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Let's rock!

It's Monday! Hooray!

The week was a rough one. Lots of work, many late nights and almost all nighters, working till 4am and waking up at 7 to go to work and do other things like bake corn bread (which was delicious). I'm so glad I made that corn bread. I had some in client office work meetings that went really well and made a little money doing that so that's always happy. I think I was biting a little bit too much off at one time this week though because I have another cold. It's a slight one and my body is battling it pretty well considering I haven't done too much to increase my sleeping to give me a fighting chance. Echinacea, effervescent vitamin c, and extra strength daytime cold medicine at my side but a pretty peppy attitude is in the forefront. I fell great. Being active is great and though I wish things were a little slower right now, the pace of coming and going and working and just dealing with it all is great for me.

The weekend was amazing. I was privileged to attend a listening party for a friends CD to figure out the order and which songs would make it on his upcoming full length for summer. All the songs were amazing and I'm still in awe of the talent of this one man band/writer. Such a diverse style too. That night I really felt at peace though I was really tired from the week. I even had crazy amounts of work to do when I got home but it was all worth it. Music and close church friends rock. I think it was my first chance to hang out and witness my friends baby in full fighting force. She's awesome!

Friday there was a house show with some church friends and it was such a hometown kinda night everyone just chilling. It's so good when we folk get together at events outside of church. So fun. And the air is still pretty great. They're all a great group of people and it gives people new to the church an opportunity to come out and be part of something new. I got to know a few people a little better too. I called it a short night, gave some good friends a ride home and headed home myself straight to bed. I did have a nap in preparation for the night and it was definitely a good call.

Saturday called for an impromptu wine and cheese party. Super good food, super good company and an amazing host made the night super success. It was hard but I tore myself away for an hour or two to go see Four Year Strong and Set Your Goals. If you've never heard set your goals, definitely pay attention and take a sampling of some of the stuff when it's released on the 21st. I have a leaked version (SHHHH) and it's amazing. That being said, I'm definitely going to buy it (ON VINYL) when it comes out. The album is easily one of my favorite this year. And I like it a lot better than the current Four Year Strong disk. They need a new full length soon! Anyway, returning back to the party, I talked to people I never had before from ft. Getting into conversation, I ended up staying till 3:30. Enoch is the host with the most for sure. Thanks so much!

Ever devoted to my good friends I was determined to make it for breakfast at 9:30 in Mississauga so I drove home and got to bed around 4:15, slept fast and woke up at 8. I was on time for breakfast!! Amazing!! I think it's easier to wake up when lots is going on cause I just go with the flow. If the flow is waking up when the alarm tells you, I go with it. haha.

Sunday was an awesome morning breakfast with good friends, hanging out with my sister for a bit of her birthday and then ft service. The sermon was remarkably short for ft. Usually they go for an hour. I was a little surprised as I'm sure a few others were but I heard later this was due to the morning service that was just starting up. Since they have less time to tear down afterwards, and it was the first week of the morning service they didn't want to run over. That's going to be tough. I hope that as they sort out the morning service, the night service will continue to be that flagship service where we do get the word like usual or something like it. But all in time. I think it's remarkable what is happening at ft and so far everything has gone so well. I wonder how well our new space would handle a fully acoustic set. I think a few of us that like singing are really hankering for another one of those. Oh.. before that happens we might want to fix some of the overheads to some of the songs. The arrangement to some of the words gets a little out of order. It's on a few of the best songs at ft too. Ah.. just kinks. We'll totally get to them in time.

The greatest thing... new faces! Although we had morning service that day, the church was still pretty full. There were new faces everywhere. Before the sermon we get to stand up and say hello to the people around us for a little bit. I find that always helps when you see new people. You're able to walk up and say hello. For anyone new it means a lot. If anything, I think we could have that portion a little bit longer in weeks coming when we have a lot of new people. I'm sure I saw a few people that didn't get any hello's. My heart goes out to them and I really do hope they come back next week.

Anyway.. quite a church related weekend but an awesome one at that.

So not the quickest update ever. Probably the most vague batch of information ever yes.

Thoughts on all of it later. For now.. Yeah I'm late. Gotta roll!

Peace, love and rock!

J

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