Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.
I had a Neurology appointment a little while ago and that was the first day I realized that Mr. Mister sang this song:
I couldn’t hear a Mr. Mister song without thinking of this song which reminds me of Sean being young.
Just before my Mom was finished putting my wheelchair together and was going to get me out of the car, I heard this song which immediately reminded me of riddle school and my friend Natalie:
Yep, still NOT Christmas without these tunes! Even though I heard this first song which is my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER a few days ago…
“Last Christmas” Wham!
“I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” Gayla Peevey
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” Judy Garland
“Merry Christmas, Darling” Karen Carpenter
“All I Want for Christmas is You” Mariah Carey
“Feliz Navidad” Jose Feliciano – DUH!!!
“Christmas Shoes” Alabama
“Shake up Christmas” Train
“Please Come Home for Christmas” Bon Jovi
“O, Holy Night” Jon Secada
“River” Sarah McGlachlan – ALWAYS makes me think of Parker and I smile!
“Baby, Please Come Home” U2
“Mary, Did You Know?” CeeLo Green
Songs added in 2014:
“Underneath the Tree” Kelly Clarkson
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Band Aid 1984
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings” Barenaked Ladies Feat. Saran McLachlan
My Mom played this one for me just after Veteran’s Day in 2015:
I cried.
“A Soldier’s Christmas Poem”
I added the songs in 2016 because I was watching Ellen a lot when I first was off work and even though I am not Jewish, I love Adam Sandler and Sean does too!
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Andy Williams
“The Original Hanukkah Song” Adam Sandler
“The Hanukkah Song – Part 2” Adam Sandler
“The Hanukkah Song – Part 3” Adam Sandler
“The Hanukkah Song – Part 4” Adam Sandler
Sleeping Babies?! I LOVE it and it’s just a Pampers commercial but can fit in with Christmas songs because, “Silent Night” is a Christmas song!
Added in 2017:
I dig this version too!
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” James Taylor
“Christmas Lights” Coldplay
A friend of mine gave me these suggestions for 2018:
John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album. I can dig these too!
”Christmas is Coming” Miss Piggy
“A Christmas Wish” Kermit the Frog
“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” The Muppets
The same friend suggested this one and I kind of dig it too!
“Yule Shoot Your Eye Out” Fall Out Boy
Saturday night and last night after my Mom had left and I was tucked nicely into my bad, she called me. She doesn’t usually call me after I am in bed unless there is something wrong. I mediately answered! She told me that, “My song” was on.
Granted, it was a little bit early because Thanksgiving is not until Thursday but it IS my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER!!! She turned it up and I HAD to sing along at the top of my lungs! Both times, it was at the verse, “Once bitten and twice shy…”
Having heard this song twice and given the fact that I have already started watching Hallmark Christmas movies this year, Christmas is being celebrated a little bit early!
I’M DOWN!!!
*As I dictated this blog post into my phone , I pulled up the Wham! video on YouTube, Turned the volume on my phone all the way up and started singing along with the song at the top of my lungs!. Sean was in his room and began saying something so I stopped the music and he was singing along! He knew all of the words!
I have succeeded! I told him that his kids will know that this is my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER!
YAY!!!
I heard this song on Friday as they waited in my Mom‘s driveway after my Neurology appointment. It was definitely a throwback. Whatever happened to this guy?!
I saw this video show up in my YouTube queue today.
So this is what he’s been up to!
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!
That memory also seems like a lifetime ago!
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!
Yes. Chris Cornell. His solo stuff.