Birthday Shuffle Year V - Day 23 - All I Need is a Miracle

1985, and the world was her oyster...

By February of 1986 when this song came out

so much had changed.

She was still hopeful, though.

UL 2 (unrequited love #2) still seemed

like a possibility.

And this song helped spur on those

naive dreams of finding your

Prince Charming...

Supid girl...

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 19 - (EID)I Do It for You

Great song, bad movie.

Who remembers the Kevin Costner "Robin Hood?"

I do.  And, for me, he wasn't the most memorable part.

I enjoyed Morgan Freeman as the Moor and his being asked

by a young child if he was "painted."

I loved Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham

fresh off his bad-guyness in "Die Hard."

And I liked this song.

Not so much that I play it very often,

but when I do I think of new romance

just starting with a fervor.

Of course, this is my favorite "Robin Hood" movie,

which was made as a spoof of the Kevin Costner one;

especially the line at the end of the trailer...

"Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent..."

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 15 - (You Want to) Make A Memory

From time to time, I think everyone hears a song on the radio 

which makes you stop and think about "what might have been."

This song does that for me.

Two friends getting together for whatever reason.

Obviously comfortable with each other.

Some would say being with an ex after a long time.

I've never had an ex.  Funny, huh...?

I had a lot of relationships, but no exes.

Seems I just moved on from one relationship

to the next.

Sure I had a first love, and those unrequited loves

I've written about before.

But, no exes.  

No stalker who calls friends to see where I am.

No worrying about where I went out to because I 

"didn't want to run into him and his new girlfriend."

No awkward meeting with his family members.

Anyway.

Although  I am happily married,

I do think about some of the people I dated

or almost dated

or wish I would have dated.... 

And this song reminds me of them,

and what might have been....

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 5 - Kiss the Rain

My husband and I had a long distance relationship for many years.

This song came out in 1997 and we met about a year later.  As you can imagine, initially there

were a lot of insecurities at the start.  This song perfectly captured those early months

of our relationship, and I liked to remember that

"we're under the same skies, and the nights are 

as empty for me as for you."

MyPod Birthday Month #22 - You Got It

1988 - Mid way through college...

This was part of the soundtrack of my life then...

MyPod Birthday Month #9 - I Drove All Night

Spring/Summer 1996 I was a pre-med, post-baccalaureate student trying to get into medical school. I was working 3 jobs and carrying a full science course load. There was very little time for socializing. I did have one good male friend in my classes. He was a non-traditional student as well. We did manage to sneak in some homemade dinners after studying, and did go out once or twice for drinks. We were never more than friends making our way through some challenging times. Although this song originally came out in 1989, it wasn't until that year that I heard it... and it made me wonder about the possibilities for something more. That never came to pass, but I can never hear this song without thinking on those lean times, and my friend, and the possibilities for romance in the midst of struggling to reach a goal.