I have an amazing group of friends....

This group of friends bought me an Ipod before I left for Summer Placement, I think because they weren't sure how I'd cope in the town I was placed in, Palmy has a bit of a stigma, all false of course.
Anyway I have so appreciated this special gift (all the more because it's purple) and to get the most use out of it, I bought a pack with an Ipod/Tape Converter for my car (no CD player, old school, I know) as well as one of those things that you put into your cigarette lighter and it can play the Ipod through that power source... someone will know what they are called.
Anywho so far I've been using the Tape Converter but because I used it a lot over summer (and ok, because it was cheap) recently the quality has been a bit warped. Now I think I'm ready to try the other thing. So I got and read the instructions, and find that if I don't select the right voltage for the tuner on this wee thing, it could 'blow my device'. And by device, they mean my special purple Ipod. Problem. I would quite like to NOT blow my device, and hence, I'm scared to try it and have resorted to listening to bad radio stations.

I have written this blog for three reasons.
1. I think I would like to blog some more, maybe. I started one last year but got slack. This year my mind has been going overtime and it helps me to get stuff out of my head and onto paper... screen etc. People seemed to really enjoy my emails over summer and I would promise to make these blogs shorter, and with more paragraph breaks for certain people.

2. If anybody thinks they can solve my wee technical issue, then this is a good forum for telling people about it and giving me some advice.. currently my advice has been leaning towards the 'pay more money and get a proper one' and that is what I'm thinking of doing. And probably not for 20 bucks from the big red shed.

3. I was thinking about my wee dilemma and how often in life we get scared. We get scared to take a risk because we fear it will blow up in our face. We don't take a chance on someone or something or some experience because we don't know the outcome and this uncertainty means we freeze up and we decide the best option is to do nothing. I'm sure in the case of my Ipod, the chances of the device blowing up is slim to none but still that little bit freaks me out and has left me to settle for less than I deserve IE bad music and annoying ads and radio presenters rather than my sweet playlist of musical awesomeness. Sigh. I'm not sure if that's good enough, or if I want to live my life that way. I'm not just talking about my Ipod of course, hopefully that's clear by now. Taking it to a Jesus level for a mo, I think faith is more than just saying you believe in something. I have to let my faith dictate your life.. as much as it freaks me out I think I need to trust God to be with me in the scary, vulnerable, risk taking, freaky, heart-on-your-sleeve, adventurous, unknown times because if He is in either outcome, why worry?

Just a thought.
But seriously I need Ipod help.
Laura