The Yogi family had big plans for today. I get every other Friday off these days and Sweetie and I were going to downtown for some business with an attorney, then lunch, while a baby sitter watched SuperPizzaBoy. Then we were going to go see G Force in the afternoon.
SPB had some digestive upset, severe digestive upset, so we cancelled the attorney and the baby sitter. I ran a couple errands including getting an estimate to repair a door handle on Sweetie’s care. ($78, I didn’t know they were allowed to charge that little.) I ran some books back to the library (all three of us together had a huge stack overdue). Then of course I found an opportunistic geocache.
So we couldn’t really go anywhere, SPB had to stay close, if you know what I mean. Sweetie ran two grocery runs. One for us, one for her Mother, who has broken her leg and although she is recovering nicely, is homebound for now. Later Sweetie is going to the gym. She has been burning the candle at both ends taking care of her Mother and taking care of SPB and me.
SPB is alternating between watching TV and reading. The kid is a championship reader. Here is an action shot of him reading.
Meanwhile I started to rip music. The Yogi family is big into music SPB loves everything but hard rock. Sweetie loves all sorts of music and so do I. I have two ipods, a Nano that I run and exercise with and an Ipod Touch that does almost everything including play music. So I gathered up a bunch of cd’s and ripped them.
Everything from Metallica to Michael Jackson to his cousin Alan Jackson, Dixie Chicks, AC/DC, Lionel Richie, Mercy Me, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Miles Davis, Martina McBride, U2, Alecia Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shania Twain, Madonna, and of course, Oklahoma’s own Garth Brooks.
Most music already on my ipods was downloaded. A little bit different group there: Barenaked Ladies, Blink-182, Bride, Carrie Underwood, Cold War Kids, the Eagles, Gov’t Mule, Korn, the Killers, the Pastels, Patsy Cline, the Pixies, Red Fang, Santana, and Taylor Swift.
We have a bunch of classical and jazz music. I like listening to that while in the living sprawled out on the couch with a glass of wine in hand.
I can’t wait to listen to all this forgotten music!
Do you have an ipod or mp3 player? Do you use it? What kind of music do you like? Has the kind of music you listen to changed over the years. I wanna know!
i really want an ipod. i can’t believe i don’t have one. my 11 year old has one. she’s had 2! it always seems like there is something the kids need, and i forego the gadgets. i sound like a whiner, huh? I AM A WHINER TODAY!
We have a big music collection, too. Everything from celtic to Christian to Springsteen to Denver.
@Jen – I can’t believe that you have one of the finest blogs around and don’t have an ipod! I’d by whining and CRYING!
I love hearing about the music people listen to.
I like a wide variety of music but I’m mostly a country girl. Must be the little bit of home (FW) that I cling to. 🙂
You know that I still haven’t updated my iPod? Geesh. I keep it on a speaker in the bathroom and that is the only time I listen to it (fast forwarding through most of the songs).
Michael is a huge metal fan. Guitar hero has done that to him.
@Baloney – For goodness sake Baloney. Learn your technology! You posted a long time ago about the stuff that Doc put on your ipod. Time for you to take control of your ipod. Ask Doc first though.
hi, it’s me. Nice to meet someone who enjoy the same thing just as I do. No I don’t have ipod. Firstly it’s expensive over here. And 2ndly, people of my age do not put on ipod stuffs over here, because they looks a bit weird. That’s the perception. Unless you use it at home. We do have mp3 but hand phones are more popular nowadays. They can download musics too.
You guys turned the day around, to be sure! Your son made the best of his bummer situation, and so did you guys. Good on ya!
I own no ipod or such ear phones listening device…I have issues i know-the childrens do tho’…however i do LOVE your choice in music….all of it…and I would like to pimp out abby IF you ever need a sitter she is good
glad your sweetie got some down time…i know how hard it can be caring for our elders
Sorry to hear SPB has been ill. That stinks (literally)! LOL! Bad, bad, I know.
My favorite music has to be 70’s and 80’s pop and country and rock.
I’m pretty sure that all I listened to in the 90’s was country because nothing else sounds familiar. Ha!
I’m glad Sweetie is getting a little break to work off some stress at the gym. I feel so bad for her. 🙁
I hope everyone is well soon!
No i-pod, I like quiet, wind in the trees, birds and flowing water. When I do listen it is is usually 60’s folk, classical or new age.
Hubby made me some cds of Limelighters, Peter, Paul and Mary, Weavers and the like.
I sure hope SPB is feeling better, upset GI is not fun.
@kbguy – I love your blog. You see all sorts of people with ipods here.
@SandyCarlson – we did ok yesterday. SPB is a lot better today and we were able to get out for a little while.
@Georgie – Hey, we are always looking for good patient sitters.
@Dawn – nothing wrong the music you like. It seems that 70’s and 80’s was a lot easier to listen to than much of it now.
@Martha – well put. Ipod would just mess things up with the sounds of nature. I love the 60’s folk music. It goes down so easy.
I have an ipod, and as I age I realize that while once I was into heavy and noisy stuff, now I prefer much calmer things to relax..
@Turquose Diaries – I still put the heavier stuff on the nano as that is what I listen to when I run and the rock and roll works best.
On my touch I listen to the calmer stuff.
LOL You just had to ask what was on my mp3 player……….
Okay here is the list
ACDC (4cds)
Twisted Sister
Alice Cooper
Green Day (6cds)
Bon Jovi (3cds)
Ozzy (5 cds)
Neil Young Greatest Hits
Hope SPB is feeling better. Bless his heart thats awful when you have to stick so close to the bathroom. What was he reading so intently?
@Kathy – A woman after my own hear. You have a wide selection. I don’t have any Bon Jovi Twisted Sister, Ozzy, or Alice Cooper but I would like to add them soon.
SPB was reading Harry Potter I think that day. I forget which one.