When I’m trying to stay focused, I’ll put something on my iPod that isn’t too distracting. Listening to the news on my Sirius receiver will certainly be a distraction.

Yesterday, I put it on my Pet Shop Boys playlist that grabs everything where the artist is the Pet Shop Boys, all 11.9 hours of it.

Wow.

Some of that music really takes me back to a really good place in my life. I used to listen to the Pet Shop Boys a lot when I was in my twenties. Yeah, we’re really talking so gay it hurts, here. There’s just something magical about that time in my life. It seems like I had no worries, no commitments, and my entire future was in front of me. My weekends were spent clubbing, sex was abundant, and everything was possible. I didn’t have to worry about managing my money nor my credit.

Sure, I’m totally romanticizing that era of my life. I had no idea what I was capable of back then. I wasn’t dealing with MS. And in retrospect, I was pretty poor. I made a lot of mistakes back then. My focus was a job, not my career. I trashed my credit. Today, I’m still cleaning that up. And I’m going to buy a house in the next couple of years. The friends I have today are real, not just bar buddies. And of course, I have Reggie.

Yeah, so gay it hurts.