I Love Sundays!

Church today was great! I was nervous about singing of course, but once I got up there it all came back to me. It's like riding a bicycle I guess. Our pastor gave us all gift cards to Chili's to show his appreciation. Isn't that sweet? I guess I picked the right week to start singing! Ha ha. I've been on staff at several different churches, and been on several praise teams, and I've never had a pastor do anything like that before. It's just nice to be appreciated. Anyway, Cowboy Man's sister and niece came this week, too, and niece made a sock puppet in Sunday school, which she LOVED! She really enjoyed herself, and I think his sister did too. We all went out to eat with Cowboy Man's cousin's family. All in all it's been a very nice day so far! Now I'm gonna to go kick Cowboy Man's butt at Crash Bandicoot and enjoy my Sunday afternoon!

Hernias and Long Fingernails Don't Mix

Well, Cowboy Man went to the doctor this morning with what we were thinking was probably a hernia, and we were right. He said she smashed her finger into his belly button to find it. Advice to any aspiring doctors out there...keep short fingernails if you are going to shove your finger in someone's belly button! Anyway, his doctor's office is scheduling an appointment with a surgeon, and they'll call us back and let us know when the appointment is. I'm hoping that if he needs surgery it can be done before school starts so that I can take better care of him while he's down. The good thing is that his employer is being absolutely wonderful about it. Of course the first thing Cowboy Man thought when he heard surgeon was money. I was assuring him that we would be fine, all the while wondering myself if I was telling the truth. He has insurance, but deductible and our 20% will probably be a nice chunk of change. But God answered my prayer about that pretty much immediately. The receptionist at the doctor's office asked if he was going to talk to his employer since he probably got the hernia lugging stone countertops around. We hadn't even thought of that. He called Mr. Boss Man, and he has offered to pay everything that insurance doesn't cover! To me, that's way better than going through worker's comp because it's way less of a hassle. So that's a burden lifted. We'll know better what is going to happen hopefully next week. I'll keep you posted.

Practice was interesting last night. I'm on the praise team now, but I don't really know a lot of the songs. They are songs that this group has been singing ever since they were at the old church, so they all know them really well. Me, not so much, since I didn't go to that church. I'm going to sing what I know, and just mouth what I don't for the first few weeks. The poor sound guy is probably going to hate me! But I'm really happy about all the sales going on today, because I'm going shopping in a little while for a couple of new dresses. (Any excuse to go shopping is great for me!) So say a little prayer for me that I won't make a fool of myself Sunday morning, and that I'll find some great deals this afternoon! :o)

Boredom and Singing

Well I've officially reached complete boredom! I'm going to have to find something to do for the rest of my summer, because I don't think I can stay home all day everyday anymore! I'm even thinking of *gasp!* going to school to get some work done. I can't have that. So what does one do when they are out for the summer, but most of their friends are not teachers? Lunch with my working friends comes to mind here...but for some reason I haven't suggested it. Maybe I should.

Tonight I have my first practice with the praise team at our church. Not that it's 100% decided that I'm going to be on the team yet; I think we're just going to see how it goes tonight. It's been a LONG time since I have sung anything, which is weird now that I think about it. I was a music major for two years, and eventually switched because I realized I was a decent singer, but not a great musician. There is a difference. I kept music as my minor because it would have been crazy not to since I had so many hours. I was the worship leader at one church, then on the praise team at my next church, and I really never imagined that there would be a time that I would not be singing in front of people regularly. But, time flies, and here I am. It's been about five years since I have sung anything in front of anybody. So when Kelly asked me last week if I still sang, my answer was "Ummmm....kinda. Why?" She told me they needed help on the praise team, and asked if I could come practice with them. And now I'm terrified! I mean, this church runs about 250-300 or so most weeks. Will I make a fool of myself in front of them? And I know I shouldn't think like that because it's not about me, it's about giving God praise. I get that. But you get up there and sing after five years of not singing and tell me you're not scared to death! But, the good thing is...if I actually end up on this team, I gotta go shopping tomorrow for some new dresses! Yay! Too bad all my friends work on Fridays and can't come with me...

And now we're back to the boredom thing.