iPods

So I am pretty hip for my age..as I've been sayin'..and for my birthday I received an iPod. I am learning how useful it is. Like if your son who is singing along to his own iPod can be heard just singing the refrain of a song over and over (cause his earphones are on and all you can hear is him going "Right therre Right therrre"...) it's nice to put on your own iPod earphones and drown out the sound. Then you too are singing your own song as you load the dishwasher or something and not interupting one another's singing. I definitely work out much longer on my treadmill while using the iPod because I can switch songs whenever I want without moving off the treadmill and certain songs make me walk even faster and harder. The downside of the iPod in this situation is that now my family can only hear ME singing to the songs and not the music itself. I'm sorry but no matter how in key you can sing--if you have no music going--and you're singing a cappella as you work out on your treadmill..it just doesn't sound as nice. And when I sing along to Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and you can't hear the guitar along with it..it loses it's hipness. Also, sometimes you are working out so hard that you can't quite sing every word to the song you're singing..so you could be listening to The Black Eyed Peas "Pump It"..and only able to get out "Louder!" "Louder!" "Louder!"...then you later see your son who says "Mom all i heard was you singing the same words over and over!"..and I say "Well that's what YOU sound like when you sing along to YOUR ipod too!" Somehow he doesn't believe me.. My husband says "Well then don't sing along if you don't want to be heard. Just sing it in your head"... No. That's not an option. Somehow I just can't keep the singing in my head. Which is why I have yet to wear my iPod outside as I walk, because I will then be seen by passersby (and heard) singing rather loudly. I just can't NOT sing to certain songs. Perhaps it's an illness. I don't know.