Beautiful Goodbye

I’m sorry to say that I’ve been sucked in to the world of the MP3. I’ve been thinking I wanted one to take running and use at the gym so I have something to do besides stare in amazement at the scrawny little legs of the weight lifters with big bulging upper body muscles. Can’t they tell they look a little bit top heavy?

Lucky for me Stranger brought one home for me on his last visit. It took me a few days to venture onto the internet to figure out how to put songs on it. I was not happy with what I found. There are a lot of songs out there and none of them were titled, “A Song That Lara Would Like.” That meant I had to listen to them. One by one. For hours and hours. Then my eight year old volunteered his hours and hours which was fine by me because he has good taste. About one song anyway. Beautiful Goodbye by Josh Kelley. I loved it! Click on the link to download it for free. Then go here to get the rest of his album at 15 cents per song. If you like that sort of cheap thrill. (Please share your favorites so I don't have to keep hunting. I'm completely clueless about music.)

Now that I’ve completely wasted three days of my life for this machine that is so tiny I could swallow, I finally have enough songs on it to get me through a workout. Which, by the way, is the only time I’m allowed to use it since my kids spend the rest of the time fighting over it. When I spend three more days figuring out how to sync my play lists to it can we call that organizing?


I used my player at the gym tonight. I was so entrenched in my own little world of sultry voices that I didn’t feel the need to wonder what all the girls were thinking when Romeo walked in with his wife or whether my underwear was showing when I sat down at the bench press. No. I didn’t care about these things at all. In fact I was so far gone that I almost ran into someone. Three times. Luckily it was a different person every time. I think. All I really noticed was that each time it seemed to be a short man with big muscles from the waist up.