Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Yayayayayaya :)
Just read Mel's blog, and I'm getting REALLY excited about her being here (I guess I can't say "home" anymore... sad day...) in like, A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!
We're gonna get fat with all the eating we'll be doing :) And I'm TOTALLY ok with that. Totally.
Anyways. Last night (musically) went fairly well. Pretty much everyone was cool, Tim was not, so I guess he was just being polite having me lead with him. Meh. Oh well. I had to leave early for rehearsal... but I stayed as long as I possibly could, which was probably only 10 minutes til the end of service, but I think we made it clear we're interested and committed. Bleh. WHY is there so much drama at CHURCH? That's just nonsense.
I'm so excited because I bought my first Neruda this week! It's Los versos del capitan. I haven't gotten to read much of it, but the poems I have read are really beautiful. Who knew I'd ever like to read poetry? And in Spanish, no less. Some of it is really hard to translate, but I got a bilingual version, so that's helping. I'm making myself read them in Spanish first and analyze them that way, and only use the English version as a last resort, when I really can't figure it out. I get what all the words mean, individually, but I think it's just the punctuation and the verse form that are kind of getting in the way of really understanding what the poem is saying, what it means. Here's one of my favorites so far (in Spanish, then in English):
8 DE SEPTIEMBRE
Hoy, este día fue una copa plena,
hoy, este día fue la inmensa ola,
hoy, fue toda la tierra.
Hoy el mar tempestuoso
nos levantó en un beso
tan alto que temblamos
a la luz de un relámpago
y, atodos, descendimos
a sumergirnos sin desenlazarnos.
Hoy nuestros cuerpos se hicieron extensos,
crecieron hasta el límite del mundo
y rodaron fundiéndose
en una sola gota
de cera o meteoro.
Entre tú y yo se abrió una nueva puerta
y alguien, sin rostro aún,
allí nos seperaba.
SEPTEMBER 8TH
Today, this day was a brimming cup,
today, this day was the immense wave,
today, it was all the earth.
Today the stormy sea
lifted us in a kiss
so high that we trembled
in a lightningflash
and, tied, we went down
to sink without untwining.
Today our bodies became vast,
they grew to the edge of the world
and rolled melting
into a single drop
of wax or meteor.
Between you and me a new door opened
and someone, still faceless,
was waiting for us there.
Beautiful :)
We're gonna get fat with all the eating we'll be doing :) And I'm TOTALLY ok with that. Totally.
Anyways. Last night (musically) went fairly well. Pretty much everyone was cool, Tim was not, so I guess he was just being polite having me lead with him. Meh. Oh well. I had to leave early for rehearsal... but I stayed as long as I possibly could, which was probably only 10 minutes til the end of service, but I think we made it clear we're interested and committed. Bleh. WHY is there so much drama at CHURCH? That's just nonsense.
I'm so excited because I bought my first Neruda this week! It's Los versos del capitan. I haven't gotten to read much of it, but the poems I have read are really beautiful. Who knew I'd ever like to read poetry? And in Spanish, no less. Some of it is really hard to translate, but I got a bilingual version, so that's helping. I'm making myself read them in Spanish first and analyze them that way, and only use the English version as a last resort, when I really can't figure it out. I get what all the words mean, individually, but I think it's just the punctuation and the verse form that are kind of getting in the way of really understanding what the poem is saying, what it means. Here's one of my favorites so far (in Spanish, then in English):
8 DE SEPTIEMBRE
Hoy, este día fue una copa plena,
hoy, este día fue la inmensa ola,
hoy, fue toda la tierra.
Hoy el mar tempestuoso
nos levantó en un beso
tan alto que temblamos
a la luz de un relámpago
y, atodos, descendimos
a sumergirnos sin desenlazarnos.
Hoy nuestros cuerpos se hicieron extensos,
crecieron hasta el límite del mundo
y rodaron fundiéndose
en una sola gota
de cera o meteoro.
Entre tú y yo se abrió una nueva puerta
y alguien, sin rostro aún,
allí nos seperaba.
SEPTEMBER 8TH
Today, this day was a brimming cup,
today, this day was the immense wave,
today, it was all the earth.
