Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Hooray

When I got home tonight, I did some dishes.

Usually, this is not a reason to celebrate.

But tonight was a good dishes night because I live alone, which is, oddly enough, also not always a reason to jump up and down. But the good thing about living alone and doing dishes is that you can put your mp3 player on, close the door to the kitchen and know that not even the neighbours can hear you sing.

So I put my mp3 player on, closed the door, and sang.

I sang lead. I switched over to harmony and back - mid-phrase - as the urge took me. I sang low, I sang high. I sometimes sang almost high enough. And it was all good.

And here's the thing - not only was it much, much funner than the regular kind of dishes-doing, but my range is getting better. Except for the top couple of notes where she goes into her head voice, I can comfortably sing all of Natalie Imbrouglia's "Counting Down The Days". That's pretty cool.

And my dishes are clean, which is also cool. It's going to be a good night.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

FUN... gotta sing!

Good Friday service this past year was where I realized how much my range and especially my lung capacity had grown. I was soloing this awesome song for the first time since the previous year's service... realized I didn't need to breathe half as often and had double the power... elastic vocal cords for the high carried notes... ahhhhh wonderful.

But then when I sang it in the capacity-filled church, in the dark, closed, hot and stuffy before we lit the candles and got the lights back on....

Let's just say things started to fade to black. I managed to grab my music stand for balance and get through it. But except for the time when my colleagues freaked me out for my birthday, that's the only time I nearly fainted.

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Sara Groves' new song "Love is a Worthy Cause" has a bass line that I predict you will greatly enjoy. Might need to take the bass into the kitchen first though. ;-)