nate and his, “West Side!” (with the hand gesture included) assertion:

I was reminded of a student that I had probably 11 years ago. When I taught English. To quiet the kids down and get their attention, I would raise my open right hand and would tell them to, “Just chill.” Once they were quiet, I would lower my hand and add, “‘Til the next episode.” Just for my amusement! I remember, one time, as I walked (back when I used to be able to walk) back to my desk to get papers or something, I said, (out loud but to myself) “You guys don’t even know where that comes from!”

My student, Ritchie (he sat at the table closest to my desk) said, “ I do Miss.” I didn’t believe him and asked who it was and he told me that it was Snoop Dogg. I asked him how he knew that and he told me that he knows all of the, “Old school Snoop!”

I remember that I laughed and repeated, “Old school Snoop!” I was aghast that something I used to listen to in high school was considered “old school”! Ritchie is a man now and I think that’s crazy too! I’m loving this time warp on Good Morning Football!!!

This song is the song where Snoop says to, “Just chill, till the next episode.”

I only caught the second broadcast of this; it was the guys eating 24 karat gold chicken wings That are available in New York. I laughed and laughed and have no words to say other than I LOVE YOU, KYLE BRANDT!!!

I miss teaching more than I can say and my knee still hurts if you were wondering… GMFB keeps my mind off of the pain for a little while because I LOVE football and they all make me laugh so much!!!

5.21.18. Tune #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 by GMFB

Kay let us know this morning that it’s 90s Rap Week on GMFB!

***I think it has taken for me to become a mom to know that most of these songs are NOT the most appropriate! I tried to find the cleanest versions before I posted them. Sorry if I offend!***

I was so excited to hear the guys choices! I am really into that! It takes me back to my high school days! It’s funny that Sean actually likes that music too. Sometimes, in the car, we can flow together. He’s surprised that I know all of the words and I laugh and say that I am surprised that HE knows all the words! I was 15 when the song came out! I really dug all of the guys choices of songs for each question Kay asked. But I think Kyle brandt’s answers were my favorite!:

The song to describe Julio Jones for training camp and for the upcoming season with the acquisition of Calvin Ridley at wide receiver: