Once again, yes, it's Valentime's Day in our world. I don't know when or where we started calling it that instead of Valentine's Day, but it stuck and there you have it. J and I didn't do much to celebrate it tonight: Thursday nights are rehearsal nights for our worship team. But we all brought sweets, Chad gave us Warheads and a fantabulous copy of the church's 5th anniversary celebration from last week, and we all rocked out. Plus, I didn't have to work, and J and I got to occupy the same bed last night, AT THE SAME TIME. At least for a few hours.
Of course, with my wacked-out sleep schedule, I was only able to sleep until about 4am - since I'm used to being up all night - and then I was wide-awake, hungry, and completely unable to go back to sleep. Sigh...
Working the night shift, I haven't seen a whole lot of my husband. Sure, you think there will be lots of opportunity since I only work 3 nights a week... but sometimes he works late, or I have somewhere I need to be, or we both have rehearsal (we at least have that together), added in with my complete inability to sleep for more than 3 hours during the night, and, well, it makes for scanty us-time. (It also makes for scanty friend time as well, so to all my friends: I am not a hermit. I still love you all. Really.)
So, I'm mega-excited about next week: I work the early part of the week (Sun, Mon, Tues nights), have a few days off to hopefully attend to my sorely-neglected apartment, catch my breath, and then head off for a church staff retreat in Ocala with some very cool people at a nice hotel. And that's not even the best part: after the staff retreat ends on Monday afternoon, Jason and I are heading to a B & B in historic Gainesville to spend two whole days and nights together in a quaint little cottage with a Jacuzzi, and we will properly celebrate Valentime's Day and a very promising upcoming year for us.
And just in case you haven't seen it yet on some of my other favorite people's blogs, here's what I do every Sunday morning... and why I love it and all the people there. That's Chad at the very beginning... and see who else you can spot!
PS - We rent the actual building from a local Seventh-Day Adventist church, which is why you see us building everything up and tearing it down again instead of just leaving it as is.
4 comments:
great video, you guys sure do a lot of work!
Had to comment on your most recent Twitter, which made me laugh out loud. From your palest of pale sisters, I have to agree: no, I don't have typhoid, this is my actual complexion.
Wow - that is quite a production. Impressive. Do you perform at all or just help with set-up. Thanks God for all the people like you who give up a few more hours in a warm cozy bed for some heavy-lifting and behind-the-scenes work.
Actually, you can see me behind the keyboard, looking spastic thanks to the time-lapse video. I had forgotten they were going to shoot that Sunday, and I had just worked all night and looked like HELL. So glad it's been captured for posterity. ;-)
PS - That's my husband just after the music starts - the first quick close-up...
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