Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

That One Christmas Song

 Mornings have been really rough for me lately! My routine when I wake up is to turn the TV on before I even get my contacts in (Good Morning Football OF COURSE!). As I put them in this morning, the guys were answering Kay’s first question for Whiteboard Wednesday.

 She started this segment off by saying that Mariah Carey’s song, “All I want for Christmas is You” is number 6 on the Billboard charts  this week! That song is 24 years old! It has been an all six of my All-Time Christmas Faves lists thus far.

 She asked the guys what was that one Christmas song, like, their favorite, one that signifies the start of the season.  [I’m  paraphrasing here but…]

Peter said that it was, “Silent Night.”  That makes sense with a baby and stuff. I tried to find my favorite version of the song but there were just too many but then I saw the commercial option and that song also made it onto my aAll-Time  Christmas Faves list a couple of years ago! 

Nate’s selection was one that I had never heard before but when I watch the video, it reminded me of my oldest brother, Ray!

Kyle had of my favorite answer though, he said that it was Neil Diamond, The Little Drummer Boy. To hear him belt out the beat of the drum just like Neil Diamond was priceless! When Kyle did that, it seemed vaguely familiar but I had to look it up to be sure.

 I screamed, “Wham!” for the whole segment until they showed their answers but this song for me that is my favorite and it signifies the start of the season for me so here it is… AGAIN!… YOU’RE WELCOME!!!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #39

 Maybe it’s the fact that my knee is KILLING me! It feels like four days after surgery and that is AFTER I took the meds!   Or maybe, it’s the sappy Hallmark movie I am watching that makes me miss my Dad so much!   But I thought of this song and had to look it up on YouTube! I heard this song and it’s been SO long ago but listening to this song again, I knew all the words, and I cried!  Maybe it’s cathartic because my knee is hurting so badly But I think it’s most likely because I miss my Dad and it just is NOT helping that my knee is hurting SO badly!   Either way, the tears came and I love them. 

The Obtuseness Continues…

I can’t believe that in six Christmas Faves lists on my blog that I have NOT included this song!!!   It has taken me watching a new Hallmark Christmas movie three times to finally remember to add this song! 

I’m kind of embarrassed of my obtuseness and the fact that it has taken me so long to include this song! Hopefully, I will add my forgotten songs to my Christmas Faves 2018 list before Christmas! 

In My Eyes

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!

Great Minds Think Alike

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!

NSMW 2014

Because I have finally reviewed my blog posts and edited the first two pages of the Barwis Methods tab, I  saw blog posts that I posted in 2013 and 2014.   They were blog posts about walking and  both Jesse and Adam.   I remembered that I had written a post that had the links to songs that reminded me of both of them  early on as I started my blog.  That was when I started my Tunes tab.   I went back and reviewed this tab from 2013 and 2014. I made a playlist on Apple Music.

I won’t listen to it just now because I am into the Christmas spirit and I am only listening to the playlist I made of my Christmas Faves.   As I downloaded all of the songs from the beginning of my Tunes tab, I downloaded songs from November 2013 and all of 2014. It is comprised of 115 songs and it lasts for 7 hours and 25 minutes  and it is quite the eclectic mix!

There were three songs that I could not download as I made my playlist. I searched the songs on YouTube and here are the three songs that are NOT in my playlist;

August 2014 Faves

Unscrew you – Rachele Royale

I tried my best to find this song and just reading the title of the song, I could not remember it. I was able to finally find it in a roundabout way on vimeo.   I was unable to share this song though.

I did find a video of her hearing this song on the radio. She screams really loud a whole lot but I think that I would do the same thing if I heard myself singing on the radio (which I never will by the way!)

I posted that video because hearing the few bars of this song before her and her friends scream really loud refresh my memory a bit. It’s not a big deal that that’s not on my playlist though!

I was able to find the other two songs though. Here they are:

Posted September 2, 2014.

Throwback School Year Tunes

Medicate the kids

July 2014 Faves

The Madden Brothers

I put these songs on my blog so I still will be able to access them also because I cannot find them on Apple Music.

“This Makes Me Happy!”

To make my morning routine go a little more smoothly, I  made an Apple Music Christmas playlist. I put Wham! on it four different times! Before we start, I put it on shuffle and my Mom laughs because every time I hear the beginning bars of Wham!; I smile and gasp!

I added four songs to the playlist last night:

Gloria Estefan reminds my Mom (and me) of my aunt Rita.  She died when I was eight.   This was a  Christmas album that I remembered listening to in my younger days.

One more song that  I added to my Christmas playlist was one that my Mom told me that she liked and reminded her of my Dad.   When she told me that, I told her that I didn’t want to hear it. As I was downloading the songs last night, I told Sean that this song reminds Abuela of Grandfather and he said, “That’s enough!”   I exclaimed that that was what I told her but it’s not like that.  At least that’s what my Mom told me.

The four songs that I added, played in this order today sprinkled between my favorite Christmas songs.   When we were finished and I was transferring back to my wheelchair,  my Mom told me that, “This makes me happy!”   It made me happy too!

This One’s for You, Shan!

I recently thought about this and Wham! has been my FAVORITE Christmas song since about the second or third grade. I remember talking with my cousinT probably about 17 or 18 years ago about Christmas songs. One Christmas song that I heard often on the radio that kind of got on my nerves was that Bruce Springsteen song when he talks to the E St. band about Clarence wanting a new saxophone and practicing and rehearsing really hard so Santa would get him one. That conversation used to bug me! That’s when, my cousinT, Shannon, told me that’s one of her favorite songs.  I laughed and told her that, Last Christmas was my favorite song and that was a song that she didn’t like very much!

Now, I cannot hear this version of, Santa Claus is Coming to Town without thinking of her and smiling!  It seems that this year, I have a few addendum, songs that I will have to add to my Christmas Faves song list. So, Shannon, this one’s for you!  💜💜💜

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #38

I like receiving notices of my Facebook friends’ birthdays. I absolutely love birthdays and love to acknowledge people’s birthdays! Today, I got an alert of a newer Facebook friend’s birthday.   We have gone to the same school from first grade to 12th grade. We were in all of the same honors classes in high school. We were school friends and never hang out socially. but I remember that he made me a mixed tape before I was driving. I thought I was in middle school but Janet Jackson’s album, The Velvet Rope, didn’t come out until 1997. I was a sophomore.

It was the notification that it was his birthday that made me think of that mixed tape. The song was my favorite on the tape! I remember that I liked it a whole lot because she says, “Hey J”  in the beginning and I took it as me because my name is Jennifer. I wasn’t called, “J” until I began teaching but I remember thinking of this tape some eleven years ago and I thought of it today because it’s yhe guy who made me that mixed tape’s birthday!

I’ve listened to this song a number of times after I searched the video on YouTube and have been singing it ALL DAY LONG!   Even though I am not 26th like the song says, because I am 36 I’m going to let it fit anyway! 😂😂😂