Funniest Thing EVER

Okay, so this may not be the funniest thing ever, but it was something that I discovered the other day that I am still giggling about.

I have an obnoxious whistling ability. I think it comes from the many years of training as a classical musician.

Anyway, the other night at VBS (Night 4, I think), I was waiting for the remaining cast members to get there. While some of us were sitting there up on the stage waiting, somehow, I discovered that dear, sweet Cindy too posessed an uncanny whistling ability.

So, what is one to do while sitting up on the pulpit waiting for the big fish you may ask. Well, we decided that the best use of our time was to whistle different songs from the "Fiddler on the Roof" soundtrack. And I must add that we did not take the easy way out and both whistle the melody. We did this in HARMONY.

I think David Letterman has a "Stupid Human Tricks" night coming up soon on his show. Maybe I can convince Cindy to take this act on the road. We could make tens of dollars.

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In other news, Mamma Mia and Dark Knight are out. I may actually go see a movie. I am very excited. So, if you have seen either one and didn't like them, please do not tell me.

Also, the X-Files movie comes out next weekend (I am a secret X-Files fan), so I may actually make 3 trips to the movie theater.

Would it be odd to just go and watch all three on the same day, one right after the other? Just checking.

DVD Preview

So, here is a preview of the VBS DVD. This is a snippet from Night 2 which contains my favorite song (Master of This Heart). Also, you get to see Jonah "bobbing". Enjoy! I have a friend guiding me through some of the technical difficulties on the video. So, hopefully, it will be ready in full soon.

**Sorry for the video quality. I didn't want to overload the system with a super high quality download for Blogger.

Singlehanded Destruction

Yes, singlehanded destruction is the only way to describe it. What may you ask am I referring to? Well, I am talking about singlehandedly messing up the church server with the VBS DVD.

Yes, I am telling the truth, and to top things off, it wiped out the almost completed VBS DVD. Fear not, I have the original nightly recordings that I can piece back together with the use of my new 1 TB (terabyte) external hard drive.

Now, if only I could get my computer to actually start up.

I wonder if it would be possible to create and edit the DVD using y Blackberry?

Night 3

(Roxanne, sorry this post is a little tardy. I had to take a quick nap when I got home this evening before I could do anything.)

If you saw Roxanne's comment to my last post, she gave an excellent description of Night 3. Jennie stole the show. She was a dolphin inside the belly of the fish, and she did indeed inquire as to whether or not Jonah would prefer a cup of tea. It was hysterical.

Additionally, Jonah did make his big entrance sliding down the tongue, but what most people don't know is that in practice tonight, Jonah leapt so heartily onto the tongue that it broke. So, my excellent set lady did some quick thinking made it all better.

Other highlights of the night, were...

1. a Jamacian fish.
2. a fish who sounded a lot like Nell Carter in Gimme a Break.
3. And a disco light in the belly of the fish (I could almost hear ABBA playing in the background).

Night 4 should be just as awesome. Both the parrot and the big fish make another appearance tomorrow.

Night 2

Well, Night 2 went just as wonderfully as Night 1. My ladies who run the show both the education part and the play part did an absolutely fantastic job. The fish made its first appearance, and the kids went wild. There was a 6-foot English parrot perched in the baptistry. The pirates used rock-paper-scissors to cast lots, and Jonah gave everyone goosebumps with how moving the final song was.

All in all, a very good night.

Night 1

Well, one night down, three more to go. Everyone did a fantasic job! My ladies who were running everything outside of the auditorium did a fantastic job of making sure everyone got where they needed to be and that the teachers had all they needed. And the cast on stage and crew behind the scenes were superb.

Thanks for a job well done!

Tomorrow night marks the first appearance of the fish.

One of Those Days

So, it was one of those days today. I really wish I had thought to take a picture of my face at about 10:30am this morning when Murphy's Law was in full effect. Oh well is all I can say at this point. Fortunately, my parents have been here this week just working, and so I was able to move from greatly distressed to moderately calm.

In other news, I am now spread across 4 office areas. My furniture is gone. My ceiling was pulled out, and my new furniture is taking up valuable classroom space. I am not terribly certain where anything is. However, they are putting the new carpet in my office tomorrow, and ever so soon, I will have a lovely work space.

As an aside, one of my going away gifts from Saturn Road was a tiny wooden pew with a family of 4. We had one in the teacher workroom that I loved playing with each Sunday. So, the lovely Saturn Road people gave me one for my new office. So, my niece found it today in one of the piles and started playing with it. From what I could tell Mr. & Mrs. Church Pew are quite liberal. Their plastic, non-moldable hands fall in an outstretched open position, and my niece worked to help them raise holy hands.

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July holiday and a Happy Bastille Day!