"Babooshka" by Kate Bush

I realized this morning that this would be a great April Fool's song.

I'm always surprised when I think of a song that was epic for me and then find that I haven't already posted it.  In this case it is worse than that.  It's an artist that was epic for me and I've only posted two of her songs to date (on 30-Nov-2011 and 16-Sep-2012).  That's just crazy!!  I have to correct that omission.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c

"More Today Than Yesterday" by Spiral Starecase

One of the best love songs ever and one of my favorite songs ever, I'm amazed I haven't thought of it before!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAcr7i4jA2I
YouTube (live TV): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuqHlv1YPe0

"Love Can Make You Happy " by Mercy

Note: I'm (Rachel) finishing this post over 4 years in the future.

As of February 2014 I was still in the process of figuring out who I was.  But I had started loving myself for the first time in the process.  When I saw myself in the mirror as a woman, was the first time in my life I loved myself and loved who I saw looking back at me in the mirror.

So love can make you happy!  I have found so much happiness since I've become Rachel!!

YouTube (45 RPM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6Ucm9Tq1k
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"This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert

I remember singing this song in my room in the house on Burch Creek Dr. in Ogden.  Crazy how many years ago that was.  It had to be around the mid-70's, so about 40 years ago...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ByJ1C0iR4

"Glendora" by Perry Como

Trying to make a track listing of this old reel-to-reel tape

I'm writing this post (as Rachel) 6 years in the future.  I dug out that cassette a few days ago and I made a track listing for it.  I decided to post some of the songs here in my old (before I came out as transgender) blog, to work towards filling it in.

#TransIsBeautiful

As I talked about in yesterday's post I was making a track listing for both an old cassette tape (the date on it was 29-December-1978) and a reel-to-reel tape.  This is one of the songs I found on the reel-to-reel tape.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLOEfh_EMw8

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qP68gQHNw

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH9ihA889TQ

YouTube (vinyl): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_Kjb4gzdM

"Dream On Little Dreamer" by Perry Como

I apparently forgot to remove the no-record tab from that cassette

I'm writing this post (as Rachel) 6 years in the future.  I dug out that cassette a few days ago and I made a track listing for it.  I decided to post some of the songs here in my old (before I came out as transgender) blog, to work towards filling it in.

#TransIsBeautiful

I just realized something weird (or as I always say "It's all MAGIC!").  In the same week I was making a track listing for both this cassette and an old reel-to-reel tape.  I there were several songs recorded from the radio on the reel-to-reel tape and many of them were from 1965 and a couple that were older.  I'm fairly certain that tape was recorded in 1965.  I just noticed that this song came out in 1965.

YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtyTlkOabRc
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPzuuksdKI

"Trust Yourself" by Blue Rodeo

I first heard this song in a funny way, I was in an airplane flying home, somewhere over the Midwest.  I had my Walkman with me and normally listened to cassettes on it.  For some reason I was messing around with the built-in radio and picked up a station that was playing this song.  I really liked it and was worried that I would be out of range before I could find out what it was.  But fortunately, they announced the artist and title just before I lost the signal.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE8d-SIIDK4

What made me think of this song was that I was thinking this morning how one of the evil things about MS is that it makes one not be able to trust themselves.

For sometime I have thought how I can't trust my hands, I will think I am carrying something in my hand (glasses, keys, gloves, etc.) and when I go to use whatever it is discover my hand is empty.  And the inverse is true as well: I can pick up something, and later discover that I have stuff in my hand that I had no idea I was carrying.  For example, I thought I pulled an audio cable out of a box and discover I was also carrying an extension cord and headphones.

My memory has been flaky for sometime, but has gotten extremely so lately.  I can't remember things for even a few seconds.  If I think of two things at once, by the time I get a pencil and paper to write them down I almost never remember them both, sometimes I can't remember either.