sing better

I find that I sing better when I’m happy, & the beans (Magensium & protein!) & wholewheat rice & chlorophylle & sauerkraut diet helps..

If just Mom & Dad didn’t continue to drop ‘bombshells’ to my already fragile self-esteem in the meanwhile… It’s horrendous at times!! & yes, I AM oversensitive!! /&proud to prove it!!/

I find that singing helps with my back pain – apparently it causes some kind of emotional release & pain disappears… At least for the time being.. (Similarly if I ‘draw’ my pain out, or crumble paper or such…) Must be healthier than bloody painkillers!!

Interesting…

Haven’t been practising singing much… (except when writing songs & singing them) – maybe time for change?

It is fun to see people admire me for the courage of getting up on stage itself, & it’s inspiring me to perform again!!
(In which case, singing BETTER would be a bonus definitely!!)

I’ve been practising at Granny’s too (my own songs mostly)
& today I played & sung good old oldies.. Blondie, & These Shoes Were Made 4 Walking, & such.. (as much as I could remember them)

I did sing badly yesterday (almost sore throat, somewhere inbetween the songs! maybe from anger), & today I sang well, voice was great! (even though I almost froze at night, & on my walk! Or maybe because of it?) I remember walks & vitamins used to help my voice!!

I have written several pretty neat new songs… hmm… /Does that count? ;)/

I haven’t really been practising these past three days… kinda lived in an internet/walking frenzie, & not doing much else… Ohh, I did read part of a cool book on fairies… (?)

Of course it was the Day of the Dead too, & I was pretty miserable… But that’s no excuse! Noo?

At least I took the guitar into my hands every day – I think….

Tuesday – sang the songs from the green little book!
(before Sis would let me to the PC, & after the walk – & lunch!)

It was so fun singing the songs we sang at the dorm, some even in high school – & this time I knew most of the chords! I also wrote down some of the chords to start in… mostly I didn’t have that yet.

& I could start in F – more than ever before! lol

PS Everytime I started a particularly miserable song a whiney friend called. Thant means 2x, just one after another!
So I just gave up on the song & sang on, others & more cheerful ones!

I don’t remember if I sang yesterday or on Sunday – but I do know I skipped 1 day & sang for 2 hours the next day!! & my voice continued in a good mood!! YAY!!
I did sing songs I haven’t sung in a long time, even those completely unsuitable for being part of my repertoire – but Ahh how I enjoyed it!!

Yesterday Sis joined me with the singing & it was really fun!!

We made up a song about her current job (‘rewrote’ an existing one) & laughed so much!! (So I’m officially posted this in the ‘Party’ thread too!)

We sang songs we used to sing at the dorm… It was fun!

(I did practise on my own a bit before that, but trying to rewrite some songs earlier on just made me depressed, so I went for a walk instead)

I know I practised at least one more day in the week… Some others from the ‘big heap’ of songs… (the green folder maybe?) But don’t remember about the other days…
HOW CAN I KEEP TRACK OF THIS??!!

It’s officially changed to this goal, for now:

So I will post what I practise here.

Yesterday (Sunday) I grabbed my guitar & sang 90% of the blue see-through folder & some from the white songbook, & some I attempted to remember.
I was in a cheerful mood & sang some lovesongs I hadn’t sung for a long time (Elvis Presley etc.) I didn’t remember all the lyrics, but it was still fun!
Then, I turned on the radio – the lovely oldies! – lovesongs again!! lol

Today (Monday) I grabbed my guitar & tried to remember some sucky miserable songs that fitted the day (miserable & wet) while Sis took over the PC.
I actually did remember some: ‘Can’t Live’ by Mariah Carey, Besame Mucho, ‘Sometimes it’s Hard to be a Woman’ & ‘It Wasn’t God who made HonkyTonk angels’ & such. Then, I took out my ‘Miserable Songs’ blue folder & dug in! lol
Ex-Yu stuff we sang at the dorm or in high-school! lol Lovely memories.
I tried to sing a happier tune (YMCA) but my voice would just go hoarse on me. Singing the miserable ones was fun! (Parni Valjak & mostly Balaševič) I haven’t sung those for ages!

When 1 hour was over, I wanted to still be singing, but I reminded myself (for the benefit of my throat) that 1h is enough! so I took a walk!

I was a bit worried that singing different songs every day was bad for my repertoire – but what the heck! It was a pleasure!
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I forgot to sing today (too much time online, & free PC almost whole day! akhem) – also because I was so furious, even yesterday – though I did sing yesterday – I find it difficult to sing if I’m furious! OoO

I will have to figure out what to do with my life pretty soon!
Mom&Dad keep throwing ‘bombshells’ & even if my back isn’t quite healed yet, I’ll have to do something!
They want me to get a job! Any job! asap!! yuck!!

They have birthdays this week so this has always been a critical time to be alive! & err, home!

This pressure is just – ugh! I don’t do much if I’m in such a frenzied state! (except post online or research meaningless stuff that actually isn’t top priority! – or is it?)

& I really don’t want the jobs Mom keeps recommending! (I did semi-like one, but who’d hire me to lug books with my back still not stable?)

Okay, so today I actually practised!

It was ‘one of the things to do on the break from PC’ first, in the morning. So I sang 5 songs or so… (3 my own, 2+ the memorised covers…)

And I actually sang in the breaks a bit, just 1 or 2 songs…

And later in the evening when Sis chased me from the PC again & there was nothing fun on TV (see the pattern?) & I was bored & didn’t know what to do… I actually got my old songbook out and practised for a full hour!! YAY!!

I did feel like singing some of the more miserable ones today, due to the weather especially, but YAY anyway!!

(yelling was a bit hard after that, but I definitely need to get my voice to be strong again!)