Here is the scenario: Everyone you know has gotten together to pick a famous person to narrate your life in the 3rd person. The person chosen should fit you and your personality. (IE: If you think they pick James Earl Jones, you better be one bad-ass nubian god.)
Who do they pick?
So I’ve gone through this grueling, torturous process to join the worship team at our new church and after I sent a little note saying that the first two weeks of the month are harder for me to schedule, we started a banter about my requirements. An exerpt follows:
Well since you asked. The things in group #1 are MUST haves. Please
make sure that there are at least 3 of the items in group #2. Group #3
is entirely optional, but will go a long way towards keeping me happy.
Group #1 – Must Have:
1. A team of 6 white stallions pulling a white, jade-encrusted Fiat
Spider, to pick me up mornings and practise evenings 33 minutes before
the beginning of said occurance.
2. Dressing room + handlers room + private washroom, all painted in
Behr’s ‘Violent Puce’, with accents in the “Warm Burgundy” range.
3. Cheese And Sausage Tray
4. Placed exactly 3″ from the left edge of my dressing table, I expect
a single plum, floating in rose water, served in a man’s hat.
5. New Converse, size 11, in Charcoal Grey or Hunter Green.
Group #2 – Choose 3 or more.
1. Personal on-call deep tissue or sports masseuse.
2. Plasma TV with NHL Center Ice Package
3. Diet Dr Pepper, chilled to 35 degrees Farenheit, served in a German
Beer Mug, with 36ppt grenadine, mixed.
4. A small American Bulldog, dyed green or purple, named ‘Butch’
5. James Earl Jones to announce my arrival, and walk before me,
narrating my day in the 3rd person.
Group #3 – Entirely Optional:
1. Grace
2. Prayer
3. Encouragement
4. Rocking Out.
I’ve been really noticing some places where I’m a lot like my dad – for instance he always used to listen to an AM radio station, all talk and so on. I’ve been doing it too for the last while. Strange how things come around like that.
Lots has been happening, but very little blogworthy. I’ve been working a lot, trying to get some stuff delivered at work. Work here is quite different from other places where i’ve worked before. At previous places, I was usually among the smartest people there and didn’t really have to work hard all the time.. that gave me over to some bad habits which I’m trying very hard to break. Now I have to concentrate and work hard the majority of the time, and it’s a bit of a paradigm shift.
Also I’ve been really trying to play Kingdom Hearts to get it finished. I did finish it Wednesday night after playing for a little over a month (I started the week of thanksgiving or the week before, I don’t remember right now).
I also made a cool item for my Secret Santa. I’m looking forward to the time off too, we get all next week off.
Well, lots of stuff has been going on, but very little of it blogworthy. For both my readers, however, I’ll give a little summary of things that have been going on.. My wife has taken to writing a list of things to do on our bathroom mirror, where I can’t help but see it several times a day. This is really good, since I have a very short memory :).
First, there was a vent in the laundry room, and I finally got around to looking at it, and it looks like it once had a fan in it, but no longer. So I went to OSH and got a new fan and housing and had intended to put it in, but they had nailed it to the beam in the attic, from above. So I shelved that project for a while.
There was also an unpleasant smell from the washer, and we thought that perhaps the drain was clogged. As it turned out, the fabric softener had started to clog the inside of the agitator, so I ended up having to take the cup and the agitator off and clean it all out. I’ve seen some foul things in my life, but the greyish goo that I had to clean out from that washer was some of the foulest.
Then soaked them, replaced them, and ran vinegar and baking soda through the washer to get the rest of the scum out.
Then last night I climbed up in the attic to fix that fan. 45 minutes in 110 degrees covered in blown in fiberglass was not fun.
But tonight, I get to test the new Tomb Raider game, so that is SWEET.