Just spent several hours with a girlfriend from church, just yakking and praying and stuff. Yeah, I should be in bed, and I promise that I will be in just a couple of minutes or so, but I wanted to check in nonetheless.
Good news -- JoeMama & AngieDaddy have moved into their new house in Denton, Texas. I can't wait to see it. He's working with a new group of anesthesiologists there, and I'm also excited because this means I get to take I-35 every time I go home instead of having to cut through southern Missouri and eastern Oklahoma back roads. It also means, however, that I have to travel through Kansas [yawn]. Oh well... it's always something, ain't it? I'll get to travel through Oklahoma City now, and see my Uncle Randy & Aunt Lisa, who I love to pieces and who I think are very cool people. I also get to drive through Norman, Oklahoma, home of my beloved OU Sooners (who suck this year, but I still love them nonetheless... BOO Longhorns)(my apologies to Prochein Amy who I also love but who decorates her site in these weird orange cow head things with long horns).
I regret that I wasn't able to spend a couple of weeks with Mom helping her go through all their stuff... and believe me, those two have SOOOOOOOOOO much stuff! It's probably a good thing, though, because I probably would've found all kinds of crap to bring back with me, and we ain't got the room for it here either.
Tuesday night is our usual Sunday-morning worship band practice, and tonight Jeff pulled out an old Newsboys tune, "He Reigns." It has a great deal of keyboard fx in it, and I'm also doing tenor vocals this week, so I'm trying to do three things at once. Very humorous looking, I'm sure. My left hand is playing a marimba-type sound in a rhythmic syncopated pattern, my right hand is playing the other keyboard with a beautiful bell-like mellophone sound in another rhythm, and then somewhere in there I have to switch that marimba sound to a strings sound for a long, low crawly sound. All the while, of course, I'm singing harmony. It's funny; Jeff pulls out these songs and I guess doesn't really think about how it's actually going to happen. He just expects it to happen. I kinda like that, truth be told, because that's the kind of leadership I work best with. He gives me the goal he's after, but lets me find a way to meet the goal without trying to micromanage my performance. Works for me; allows me to be creative within guidelines.
Okay, I'm going to bed. Right now.
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