Don't Call It a Comeback, I've Been Here for Years

Remember how my friends Diana and Adam got a married a few weeks ago? They had karaoke at their reception (making it the second wedding I’ve been to that has), which made me ask them, “How come we’ve never done karaoke together?” The response was “We didn’t know you did it.” And at least for the last little while that’s been true.

I’ve always been a singer. I did a ton of school choir growing up, I was in a guys’ quartet in high school, and I sang in an a cappella group in college. But my first real experience with karaoke was almost five years, when I started doing improv. There were several people in the group who had connections to the Ventura karaoke scene, so it was common for us to head over after Monday workshops to a nearby bar that had karaoke. I had a lot of fun with it, but as the group’s membership changed, we lost some of that connection, and I moved up to Thursday workshops, I stopped doing it entirely.

Until this week, of course. Last Thursday while I was out for drinks with the SBTweetup group, Adam texted me about doing karaoke this week. I said yes, and my friend Erica — who happened to be with me when I got the text — decided to come along. This Tuesday I made my triumphant return with Lynryd Skynyrd’s “Call Me The Breeze”, The Talking Heads’ “And She Was”, and Bobby Darin’s, “Mack The Knife.”

I’m already thinking about what to do next week.

Update

Fitness: Ran 2 miles
Sun, Moon, and Stars: 330 words, 271 seven-day average, 285 average, 54239 total, 761 to go for the week