Field Notes #19: Food, Friends and Music

I had a really good dinner last night. We have some leftover salad stuff from the spaghetti supper on Sunday, so I put together a salad with a little bit of cheese, tomatoes and honey dijon, and I also had pineapple beef teriyaki with rice. OK, so the beef dish was a frozen dinner, but it was yummy! And I just went to the store and got some goodies: spinach and smoked salmon to make eggs Benedict (inspired by a house dinner of a few months ago), sweet apple chicken sausage because it's delicious, and chocolate Silk (soy milk) for the same reason. Of course, I got home and realized that the one thing I actually needed was milk. Oops.

I've spent a lot of my day working on music and worship stuff. I'm experiencing the joy of actually having time to chart songs the way I want them. Today I arranged Blest Be the Tie That Binds, complete with a new bridge with yummy harmonies; charted and harmonized They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love, and scored The Servant Song. I've also been practicing piano for Baptized in Water (because we have a baptism Sunday) and Christ, From Whom All Blessings Flow, and I'm considering using a hymn that a friend of mine wrote because it ties in with the Scripture and theme for Sunday.

Music and worship is fun!

I also went to lunch in Davidson today with all the DDS interns and supervisors from the Lake Norman District, courtesy of the District Superintendent (I always spell "superintendent" wrong, by the way). It was a great lunch in general, but it was also fun to see several of my friends from school and to realize that some of them are pretty close by and we ought to hang out. I drive past Salem UMC all the time, and John Bryant is the intern there; we're hopefully gonna get coffee or something soon.

Mom and Dad are coming in a bit to take me out to dinner. Rock on.