Sorry for disappearing over the weekend...in case there's anybody out there wanting an apology. You may have noticed I don't usually post on Sundays, and that's mostly because sometimes it takes effort to post, and Sundays are when I'm like, "Eh, no need to push it." Saturday was a bit of an anomaly. The main thing taking up space in my brain, ( Read more... )

Fortunately, the rush translation is shaping up to go fairly quickly. We finished the first draft with lots of extra time! Which is good, because we also had a trip to Target planned, and a rehearsal for...a...thing ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, the people in charge of special musical numbers for sacrament meeting (the one area of music in the ward that we are not in charge of) asked us to do a special musical number in sacrament meeting this week. As the sacrament meeting music director, Athena gets up and sings in front of the whole congregation multiple times a ( Read more... )

The video gaming started earlier than expected today when we got a phone call not too long after lunch. I was surprised because I figured the nephews would be in school (they're back to in-person learning), but Athena rightly guessed it was their little sister. We all started up Splatoon and then her mother came along and addressed her by her ( Read more... )

Since Athena has an ocarina that looks like Sailor Moon's transformation brooch, we thought it would be cool to work out an ocarina/piano duet of Moonlight Densetsu. So I'd been spending a little time here and there trying to figure out how to get the melody onto some sheet music so I could work out some accompaniment, and I finally figured it all ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaauuggghhh... I feel the need to apologize for the accompaniment on the children's songs in our ward's Christmas program. They played the first one (A Book of Mormon Christmas), and my first thought was, "Oh, no, I played it too fast!" I play everything too fast... It sounded like the kids were struggling to keep up with the tempo, and I ( Read more... )

Well, I wasn't planning to do this, but the missionaries called yesterday and asked us if we would, so now here I am doing it. Some of you may remember I posted a little while ago (I don't remember when, but I probably mentioned it on Sunday) that Athena and I were asked to sing a song for our ward's special Christmas program. Well, we are now ( Read more... )

We had a really good day today. At church we had a couple of amazing talks. The one speaker talked about Joseph Smith spending one December in Liberty Jail and kind of applied that to the pretty crummy holiday season that's being had around the world this year. Sometimes things are really bad, but they give us experience and don't take up that ( Read more... )

We maybe took it a little easier today than we should have, but it's been a nice day, I think. And suddenly we have a bunch of extra stuff to do! The person in charge of music for our ward's Christmas program asked us to do a song! What! She's never asked us to do a song before ( Read more... )

Somehow we always find a way to make Sundays busy. This week, we had to stay after our ward worship service broadcast so I could do some recording. The people in charge want the Primary children to sing a lot of songs for the Christmas program, and the idea is that they'll all record themselves (or rather, have their family record them) and send ( Read more... )