Big Day!

So Kristen and I ran to Walmart in the afternoon. We wandered around after getting our shopping done and came across a clearance section; they had these hideous clam shell melomine snack bowls. They were just the right size; we placed them strategically and sang a line or two from Little Mermaid. Kristen chose "Part of Your World" while I did my best impersonation of when Ariel comes up out of the water on the boulder and throws her hair back...

Later Ang and Kristen ran an errand so I decided to take a longish walk over to the music store, I've been asked to sing a solo in church, never done that before, not sure it's a good idea. After looking around and having them help me out I ended up with a book of arrangements by Michael Hicks. The problem is that I'm not good enough on the piano to play his stuff and try to sing along, I can barely play his stuff enough to figure out what it might sound like. I need someone to play a few of them while I figure out how bad I will sound with each one... then I have to find an accompianist in the ward who is good... no pressure, I have 3 weeks, tons of time. 8-(

On the way back I stopped at Jen and Tom's and watched a few minutes of the parade... I like bands... there should be a parade of nothing but bands... all different kinds of bands... that'd be cool... bands bands bands bands.... I used to be in the marching band, I couldn't have looked as young as these kids.
I could do without the 8th grade cheer leader squad.... or the 7th, 6th or senior squad really. Tonight was the mini-parade, tomorrow morning we're going to the big parade . I have to scope out the winners of the floats because I am going to be designing the float for our ward next year apparently... from what I saw I'm pretty confident. Besides two floats the rest of the floats will be crushed beneath us begging for mercy by the time I'm done! ;)



Later we went over to the brand new Pollo Loco. Variation is a good thing, we were excited to see a new food place coming in, Kristen even knew the date of the grand opening (Fri). Ang was with us. We weren't as excited as Kristen, but hey, the pregnant lady gets to make the decisions. As we pulled into the parking lot Kristen said, with serious concern, do you think all they have is chicken?...... We looked at her funny and laughed... and laughed... laughed a little more... We asked if they had anything else, perhaps some pork in therapy, or beef with anger management issues, maybe bipolar lamb? But they only had chicken, crazy crazy chicken.
(In her defense she wanted something besides just a PIECE of chicken, she liked the chicken burrito. I just went with a piece of chicken-pretty tasty. If some food place has a specialty, it's not a good idea to order the one thing that no one goes there for. I have never been as sick as when I got some old chicken sandwhich at Fudruckers famous burger blah blah... If you go to Pollo Loco, it's prob a good idea to go with chicken anyway. It was pretty crowded, why do short people think they can cut in line? This short little girl cut in front of the throng waiting for the pop machine, some little old man snuck his way in front of me for the same, it's not like they are short and invisible, I am able to tilt my head down 15 degrees and see them quite clearly.


Kristen recently got released as a primary teacher (GLORY BE!) and we just got called as the single young adults nurturing couple. We're supposed to track all of the singles and make sure everyone is taken care of, since there are multiple places they can go and can easily slip through the "cracks". From 10 until midnight we were chaperoning the SYA dance after the rodeo, not a huge turnout his year, probably only a couple hundred, maybe less I'm not sure. We patrolled; pretty much the easiest gig ever. A single adult dance, not exactly a hot bed of iniquity. If they were going to fool around they probably wouldn't have come to a SYA dance to do it, but we roamed anyway. None of the doors in the church even had locks in them, so we checked all of the rooms. Our church growing up back home was like Fort Knox, locks on EVERYTHING...

They had some decent music.... not the most energetic DJ.. it was a little sad. He tried to call them through a dance once, but all he did was repeat part of whatever the actual song said

Song: "Move it back now yo!"

calm little Asian DJ: "back"

Song: "To the right!"

into his microphone: "right"

Song: "Everybody clap your hands"

DJ: .....nothing

Song: "Move it back now yo"

Asian J: "back"

when the song got over...... "that was uhm good uhm you guys did really well...."

Not exactly a DJ Loco!