Then Sings My Soul

We'll take it slower than a broke-knee'd turtle
Yeah, we'll get tighter than your grandma's girdle
Oh, I want you, I need you, and I'll never do you wrong
If you're feelin' what I'm singin', baby
Sing along

Well, I made it to choir practice, and I did fine yesterday and playing it in church today. :-D It was awesome being able to accompany the choir. But man, those TENORS. They do NOT shut UP! It's hilarious! They were making comments throughout the entire service. Badly funny...

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Tomorrow we have the Thanksgiving Day service (I think we've got to be the only church that does that... and like 20 people show up), which we're playing a bell piece in, doing change ringing to start the service, and patterns during two hymns. I love bells. :-D After that I s'pose we'll head off to Na Na and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. Mom's entire side of the family will be there, which is awesome. We haven't all gotten together in awhile. My uncle Bruce and aunt Jennie are spending the night with us Thursday and Friday night, too.

Then Friiiidaaaay I go to Anna's!! :-D I can't wait. I'm almost done packing except for the obvious stuff, since I won't have time to do it tomorrow. Reeeally excited.

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NutBut and Heidi. Not altogether unexpected, but shockingly CUTE all the same. ;-D *ahem*

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It's... so cold here. It was in the 50's today. Yes, that's cold for us, it barely gets any colder than that in the dead of winter! :-P It was DREADFULLY windy, too. But sunny, which was good, since it's been raining for at least five days straight. Everything's drying out nicely, tomorrow it should be really purdy out. :-)

So, this'll probably be my last blog before I leave - Happy Thanksgiving everybody, have a good week! I'll be back December 1st. :-)

"Rainy Night In Georgia"
and "Kentucky Rain"
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again",
"Blue Eyes Cryin" in the "Early Morning Rain"
They go on and on, and there's no two the same
Oh, it would be easy to blame all these
Songs about rain

Heh, that song was the first song that came to mind while thinking about the stupid rain. :-P
We played bells for the matins service of the teacher conference at church this morning... on our way home at about 9:30, it started pouring. Took us forever to get to our area, and when we did, half the streets were flooded. We weaved around, turned around and re-routed at least six different times in the Winchester Country, Willow Lake and Willow Pointe subdivisions (ours being the latter). I've never seen those streets like that before... most of the intersections were flooded up to the curbs and sometimes into people's yards, and since it's trash day there were trashcans and trash everywhere. On one street in Winchester while we were driving through a flooded intersection there was a pool of red water. It was nasty. The bayous are all over half-way full, and our backyard is half a foot deep in water in the low spots.

Basically, we've had rain for about a week. Then starting yesterday, it pours. And pours and pours. So the ground decides it doesn't want anymore water and it's flooding like crazy. Plus there was a tornado scare around 2:45 - the sky got rather green, we had pea-sized hail and the news had rotation markers right on top of our neighborhood, basically. I shut down the comps to be ready to haul the CPUs downstairs if need-be and sat in mom's room and watched the sky. No fun, I tell ya. And it's s'posed to do the same thing tomorrow...

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Yesterday during the sermon Justin R. got up and left his seat (right in front of us) and didn't come back. Nothing unusual, he tends to wander during church... it's a little weird but we don't pay attention. After Sunday School I come out to the car and find out that Justin up and disappeared. No one had seen him after he left during the sermon. Come to find out he's bi-polar and hadn't had his past three doses of meds, so his mom said he was really unstable and had threatened to run away the night before. Bekah, dad and I helped search the church, while some other elders searched the school. We didn't find him. Called the police and the whole nine yards, of course. So while we were at church this morning mom talked to the secretary and she said that Justin called home yesterday evening around 5 - he was at the Sam's at the intersection of I-45 and Rankin Road. That's 30 minutes from church on a good day, in a car. It was raining yesterday and he was on foot (unless he had money, in which case he could've taken the bus). It was just... really... scary... and weird...

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I gotta head off to teach piano in a few minutes, and then there's the chat tonight. :-D Tomorrow I have choir practice at church... I really, really hope the weather's fine, because I HAVE to go. I NEED to practice with the choir again before we do it in church on Wednesday evening.

Take me back to where the music hit me
Life was good and love was easy

Take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams lie right
In the palm of your hand

I got this thing in the mail today... the National Guard is trying to recruit me. ;-) "In the Guard, you'll train to be a citizen-warrior... ready to serve anytime, anywhere." What... the heck... is a citizen-warrior? Can you get any cornier? For pete's sake... ;-P

It kinda hit me though, after getting that thing, that I'm actually graduating this coming spring. I'll be 18 in June. And no more school unless I want to do it (aka: taking GERMAN!). It just seems reeeally weeeird... plus I'll still be living at home. Out of school, but still at home... I never really thought that would happen, either. ;-)

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So, did school today, finally finished the seemingly eternally long chemistry module I've been working on. Starting Jackson's presidency in history which is supposedly interesting. I need to take a shower in a couple minutes, practice piano, go teach piano, play Halo 2, have supper, and then chat. Wee, typical Monday.

Wash away the thoughts inside
That keep my mind away from you

Why does music affect me so much? I s'pose some people are just musically inclined and others aren't, but still. It's... weird... but cool. Josh Groban's Remember When It Rained affects me like nothing else... except Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis... and God Bless America. But there's a story that goes with that last one.

Remember When It Rained... is... this song. First, Josh Groban's voice gives me goosebumps ANYWAY, but this music is just incredible. Plus it has piano and who can deny I'm a piano addict. ;-P It's not so much the lyrics... just the combination of his voice and the music sends me off to music heaven.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is my all-time favorite classical piece. Ever. Ralph Vaughan Williams was a 20th Century composer from England... I love all his stuff, but this piece is what turned me on to him. It's entirely strings (in and of itself awesome), separated into two orchestra groups. They basically serenade each other through the entire piece with cello and violin solos. Gah, cellos are so relaxing. It's amazing.

God Bless America... the story. I was watching the news on the evening of 9/11, and a lot of the senators (it might've been the entire senate, I'm not sure) were outside giving some sort of news conference or something, I don't remember exactly. After they finished and Fox was about to cut out, they spontaneously began singing God Bless America. I remember being absolutely chilled to the bone. It was just so fitting and beautiful. Ever since then the song hasn't failed to give me goosebumps and 9/11 flashbacks.

I dunno what all that was... just some sort of musical ramble, I s'pose, but hey. Rambling about music is one of my talents. ;-)

So. Trying Blogger 'cause Nathan says it's awesome. ;-) I'll post here and on Xanga for the time-being 'till I decide to move or not. Good thing is you don't have to be a member to post, so yeah. :-D

We shall seee...