Pet Peeves March 27, 2008

Pet peeves.  We all have them.  Go ahead and admit it….it’s okay.  I promise I won’t judge you.  I’ve sure got plenty of my own.  lol  Here’s the short list….

1.  People who drive below the speed limit in the left lane. 

2.  My precious husband dropping his dirty socks two inches in front of the hamper.  C’mon, is it really that difficult?

3.  My kids leaving the front door open.  Do they really think we can afford to air condition the whole neighborhood?!  (OMGosh I sound like my mother!)

4.  Finding myself sounding like my mother.   rofl

5.  My kids leaving the freezer door open while putting ice in their glass.  (see #3)

6.  Those emails that say “If you don’t forward this to 10 people within 10 minutes, you will have bad luck for the rest of your life.”  Sorry, they get deleted just ’cause they got on my nerves with that.  lol

7.  Angry checkers in the grocery store.  (Hey, I know you probably had a bad day, but I might have too…and I know your feet hurt, but mine might too.  I make you this promise, I will return your smile and I’ll even compliment you on your pleasant demeanor.  Just start with the smile.)

8.  Staying on hold with ***insert big business name here**** for 45 minutes only to be hung up on.  ARGH!

Okay, so why I am I sharing this with you tonight?  Because I made it through an entire day without even one of these things happening!!!!  It may never happen again, so I’m going to just soak up the moment.  My husband actually managed to put his socks IN the hamper, nobody went too slow in the passing lane, the lady at the grocery store was super nice, the kids even closed the front door every single time they went out of it.  Okay, so they didn’t do so great with the back door, but for my kids this is still a monumental thing.  lol

So today I hope that you each have a “peeve free” day.  Whatever your peeve may be, I hope it stays away from you all day. 

Worship PreFessional March 27, 2008

For those who haven’t noticed yet, I placed a disclaimer in my sidebar.  I felt it might be wise to go ahead and do that.  You see, just like the disclaimer says, I’m just one person with a million thoughts who chooses to share my heart with others.  Many of my posts seem almost incoherant to me, let alone profound.  But I would hate for someone to read them and get the impression that I’m speaking for all of Christendom.  lol  So to reiterate, these are only MY thoughts.  Okay, end of disclaimer.  lol

And now on to the prefessional……

Practice went really great tonight.  I was very excited to see some people come out for the new ensemble.  Not as many showed up as I had originally expected, but that’s okay.  The one’s who came are passionate about worship and that’s exactly what I was praying for.  And this is a very good beginning for our ensemble.  They already added so much to our practice & I am looking forward to seeing them in action on Sunday morning.

Our practice went very well tonight.  We learned a new song, reviewed some well known ones and even worked on a couple of new arrangements.  I was especially excited to have some time to work specifically with the vocalists tonight.  We hashed out a few parts and that’s always fun for me. 

As usual, I’m not going to tell what songs we’ll be doing, but I just have to share this with you…..it’s gonna be HOPPIN!!!!  The new song we’re introducing is SO MUCH FUN!  It’s one of those praise songs that I love so much….you know, the ones where you just gotta sing to the top of your lungs.  Woohoo!  Okay, I’ll stop now.  lol

Our sweet Jennifer was at practice tonight.  She made me promise that if we were going to do her favorite song that I would let her sing.  lol  We’re doing that song this week and I was not the least bit surprised when she showed up for practice.    Of course, she’s about 10 months pregnant, so I don’t even know if she’ll make it to Sunday morning.  lol

I had to attend an important meeting before practice tonight, so while I was there with the praise team, Raymond (God bless Raymond!) was with the new ensemble, hashing out parts.  I left the meeting early and by the time I made it to practice, the new ensemble was already completely familiar with the music and ready to work on parts and arrangements.  It was great!  And by the time practice was over, we were all very confident in the music.  Sunday is gonna be awesome!