Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.
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.
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!
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!!!
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!
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!
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!!!
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:
The Giants hope in Saquon Barkley:
Storyline between Joe Flacco and Lamar Jackson QBs for the Ravens:
Mike Vrabel as the Titans’ new head coach:
The LA Rams this year: *Also reminds me of seven-year-old Sean questioning the quality of the Eastside Motel! 😂😂😂
I took couple of Schrager’s pics too!
Vrabel: “Not a player… I just coach a lot!”
The LA Rams:
I’m SO excited to hear more of the song choices for the rest of the week!
I heard, “Yanny” all morning and I had my mom listen and she also heard, ”Yanny.” I played the recording for Sean when he got home and when I did; I heard, “Laurel.” Looks like I have super powers just like JJ Watt! But, I did see gold and white AND blue and black with that dress so… It’s simple! I’m a superhero.
The breakfast table is divided thanks to "Yanny" vs "Laurel". What do you hear?@heykayadams , @Nate13Burleson , @KyleBrandt ➡️"Laurel"@PSchrags ➡️ "Yanny" pic.twitter.com/XkAS9VJksD
— Good Morning Football (@gmfb) May 16, 2018
When the breakfast table was choosing venues for ”Whiteboard Wednesday,” my interest was piqued because Peter Schrager t chose the Acropolis because of Yanni. On that second broadcast I saw that he heard, “Yanny” also! I remembered the hair and the mustache from my youth but I searched it on YouTube because I did not know anything about his music. I came across this one:
Someone had played this piece for me a few years ago and I thought it was sad. My mom came by as I was playing the video clips and she thought this was sad too. It’s no wonder I didn’t know anything about his music when I was a kid! I actually think I may have to listen to some of it because I’m old now!
This morning on Good Morning Football, Kay Adams told Peter Schrager that it was funny that somewhere in the United States someone is downloading the obscure song he referenced. I’ve done that all the time! So many things on that show I love SO incredibly! I think the biggest thing was when Bono was on it! 😍😍😍
My take away from today was actually something Kyle Brant said. He talked about the Waitress billboard he saw out of the window and how he wanted to see it. I remembered I listened to a song from that show a while back and I really liked it but couldn’t quite remember it. I really dig Sara Bareilles and I will have to ask my cousinT Shannon about the show, (she’s the expert on musicals!)
Now that I am in my bed (hoping to get some sleep but knowing that I probably won’t get good sleep) I looked it up on YouTube and listened to it. Now I remember why I really dug it! This is NOT the first song I have posted here that is inspired by Good Morning Football but I think I am going to start to keep a count… here’s #1 (Even though it’s NOT…)
The time warp continues!
This album was released into 005 but I remember listening to it in the winter of 2006.
I used to clean my apartment to this album and so I’ve been doing my dishes and loading my crock pot to it now. I used to get a lot more done in one run through of the album. Now, I have to play it a few times because I’ve slowed down so much. Here are my faves that I almost forgot about:
I’m not even sure what made me remember this album.
When this song was getting a lot of radio play, when we lived in our first apartment, I would listen to this song and Sean was quiet. It was probably the second or third time we heard the song that he would say right after she says that she carved her name into his leather is to seat, “Love grandma” as if that is what she carved. I remember that we laughed and laughed!
It’s a different time warp but, I’m also listening to this album on Apple Music a lot as I clean my kitchen because of that Drake song that sampled Lauren Hill that Sean listened to as we drove, I have to listen to my girl L too!: