Parade!

December 11, 2005 in General,Music with 1 Comment

Whew! Today the ‘praise band’ hmm… maybe we need a name… did about an hour long set on a float in a nearby town’s Christmas parade. We did a bunch of the praise songs we normally do on Wednesday nights… only we were on a float, in a parade, in (approximately) below freezing weather. If any of you play in school bands, or have ever played an instrument in conditions like that, for extended periods of time… I feel your pain.

It was fine when my hands went numb – I knew what I was strumming because I could still feel and control my right elbow, and I was able to tell that I was playing the chords correctly… but when that frost-bite-sinking-in pain started to shoot through my fingers – it started getting annoying.

Actually, I’m making it sounds worse than it actually was. I’m pretty sure I could feel my hands the whole time. Sort of. But they were getting very numb and painful in the cold.

Other than that, it was a great day.

As far as accomplishments in my life… I’m about to do a really awesome study of Angels for the Junior High Sunday School class that I and Laura run. So I went to BibleGateway.com, typed in “angel” and told it to give me every result. This, of course, also brings back every instance of Angels, and any other word that starts with A-N-G-E-L…

It defaults to the NIV, which wasn’t a big deal – not the translation I use all the time, but I also knew that not every place in the Bible that talks about angels is going to come right out and say “angel”, but it was a start. I’m now proud to say that as far as the New International Version of the Bible is concerned, I have read every verse that contains ‘angel’ and it’s various other forms.

As part of the lesson, I have 3 very large garbage bags full of Bubble Wrap, in many of it’s various sizes, of which I need to count every bubble. That sounds absolutely ridiculous, I know, but…

a) it’s for the kids
2) it’ll be totally awesome

I’ll tell you more after it happens, because I wouldn’t want one of them to be reading this and spoil the effect.

And that’s it.
The End.

One Response to “Parade!”

  1. beccaisrad March 31, 2006 at 10:06 pm #

    i KNOW, I didn’t know about this part of ur site, I checked it out!
    YES, I SO FEEL THE PAIN… playing the baritone in the Christmas parade every year is AHHHH!
    and the praise band does need a name… I could so contemplate a few… WOO!
    does it tell you if you have a new comment?
    hm!