I've been making my own CD mixes and bringing them in to work where we listen to them when we're cleaning up after serving the residents. It's a lot of fun and makes the work go by faster. Plus it lets me share a few amusing stories, such as:
Last week I was working with Zach, Ashley, and Danni and we were all singing and dancing to Barbie Girl by Aqua (LOL, the first time she heard it, Ahsley was like, OMG!!!!!111 this song!!!"), then Wannabe by the Spice Girls came on, and OMG, it was SOOOO funny because Zach was walking around the kitchen with his shirt unbuttoned and singing in a falsetto voice. I was. Cracking. Up. I said he could be Sporty Spice, haha.
I made an '80s CDs with hits like Heaven is a Place On Earth, Don't You Forget About Me, and How Will I Know. Amy was doing the Carlton dance to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and Jake was laughing so hard that he was crying. (I also made him laugh with my "'hood" dancing to Gangsta's Paradise from my '90s CD).
My favorite song from my '80s CD is Bette Davis Eyes and I even made up my own really stupid dance to it (I do that Uma Thurman fingers across the eyes move from Pulp Fiction when she says "She's got...Bette Davis eyes!"). The day after that one girl sang it on American Idol, Amy asks me if I watched the show and we just both started cracking up. She said she was watching it with her friend and started laughing and her friend had no idea why!
Like I said I made a '90s CD and if I dare say so myself, it is aw-aw-aw-awesome!
1. Time of Your Life - Green Day
2. One Week - Bare Naked Ladies (Lisa was rocking out this one yesterday)
3. Stay - Lisa Loeb
4. Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
5. Only Wannabe With You - Hootie and the Blowfish
6. Ironic - Alanis Morrisette
7. Tubthumping - Chumbawumba (I get knocked down, then I get up again...hahah...I love that song!)
8. I Will Buy You a New Life - Everclear
9. Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
10. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (And I said what about Breakfast at Tiffany's? She said I think I remember the film)
11. Two Princes - Spin Doctors (If you wanna buy me flowers just go ahead now and if you wanna talk for hours just go ahead now)
12. Word Up - Cameo (W! O! R! D! Up!)
13. Sonny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
14. Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind (Do do do! Do do do do! Do do do! Do do do do!)
15. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (OMG. This song. LMAO. This song reminds me of The Mighty Ducks).
16. What is Love - Haddaway (What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more! We were all doing the SNL head bob to this).
17. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
18. I Don't Wanna Wait - Paula Cole