Music Man...

Today was the deadline for another CD exchange, hosted by smelmoo. As with all of the exchanges, I puttered around for weeks thinking about the cd.

See, I believe in using themes. Maybe it's the Monk in me but I have this little bit of OCD where I like things to have a connection. Also, using a theme makes it easier to narrow down my collection to 18 songs.

So after a few weeks of this and that, I settled on Food. That was the easy part. The hard part was finding songs about food that were not meant for those under 10. Sure, lots of songs have food mentioned, but really are not about the pleasures of eating or drinking. I wanted songs the celebrated the wonderfulness of tomatoes in the summer, ice cream on a spring day or chili over a campfire. Some of them do, and others I just liked because they were by my man.

Then comes the cover and the song list. I could do an entire entry about fonts and my obsession with color but I'll save that for another day. Let's just say that I am often as proud of my cover as I am of my song selection. So in the end "In The Kitchen" was completed and mailed to the other participants. Hopefully they will all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed compiling.