Pandora's box

It's been awhile since I last blogged, so lot's to catch up on....

You may have noticed that I've changed my template somewhat and added something along the side here called Pandora. It's a website that allows you to create your own radio station by building off one artist or song that you like. My first choice is an R&B type station because I typed in "London Bridge" by Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, and the second one is more of an acoustic-y, reggae, salsa type of station I got by typing in Lily Allen. You can either listen to my two stations or have fun creating one of your own. (It eliminates having to listen to adverts, at the very least.) I got into it as I've been downloading our entire CD collection onto the computer to have it then downloaded onto our Ipod. So far I've got almost 4 gigs done (2.5 days of listening - which makes being stuck on a desert island with my Ipod a little less boring) and another tower of CDs to go! I don't know if this is another one of those "make-work" projects because somewhere along the way I've forgotten why I was doing it in the first place.
Oh, I know! I was trying to come up with the ultimate "walking playlist". When I walk Jessie every morning, I noticed that I could cover a lot more ground if I could find some up-beat tempos to walk to. After a few days of trial and error, (which included walks where either I was walking as if I were slowly advancing up the wedding aisle or booting it so fast I was getting shin-splints) I finally came up with the ultimate playlist. I even have a built-in pauses in the tempo for those absolutely necessary poo-retrieval moments - which is assuming I can get Jessie to cooperate and do it in the exact same place every morning...

Here's the playlist if anyone's curious to see what gets me moving around the park:

A Little Less Conversation 3:33 Elvis vs JXL
Love Machine 3:25 Girls Aloud
Aint Got No... I Got Life (REMIX) 3:22 Nina Simone
Absolutely Everybody 3:43 Vanessa Amorosi
My time 3:15 Dutch feat. Crystal Waters
Ray Of Light 5:20 Madonna
Cha Cha Slide 3:40 DJ Casper
Follow Da Leader 2:32 Nigel & Marvin
Pump It 3:33 The Black Eyed Peas
Vertigo 3:14 U2
Burning Down The House 3:37 Tom Jones & The Cardigans Huge