I cannot sing.  It is pretty much unanimous among the people who know and love me that I cannot sing.  I don't care what those people say, I love to sing.  I sing all day, all night and every time I am in the car.  Max, my 13 year old has a request.  That I do not sing in the car.  Pffttt.  Too bad, I say.  I try to refrain when he has his friends in the car, but sometimes, it just pops out.  I can think of a song for almost anything my kids say to me.  The latest conversation with Max was whether or not 13 is too young to have a girlfriend.  I think so.  He disagrees.  Next thing I know I am singing "they try to tell us we're too young". 

My own mother regularly turns off her hearing aides when I sing.  Seriously.  I do have a few loyal friends that insist that I sing well, but frankly, I think they are lying!  The other problem is that I am hearing impaired.  This is a two part problem.  The one part is that I can honestly not hear how bad I am and the other part is I rarely get the words right, because I didn't hear them correctly in the first place.  Lyrics.com is one of my favorite places!

When I look at my dog, I burst into " who loves you pretty JJ, who's always there to make it right, who loves pretty doggie, who's gonna help you through the night, who loves you....., who's gonna love you love you...".

I also love to sing happy birthday to my friends on their birthday.  This is generally greeted with either a groan or laugh but always with the words, "you don't have to sing the entire song".  I ignore this.  I am making joyful noise!

When I am particularly exasperated with my life, I sing the song from Moulin Rouge... "One Day I'll fly away, leave all this to yesterday".

On the first day of school in September, when "mom held hostage" is over, I can be heard belting out Barbra Streisand's "Free again"! 

I love Broadway musicals and have been known to sing all of the parts!  Not well, but hey... if the only songs you heard in the forest were from the birds that sang well, it would be a pretty damn quiet forest!  There's a quote from someone in there, but for the moment, I can't remember who said it.  My favorite musical is They're Playing our Song!

Sing, sing a song.  Sing out loud.  Sing out strong.  Sing of good things, not bad..... Sing of happy, not sad!  Sing, sing a song.  Make it simple to last your who life long.  don't worry that it's not good enough, for anyone else to hear, just sing... sing a song!!! 

So, for today, 10/22/09, I am thankful for music.  It makes our souls soar, it lightens our load, it brings us together.  In my case, it makes people laugh!  So sing!  Sing a song!

Carpe Diem!