Listenin' to the music...

I'm at work tonite, putting in the last few hours for my work week, knocking out some tasks that were better and more easily tackled during hours when the bulk of the user community wouldn't be here with demands on my time, or needs for the systems/applications that were going to be affected by the work that I needed to get done.  Most of the work is done, now I'm just left with a few minor tasks to knock off before I can claim complete victory.  Yay me, in a little while, hopefully

As I sit here, my headphones are on and I'm listening to a bunch of tunes that I've got on my iPhone (as I use it more in iPod mod through the evening).  For right now, my listening is centered around the highly talented group Lady Antebellum.  Their most recent album continues to wow me with great tunes.  I had done a review of it here. Thankfully the purchase of that album also included, via their fan club site, the opportunity to download a bunch of bonus tracks, and I've downloaded what I could of those tracks. Between those tracks, the original album, and their earlier album, I could listen to hours of their work.

Looking back on the review/rating that I had given the Need You Now album originally, I really wish I could go back and change the rating that I had used to a full 5 stars.  It really is a great album and the more I hear from it, the more I feel that way.

I could also listen to David Nail's I'm About To Come Alive, and for that matter a recently mentioned artist, Walker Hayes and his debut EP and make myself pretty content, but every now and then something about one of the songs on those discs, or some others in my collection will give me a little twinge as I think about where I am now in life, and the loss my family experienced back in 2009.

At another site I frequent, I wrote a lot about what happened, and all of the processes that followed.  I said back then, in that original writing, that my wife and kids had often thought that I was somewhat robotic in my emotional reactions to things.  That was true when I said it, and it's still somewhat true now.  That's just the way I deal with things, as I'm not someone that can just sit back and cry it all out.  Not that some things are all that easy to cry out, as sometimes it doesn't come down to just a day or so of emotions to get through, but still, we all handle things differently, and I definitely seem to do it differently than most might expect.

I've always seemed to react to some songs, or some movies or TV shows.  More to music I think, as the words or melody bring back memories and tug at me a little.  I'm sure that there were always be little reminders that will hit me, hopefully not too hard, and I'll hopefully use those little reminders to think back on happy times.