Sublime

After weeks (actually I think it's been more like months) of being without an iPod due to my incredible stupidity on how to work the darn thing, I'm finally back in the black, musically speaking. I forgot how much I love to listen to music! It makes any crap activity ten times easier. Any menial work job... any chores at home... some sort of third option that I can think of right now... it's all easier. My output both at work and at home has gone up dramatically.
Take, for instance, the other day. I'm one of those people who absolutely HATES to go through my mail. If there's a bill, I already have a way to take care of it (i.e. direct withdrawal, which I LOVE) so other than the occasional piece of fun mail from a friend or family member, mail is pretty much useless to me. I also hate shredding all the crap I get, so it just builds into little stacks around my apartment. My neat-freak roommate could not be more pleased about that! Ha. She eventually throws it into a box or a bag and tosses it into the depths of my bedroom where it is promptly forgotten and left to slowly decompose. That's where music comes in very handy. I'll crank up the volume and sing while I trash all the junk mail. It's definitely got a "Whistle While You Work" quality about it... who knew the 7 dwarves would be on to something??
There is a downside though... I also listen to my iPod in the car. You know those people that you laugh at while you're driving because they look so entirely ridiculous while they rock out hardcore in their cars and think no one can see them? Yeah... that's me. I take it to a whole new level though. When people in other cars see me and start to laugh (and I actually pause from my tunes long enough to notice them...), I start singing to them. I normally sing to the world as a whole or whoever is in the car with me, but I don't know... when I see those people laugh, the little girl who used to dream of being a comedian leaps forward and takes complete control. I'm just lucky I haven't been in a car accident while that little girl is in charge! Good Lord, sometimes I wonder how the state of Washington was dumb enough to give me a driver's license...