Day 23 - 26: Long, Long Days

I must admit that I have slacked the last few days...or week. The reason for this is in the title - Long, long days! Oh boy. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were definatly more than we were prepared for, in terms of getting enough sleep. It's all a blur to me now, but from what I remember, we would get up at 7, shower, catch the bus, practice and write songs from 9:30am till 9:30 at night, with the exception of an hour lunch break. I think this may have been one of the hardest times, for me anyways. I guess after a while of being in that same room, playing songs over and over and over while only making slight changes, starts to drive you a bit crazy...all while trying to not offend anyone with your constructive criticism. But as I've said before, I know really shouldn't be complaining about it since it is still the best job I could ever imagine. We have a nice roof and clothes and showers and food (even if its bagel sandwiches everyday) and not to mention great weather. So I'll thank God for that. So I guess in relation to the blog writing, this daily routine put us back home at around 10:30pm each night, with just enough time to get some supper, do some chatting, reading, and fall asleep.
Thursday was a bit better though. Even from the beginning, something seemed brighter about today. And when we got there it all made sense - Craig Douglas was back with us today! Yase beh. This is always great. Craig brings the perfect balance to the song writer's circle. He's always excited about working with other people's ideas and he always has something halarious to say. We got off to a good start with one of the newer tunes that was still lacking lyrics for the verse. Chris, Tim, and I went to another room to work on a different tune (and didn't make a lot of progress) but came back to find the others with a complete verse for their tune. It was really good too...feels good to make some progress. This goes to show that what Tim says is usually true: Sometimes you just have too many cooks in the kitchen. Writing always seems to work better when we split up.
We finished up a bit earlier today too...probably around 6:30pm. It was nice to get home and actually have a few hours before hitting the hay. There was a song in my head on the subway - lyrics that would go with some music we were working on at the church - and when I got home I worked on that for a while so that we'd have a new idea to show Tim the next day. I think it came together nicely too...hopefully it'll be on the album!
After that D Mac came over and we went out for some chillin time. He had a skateboard in his trunk too. I haven't skateboarded for a while, but we messed around with it in parking lot and actually got a nice photo of a little grass ollie. Cutos to D Mac on the fabulous photography. We drove around a bit more after that, and then headed home since it was nearing 2am on the dashboard. Then I went to sleep. End of Thursday.
I realize this blog doesn't have as much comedy in it, so in return I'll leave you with a couple of quotes from Dede that took place over the span of the last 4 days. Enjoy.
Jordan

"I slept with my jacket on last night." -Deanna Leil
"My head feels too heavy for my neck today." -Deanna Leil with a pool triangle around her neck while tied to her jacket to hold her head up.