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Loida Casares Ruiz

Wife, Mother, Writer, Advertising Manager

Loida Casares Ruiz grew up in Northeast Houston. She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Minor in English. She received a Master of Arts in Communication in 2001. She works in advertising by day and is a mother, wife, and writer by night. She has al...

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I’ve Entered into the 21st Century

Loida Casares Ruiz AKA Shoegirl

Why?  I got an iPod. Or rather, my husband bought me an iPod. Following on the music theme this month in skirt!, I thought it only appropriate to talk about my new found friend. We’re still getting to know one another, but I can tell already that it’s going to be a good relationship. Yesterday my husband and I went to Starbucks and I picked up a card for a free download. (Starbucks is offering a free song every week.) I was excited! I can download the song and listen to it to see if I like it, and if I do, I can add it to my iPod!

My sister told me that Alanis Morissette has a new CD out, “Flavors of Entanglement.” She was on Howard Stern and The View yesterday. She said she was going to go buy the CD that day. I told her I would see if it was available on iTunes so that I can buy it for my iPod. That felt even weird to say it.

When I was a little girl 8-Track tapes were the craze, then we had cassette tapes and we thought we had it going on. Enter CDs. My husband and I were just reminiscing about how when he met me at the beginning of 1996 I was still all about cassettes. I didn’t start listening to CDs until I married him. I was reluctant to make the move. I felt like I had invested too much on my cassettes.  The same thing happened with the iPod.

The iPod entered the market in 2001. It is now 2008 and at the ripe old age of 38 I have finally entered into the 21^st century. I feel hip. I feel cool. I feel reckless!  I’m the person who missed out on a whole generation of music, mainly the mid ‘90s to 2007 because I was stuck in the ‘80s. I’m just now getting into new music.

It took me losing all of my CDs lately in an unfortunate accident and miscommunication (they flew off the top of the roof of my SUV) to finally make the move to the iPod. So far it has all my husband’s music on it, because he was the one with the iTunes account, but soon I will create my own play list and will have made the complete transition. I still have it going on! Watch out!