Tracy Calabrese

Last week, I finally got annoyed enough to call the office at my apartment to complain about the loud music I hear at all hours of the night on a regular basis. I was 99% sure it was coming from downstairs and the manager said she would leave a note on their door.

All was quiet for about a week, so I thought it was taken care of.

This evening after I got back from walking the Katy Trail, I walked into my apartment to hear the thudding of music. Obviously, my neighbors have no respect for the people that live around them.

I hate to be “that girl” and complain to the office again, but if I wanted to relive my college years and move into a dorm, I would.

It’s time I start looking for a new place, hopefully a condo or house, so I plan to get in my car and drive around this weekend to pick up flyers.

I always ignore the iTunes update when it pops up and for some reason I accepted it today and downloaded the newest version.

I am now obsessed with finding all the album covers and organizing my songs so they are all nice and pretty. I have a done a pretty good job so far and I am just categorizing the randoms, like 80’s music, into albums and finding some random images to include as album artwork.

FYI - The Twilight soundtrack is pretty darn good.

You know when you have lost something and you know you have it somewhere in your apartment or house or car. For a few years now, I have been looking for my Matchbox 20, Yourself or Someone Like You CD. I know that is completely random, but it’s a good CD! Don’t judge me.

So since I am in desperate need of some new music to listen to at the gym (Yes, I finally joined a gym. Gold’s Gym to be exact.), I decided to raid my old CD’s and see what I could dig up. And there it was. Tucked behind another CD. The Matchbox 20 CD I have been looking for almost 2 years.

I also came across some good music to add to my iTunes library, which is filled mostly with pop-punk, emo stuff (The Starting Line, Yellowcard, The Ataris, Saves the Day, etc.). Cyndi Lauper, The Bangles, Nelly, No Doubt. Good stuff to work out too. I am actually pretty pumped to go to the gym now.