Today the stormy sea
lifted us in a kiss
so high that we trembled
in a lightningflash
and, tied, we went down
to sink without untwining.
Today our bodies became vast,
they grew to the edge of the world
and rolled melting
into a single drop
of wax or meteor.
Between you and me a new door opened
and someone, still faceless,
was waiting for us there.
Beautiful :)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Soooooo.....
Soooooo.... it's been WAY over a week since Thanksgiving and/or the last time I posted anything of consequence. Meh. Oh well! Here I am now.
Thanksgiving? Hmm... it was spent in Arkansas. It was about as exciting as you can possibly imagine. Highlights involved:
-Driving all night to get there at 4:30 a.m., and getting up at 7:30 after a *brief* nap to cook Thanksgiving dinner with Larry's mom for the entire family.
-Watching Larry's grandpa pull 40 frozen squirrels out of the deep freeze and thaw them on the lawn.
-Riding a four-wheeler for the first time.
-Taking a dog on a walk, whilst riding the four-wheeler.
-Going to visit the dam and the trout hatchery.
-Deciding to drive back home, once again, in the middle of the night because we couldn't stand to be in Arkansas anymore.
There you have it. I *think* I've had all the redneck experiences that one lifetime will allow.
What else. OH I did Mel and Chris' invites for the reception/party/meet and greet they're doing while they're here. And while I just found out that it will be held at "Light of the World Church" and not "Light of the World Lutheran" I think people will find their way there. Whoops. Totally thought it was the same thing. If you are not, in fact, Melissa (as I'm almost positive she's the only one that reads this...), and you would like to view them, you may do so by clicking here.
Speaking of Melissa, she gets in town in like, A WEEK AND A HALF!!! I'm so excited :) We're going to have so much fun!!
In other news... let's see... Larry quit his job at the church and is officially working full time at Covenant and it's many campuses running sound and such. He's working full time hours, but he has to do that for a little while before they will hire him on as full time staff, with benefits. But we're kind of thinking January-February, so we'll just hope for the best. That would be REALLY convenient, because my health insurance runs out on January 22, so at most, I would be without it for maybe a month. But we'll just have to see.
And apparently since Larry quit his job at the church and we were out of town for Thanksgiving, that means that we just completely don't care about the church and we're not committed. It's a load of BS as far as I'm concerned, because we were out for less than a week. But you know, whatev. I just literally don't have any patience for drama at this point, so I really don't care that Tim just decided to not tell us about a show we had. And other stuff like that. Meh. If he wants to act like a child, it's honestly his loss. It's not like either of us were getting record deals or anything out of being in the Tim Ingram Band. But now he's out a bassist and a vocalist. Good luck!!
However, he texted me this morning to see if I wanted to lead with him tonight at Tue:7. I don't know whether to think he's actually come to his senses and realized he was acting like a baby (not likely), if he just misses us (HIGHLY unlikely) or maybe if he plans to push me off stage in hopes of causing serious injury and/or death (again, unlikely, but I'm kind of leaning towards this one).
OH well. I guess we'll see what happens tonight. I have to leave right at the end of Tue:7 tonight because I have a rehearsal from 8:30-11, so I'm sure that's going to go over well. I kind of have the feeling that he's already made up his mind about our future at HighRidge, so I guess there's really no sense in worrying about it. I can't do anything either way at this point, so I'm just going to keep running with it and see what happens.
Christmas concert with the Sinfonietta is this Sunday! 8:15 p.m. at Orchestra Hall in Fort Worth. We'll be playing Colombian and traditional carols, as well as selections from Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite. Fun times!! Especially since tonight is rehearsal 2 of 2. Lol.
Ummmmm. I don't think there's much else going on. But I might remember something later and post it. (WHAT?!? Two posts in ONE DAY??) Yeah actually I wouldn't count on that. We know my track record :)
xoxo
schmashmelia
PS - We have access to a Wii and I really want Mario Party Wii. Just sayin'. If someone could hint to Larry, that'd be great. K thx bye :)
Thanksgiving? Hmm... it was spent in Arkansas. It was about as exciting as you can possibly imagine. Highlights involved:
-Driving all night to get there at 4:30 a.m., and getting up at 7:30 after a *brief* nap to cook Thanksgiving dinner with Larry's mom for the entire family.
