karaoke

this shouldn't surprise you but i am shy. not really shy but shyer than i once was. that said, i am not good in front of crowds of people. sometimes i can be but it is rare. so, last week, mark and i joined some of his work friends at fort meyer to enjoy some karaoke. it was all fun and games until mark's boss sarah (whom i had hung out with before) said that she had put in my name to do a duet with her. i got a little light headed and queasy and started begging mark to leave. he is very mean and very stubborn and just laughed at me. i don't think he realized that i was dead serious and wanted to leave right then because the harder i pleaded, the more he laughed and said it would be fine. i begged sarah too but she was having none of it. seriously, i was freaking out a little. so i finally resigned myself to the fact that i was going to have to do it. so they called our names and we went up and sang "you are my sunshine." not the coolest of songs but we did it and then sat down amidst my adoring fans. i made mark delete all evidence of this performance so i am sorry but you will never get to see the coolness that is me doing karaoke. well after than traumatizing event, we left and i vowed to never do karaoke again. well....saturday rolled around and annie and i were at a semi lame barbecue and they all decided to go to see the movie transformers. well i had already seen it and fallen asleep in it so we opted not to go. luckily we got a text from our friend mary who was going country dancing at nick's country western bar. so we decided to go along. i mean, who is not down for a few line dances? so at nick's, they have karaoke and i felt the familiar queasiness but i was not peer pressured into it this time so i could rest easy. however, annie wanted to do karaoke (i doubt her sanity) and so we signed her up and this shouldn't surprise you but she totally rocked it.