Stimulating my life

So, the stimulus fairy came by my bank account sometime during Friday night, and I had told myself that when it had been I could do something totally crazy and buy myself an iPod. Yes, despite the fact that I am living in the podcast generation in which everybody downloads talks etc and listens to them as they go about their business, this is my first ever MP3 player (and I can vouch for the fact that life was quite satisfactory before now). Up until this point I have listened to the odd sermon/and or series online, but certainly not regularly. After sitting at my computer with headphones on all day, it's not what I want to do when I go home at night (and I have tried repeatedly but it gets too hard to listen to a sermon and read something else at the same time at work). However, I do walk to work for about 45 minutes, and have tried with varying degrees of success to actually read as I walk, and hope from here on to listen as I walk.

So, it was all quite exciting. I had to get on iTunes and buy something just because I could (yes, believe it or not, I have never done this yet either - I like having albums with their nice covers). So I went for Sarah McLachlan's Rarities and B-Sides (Vol 2). Sarah McLachlan, Emmy-Lou Harris, Cyndi Lauper, singing a little Joni Mitchell - what more could you ask for? (A bit of Bryan Adams maybe? - well you get him too, which is a mystery.) And I am quite taken with the song Pills, with The Perishers for some reason.

Now I just have to line up my sermon series ...