I realized as I was leaving my comment on her blog, that I have started compartmentalizing my music. I broke it down earlier:

Work is easy, I usually listen to one of my many Pandora stations on Monday, Saturday and Sunday (if I work those days), when I’m on my own. I listen to XM’s Big Tracks (channel 49) or Top Tracks (channel 46) when Eddie is there, as we can both enjoy those stations. Interestingly, when I’m not there, Eddie listens to the 70′s station (channel 7) – which I cannot stay awake through – or Tejano. We spliced my speakers to both sides of the cubicle, so we tend to stick to music that we both like.

Matt stole my car in June, and put in a new stereo with an iPod jack for my birthday; my rigged up system was driving him nuts, and required me to carry my iPod everywhere (those video iPods can be heavy!). On this larger iPod, I have everything I could fit on the machine, including jazz, classical, country, several soundtracks from various TV shows, movies, and beaucoups musicals. This is not allowed in work. Everytime something of the above mentioned categories comes up, Eddie announces “What kind of blue plate special music are you playing?!?” One of these days, I’m just gonna throw something instead of changing the song! This is also the iPod that is on constant rotation at my parent’s house, especially since they got me a kick-butt speaker system for Christmas.

Jade got me an alarm for Christmas that plays the iPod, so I put my U2 iPod in there. It’s old, and doesn’t hold a charge anymore, so that’s the perfect place for it, as it’s constantly being charged. I love having a place to use it, because I adore that iPod…it was my first one (from Matt, of course), and it was the prettiest thing that I had ever seen. It was miserable just sitting in a drawer. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to change the music on it. You see, the alarm has an escalation feature, which is awesome on mornings where I have Alanis Morrisette or Ray Charles on there, but something like Mozart will wake every other person on the block before it wakes me.

My Shuffle has all the music that wakes me up, and gets me off my butt. I originally made it for riding my bike, but I’ve had to plug it in a lot to get through a work day when I just can’t get the lead out. ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” is essential, along with Pink’s “God Is a DJ”, Poe’s “Today is the Day”, Counting Crows’ “St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream”, and Maroon 5′s “Not Coming Home”.

Seriously, my tags are going to be CRAZY, so I’d better end this post (which I’ve been working on ALL DAY).  If you compartmentalize your music, you totally need to tell me about it below.  See y’all tomorrow!

ooo – Elvis Costello’s The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes is on the radio! ‘Scuze me while I bop a little!

Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

Our posting person is out at work, so they’ve been keeping me super busy helping out in that area all week. It’s been really fun, since I’m not familiar with that section of the job. I’m really filling in the knowledge gaps on the system – and by this I mean that I knew the theory of doing that work, but I had never done it. I love it when I get a new challenge!

Still having quite the problem with XM radio. It’s not that they’re being difficult – their customer service is really nice – I apparently just keep falling through the cracks in their system. For example, after a *year* of calling them twice a month, someone finally thought to mention tech support to me. Geez Louise!

On the upside, Amazon support was really phenomenal yesterday. I had a bit of an issue with my usual card (the bank caught someone fraudulently adding charges to it and closed the card – mentioned here), but they worked with me to get my order out (thank you guys!!!). It won’t be on time, but I think that Matt’s going to have a hard enough time dealing with the fact that he’s getting his present in his birthday month, instead of in June. I hope he reads this before he has a coronary, as attempts to reach him have been largely unsuccessful (I did have a lovely conversation with Glenda yesterday, though!).

Wow, for not having a lot to say, I’ve gotten a good deal out, haven’t I? Have a good day, all; I’ll “talk” to you tomorrow!!