blast to the past — refreshing the present

After about a 1.5 year of not really using my laptop – about 6 months of that I thought it had died on me – I finally decided to give my laptop and it’s functions some love. So to begin with I started with Itunes. What better way to make it feel new and good again than to clear out, clean up and organize.

Five hours of reminiscing on old songs, deleting songs I can absolutely not listen to any more, and importing cds that I am too lazy to put into the cd changer in the car (it’s in the truck- not convenient) – I have to say it’s look pretty spiffy – and I seem to have matured quite a bit.  It no longer seems to look like it belongs to teeny bopper/emo/punk rock teenager (can you even be all things at one time?)  Anyways, it was nice to get nostalgic over certain songs, as I would turn to H and say “oOh I dance to this at prom” or “this would be my getting ready to hit the town song!” and more so along those lines). I even still had one of my favorite cds that I made, which to me detriment has succumbed to water damage. It was on repeat by accident for 8 hours at a friend’s bday party.  And for the first 4 months I got my car, it was the only cd I would play. It really was the best mix ever I thought – I might just have to remake it.

And thanks to wonders that is Iphone applications – Shazam let me finally know titles, artists and albums that have been listed as track whatever number ever since I got Itunes. And now I know that Paperboyz “Ditty” is spelled with 2 Ts and not Ds and the female cover of “Leaving on a Jet Plane” which for so long I thought was Bjork has now been resolved – it’s not Bjork.

As hard as it was for me to delete songs that made me nauseous, reminded me too much of the past that I wanted to forget and so on…i feel almost lighter that they are no longer there for me to stumble upon (although – I still couldn’t let go of my plethora BSB songs =P).  Next I guess would be to clean up my pictures…however, I think I’m much better at erasing hard evidence of my past – especially if it deals not so flattering pictures of myself – thanks digital cameras =D