One of my goals for this year was to get decent at the guitar… that didn’t happen, but… since I made the goal public, why not have some fun at my expense, while bringing a smile to a friend on his birthday?

I had the roach suit…. had a guitar…. I couldn’t sing or play the guitar… but that’s all right.

Despite being completely mortified, and having my brain yell at me at how people will laugh at me, how this is going on the internet – thus can’t be removed if it’s that awfu…. you know, standard brain stuff.  But, I was able to say “Shut up, I’m doing this!”

I keep telling people that if they are petrified of doing something… then that is something thaty must do!  Well.. I took my own medicine. Despite never singing and playing the guitar at once (or doing much of each separately), I recorded my 1st effort and here’s what I got:

I googled “Happy Birthday sheet music”- It was a few chords, and I knew them (C G F), so I tried it once, and tried singing.  It was simple enough, but now there were a few things making a difference:

1)No guitar strap

2)The Roach suit is slippery for the guitar….

3)I had my extra roach arms weighing my arm down a bit.

These would sound like excuses– but I didn’t let it bug me (Get it… bug me! a roach joke!).  I just did it.  My brain went off about “Well, you can practice some more, THEN rerecord, and then upload” – I just uploaded it, and tagged Jason on Facebook.

Because it was on Facebook, and Jason was tagged (as was I)- everyone would see it.  In fact, I embraced how badly I sucked while singing.

What happened? Did the world end?  Not at all! In fact, most people commented about how badass it is…. or how it’s tough to top that.  Yes, they were being nice.

What else happened? I posted a video, and the world didn’t end… and now I know it… so I may post another, that won’t be so awful.  It’s hard to make it worse than what I posted– thus, I can only improve.  Oh well… whatever happens, I made a few people laugh, and confronted a strong fear.