If you put the songs on this blog in a playlist, they sum up to almost 80 minutes. That’s exactly the length of an audio CD and they would fit on a good old C90 tape too. What started as a playful addition to the messages became some kind of sport – I admit that I felt a certain urge to find a suitable song to every post. One reason for that was that Nadine loved the surprises and the songs. Another reason was my nerdish perfectionism…

But in the long run I won’t be able to keep up the standard of a song for each post. Honestly speaking, I’m quite surprised that I found so many suitable ones to last for a whole month or the length of an audio CD – I expected myself to run out of ideas sooner. Okay, not every song matched with the content of it’s post exactly and some relations were a bit far-fetched. For my excuse, let me quote Damon Michael Gough, a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy:

“songs are never quite the answer, just a soundtrack to a life”

And that’s what they are supposed to be. A soundtrack to Nadine’s life that gives her comfort and energy and can be used during chemotheraphy and other tasks.