I can’t stand when I’m surfing blogs, and I run into one that’s full of poetry or lyrics, etc, that have no explanation whatsoever. I mean – I know it’s their space, they can put whatever they want, perhaps the lyrics summed up exactly how they felt and needed no further explanation. But it annoys me.

However, recently I’ve found myself desiring to post some things of that sort. I’ll do my best to explain every one of them. Except this first one, of which I will only say that now that I’m writing this down, I don’t think it sounds right… I don’t think that this is the same line that was in my head the other day. So if I find it to be wrong, I shall correct it, and this statement.

I desire holy kisses from fiery lips.
I want a firecracker.

The End.

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.

Not posting here, as you can see, but finally writing more. Yeah, yeah, I’m artsy fartsy, I’m in a band, I have feelings… so I write things… sometimes. For almost 6 months I haven’t written anything I thought was worth keeping. All I knew is that I wanted to write something. But I hate to write about wanting to write. I’m even sad that I’m writing this post. ARRRRG! [angry, too, I guess].

So the other night I finally wrote something interesting… and I’ve been picking up my guitar more on my time, and not just when I’m practicing with the band. I love it. I feel better. I feel more like myself now.

Aside from that, I went with Laura tonight to see Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance” at the Orpheum Theater here in Memphis. It wasn’t as “Irish” as I thought it would be. But it was definitely awesome. I also enjoyed the Nutcracker, which we saw a few months ago. How metro of me.

[note: ah, the Orpheum has a new-ish, pretty website. Nice, nice, good to see.]

More news, less time. Goodnight.

Whichever the case may be, I have decided to give up the “default template”, as I feel I have left it long enough to give thanks to the people that created it, and because I’m ready to work on something of my own. So here it is. The official announcement that at some time in the future you will come back to this site and it will look different. Probably not as different (or good looking) as this site or this one, sad as that may be, but finally something of my own, that will better suit me.

Whoa. I just found out about this. Let it be known that I personally do not drink any flavored coke product – such as Vanilla, or Diet with Lemon, etc… – but I know so many people that do.
Coke to phase out Vanilla Coke in US – Yahoo! News

They’re all just gonna be so devastated. Muhahahaa….