Theoretically, if you do something long enough, you should get good at it, right? I've been singing along to music for as long as I can remember and you have to think at some point by doing it enough you would be able to hit those high notes or keep a melody or something. I'd like to say I'm now an above average singer but I guess that would be up to what my peers around me who are forced to hear me belt out lyrics constantly think.

There's something passionate about being able to use your own body to create something melodic and soothing, something that speaks to you on a deeper level. I love music and my taste has expanded greatly over the last few years and while just listening to music is all fine and dandy I feel it speaks to me on a deeper and more emotional level when you scream along with the singer and feel the same way they do when they're performing.

Certain songs give me that giddy effect and it's like a performance every time I sing them. It lifts my spirits and makes getting through the day that much easier. Sometimes in my mind I picture myself singing for a group of people- not necessarily a live audience like at a concert but sometimes just for friends and family. I know my own limitations but sometimes you just want to wow some people. I feel like if I got a free wish (and barring any setbacks or moral obligations) I would choose to have a great voice.

I've been on a bus where someone randomly starts signing and everybody joined in to be backup vocals or lay down the beat. That doesn't happen if you suck at singing. I want to walk into a room full of people where someone starts singing What You Own from Rent and I spontaneously join in singing the other part. Actually, most of these delusions of grandeur are centered around musicals these days.

I wasn't always a huge fan of musicals or Disney for that matter. A few years ago I met some friends that were really into that kind of thing and when you have friends that you're close to you tend to pick up their likes and dislikes and that's where it all started. I saw Wicked for the first time then, and that Musical was amazing. I'm even more amazed by it now that I know the words to several songs. The writing is so masterful.

I was also introduced to the aforementioned RENT. That is also a masterpiece and I don't think I go a day without bursting into one of their numbers (I can thank Pandora for that as well.) Then there is Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day and, well, it's always a Brand New Day.

My Disney addiction kind of started then too, but it was more of an appreciation. We're allowed to listen to music while we work at my job, but I usually don't have headphones so it ends up everyone can hear it. Well one day to please a coworker I just threw on a Disney station, and well that was the beginning. I haven't seen some of these Disney movies in a long time but I can sing the songs now. I haven't even seen Tangled yet and I know all the words to all the songs.

Really, it's these small things in life that you have to find that help you get through the day. The world is a mess, and our lives are a mess and we're all doing what we can to make it through and make something of our selves. Without these little things that we find and enjoy, the days would be that much harder and we would be hard pressed to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So when the day is tough, or I get in my car after a long day of work, I turn up the radio and belt out I Can Go the Distance, and just for that moment, life isn't so hard.