Yesterday was quite amazing! I was running on a total of less than four hours of sleep. (I had been babysitting Saturday night, and walked home around 3:00 AM.) At 5:15 Pacific time, I was woken up by ooVoo for a video test. Mr. Gary and the rest of the youth group were on the other end. It was 9:15 there, and they were getting ready for the service.
At 6:00 (or 10:00 AM, Eastern), it was time for me to give my testimony. It went well. I didn't say everything I wished to say, and I wasn't as organized as I wished to be, and I definitely didn't do as well as I could have. But it was definitely alright. It was sort of difficult for me to respond to my audience because I couldn't see them on the other end. It was just a black screen. It's quite a challenge to talk to an invisible audience.
I listened to my youth group do the rest of the Sunday service. They did fabulously! I was smiling the entire time. The skits (at least the parts that I heard) were very good, and so were the songs. I'm sure I would have enjoyed the mime if I had seen it, but it was only about five minutes of silence and then some clapping at the end.
After that service, I went back to bed and got an hour and a half more of sleep. I had another church service at 10:30. Here I played keyboard and sang on the worship team. It was quite an experience, since the team there did the songs differently than I am familiar with. It went well, though the electric guitarist was extremely loud and made a lot of mistakes.
The rest of the service was a mime program put on by AIM Around the World. It was quite good. Their first presentation was so good that I almost cried. It was very touching.
After the service, Rachel and I had lunch, and then left for Wasilla. We bought some snacks at Fred Meyer and then watched Toy Story 3 at a crappy little theater. (It was the closest theater around, and took us an hour to get there. *sighs* Oh, Alaska.)
Toy Story 3 was amazing, though. I laughed and cried. Not only was it incredibly new and fresh and full of creative ingenuity, but it was also incredibly nostalgic, bringing together the two older Toy Stories and creating a fabulous ending to the trilogy. Toy Story was the first movie I had ever seen in theaters. I was three, then, and was so scared of that stupid dog in the mean neighbor kid's house that they had to take me out of the theater because I was crying. My current Facebook status is "When I was three, I cried in the theater at Toy Story. When I was eighteen, I cried in the theater at Toy Story 3."
After the movie, we went shopping. I got The Cranberry's "Everybody Else is Doing it So Why Can't We?" CD and a childhood favorite movie: Once Upon a Forest.
This is the movie that hardly anybody has heard of, but is still awesome even if it does have a nothing rating on
RottenTomatoes.com.
Rachel and I bought matching skirts, and I got some awesome sunglasses. It was all a good bunch of fun, especially these drinks I found at Fred Meyer:
I can't bring myself to drink the Leninade yet. It's so hilarious. Some of the captions are, "Get Hammered and Sickled!" "Surprisingly Satisfying Simple Soviet Style Soda," and "Our 5-Year Plan: Drink a bottle a day for five years and become a Hero of Socialist Flavor."
It's quite fabulous.