10 day you challenge: day 9 – 2 songs

Day 9: 2 songs

1. Drain You – Nirvana – One of my favourite songs by my all time favourite band! I fell in love with Nirvana and all their grungy awesomeness when I was 13 years old. I had – and still own – a Nirvana hoodie with the red smiley face logo on the back. I wore it all the time which gave me the nick name “Nirvana girl” amongst the other ‘grebos’ (we often called each other by the band on the hoodie we wore the most so people who didn’t know our names knew who we were referring to) and kids at school who didn’t know my actual name.

2. All The Small Things – Blink182 – As well as reminding me of my youth, I love this song because I used to sing it to my daughter when she was on light therapy in neonatal. “say it aint so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home.” The days that I sat by her incubator and hoped and prayed that she would get better were so hard but I felt somewhat soothed by those lyrics and I knew eventually I would have those lights switched off and I could carry my baby girl home with me. My daughter also seemed to enjoy me singing it to her and still does now. To this day when ever she hears it she refers to it as “our song”.