The Saddest Song You'll Ever Know

I am absolutely distraught. For reasons unknown to myself my ipod decided to completely erase itself on Friday afternoon. Three years of music collecting, totally and utterly gone. On Friday morning, I was just listening to my Top 25 Most Played Song playlist, and was excited to notice that Jimmy Eat World had finally overtaken The Beatles for top songs. But by Friday afternoon, all of it was gone.

I spent most of Friday afternoon in denial, thinking that if I could just get my ipod back to my computer, everything would straighten itself out. But after trying that idea, I slowly moved into anger as my ipod was still void of music.

When I contacted Apple, they gave me this suggestion, just import you music from your itunes library back to your ipod. You would think that it would be just that easy, but after 3+ years of music collecting, I don’t have all my music in one easy to import location.

I have been able to recover 66 songs so far, and maybe with a little work, I can get back the remaining 400 back, but somehow I think am going to have to just start over.

I am now officially depressed. Jenny tried to put my loss into perspective by pointing out I had only lost music, and not a kidney or two. But I am still sad. I think the saddest part is that I have lost all of my playlists, including the final layout of my yearly review CD.

I read an article a couple of months ago that suggested once a year erasing your whole ipod and just starting over. The article pointed out it would a great way to get new music into your life, and get serious about all of the music that you really love. At the time, I actually contemplated giving the suggestion a try, thinking it would be good to start over and to give my ipod a real shake up. But now having a forcibly obliterated ipod, I am having second thought about whether or not this is a good idea.

I guess I should be grateful that my ipod still works and that I can get back most of my favourite songs, and I was kinda getting boring of all the music I did have on my ipod. Here’s hoping that everything is better the second time around.

So far the weekend is going pretty well. The office Christmas “party” went off without too many hitches, and this time I actually got the stake, and dessert and not the lame sandwich I got last year.

And a special thank you to my compadres for the second stake of the day at The Keg. I have such a love of goat cheese these days.

Thanks to my family for all of the fun and help over the past couple of days, and the Chicken Bowls really are good. Thanks for introducing me to them.

Thanks to the ladies and Mocha Cabana, the greatest stress reliever in the whole city.

Here’s to Sunday being just a good.

Good Luck. God Speed. Love to all