Making sweet music together
A few weeks ago Mrs. Happy and I made up lists of small
things
we could do for each other to foster feelings of love.
One of those things was to "turn the lights off and just listen to music."
We've been doing that fairly regularly, and it's more fun than either of us
imagined.
We are a Mac family, so we have two iMacs (one old and one newer, but not brand new), an iPod (purchased in 2002), and iTunes, with nearly 2,000 songs, enough to listen to for more than five days straight. We have taken to creating playlists in iTunes, loading them onto the iPod, and playing them for each other as we lie down for bed. My wife's goal in this is to cultivate a more sophisticated taste for popular music in me, and she's succeeding. My goal is to create a playlist that will make her say, "That was really cool." For me, that's like winning a trophy. I've succeeded only once so far, with two honorable mentions for a pronouncement of "interesting." As a bonus, my luddite wife is beginning to see some value in computers and related technology.
The beauty of it is that we're doing something fun for each other and with each other. What could be better than that?
