For anyone who attended yesterday's worship service at Fairview Road Church of Christ in Columbia, MO, I would like to publicly say I'm so so very sorry for forcing Monte to lead "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" as the closing song. I take 100% of the blame. Totally my fault. Rookie mistake. You know it's bad when your friends look at you and say "Oh, wow. You didn't think this through, did you." Like, when they look at your 80s prom dress choice or your wedding hair.
Nope. I didn't. Thought it would be fine. Figured it would be cool. Like the day we went to Johnson Shut-ins with baby Mason, and I thought a regular diaper would act just like a swim diaper, for a short period of time.
It wont. It'll blow up to 10 times its regular size and then explode in a gelatinous crystallized mess. And all the way back to the car, in the woods, with no real recourse but to carry the bewildered gelatin covered baby, you think to yourself, "I'm going back, not to a real bathroom, but a tent and a campsite." (The baby, although 9 now, still acts as though his parents have no idea what they're doing. I suspect it started right there at Johnson Shut-ins.)
Upside though, I now know what a vocal train wreck that song is! Lesson learned--only three billion more just like it to go! (I'm a simpleton.)
Ahhhhhh-men.
P.S. This afternoon, to get the sound of that closing song out of my ears, I went to the new Star Trek movie. Ooooo, it was soooo good. I give it six stars out of five. Dang it, Chris Pine is cute. Holy cow! I don't get a sitter, like EVER, and I would leave my kids with a street corner hobo to see this sucker twice, and happily pay the eight bucks for the privilege. It. is. So. So. Good. Christmas dinner at grandma's good. Ethel M's chocolate good. Two hour massage good. Free luxury hotel accommodations good. IT'S GOOD! GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
Just don't sing. They don't take kindly to that on Vulcan.
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Oh, no...I wasn't there, of course, but I can imagine that it probably didn't go well. Poor Monte. If it's any consolation, that's probably only the zillionth time that song has led someone astray.
Andy came into the sound room, said he was filling in for Monte, and that Monte had already set up the song service, but that he would not lead the closing song. He told us if Monte made it back, Monte could lead it. He the went so far as to pick out another closing song prior to Monte's return. I'm tone deaf and can't carry a note in a bucket with a lid, and I even know that song should never be led in a church. Kristin actually said that it only sounds good with college choirs. Monte was wearing his pink headphones for you, and you took full advantage of the situation. Shame, shame, shame!!
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