Last Songs for Music Monday

I started this a couple of weeks ago and I decided I was going to try to move it to Monday's because I always liked the "Music Monday" term.

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First up, the stats.

• Songs on the Playlist - 3,366 (up 3 songs from last post)
• Songs listened to this week - 521 songs (down 39 songs from last post)

• Listened to the 50th song by OneRepublic since 2018 on Monday.
• Listened to the 100th song by Colbie Caillat since 2018 on Monday.
• Listened to the 50th song by the Doobie Brothers since 2018 on Tuesday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Def Leppard since 2018 on Tuesday.
• Listened to the 100th song by Linkin Park since 2018 on Tuesday.
• Listened to the 100th song by DeGarmo & Key since 2018 on Thursday.
• Listened to the 100th song by Three Days Grace since 2018 on Friday.

• Listened to the 50th song by Frank Sinatra this year on Wednesday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Tim McGraw this year on Wednesday.
• Listened to the 150th song by DC Talk this year on Wednesday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Prince this year on Thursday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Journey this year on Friday.

Monday - On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men

Genre - R&B

Tuesday - Bring Me To Life by Evanescence
Genre - Rock

Wednesday - Get Back Up by TobyMac
Genre - Christian

Thursday - Some Beach by Blake Shelton
Genre - Country





Friday - Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen
Genre - 80's, Rock





Saturday - Ready Set Roll by Chase Rice
Genre - Country





Sunday - 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins
Genre - Indie, Rock

Not so great week

It hasn't been a great week for me, hopefully things will get better.

Monday I went to work to find out one of my friends died early that morning. He was having chest pains and we believe he was driving himself to the hospital when he had a horrible crash. Coroner believes he died of a heart attack before the crash so he didn't suffer in that. He was only 52. It's been a pretty somber week at work.

On Tuesday, my boss informed me that he put in his 2 weeks notice. This boss is the reason I have the job I do. We worked at a different place together for 15 years and than I left and eventually he left and than he got me transferred to where I'm at. I really like the job and it's been great for us. I can survive without him. I can still contact him and will probably see him a little but what fears me more is who we end up with as a boss. I think I'm going to put in for the job but I doubt I'll get it. I'm not "enthusiastic" enough for them.

Wednesday I went golfing so there is that. Not that I had a great day golfing but it's always nice to be out there.

Thursday my daughter was all kinds of attitude because my wife texted her and told her not to make plans tonight so they could complete their chores. Than later on, I texted them not to make plans for Saturday because we were all going to work in the yard. She gets pissed at the stupidest things and just carries it forever instead of just letting things go. Chores are weekly and we ask the kids to help us in the yard once a year, in the spring. She acts like we make her do all kinds of things. Their chores took an hour and the yard work was maybe 3 hours. Heaven forbid we ask for 4 hours out of her life. Stupid teenagers.

Friday, I got off work early and came home to my wife asking me to run to Walmart to pick up groceries because they were ready. No biggy, it's right up the road. Pull up, check in and they bring it all out and load the car. Wrong! I pull up and check in to only realize that she put the wrong Walmart address in so I ended up having to drive all the way out to a further one, about 20 minutes. As I'm pulling in, I get a call from the wife, saying she just got a call from the school and the girl we have living with us was in an "incident" and that we needed to come in. Now we figured she got in a fight because they wouldn't tell us what was going on. So we weren't in a hurry. I drove home from Walmart, unloaded the groceries and picked up my wife and than headed for the school. We pull in to ambulances and a cop car. We go in and they tell us that she got in a fight in the lunch room and punched a boy. What was worse is that she punched a wall when she left the lunch room and broke her hand. The school talked the parents of the kid to not press charges because she is 18 and the kid she hit wasn't yet so she could have been in huge trouble. They threatened to file charges on him because of the hate stuff coming out of his mouth that instigated the fight. Once we were done at the school, we took her to the ER to get her hand wrapped and we have to take her to an Orthopedic doc on Tuesday, which is the same day as my court date for child support and my friends funeral. So it continues.

