GrooveLily

This is what I bargained for. Today, in a nutshell, is my life these days: chaotic, completely full, and yet exactly what I want/need/fear. It’s 12:20 AM and I’m just back “home” (at my in-laws’, where my wife and 2 sons are sleeping peacefully upstairs) after meeting my college buddy AJ for beers. The day started at 7 AM when I woke up to get ready for work … kiss my 2 1/2 year-old good bye while my 2 month-old boy sleeps next to my beautiful wife. Work all day at my day-gig an then take the train up to Westchester to meet the family. Go with my son and father-in-law to pick up the car which is being inspected. Come back and eat dinner with the whole family. Then meet AJ for drinks and talk about life, family, the economy, why U2 writes the best hooks in the world, work, kids, global warming, and health care.

On the way to meet AJ, I’m fumbling with the car stereo to relax/distract me. “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” is one of the discs in the changer, and I’m reminded that this is my life too: making music with my other family, playing for our extended family. Man, I love this record. We sound good, like we’ve been making music together for almost 12 years. Just earlier today, while playing a brief moment of hookie from work, I was looking at our gig schedule and getting psyched about our gigs in the fall and realizing how much I’ve been missing doing shows with my band mates.

So, this is the life. And I mean that both euphemistically and literally.

But hell, what do I know, I’m a little drunk and sleepy.

Nahhh … I know. This *is* the life.