-Watching Larry's grandpa pull 40 frozen squirrels out of the deep freeze and thaw them on the lawn.
-Riding a four-wheeler for the first time.
-Taking a dog on a walk, whilst riding the four-wheeler.
-Going to visit the dam and the trout hatchery.
-Deciding to drive back home, once again, in the middle of the night because we couldn't stand to be in Arkansas anymore.
There you have it. I *think* I've had all the redneck experiences that one lifetime will allow.
What else. OH I did Mel and Chris' invites for the reception/party/meet and greet they're doing while they're here. And while I just found out that it will be held at "Light of the World Church" and not "Light of the World Lutheran" I think people will find their way there. Whoops. Totally thought it was the same thing. If you are not, in fact, Melissa (as I'm almost positive she's the only one that reads this...), and you would like to view them, you may do so by clicking here.
Speaking of Melissa, she gets in town in like, A WEEK AND A HALF!!! I'm so excited :) We're going to have so much fun!!
In other news... let's see... Larry quit his job at the church and is officially working full time at Covenant and it's many campuses running sound and such. He's working full time hours, but he has to do that for a little while before they will hire him on as full time staff, with benefits. But we're kind of thinking January-February, so we'll just hope for the best. That would be REALLY convenient, because my health insurance runs out on January 22, so at most, I would be without it for maybe a month. But we'll just have to see.
And apparently since Larry quit his job at the church and we were out of town for Thanksgiving, that means that we just completely don't care about the church and we're not committed. It's a load of BS as far as I'm concerned, because we were out for less than a week. But you know, whatev. I just literally don't have any patience for drama at this point, so I really don't care that Tim just decided to not tell us about a show we had. And other stuff like that. Meh. If he wants to act like a child, it's honestly his loss. It's not like either of us were getting record deals or anything out of being in the Tim Ingram Band. But now he's out a bassist and a vocalist. Good luck!!
However, he texted me this morning to see if I wanted to lead with him tonight at Tue:7. I don't know whether to think he's actually come to his senses and realized he was acting like a baby (not likely), if he just misses us (HIGHLY unlikely) or maybe if he plans to push me off stage in hopes of causing serious injury and/or death (again, unlikely, but I'm kind of leaning towards this one).
OH well. I guess we'll see what happens tonight. I have to leave right at the end of Tue:7 tonight because I have a rehearsal from 8:30-11, so I'm sure that's going to go over well. I kind of have the feeling that he's already made up his mind about our future at HighRidge, so I guess there's really no sense in worrying about it. I can't do anything either way at this point, so I'm just going to keep running with it and see what happens.
Christmas concert with the Sinfonietta is this Sunday! 8:15 p.m. at Orchestra Hall in Fort Worth. We'll be playing Colombian and traditional carols, as well as selections from Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite. Fun times!! Especially since tonight is rehearsal 2 of 2. Lol.
Ummmmm. I don't think there's much else going on. But I might remember something later and post it. (WHAT?!? Two posts in ONE DAY??) Yeah actually I wouldn't count on that. We know my track record :)
xoxo
schmashmelia
PS - We have access to a Wii and I really want Mario Party Wii. Just sayin'. If someone could hint to Larry, that'd be great. K thx bye :)
Sunday, December 6, 2009
New Look!
How do you like it???
I actually edited and wrote all the HTML myself!!! I used a basic blogger template, but I modified it in several places to look like this.
Voila!! It now looks like my blog :)
Fun times!
I actually edited and wrote all the HTML myself!!! I used a basic blogger template, but I modified it in several places to look like this.
Voila!! It now looks like my blog :)
Fun times!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Zzzz...
I thought long and hard about updating.
Then I realized, it's 10:48, I'm home by myself, I could totally be in bed right now!
So, good night :) I'll update another day, maybe sooner than you think!
Supposed to snow tomorrow, we'll see if it beats Wednesday's "snowfall" lol :)
Then I realized, it's 10:48, I'm home by myself, I could totally be in bed right now!
So, good night :) I'll update another day, maybe sooner than you think!
Supposed to snow tomorrow, we'll see if it beats Wednesday's "snowfall" lol :)
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