Saturday, 05 July 2008

• What would make a perfect day?

  wow...

  i can divulge into a few examples...

  1.  The perfect day for me would be to get off of a tour bus at a venue at around 10:00 am, unload my 2 Tom Anderson Crowdster Acoustic Guitars and my Tom Anderson Atom electric guitar (all of which you readers can buy for me, i won't prohibit your blessing to give cheerfully, really!!! I'll gladly recieve that you may be blessed... lol) and set up my spot to where I'm gonna stand later on that night.  Set-up my gear, then go back to the bus and change into some running shorts and take a nice run then a shower.  At about noon, go to the green room of the venue and eat catered lunch (probably a good salad and mastaccoli with a 20 oz of Dr Pepper), then go back to the bus and read or maybe play me some video games (Guitar Hero 3, Super mario galaxy... depends on the system provided on the bus).  At 3 pm, go do a soundcheck that'll go to about 5.  Dinner is next.  Then lead worship for 1500 screaming God-loving teenagers till about... well... the night starts at 7... so till about 9:30 depending on how many wanna sing again and chant "ONE MORE SONG... ONE MORE SONG... ONE MORE SONG!!!!!!" 9:45 rolls around, and it's meet and greet time where me and my travelling partners in music sign our CDs, take pictures, converse, laugh, and meet with our wonderful crowd.  10:30 rolls around and we are gathering up our gear and packing up our instruments to roll on out by midnight which will then roll onto the next venue to start this rock worship extravaganza all over again....

  2.  The perfect day for this example would be waking up to my wife, it'll be 5 am on a Monday.  We need to go work out sweetheart she would say as I surely mosey out of our bed and begin my morning ritual of morning preparation: brush the teeth, wash the face, floss if need be etc.  We head on off to the gym and work-out together for an hour.  It's 7 am and we get back home and I cook for her a fantastic breakfast.  She has an 8 am appointment with the allergy doctor cuz her allergies were acting up so I have to give her our insurance card so she can get what she needs as our insurance covers will cover what she needs.  My baby really needs to start that Hallelujah diet... 7:30 rolls around and I'm washing dishes as she pats my bootay, embraces me from behind and says, "I'll see you tonight sweetheart, I have about 4 students I need to teach piano and 3 students in voice lessons so I won't be back till 5."  "Wait babe, I have worship practice tonight cuz our drummer can't make it tomorrow... so I'll be back around say 10 ish or so, i'll call you ok?"  "OK you sexy man, i love you."  A long passionate kiss, a hug goodbye and she's off to her appointment.  8-8:30 i'm turning on a CD message by my pastor about the glory of suffering and praying for my wife as she's there at her appointment, "God, please give her safe travels and I pray that her allergies would be healed in Jesus Name so that way she doesn't have to take these pills anymore, please God also, give her strengtht to carry herself as a light to her students as they interact with her, and God, use her to affect eternity in the lives of her students, empower her, cover her, fill her, carry her, love her Jesus Christ Son of God for Your Namesake."  Shoot... it's 8:45... i got that creative meeting to go to at the church.  9 am-10pm at the church with a lunch break... the day is filled with a creative team meeting about how the "production of our Sunday service is like... i for one hope that our lead worshipper with do 2 Modern songs and 2 Hymns in a modern skin.  Especially since the moment during Before the Throne of God Above that he did last week had the people singing louder than the team was great.  Prayed... talked... laughed... then back to my office to type out chord sheets and a video loop needs to be made.  Worship practice was great, the guitaring was a little off though, but nothing like home practice to get that straightened out... cuz i had a busy week with my seminary exam and my wife had her exam as well to say the least... so I couldn't get the amount of practice i would have like for this set.  Tuesday will be the day to get it down in time for youth service on Wednesday.

  the drive home was filled with calm and ease yet worry on how my wife's tests resulted.  Walk through the door, set aside my messenger bag on the chair and walk to greet the wife only to be met with a joyously wild hug and a long deep kiss.  "You prayed for me didn't you babe?!"  "Uh yea, like I always do when you go out on the road... why?" "The doctors tested me again, and they found nothing... like nothing wrong anymore... I don't have allergies so no more pills needed PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!" OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD.... now she smothers me with kisses as I bring her to the bedroom and close the door behind us...

