Please Don't Stop the Music, Music Music...

I CAN'T GET the Rihanna song "Don't Stop the Music" out of my head & I don't even mind it being stuck there! Music simply is my soul's fuel. I cannot even imagine a day without music & frankly, my iPod changed my life by making it easier to get a "fill-up". I am grateful every day that I have a lifestyle that afforded me the opportunity to purchase an iPod (pricey at $300) & subsequently an iPhone (pricier still at $400) & both worth EVERY hard-earned cent! Not only do they provide great portability of a mass of tunes in a tiny pocket-sized wonder, a mini jukebox really, but they have taken accessibility to a whole new level. I was thrilled when in 1992 I was able to upgrade from a single CD stereo player to a 5 CD disc changer stereo. I thought, wow! Amazing! I will listen to so much more music now with the 5 CD option. Honestly, I rarely changed those 5 CD's & so there on the shelves sat 300 CD albums wanting desperately to be heard. When I purchased my iPod, I immediately downloaded all of my CD's (spent all Christmas vacation doing so) & then put the CD's away in sleeved binders for posterity - maybe they will be a collector's item someday. I now listen on my iPod through a growing list of over 7,000 songs, both ripped from my old CD's & newly acquired through iTunes & Amazon.com & this never would have been feasible on a CD player. I bow down to Apple (no, I'm not a Microsoft hater, but come on - Apple deserves props) for elevating music enjoyment to what could only have been imagined on an episode of the Jetsons 30 years ago. iPod, you sing me to sleep.  You're my alarm clock when time to wake.  You make my dreaded daily bus commute bearable & even now, at this very moment as I blog, you are in the background energizing me. You are ageless. You are a common language between me & my 16 year old stepson (we swap favs with each other) as well as my 7 year old son who is as obsessed with music as his mom. Forever a fan.

"I wanna take you away. Let's escape into
the music. DJ let it play. I just can't refuse it.
Like the way you do this. Keep on rockin' to it.
Please don't stop the, please don't stop the music".