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I have always loved music. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t.

When I was a kid, we would dance around the house to whatever songs my mom would have playing on the stereo (and she typically liked the harder stuff to come out of the 60s & 70s – Cream, Jimmy Hendrix, etc.).

When I was around 9, I saved up money to get one of those cool FM radios from Radio Shack. They came in different colors called raspberry, blueberry, lemon, and lime. I got a blueberry. It went everywhere with me – me and my tinny tunes.

In my pre-teens, I got a record player (remember those???). It was small. It was a little box that I could lock down the top on like old luggage and take it with me. It was the boombox of its day.

The first album I remember owning was the duets album with Barry Gibbs and Barbra Streisand. I would play it for HOURS. The second was Pete Townsend’s Empty Glass (I won it in a radio contest).

I had a tape recorder, one of the big ones, that I would use to record music off of the radio so I could play it on my smaller cassette player.

I got a Walkman, a CD Walkman, and a Dell Jukebox.

And then the heavens descending upon me and I got an iPod.

Seriously. The skies opened up and I was welcomed into the exhalted world of TUNES.

I have always loved music but I didn’t realize just how much I had loved music until my iPod came along.

Couple my iPod with iTunes and I have a library of goodness. I have 300+ CDs that have been loaded into my computer and then loaded into my iPod. Add in to that the free download that iTunes gives out each week and my library continues to grow.

It’s all now at my fingertips. I listen to music all day long.

My iPod goes to workouts with me (although I don’t use the earbuds because they hurt my ears so I have big headphones that probably look dorky but I don’t care). My computer plays tunes during the day.

I’m in music heaven.