Saturday we got some yard work done, kids all helped and had good attitudes. It was a good day and I haven't done anything today so things are already starting to look up.

On top of all of this, Cheri has been in a lot of pain and fighting a lot of headaches. She's been diagnosed with arthritis in her spine and neck to go along with all her other disabilities. What's worse than the arthritis is it tends to give her headaches, which turn in to migraines.

We'll see if I get through tomorrow with the usual festivities of Memorial Day. We spend the morning at a parade and than caravan around to a couple of cemeteries where we have family buried before going to my cousins for a cook out. I already told you what I got going Tuesday. Wednesday I go back to work, Thursday I have an EHS conference to go to and then more work Friday. Here's hoping next week is quick and painless.

Senior Discount

So yesterday, they let us off work at 11 as we were caught up and coming into a holiday weekend. I grabbed my lunch box and headed home but Taco Bell was calling me more than the leftover pizza in my lunch box so I ran through the drive thru. I ordered 4 Steak Soft Tacos and a small Mountain Dew. She said my total was $12 something.

I pulled up to the window after waiting my turn. I hold my debit card out when I pull up and the cashier glances at me but goes back to her register. I just figured she was taking someone else's order. She finally turns to me and as she's taking my debit card, she says it's $11 something, seniors get drinks for free. Now, it took me a minute to realize what she said and what she meant. I would have corrected her but hey, it's a free drink and I figured she owed me after telling me that she thinks I'm 10 years older than what I am.

However, upon coming home and Googling that the Taco Bell senior discount is for those 65 and up, I'm thinking she should have given me my whole meal free for saying I was 20 years older than what I am.

Now I know when I haven't shaved my head recently, I look a little older than I am, and it has been about a week since I shaved it but I don't know about looking 65 years old. There are days where my body feels like it's 65 years old, but not look that old.

Busy week for me

I've actually had a busy week, or at least busy for me. I actually filled up a laundry basket of regular clothes. Why does that mean anything? I wash my work clothes separate so I have a laundry basket full of those every week, but when I come home from work, if I have nothing to do, which is most days, I shower and than get in my PJ's to sit around in. Most days I don't put on my regular clothes at all. So when I say I filled up a laundry basket of regular clothes, it means I actually had to get dressed after work.

On Wednesday, I went to the before mentioned class. I talked my work into giving me a shirt with their logo on it to wear there since I was representing them. The class was good, I learned some things. Most people in there were already certified so it all came easy to them, I struggled with some of the newer to me kind of stuff but I think I got it all. It was a 5 hour class and they had a bunch of breaks, free snacks and drinks as well so all in all, it went well.

On Thursday, I went golfing for the first time in 5 years. The work golf league plays every week (9 holes) but I signed up a week late so I needed to make up the first 9. They golf on Wednesdays and since I had that class, I missed the 2nd week. So on Thursday, me and a guy from work went and played 18 to make up the first 2 weeks. I had some really good shots, and some really bad shots. I shot a little higher score than I liked but I'll forgive myself for going over 100, even if it was only by 4 strokes.

Today, I took the fam (mom, stepdad, brother and sister-in-law) to their 1st major league baseball game. I think my Stepdad had been to one before but the rest, it was their first game. We parked, than walked down to O'Malley's where we got a bunch of Chicago Dogs (I had Chili Cheese Dogs) and ate before the game (it's cheaper). Plus we got greek fries at the game (pic on the right) that were really good. It wasn't a great game for the Sox but it was still a pretty good time for us.

That was my week, like I said, it was busy for me. Now I'm going to sit down and watch the Game of Thrones finale and start a new week. Other than my weekly golf game, I have no other plans as of now so I'll go back to being boring.

Last songs for the week

For those that don't know, I have a huge playlist (currently 3,363 songs) that I put on random for most of my listening. I have a couple of other playlists that I'll occasionally listen to. Favorites and Equinox (songs to crank up on warm summer days with the windows down) as well as the Traveling playlist that I usually listen to when my wife is in the car because she only likes about half of my music.

I've decided on the weekends that I could post the songs that I've used on Last Song of the Day. A big part of my life is music as in listening to it. On work days, I average around 100 songs a day (yes, I keep track). On the weekends, not so much unless I go somewhere and I'll listen in the car. On that blog, I list the last song (unless it's been used already) that I had playing. It's up to 788 posts, you should check it out. There is a link to my playlist on that blog as well.

Anyways, before I get to the actual music, you all know I love stats, so here's the stats for the week.

Songs listened to - 560 songs since last Saturday.

• Listened to the 50th song by Toby Keith since 2018 on Saturday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Adelita's Way since 2018 on Monday.
• Listened to the 250th song by Taylor Swift since 2018 on Tuesday.
• Listened to the 100th song by Fall Out Boy since 2018 on Wednesday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Motley Crue since 2018 on Thursday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Thousand Foot Krutch since 2018 on Thursday.

• Listened to the 50th song by Eagles this year on Monday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Shinedown this year on Tuesday.
• Listened to the 50th song by Bon Jovi this year on Thursday.

Saturday - One Thing Leads to Another by the Fixx (80's - 1983)

Sunday - Stuck With You by Huey Lewis & the News (80's - 1986)

Monday - Have It All by Jason Mraz (Pop - 2018)



Tuesday - Fly By Night by Rush (Classic Rock - 1975)







Wednesday - I Found Love by Geoff Moore & the Distance (Christian - 1989)






Thursday - Marry Me by Thomas Rhett (Country - 2017)






Friday - I Write the Songs by Barry Manilow (Soft Rock - 1975)

Random Catch-Up Post

I was going to post today, but I don't really have much to talk about it so I'm just gonna start typing and see what comes out. It'll probably end up being a random type post but it's better than nothing.

We've been binging on some shows this weekend. Yesterday and this morning we knocked off what was left on the DVR and we watched the whole season of Bonding on Netflix, that sounds like a lot but all 7 episodes were under 20 minutes a piece. I didn't know that when we started it but oh well, it wasn't bad. It had it's funny moments, and raunchy moments, glad the kids weren't home. Now we're watched Dead To Me, also on Netflix. It's listed as a comedy but it's much more of a drama, but either way it's still good. Lots of twists for such a small story. When we're done with that, we'll watch the new Game of Thrones tonight.

Things are going pretty good at work. I just got enrolled for a few classes this summer as well as a class in September to prep me for a huge test that could get me some certifications, which will hopefully come with a big raise. I just hope that's the way my job sees it. It would save the company money, quite a bit so I would think that would be raise worthy. The first class is in less than 2 weeks and I have to travel an hour and a half one way. All 3 of the classes are there (the other 2 are in June) and the test prep class is in Indianapolis which is just under 3 hours from here. It's overnight as well so they'll have to put me up in a hotel. So like I said, I think my job is going well.

We've felt bad that we haven't been taking the dog to the dog park, our oldest always did and said he had a blast so we finally got around to taking him. He pretty much just smelled around everywhere and barely interacted with any other dogs. So now we don't feel bad for not taking him so often. He sniffs and runs around in our back yard, do I really need to take him somewhere else to do that?

I got tickets to my first White Sox game in awhile, I think the last one I went to I took my kids to their first game in 2013. I'm taking my brother and his wife (who hate baseball) and my mom and stepdad (she hates baseball, he doesn't, but he also never watches it). They've been begging me to take them. They said "I don't know why you've never invited us?" Um, because you hate baseball. They'll enjoy it though because they'll like the atmosphere. It's also in a couple of weeks.

I'll post about my walking again in the near future. I've been going from Coors Field in Denver to T Mobile Park in Seattle so there has been a whole lot of nothing to post about. I am in Washington so I'm closing in on Seattle.

If you're confused about this paragraph, go click on the Walking label.

I guess that's it for now with my exciting life.