Adrienne will be absent while taking strides for goal #1.
My husband has played guitar since he was a kid. I think he picked it up when he was 11. He played guitar for a long while and I helped him buy an acoustic when we were first dating. He used to serenade me. Ah, it was sweet.
But then, once he moved to Tucson, he stopped playing as often. And, except for the acoustic I had bought him, he sold off all his guitar equipment. We moved to Omaha, but with kids and work and life, he didn’t really pick it back up for a long while.
I can’t recall exactly when he started playing guitar again. I know one reason he took up woodworking between 1999 and 2002 was so that he could make his own guitar. He still hasn’t done that, but he does a lot of work on guitars.
I thought perhaps he started playing again in earnest in 2005 when Guitar Hero came out because I remember him playing that and I thought he should just play his guitar for real, but it also seems like he’s been playing again for longer.
He gets a lot of enjoyment out of playing and sits down with his acoustic after dinner almost every night and plays a bit for the family. The other night, he sat in the kitchen with me and played while I did dishes and cleaned.
He does not only play guitar. We have his old trumpet, although he doesn’t play that for fun anymore. He’s learned drums and keyboards. He was trying to get me to teach him the cello, but I don’t remember enough to play it myself. He says he can’t sing, but when he’s alone (or thinks he is), sometimes he’ll sing along to something and he isn’t as bad as he thinks he is.
The drawback to being married to a musician is that he sometimes chooses his music over me. And, he shows me all his new toys related to his music, so I get to hear them (and sometimes I don’t want to.)
But, the music in the evening is really nice. I think it is really good for our kids, and he is teaching our daughter to play guitar. (So far, she knows Enter Sandman and The Emperor’s March on the acoustic.) Overall, being married to a musician is worth it.
BTW, for anybody imagining me married to a “rock star” image, you should know that he said the guitarist from 10 years – the one that looks as though he just got off the couch from a hard day of watching tv to come play the concert – gives him hope for his rock star ability. :)
