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Yesterday must have been a very musical day.  I had so many people on my FB feed talking about music and I was one of them.  It almost seems like I am discovering music again and that is thanks to a Christmas gift.  You see, the way we play music is changing.  We have been big CD collectors and have been somewhat resistant to the change over to digital music.  The problem with that was my only way of playing music in my kitchen/living room was through our DVD player.  That meant switching sources on the TV so the kids were unable to watch TV.  Since my main music listening time would be while making meals that was also a time when I would try to occupy the kids with the TV.  End result being I haven't been listening to a hole lot of music for a while so a few months ago my husband rigged up some old computer speakers and an ipod so that I could play a little something.  The only problem with that is the ipod always seemed to be dead and I had...

There is something amazing and magical about music.  It has the power to somehow with words and sounds express an emotion far better when put together than either one can do on their own.  Listening to a song that touches your heart can do so many things.  It can change your mood, making you either happy when you are sad, sad when you are happy or enhancing the feelings you experience at the moment.  Songs can remind you of a moment in time, a relationship you have or even express what you are feeling far better than you could.  I must confess I'm a lyrics girl.  I love the poetry in a good song.  I love the way the voice can melodiously add power to those words.  I love a song I can sing along to and really get behind.  My husband however, is a music guy.  He plays bass and guitar, he has a far better grasp on the music side of songs than I and in a lot of cases he doesn't really "hear" the lyrics.  It is through our relationship...

It's been a really long time since my last post and there is a very unusual reason for that.  It's because it's winter.  Our computer is in the basement and it's cold down here!  I haven't been coming downstairs to use the computer hardly at all either since my father gave us a tablet that he bought but wasn't using.  Since he gave us that I pretty much have been doing all my internet stuff upstairs...where it's warmer.  It is a new year though now so I thought what better time than now to get back into the swing of things.  This is the time of year where people tend to both reflect on the past and dream of the future.  I am not immune to these musings myself.  I have been doing some reflecting on this last year and I assume that like everyone else, there were some tough times and some good times.  I had a few pretty rough patches and issues that I worked through emotionally this year.  Some really good progress was made but a lot of i...