{music}

music has always been a big part of my life.  i started singing when i was little.  i sang in the church choir, was in chorus in high school, and was a voice-performance major my freshman year of college (and graduated a finance major - go figure).  i took piano lessons, dance, played the alto sax in middle school, and i want to learn how to play the guitar (perhaps by the time i'm 35?).  i can also play a mean recorder.  just ask my husband - haha.

there are so many songs in the soundtrack to my life.  there are so many memories connected to those songs.  i love songs that are not well-known or 'mainstream'.  when i hear a song during a show like 'grey's anatomy' or on 'so you think you can dance', etc., i go to google, type in some of the lyrics i remember, and add them to my itunes wishlist (or sometimes i'm really crazy and i go ahead and buy them ;)). 

it is amazing when i hear someone singing live, knowing exactly what they're feeling as they're hitting that perfect note, in that perfect spot in their voice, and getting chills (and sometimes tears).  amazing.

i love love love the playlists that rachel plays during my hot class.  i know that i'm supposed to be breathing and not *thinking*, but my mind drifts to the lyrics and sometimes i find myself keeping time to the music with my breath.  and i do try to snag pieces of the lyrics so that i can find the songs in itunes later on.  (sometimes you'll see me in my car after class, just typing away on my iphone.  last night i found two).

music is my therapy.  it is healing.  and i completely love it.

-j