Rock on

I love my iPod. I don't know how anyone can get along without one.

Jim and I were playing around with his iPhone a couple months ago, sampling Led Zepplin songs because they finally released them for download on iTunes. As we heard more and more songs we loved, we realized we should just buy the missing albums we didn't have in our library (because, "Hey, we're grownups and we can do that if we want to"). So Led Zepplin I, II, IV and Physical Graffiti were added to our household. We already had Led Zep III and Houses of the Holy, and really no other LZ album matters other than those.

So I'm in the car today on the way to pick up kids from school, listening to a couple songs from Physical Graffiti, and it suddenly struck me how great it actually was to be grown up. I was listening to a wonderful album that I have always wanted. But back in high school (when I listened to so much Led Zep with my good friend Jana) and in college, I could never bring myself to buy the album because it was a DOUBLE album. That cost could never be justified, and I envied friends of mine who had it. But now it's mine, and I'm a 40-year old woman rocking out on the way to pick my kids up from school. Kind of pathetic, but I don't really care.