  3.  The perfect day in this example would be, wake up next to my beautiful wife.  Seeing how it would be a Saturday at our condo, I wouldn't be going to work because I would be working at my church, and fulltime church employees get the weekends off.  The perfect day would start off with me waking up at around 7:00 am, as my wife would be tired because we... enjoyed our Friday night... after a worship night of massive proportions at our church.  So she won't be waking up for another 2 hours.  In that time, I would pour myself a nice good hot cup of green tea or coffee depending on the weather which i immediately check via my Apple Macbook pro (the same one i use to create music on).  So with whatever beverage I have on hand, sit at my dining table, open up my Bible and journal and begin my devotional for the next 2 hours.  The 2 hours would fly by so fast, and I would be so filled only to be met with the most passionate kiss from the most beautiful wife I will ever have and hear the words, "what did you read babe?"  Exposition, discussion, reading, all following by gentle touch, caress, embrace with the gentle passionate love-filled words, "So what's up for today?"  10 am rolls around and I cook for her the most fantastic breakfast she could ever hope to have.  By noon, we are up and out the door... busy day today.  First we go to Costco to get some ribs since we are hosting a youth event at our place so we need meats... lots and lots of meat.  Brisket, ribs, BBQ chicken, steaks, potatoes, macaroni salad, baked beans, BBQ sauces... yea Costco would be a great place to get that stuff...  Then off to Whole Foods market cuz the wife wants to try a recipe for broccoli sprouts and radishes, which the sprouts are hard to find anyways so we head to at least 3 or 4 Whole foods before we find the right one.  with sprouts on hand we trek to Kroger.  I grab a shopping cart and we stroll the aisles as she's been asked by her mother to pick up some stuff.  Slowly, aisle one, aisle 3, "Excuse me sir, can you tell us where we can find the apple cider vinegar?  Aisle 9, ok thanks, left side, cool... thank you!"  Aisle 9 to pick up the vinegar.  Then the drive to her mother's house where we stay there and eat a light pre-dinner lunch with my in-laws.  Filled with interesting conversation and laughs and prayers... the wife and I trek back home after a long day...
  OH MAN, 6:30... they'll be here at 7:30 and the house is... relatively clean right baby girl?  NO... sigh... alright, I'll get the vaccum and you wash the dishes... no you gotta change... alright, I'll do the dishes... oh wait, that's what the dishwasher IS for, lol hahaha you're so right sweetheart, ok, your husband will load the dishwasher, you got change and i'll get this thing running.... CRAP, gotta start the grill... luckily the smoker is up and running and your mom gave us that hummus and tabouli we could serve up too... No baby, I don't know where your lip gloss is, isn't it in your purse... hang on, i'll get it... no it's the vaccum... shoot, the chips, I COMPLETELY FORGOT THE CHIPS!!!  You bought some babe!!!???  THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU MY PRINCESS (followed by a kiss), oh now what?  Honey the laundry???  NOW???  Alright, well I do have whites that need to be washed... or was it colored... no I remember, you were gonna wash the coloreds, can you wash my jeans with that too?  YOU'RE THE BEST... yea, and those shirts... no no no, not the boxers, i'll get those... you just worry about the jeans, shirts, and your colored stuff... i'll fold them after the BBQ.... ok....7:30... HEY GUYS....

  fast forward to 10 pm... THANKS FOR COMING, OH DON'T MENTION IT, MY PLEASURE, OH... THANKS... yea, this'll more than cover our expenses, no thank you...

  Wow honey... gotta love youth ministry right?

  The night ends with us plopped on the couch with the Food Network on in our family room folding laundry only to see on TV a recipe making fudge covered strawberries.  The wife says, "You do know that strawberries are considered an aphrodisiac in some places right love?!"  A slight hint in her voice, the rambuncious raising and lowering of her eyebrows, the subtle movement of her form, her eyes glazed with desire and love, her head cocked back with confidence and passion, as she leaves to go up to the bedroom.  I frantically scribble down the recipe as Giada De Laurentis quotes each ingredient... say screw it... throw the pen and paper down to catch up with the wife... she runs squealing with glee as I catch up to her as the bedroom door closes.... and it's only 11:30 pm...

  now that's a perfect day...
  
  

  (these examples are ALL hypothetical)

  sorry for the length

   

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