Since I mentioned on Saturday that the choir would be performing yesterday, I thought I would give a quick follow-up, because I said Athena would get to sing. The unexpected, but not entirely surprising, twist to that story is that she did not get to sing in the choir after all, because the choir director couldn't make it (for reasons unknown to ( Read more... )

We had our ward Christmas party today, and it was pretty nice. They had the young men and young women do a little Nativity play with Christmas carols for the audience to sing, like, while Mary and Joseph were "walking to Bethlehem." The lady planning the party came to me last week and was like, "Has anybody asked you to play the piano for this? ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the general session of stake conference, so we finally had our choir performance. It went really well, and it was a lot of fun, but now we don't have a choir to sing in, so it's a little sad. Of course, there's the matter of our ward choir, but that is a...difficult situation ( Read more... )

Yesterday was pretty exciting because...well, it was exciting for Athena in the scary sense, because she had to give a talk in sacrament meeting. But it was exciting in the fun sense later, because we had our first rehearsal for stake choir! Our stake conference is in a few weeks, and they're actually putting together a choir for it, and now we ( Read more... )

There have been some annoying developments today, which I do not want to rant about in detail (publicly online), but the gist of it is that the future of the ward choir is shaky, and we are rather aggravated about it. We've been cheering ourselves up with the usual: anime, video games, and Inbestigators (which is so stinking cute). No Miraculous ( Read more... )

I think the only things I really have to talk about today are the ward choir and some more thoughts hyper-analyzing Miraculous. Hyper-analysis of Miraculous is a constant, so let's talk about the ward choir ( Read more... )

The only really noteworthy thing that happened in the last couple of days was the choir performance in sacrament meeting yesterday. In the director(Athena)'s words, "It was...not our finest hour." It really wasn't that bad. There were just a couple of minor hiccups, like having difficulty finding the right note at the beginning of a verse. The ( Read more... )

It's the night before the night before Christmas, and we are at home, missing out on our sister's annual tradition. Our other sister shared a photo on the family chat so we know what we're missing, so I do feel the need to express our remorse once more that we chose not to attend this year. I am a little excited for our ward's Christmas program ( Read more... )

Oh man, this evening has been rough. See, when we went to visit family for our niece's baptism, our sister and one of her kids mentioned their "night before the night before Christmas" tradition, indicating that they are very excited for it. We have been less excited about it, for a few reasons, including that December 23 is on a Saturday this ( Read more... )

Yesterday turned out to be a rather interesting day at church. I was playing the prelude music for Primary Singing Time when one of the counselors in the Primary presidency asked me where my sister was. I told her Athena was in Relief Society, and, after confirming that Athena wasn't teaching (I don't think anybody in the Primary, including ( Read more... )