in light of having my iphone stolen in san francisco, i have found myself without a portable musicmaker, which makes breaks at work and walks around davis and housecleaning quite a dull and uninspired task.

so, my mother, being the lovely lady that she is, decided that she never uses her ipod and that if i wanted it, i could have it.  what a gesture!  that is, until i got it and realized that it was the ipod i had gifted my sister two years ago.  she had given it to mom, and mom gave it to me.  regifting to the MAX in my household!

but..hey, i'm not complaining.  yeah, i have a 4 gb hot pink nano which looks ridiculous when paired with me, the girl who doesn't really own anything of bright colour.  my only complaint is that pesky 4 gb problem.  i'm synching it now and it didn't even have enough room to hold my music, plus the music dan gave me.  i had to pick and chose, making carefully designed playlists with the music i know i never fail to listen to, and the few things i want to be able to hear on the go but that aren't tried and true favorites.  with only 4 gbs to work with, there is little room for experimentation.  i cannot look at my music library and say, "hey, i might listen to that sometime in the future..what the heck, synch it up!"  nope.  this little pink number wants absolute certainty in music selection!