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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I know I have been missing in action in the blog world but I have been working on a very time consuming, mind numbing, make you go blind kind of project. I realized that it is all Dan's fault when I remembered a comment he made over new year's, at bear lake. We were playing cards and I had my iPod playing at full volume through the head phones so that everyone at the table could hear some tunes. Someone mentioned something about how much music I had and Dan remarked that they wouldn't believe what a freak I was because every song had its album name, cover, date released and artist. I just shrugged it off and smiled but this was not the truth.
Before I started having serious computer problems I had gone through and fixed many of the mix ups from the music I have obtained from Wendy, Krista, Erin and Brittany. Now that I have a new computer I wanted to add all of my music to it. I wanted to be able to sync my iPod to my computer and haven't been able to do it forever!
So for the past week I have been going through every song I could lay my hands on. There were so many duplicates! I am more familiar with iTunes and finally know where my music is stored on my computer and the changes I make in iTunes are now made in the file folders the music file is stored in. Every song has the correct Artist, Album name, Release Date, Artwork, and Genre. I have wheedled the list down to 22.3 GB, or 6,650 Files, or 1,430 Folders. I saved it all on my external hard drive and then went through and clean that up too!
I finished doing this last night around 10 pm and wasn't a bit tired. I have been staying up from anywhere between 3 and 4 in the morning working on this obsessive project. So I ran some hot bath water and grabbed my February issue of Martha Stewart Living. I laid there soaking in the water reading from cover to cover. There were a lot of good valentines ideas and I even saw a recipe I will be trying {Croque-Monsieur} but the best this was the article: Family History in the Making. This artist has allowed some of her items to be available to download and I thought they were so cute. 
She had so many things displayed in the most adorable way. Check it out at Martha Stewart magazine, Family History in the Making. I love a shadow box and think I could do some really cute things with the pictures and mementos I have of Dayna. I would also love to do something with some of my favorite baby items I saved for Chloe and Seth...
