If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
What role do love and affection play in your life?
What does friendship mean to you?
If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
Those are a few of the questions that made the list of 36 questions to facilitate feelings of closeness between two perfect strangers in a period of an hour or two. I thought it would be fun to answer a few of them over the next couple weeks, and I'm going to start by answering the last question I mentioned now.
When did I last sing to myself?
I honestly can't remember the last time I sang to myself. To be fair, I'm basically never by myself. I have a 3.5 year old who is glued to my side (meaning, I'm singing to him or I'm hearing "Stop it, mommy! Could you stop doing [singing] that?"), or I'm at the grocery store or the public library or someplace where people just don't want to look.sound crazy. When I do rock out by myself, I still tend to go for Johnny Cash or the Beatles, or any of the oldies stations. (I also can't really keep my mouth shut when I hear The Lumineers.)
When did I last sing to someone else?
A few hours ago! I always sing to N when I put him to bed. It's a very important part of our bedtime ritual. I sang the same couple songs every night (with a few bonus songs thrown in every here and there) to him every day since he was born, but for the last year or so, I've been taking requests. 😊
Tonight, N asked for a song about cars that crash, so I sang about a purple car named Alice, who met two cars named Howard and Horace one day while she was driving. They had bumped into one another with a big crash, but Alice was a careful car and did not bump into anyone. Instead, she found a tow truck to help Horace and Howard get to a garage to fix their bumps and dings. What a good Samaritan! It was a real winner, if I do say so myself.
