Weekend plans and other stuff

Patrick's got another recording session at the Bastyr chapel on Saturday, so I'm going to go listen to that. It should be lovely. They are always so amazing to listen to. I'm hoping to purchase a cushion for my rear end before going, because holy buttmonkeys are those pews uncomfortable if you sit in them for 2 hours! The pillows I have are either noisy (buckwheat) or too squashy (no point), so I need a slightly firmer one to take the rump pain away.

The chapel at Bastyr where Patrick records.

What it usually looks like during recording.

He's also been learning a lot about the recording software we got, so he redid the first instrumental tracks for Lament, along with working on some other planning. Progress is being made! Slowly, but it is. Eventually we'll get around to adding the vocals. I think for each one we're going to make a separate track with the notes for the current vocal line plunked out on it (played on keyboard so I can hear them as I sing, makes it WAY easier to get the right pitches than just trying to memorize them and sing them while the accompaniment plays something else). We can then delete the plunked tracks after they're no longer needed. Cheating! Sort of.

We're still getting the house ready for my sister to come stay with us for a while. We've got to clean a bunch of stuff and move the catbox out to the kitchen (yay, how wonderful) so she can actually shut the door to her bedroom while she's here and have some privacy. I wouldn't want poop right next to me while I was sleeping, either. It's times like this that make me wish we had a utility room or something. Oh well. I guess we'll just have to keep it even cleaner than we usually do. She'll be here until past Halloween for a vet school externship, and I hope it goes well. It's always interesting having someone else in your living space for an extended period of time.

I've been having a lot of anxiety lately for one reason or another, so my muscles have been spasming and my jaws ache from clenching them. I take NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) and use the heating pad to get rid of the spasms. These mostly help. I go back and forth debating whether an anti-anxiety drug is worth it, but I'm still mostly on the side of no, which is fine. If it gets worse I'll see about it. Right now I'm doing pretty well with just the Ibuprofen/Naproxen, etc. Just a few nightmares within the last couple months, nothing too horribly bad.

It helps that my day-to-day waking existence is so much happier now! Really takes the edge off, let me tell you.