Yeah, I understand about losing yourself in the music. I love listening to great music and just getting consumed by it. Music is so incredible that way, the way it can tell a story, make you feel, take you on a ride, send you soaring, or crashing to the ground.

I never had the opportunity to learn to play an instrument, though I would have loved to (and still would, particularly the piano). We never had the money for music lessons. But I was in choir all through junior high and high school, and I remember so fondly the high that being united in creating music would give me. It's an incredible collective feeling. I still love to sing. I'm much too busy now to pursue music on anything more than a casual every-now-and-then basis, though I always have the radio on full blast when I'm commuting to work, singing along at the top of my lungs. *grin*