Well, I am in the exciting stage of preparing to record!  Our first session will be next Saturday, and I hope to touch up some previous recordings as well as start up some new ones.  I’m pretty pumped.  Honestly, it can be a bit overwhelming at times as I am trying to work on notating the score, arrange songs, find musicians, schedule sessions (practices and recordings), and think about how the heck it’s all going to fit within the next 4 months!  4 months may seem like a long time, but when you’re working full-time and trying to work with other people who go to school and work as well, 4 months is more like 4 seconds.  So yes, at times it feels like my brain is flashing OVERLOAD OVERLOAD signals, but then I remind myself that this very real God that I know (and am getting to know) is actively involved in my life and wants to help me.  And I can see Him helping me…if I look.  Too often, I am so focused on the To Do list as it grows longer that I miss all the other things He is helping me accomplish. 

So, my motto as of late has been, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”  Mmm…I guess I will be learning to like the taste of elephant over the next 4 months.

…dang it’s been a while.  Well, there hasn’t been too much to update, except that I’m back in Dallas until December, working away and also….drumroll please…RECORDING!!  Yes yes yes.  I’m scheduled to get together with Mr. Jeff and finish what we started last spring.  I can honestly say that I think these next few months will be the real deal, i.e. hopefully, if all goes according to plan, I’ll have a decent demo in my hands by Christmas.  So pray for me!  That’s right, all 2 of you who read this, pray that I can stay focused and get done what needs to “git dun” (as they drawl down here). 

I went to the House of Blues the other night to hear BROOKE FRASER and yes, it was awesome.  She’s a great songwriter, definitely, but I was also impressed by the fact that she had 3 people in her band (including herself) and the sound produced was full and good quality.  Basically, it was Brooke on either piano or guitar, a guy on percussion (sometimes he’d play the keyboard), and a gal on keyboard (sometimes the viola).  And it was good.  Man alive, it was good.  It gives me hope that I could keep my recording simple and still have a great sound.  I think the crux of the matter was in the keyboard.  There were some great organ sounds and nice filler pads. 

Brooke has a great sense of humor, as does the gal that plays with her.  Her name was Beth, and she was from Ireland (I think) and occasionally exclaims, “Janie MacIntyre!” to things worth exclaiming about.  Poor Janie MacIntyre (whoever she is)…that is how you’ve been immortalized.