Thank You For The Music--A Music Meme

 

Hello!  Here is a fun Music Meme I copied from the Queen of Memes... Dawn! 

Music of Your Life Meme

Representing every 5th year of your life, starting at birth, pick a song title and artist (if you can remember it), and end with a song for now.

Birth  -  'Red Rubber Ball' Simon & Garfunkel, 1966.  This song came out the year I was born.  My mom's doctor informed her that I was going to be a very small baby.  Well, I proved him wrong when I turned out to be a 10 pounder.  Yep.  According to my mother I was very pink.  I was the big red rubber ball, with a pink ribbon on my bald head.  My 10 year old brother told my parents that they brought home the wrong baby.  According to him, I looked Chinese. 

5  years old  -  'Our House' by the Kinks.  "There's always something happening, and it's usually quite loud.."  Yep.  All the lyrics to this song describe my childhood.  It's one of my favorite songs. 

10 years old  -  'Too Shy' by Kajagoogoo.  At school, my teachers referred me to pieces of fruit for some reason.  Perhaps it was because of the clothing I wore.  I remember having a green jumper with a lemon on the side, and I had a yellow one with a peach?  I was always referred to as "my little peach" by one teacher.  I had another teacher who referred to me as her "lost lamb."  I was pretty shy in school.  I would follow my teachers around, and hide in the library at lunch sometimes.  Don't worry...  I don't do that anymore. 

15 years old  -  'Celebration'  Kool & The Gang..  Oh to be 15 again..  I remember dancing to the song at the "discotecas" in the Azores with an array of different teenage boys.  During my teen years I spent a many summer there--4 times to be exact.  It was definately a time of many celebration..  Whhoooohooo!!! 

20 years old - 'I Do, I Do'  Abba.  Well, one of the guys I met in the Azores was my first husband.  I was young, stupid but in love.  I had to say 'I do' and got married.  Do I regret it.  Nope--the past makes me who I am; end of story! 

25 years old - 'Time' by Culture Club.  If you know the lyrics, you may understand why I chose this one for this time of my life.  I was in denial--hoping things would get better for my daughter's sake, but time would tell, like it always does. 

30 years old - 'I Will Survive'  Gloria Gayner.  Yep..this was MY SONG people!  At 30, I had the courage to get out and start my new life with my 2 kids, alone!  Whhhoohhooo!  At the age of 30 it finally hit me. 

35 years old  -  'The Last Worthless Evening' Don Henley.  I started dating a year after my divorce, and I will tell you honestly, I was not prepared for the dating world.  After marrying so young I was completely naive and oblivious to the "dating scene" and I had no idea how many losers, liars and jerks were out there, wading in the dating pool.  When I met my NOW husband, I won the grand prize.  I never spent another worthless evening ever again. 

40 years old  -  'We Are Family' Sister Sledge.  Happy to say, we are just one big happy family!  If anyone told me 10 years ago I would be a wife again and mom/stepmom to 3 teenagers, and a toddler, I would have called them crazy, but here I am!  The more the merrier!