December 19, 2012
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Singing
Delightful December #7
I love to sing. My voice is not the best in the world, in fact, I am sure that it can be downright awful at times. But I prefer to ignore this and sing all day long.
I make up songs about what I am doing….
‘I’m making some dinner for my husband, I’m making some dinner for my husband, because he is hungry and he needs some dinner…. yeeeeaaaah’ (my most regular songs are husband themed)
‘I’m cleaning the house, I’m finding a mouse, but I hope that I don’t and I’m sure that I won’t because miiiiiccce aaaaaare scaaaaaary’. (I just made that one up right now believe it or not. I am totally going to sing that on Saturday when I do that housework that I have been meaning to do for quite some time….)
I sing the same few lines of whatever song is stuck in my head repeatedly throughout the day. At the moment they are all Christmas themed, my favourites being Winter Wonderland and Away in a Manger (I know ALL the verses to this… there are surprisingly many).
When I find a song that I love I listen to it over and over and over again (I feel sorry for my neighbours sometimes….) until I know the words off by heart. Most recently this has been Cough Syrup by Young the Giant and One Day Like This by Elbow.
One Day Like This is my current theme tune (yes, I have theme tunes). I heard it for the first time during the closing ceremony for the Olympics where it was sung while all the athletes walked into the stadium. This was incredibly emotional for me (although I had also cried to an X Factor audition that same day so perhaps I was feeling slightly hormonal….). It was something about the power behind the fact that all these people from all the world’s nations were coming together in one room. It made me want to fight for world peace. Of course, I didn’t actually do any fighting for world peace but what I did do was download the song and ingrain the lyrics on my brain. Listening to it gives me an incredible feeling of joy and happiness in who I am and in my life.
‘Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see you like
Yeah, lying with me half awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day
So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year’d see me right
Comments (4)
A song my sister sang the other day: “Walking walking walking walking, stopping, walking walking walking, door.”
I love it :D Singing is such an expression of the joy of living! It’s the little stuff that life is really made of… If you can’t enjoy doing dishes or cooking dinner or changing diapers, you are missing a whole lot of opportunity lol…
You really should hear my diaper changing/butt wiping songs lol
Singing sets the soul free!
I hate the way my voice sounds so I never sing. Unless there is music playing that is loud enough to mask my voice lol.