My favorite thing John has ever won

About 3-4 years ago John won a 20 gig ipod at a business conference. Now when he brought it home, I was happy for him but not really that enthused for myself. I didn't really appreciate the digital music thing so it seemed kind of pointless. John spent a lot of time telling me how cool it was and that we could put all of our music on it, etc. He's a good salesman but I still wasn't buying. Then we decided we were going to drive to Buffalo that next summer and he started lobbying to buy a car adapter so we could put all our music on the ipod and then not take the tons of cds that we usually took on our trip to keep the kids amused. The adapter was like $100 which was more than I thought we should pay, but John was so excited that I eventually gave in, and tried to act excited too.

Well so we got the adapter, ripped all the cd's, and went on our trip. And I have to say that I LOVED IT!! We didn't have to mess with cd's. We could put it on shuffle and get a good mix of kid's songs and our music, and even some conference talks and BYU devotionals. It was the coolest thing ever. And it was fun to not know what was coming up next, like on the radio, but still know that you were going to like whatever did come up. And the kids got enough of their music to keep them happy and entertained without driving us crazy. It was great!!

Ever since then I've kind of monopolized the ipod. Poor John doesn't get to use it very often because I keep it in my purse to use whenever I'm driving. In fact, some times if the kids are driving me crazy, I pack the kids into the car, tell them to be quiet, and drive around listening to the soothing sounds of the ipod. I even made John buy me an ihome alarm clock so I can listen to the ipod in my bedroom. I have also since acquired an ipod shuffle (that John won at another business conference) and a regular mp3 player (because the library has a service where you can download books on tape for free, but it is not compatible with the ipod). I also have speakers in just about every room that I can plug my gadgets into and a little exercise armband. I guess you could say that I am 100% converted.

Just today John downloaded all the church music into the ipod so that it can go into our shuffle mix. I'm so excited because I've wanted to do it for a while. I probably wouldn't be as excited about these things if I didn't have John backing me up as technical support, but I do so I am.

I seriously love ipods and mp3 players (and their car adapters) and would recommend them to anyone, especially those with kids. There you go. There is my sales pitch for the day. Thanks John for winning us such great stuff. And I guess, as usual, John was right.