Rhapsody has proven to be a great method for me to discover new music… and since I’m all about the music, it’s safe to say Rhapsody makes me happy. :love:

One of the artists I discovered just today is Cheryl Bliss. Rhapsody classifies her as Indie Pop which is right up my alley of interests, so I had to take a listen. She’s really good. Her site allows you to stream her latest (2005) album, and to download a few select songs, if you want to take a listen.

Anyway…my point to this entry is a journal entry Ms. Bliss made on her site, which really moved me:

Don’t talk to me about the only way to make “real music”– real music can be made with rubber bands. The instrument doesn’t matter, as long as it strikes true with the listener’s soul. All the greatest music, all your favorite songs, that’s what they do, they reach right in through your flesh and grab–or caress–your soul. That’s what we really want. Sometimes we want soft and tender, sometimes full of joy or desire, and sometimes hard and aggressive, but we want it real, straight, undiluted.

This just rings so true for me. Music is a language all its own. I can’t sing, I can’t play an instrument, I can’t read music, and I dance only like a white girl can. But, despite these “shortcomings” I still think I can understand at least some of this beautiful language. :biggrin:

We all know the first official day of spring was yesterday. For some people I know, particularly further south than DC, the weather has been much warmer than spring temps usually are…so, I’ve been more than a little envious while here with the mid-30s to low-40s nearly everyday.

Thankfully, the temperature will be reaching the low 70s today and tomorrow. After that, if the forecast is accurate, we’ll still be in the high 50s to low 60s. I can definitely handle that. Even the low temps aren’t so low that I can’t walk to work, because I still can’t seem to get my ass to the gym. I do have a good excuse for that, though. I slipped and fell on a patch of ice Monday morning, and the soreness/pain has just gotten progressively worse since. It was funny, yes…but oh-so-painful. The interesting thing to me was, a few moments before it happened, I actually had a brief flash that I was going to fall…but I was so absorbed in my music that I didn’t pay enough attention. :ouch:

Anyway, the point of this post was just to express my happiness the weather is finally improving. I’m tired of all this drastic up and down in temperatures, so I’m really hoping the weather continues in this direction. After spring comes summer…and I am soooooo flippin’ ready for that! I despise how winter seems so long. :annoyed:

I love string cheese!

:woohoo::yum::woohoo: