RHAPSODY in my Sansa

I have this.  I just bought it; it’s red and teeny and it weighs about a nickel’s weight and it’s LOVE.  In capital letters.

I used to use an archaic iPod from about 4 years ago.  I always hated that piece of apple crap because: hate doesn’t need a reason, just strong feelings; it was big; the music was from four-plus years ago; it was MAC formatted and I use PCs; and I had to purchase it from my ex-boyfriend.  Funny thing was, I had already purchased this iPod, for him, for his birthday, as a gift, while I was working as a shoe saleswoman and bringing home next to nil.  A few weeks after I gave it to him, and he had added, like every single cd he owned (an astronomical, almost unfathomable number) he decided it wasn’t good enough because it wasn’t a VIDEO IPOD.  So he SOLD it back to me.  Total, the iPod cost me, like, $500 – which at the time was double my rent.  Double.

I’ve been wanting to throw it on the ground and unleash my rage on its prone, white metal body with a pair of wood soled stiletto shoes, but then I’d have no portable music.  So I suffered endless resentment, like a teenage mother who can’t hang out with her delinquent friends because she has a screaming newborn.  Until Saturday afternoon at approximately 3:29p.  I ended up purchasing this particular brand of mp3 player because the Man has Rhapsody and I wanted something compatible and he loves his enjoys  mp3 player and touts the endless praise of Rhapsody.  I buckled under jealousy. 

Now I love Rhapsody.  Every day I find a new way that Rhapsody improves my life.  Like, I was reading a blog in which a woman was talking about Rob & Big, the show on MTV, most particularly about a specific scene when Rob blasts Enrique Iglesias while in a car wash and goes completely karaoke, complete with car choreography.  I could hear the song in my head and I thought “Man, I’d love to hear that.”  Rhapsody.  I could get that song RIGHT NOW and be listening to it RIGHT NOW!

And I was responding to a text message about someone having to burp and I said ‘jump around’.  Then thought “Hot damn I could be listening to THAT song right now.”  RHAPSODY!  And my life is so good.