My #FavouriteThing today was the Marianas Trench club show at the Roxy. It’s been a long times since I’ve seen those guys do a small club show. And the history with the Roxy goes way back – like, we used to play there back when I was in the band, and the band was Ramsay Fiction.
Tonight, Josh got me up to sing Celebrity Status with him. (I will post a YouTube link tomorrow.) You have to understand, my favourite thing in the world is singing with my brother – we’ve been doing it since we were little kids, and we have really similar voices, so it’s really fun to sing together. (We actually have old recordings of us from the Ramsay Fiction days and even he and I can’t tell who’s who between the two of us singing.) Josh and I don’t get to sing on stage together too often these days. Once and awhile he comes and sits in with my band, but other than that, it’s whenever we happen to sing together at home, and that’s about it. So today was a rare treat – I love singing and being on stage with my brother.
I also enjoyed conversations with a couple of friends that were at the show. Amazing how you can know people for a long time and then have a conversation that gets way deeper, and all of a sudden you realize that you have all this shit in common that you never knew before…I love people. And in particular, I love these people.
What was your favourite thing today?
My Favourite Thing was being complimented by my husband on my bond with our daughter. Anytime I get a compliment on my parenting it means a lot (I mean releasing a whole other human being into the world is a pretty big deal; it’s good to know when you’re doing something right), but hearing it from the person who I co-parent with means even more. It’s easy for us to criticize each other. We see each other at our worst and she belongs to both of us. And, like many things, t’s easy to take the good for granted. Last night though, she lost a tooth and instead of giving her a few coins like we usually do, I ran out to the dollarstore and grabbed her one of those elastic band loom kits. It’s just a small thing. When I got home and told my husband, “Hey, I got E this instead because she mentioned a while back that her one of her friends gets a small gift from the tooth fairy and I noticed she’s been brushing her teeth a lot. I think she’s aiming for a gift this time, aaaannnnnd she mentioned the other day that she wants to save her pennies for one of these elastic bracelet things.” I figured he’d be like “cool” and go back to playing games or watching his show, but he actually looked me in the eye and said, “Wow. You’re really amazing. You two have such a close bond for you to pick up on that so easily. Both of you are awesome like that. Always thinking of little things for each other that other people wouldn’t think of.”
That made me feel pretty good inside 🙂