My daughter bought me an iPod a couple of years ago, as a birthday or Christmas present, I don't remember which.  I wanted one to listen to when working out or walking on the treadmill.  That's mainly what I used it for, until just recently.  Since I've been having a hard time going to sleep lately, I've been going to bed with it, ear buds in place and all.  I think I need to find smaller ones, though. They're kind of big in my ears, and sometimes fall out, and hurt my ears, just a tad.  I'm getting addicted to listening to the music as I drift off to sleep.  I can't believe it's been so long since I listened to music while nodding off.  I used to do it all the time during my junior high and high school years.

In fact, I listened to music ALL the time.  My first vehicle, a 1969 cream-colored Chevy Chevelle, was lacking a working radio, much to my chagrin.  I acquired a big, old, battery-operated radio, a grandfather to the boom box, I'm sure.  This radio sat in the front seat with me and supplied me with the much needed tunes on my thirteen mile drive into town, on my way to school.  On the way to work, at the hospital, I listened again, and then, of course, on the long road home, after getting off work every night at seven.  I must've spent a fortune on batteries!!!  Who would've EVER dreamed of an iPod back then?  We thought eight-tracks were pretty darn modern and hip.  However, I didn't have an eight-track.  I did have a CB though, which didn't supply music, but, a somewhat primitive, yet fun, means of communication.  I won't tell you what my "handle" was though!

Man, I worked hard for that CB!!  I painted what seemed like miles of welded metal fencing.  I actually sanded, primed, then, painted this fence, for several weeks.  That is in and of itself, a whole different story, which I will have to tell later. 

My, how technology has changed, just in my lifetime.  We have the world at our fingertips, at the click of a button, a mouse, a remote.  We can download hundreds,  or thousands of songs on an itty-bitty thing called an iPod.  Crazy, but amazing.  I've always loved music.  But, now, it's almost unbearable to hear so many of the songs that I especially became fond of, over the last five or six months.  So many of those songs described exactly how I felt.  Now, they only serve to remind me of what I lost.  I can hear the first note of one of those songs and immediately burst into tears.  Man, how I hate that!!

When trying to go to sleep, I try to avoid those songs that pull at my emotions, and instead listen to some very soothing, comforting, Colbie Caillat songs.  My two favorites are "Bubbly" and "Realize".  They still bring back memories, and totally remind me of what I lost, but, I can still listen to them and fall asleep while listening to them over and over and over.  Please listen to both of these songs, especially "Realize"...  They are both on youtube.com....   Listen to them alone, so you can really hear the words and the message...