A Wealth of Compliments

Today’s Attire: Today I’m wearing a dress from the Pinup Girl Clothing boutique. And since they have very specific names on their dresses I will use the proper name. Today I’m wearing the Luscious dress in Navy with Octavio the Octopus on the shoulder (Pinup Girl Clothing aka PUG $61) I’m wearing a wide red belt (Ann Taylor Loft Outlet $6) burgundy heeled boots (Payless Shoe Source $9) and navy and light blue scarf tied around my neck.

Outfit Justification:  This is the only purchase I made during Black Friday weekend, and I did it online. I had been eyeing this dress in black with the “Tipsy Elephant” on it,  but ultimately I needed the blue dress.  I was very iffy about having an octopus on my dress, but the dress is so darn cute and I had to forget about the octopus and just go for it. I’ve been dying to wear this dress since it arrived at my apartment last week.  Today was the day. I wanted to go for cute. And I’ve received a bunch of compliments so I say I was successful in the looking cute department.

A Wealth of Compliments:

I’ve been sick for about a week or so.  As a result I’ve been feeling like crap about how I look and how I sound.  With this stupid cold, I don’t have all of my vocal range so I’ve been having a hard time singing. In most cases I’ve been only wanting to go to karaoke to watch and be entertained, but each time I end up singing.  Sometimes it goes well other times not so much.

However this past Saturday night, I went out to my local hangout in my snazzy new dress, and my hair in pin curls (in preparation for the upcoming holiday party at work) and opted to sing a little.  The response was kinda overwhelming.  I sang four songs through the entire night.  Old Time Rock n’ Roll by Bob Seger, Creep by Radiohead, Time is Running Out by Muse and Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes were my selections for the evening. They went over pretty well.   I posted the one comment from a girl noticing me as the girl who sings Metallica on Facebook Saturday night.   But here were some other comments that were made Saturday night:

“You are the best thing to ever grace the mic tonight….you are phenomenal”

“Everyone else made my ears bleed tonight, but you were so fantastic I forgot about all the other people “

“I just have to tell you that you sound amazing, but you look fantastic. Where did you get that dress”

“I have never hears a chick rock that hard. When are you going to sing your next song? Is there a way we can get you moved up on the list because you’re that good!”

“I heard you sing and I was wondering if you can sing a song for me and dedicate it to me because it’s my birthday and you’re obviously some kind of star with that voice”

“You are so amazing, I wish I knew people because I would build an entire band around you and that awesome voice of yours”

“That was one helluva performance! You woke this entire bar up with just one song and you can move too. Fantastic”

“You’re the angel with voice. The one that make the rest of us grateful that you’re here so we can forget about the people who can’t sing”

All this came from different people through out the night. It felt good to hear all that praise from these strangers.  There were a few people who said they’ve seen me sing here before and they’ve come back a few times in hopes they could hear me again.  This one dude told me he recognized me from 6 months ago when he heard the voice, before actually saw my face.  That totally tripped me out. But the girl who told me they videotaped me singing Enter Sandman by Metallica blew me away.  She said my friend who is totally obsessed with Metallica saw that video and was in love.  I blushed at that statement. But it made me feel good. I did the stupid thing of trying to negate all of this by saying I was sick and wished I could have sounded better instead of simply just saying “Thank you”. But I’m a weirdo and have to work on that.  But it’s nice to know that people appreciate something I do and let me know that.  You have to love unsolicited praise.