Can't Get You Out of my Mind!

I have a silly little thing to do when I'm around certain people... get a tune stuck in their head.

Now that may sound pretty tame, but I get quite a kick out of it. One of the people that I like doing this with is my brother-in-law. Pretty much all I have to do is whistle, or sing, a little bit of a tune, and he'll continue doing it for a long time. It could be the middle of July, and if I sing or whistle a few chosen Christmas carols, he'll eventually be doing the same thing. There are other people that I know that this works with too. I usually whistle quite a bit, compared to the average person.

The same thing goes for me though. I seem to get them stuck in my head all day too.

Usually when I wake up in the morning it's to the radio on the alarm. IF there's a song playing on the radio, that song is usually stuck in my head all morning. Does this happen to any of you?

Another thing about music, at least for me, is that I can remember, a lot of the time, where I was or what I was doing when I heard a song before, especially certain 80's songs. They have a certain memory attached to them. Like "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen, it always makes me think back to my Freshman year of high school, and going to football practice. They used to have a radio playing in the locker room when we got there, and that song was popular then.

Pretty weird stuff... similar to certain smells having memories attached to them. I have a bunch of scented markers in my drawer at work. They're the same exact markers that we had in school when I was in first grade. They smell like blueberry, cherry, cinnamon, etc... When I smell those markers, I think of way back to my youth, smelling those same smells. It's really weird!

That may be why I like certain holidays so much. Christmas has all those wonderful smells that just stick in my mind. All the great foods that are cooked, the tree itself, and candles. I smell those and it brings back certain images from the past.