Of the nearly two-thousand songs in our iTunes database, about 75 percent of them suck, big time. These songs are either extremely whiny or are songs in which I cannot understand the lyrics because of all the screaming. I have no idea what they are even doing on our computer. For every song that I enjoy, I have to advance through fourteen songs that make me want to dump the entire library and start all over. The problem is, whenever I go to "purchase" some new music, my mind goes blank and I cannot, for the life of me, think of a single song or band I like.
My birthday is in 12 days on February 3. Going against everything I ever learned in etiquette class, and only in case you've been racking your brain trying to figure out what to get me anyway, I could really use a burned MP3 CD of your favorite songs. Just think: you can wish me a happy birthday and save my sanity.
I do send thank you notes.
so you'll have to give me your address so I can fulfill your wishes and your shameless request for gifts!!!
Posted by: Katey | January 23, 2006 at 05:19 AM
I have Foo Fighters in my car. They never get old. I'll see what I can do. Ya I don't have your address either.
By the way, if Mr. Pink needs any ideas for Valentine's Day, tell him to go to Starbucks. Pink-o-lious. One of the cutest Pink carry mugs ever!
Posted by: Stephanie | January 23, 2006 at 08:01 AM
that's a good idea.
Posted by: carrie | January 23, 2006 at 10:44 AM
Send me your address. I have a CD of a girl I love that I am giving out to all my girlfriends.
Posted by: Bethany | January 23, 2006 at 11:48 AM
I just looked at your "Queens" photo set. Ya'll are silly.
Posted by: Bethany | January 23, 2006 at 03:36 PM
I am queen of the outstanding music mixes, or at least one of my friends told me that just last week. I think my brother liked a mix I made for him recently too. Anyway, I would love to send you a CD. Please be aware that I am not always prompt when in comes to actually getting a package in the mail, but it will get to you before your 2007 birthday, I promise.
Posted by: lucy | January 23, 2006 at 03:41 PM
Oooo, that sounds like fun. I got a MP3 player for Christmas and I love it.
Malia
Posted by: Malia | January 23, 2006 at 07:33 PM
I do send thank you notes.
A woman after my own heart. And this makes up for any perceived bad etiquette about asking for exactly what you want.
Love your blog, btw.
Posted by: ally bean | January 24, 2006 at 03:38 AM
Just looked at your new pics! Love the Queen pictures!!! CUTE!
Posted by: Jenna | January 24, 2006 at 06:03 AM
I too am a huge fan of thank you notes. Pardon my complete ignorance, but is by "burned MP3 CD" do you mean like a regular CD that you burned your favorite tunes onto? Or some tiny little CD that I dont know about? My husband has an MP3 player, and he downloads music to his computer, then to the player.
Posted by: alfredsmom | January 24, 2006 at 06:18 AM
i'll take this one, Janet...
An MP3 is simply a compressed file (usually music, but audiobooks and some movies are this file format as well, but that's a totally different discussion).
Anyhow, what Janet wants is an MP3 CD so that there are more songs per CD than if you converted them back to audio files. (Audio cds hold about 70 minutes of music, whereas MP3 cds hold around 650 megabites of information.)
This can be a LOT of songs! (Two hundred or more depending on the song length and compression method).
So when you put a cd in your computer and let iTunes convert it to MP3 files, you're saving a ton of disk space. This is what your husband is doing when he downloads music into his MP3 player.
Hope that wasn't too technical for this here girly blog. :-D
Posted by: katey | January 24, 2006 at 01:09 PM
I allready got you a birthday present and I would love to throw in a CD but unfortunatly I dont think I will have time. But, I do promise to get you one sometime this year. I also think you will have enough to hold you over for a while!!!
Posted by: Lauren | January 25, 2006 at 10:01 AM
My burner is on the fritz, but I'll see what I can come up with.
;^)
Posted by: mr.honeydew | January 25, 2006 at 04:15 PM
Ok, Janet. I gotta join in on this. A pink CD is headed your way... given that you don't mind giving me your address...
Posted by: Shea | January 25, 2006 at 05:34 PM
Send me your address and I promise not to give you total crap.
Maybe some, but not total!
Posted by: Brooke | January 26, 2006 at 07:39 AM
I am in! Tell me where to send it. Then when you get some good songs from your other commenters - you'll have to let us know what you've found. It will be like a music exchange, because I do the SAME thing on itunes. As long as you don't start out the post with, "I got this total crap CD from a Laurie in MD...never ask her for music..." Ha!!
Posted by: Laurie | January 26, 2006 at 11:27 AM
I am the same way when trying to pick music for my ipod - it is very frustrating - I wish someone else who knew all my taste could just set up the library and I wouldn't have to do that part - just listen. I got a Delphi My Fi to listen to the radio - we'll see - when I got it as a gift I didn't realize I had to wear an antenna :(
Posted by: Chaos | January 27, 2006 at 02:03 AM
Ooh, I'll send you a CD. It might have to wait until I get back to France next weekend, but yeah, I can do that.
Just send me yer address.
Posted by: Alison | January 27, 2006 at 05:18 AM