do a little dance, make a little love...

i've discovered a wonderful site on the internet recently. well, not really recently... but it's recent that i've been getting into it.

but first, some background:
i'm a song and dance junky. not just the madonna in the shower, or some britney at a karaoke bar, but the full-out-patty-lupone-crying-for-argentina type of singing and dancing. i LOVE showtunes! it's kind of a sickness, i think. i spent a couple of years in college completely immersed in it for most of my time (when i wasn't rushing to get a paper done for class, etc.) and i think instead of getting sick of it, i've just fallen in love with it all that much more. it's a shame, since i haven't seen all that many productions on broadway (or touring broadway) -- but i've seen tons of community theater (which, i have to admit has its own charm).
anyhow, at any given time you'll find me in the car belting out something from "you're a good man charlie brown," "rent," or "chicago" (my current favorites right now).

hence, you can understand my excitement for modernbroadway.com.
it's a branch off of live365 (free web music!), and i can listen to all kinds of obscure modern broadway music.

it's like a drug. i feel like a different person when i'm listening/singing along to a showtune. it puts me in a better place than the chair i'm sitting in right now (in a cold cold FREEZING computer lab in a very drab law library -- i'm not singing right now. people would probably kill me).
i miss the performance aspect of it... a lot. i think that's why i love to go karaoke-ing so much.

which takes me to another bad habit of mine.

i go to this hole-in-the-wall bar every weekend (EVERY weekend) for their weekend karaoke.
i try not to miss it. EVER.
so, naturally, the bar setting's gotten very "cheers"-like. yeah... like norm sitting on a bar stool-esque. everyone who's a regular there all know each other on a first-name basis. i'm chummy with the bartenders/owners. i get first dibs on songs (even if i walk late and there's a huge pile of songs already at the request table).
we even get territorial about certain songs. once in a while, some underage college chica comes in and sings one of "our" songs and i swear you hear the huffs of indignation from YARDS away.

i'm trying to get myself to do something different. i feel like when you walk into a bar and everyone goes, 'HEY SARA" really loudly, it's time for me to take a time-out.
but like i said... in order to break a habit, you have to replace it with another.

the last couple of nights, i've been playing vide games and watching infomercials, but that didn't seem like a good alternative.

i have to admit, though... the quad-blade food processor is mighty tempting.
only 5 payments of $19.95...