Meredith and Rob made this wonderfully folky, mellow CD that they sent us with our holiday cookies, and I’ve become addicted to the playlist. I put it on and start doing the dishes or writing a letter, and it’s all very sweet, and slow, and meanders achingly from the Indigo Girls to Coldplay to Aimee Mann — and then suddenly Boston comes on with “More Than a Feeling,” and I am happy that my hair comes down to my shoulders now because it means I can headbang while I type.

I hope my 2006 is like that: gentle fun, until something really rockin’ happens all of a sudden that messes up my hair.