TV vs. My iPod

It's a tough score card to compare. Last night I sat down to watch a commercial free Amazing Race (because it was DVRed) and I realized that I still had all of Wednesday's line up of shows to get through, not to mention the Sunday news shows. In a beautiful busy weekend spent outside, I realized I spent Friday night fiddling with my iPod settings and an entirely new library of music that needed to be vetted and divided into playlists. The only comparison I can make to what this process felt like is when I was in Junior High and my summer job was to convert the school libraries over to the Dewey Decimal system. Laugh if you must, but for a 13 year old kid it was a great summer job! The tedious nature of getting my music organized sucked away half my weekend 'free time' after my daughter was asleep. It meant I didn't write in my journal about a week of interesting stories and milestones for my daughter. It meant I didn't finish a blanket project for a friends baby, it meant I didn't make a dent in the laundry that is piling up and it certainly meant I didn't get around to watching Wednesday nights TV season premiere lineup. It's hilarious to me the vortex that technology can sometimes suck us into when we least expect it. I like to think I walk the walk of technology being around to make my life simpler but every now and then I get caught in the trappings -- which is a long way of saying, I will be watching and posting tonight on last week's TV. Besides, this blog is more art than science.