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Day 326: XM

It's the time of year when the Sirius XM radio free trial abounds! We're too cheap to actually pay for it, so I love to live it up every Thanksgiving. Can I express pre-gratitude for XM on our 6-7 hour drive this weekend? Because I will.

The '90s on 9 and Prime Country channels are my favorite. Obviously. I mean, if you are one of the two people who reads these silly posts and doesn't yet know that '90s music is my jam, then...you've been wasting your time even more than you thought.

My sister clued me in to the Garth Brooks channel, which she said was like Prime Country but with a little more variety. AND I love it. It's fun to hear his thoughts on the songs before they play, or to hear more background on his own songs.

Sometimes I feel like I should try harder to immerse myself in new music. I follow people's playlists on Spotify and all that, but sometimes I just want my musical comfort food, and it's almost always '90s. I'm in my mid-thirties now and I'm going to go ahead and own it.

Why is the music video for The Red Strokes not on YouTube? No, I don't want to watch your karaoke version. Grrrr. No pictures of videos today, I guess, because I'm not a real blogger who, you know, tries.


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