Your weekender mit Uberreiniger

[uberreiniger]

It has been a pretty busy weekend. It went by way too fast. I still can't get used to this whole notion of having to be at work at 8am every single weekday morning.

Friday night I had band practice. It was our first time getting together in almost three weeks but we were all three very impressed at how we're starting to sound. I joked that we're starting to sound like a band who actually practices together in the same room and we are. Jak (guitarist) wants to add a Judas Priest song to the mix. Now we just have to narrow down which one. I don't envy her task in playing a Priest song, of course, but I anticipate a fairly easy time of it on the bass. Now watch me be wrong about that :)

Just as I was about to go to bed Friday night Kansas City got hit by its own personal hurricane. The power went out and didn't come back on again until around 8am Saturday morning. What was really bad about this was not having any electric fans all night. Even with all the doors and windows open to let in the cool stormy air the house was still very, very HOT. Oh, and then once the power did come back on it was still another 7 hours before the cable and internet came back up. Frustrating, since I actually had a ton of plans for the day, all of which involved being online. I wound up sleeping most of the day. It was just as well since it turns out I had a massive sleep deficit from the week.

Today M. and I FINALLY got to go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt.2 It lived up to all expectations and was definitely worth the money to see in IMAX 3D. We had planned on seeing Conan as well but it turned out to be just too expensive. We've been seeing movies mostly on weekday afternoons and had forgotten just how expensive movies are on the weekend. We were running out of energy by that time, though. When we got home we both wound up crashing and taking a huge nap. I think I'll be feeling it tomorrow. Naturally tomorrow night I have band practice again.

So yeah, pretty epic weekend. Did I mention the neighborhood is littered with broken tree limbs?

Comments

[punkyami-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm waking my husband and making him call his mom to make sure they are all right. They live in a trailer park. :(

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard about anyone being hurt or anything like that. Just a lot of people without power but they were getting it back on pretty fast.

[punkyami-chan.livejournal.com]

That's good! She usually calls and tells us when something like that happens. But if communications are down, I can understand her also not calling.

[flame-song.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the hurricne brought you nothing but heat.
Nailed down which Priest song by now?

I remember covering "Touch of Evil" with my dfirst band....and our bass player actually blushing on asking me to sing those lyrics ;-) Well, turned out later he had a crush on me....
Ah, the memories :-)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be an awkward situation! In the right hands, (or right voice,) it could definitely be a very sexy song. I've never really thought of it as such as I've only ever heard it sung by Rob Halford.

We are still nailing down a Priest song. It may come down to us just drawing one out of a hat :)

[cygny.livejournal.com]

There were local storms here as well, several people died or got severely injured at a music festival last Thursday after which they had to cancel it. Over here we had no trouble at all though. Glad nothing was damaged, you obviously needed the sleep!

I loved HP7.2 a lot too. I had no idea that during the week movies were cheaper to go watch. It's not the case over here. I'm going to see Green Lantern with Alby on Thursday afternoon (it's a surprise, he doesn't know it yet) and on Friday evening it's our monthly movie night (which we are doing since last month :P) and we'll go see Cowboys & Aliens probably.

I'm glad the band practice is going well and you feel like you get something out of it.

*hugs*

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

It is a really good experience. I can't believe I went all these years without music in my life in this way.

I heard about that concert accident in passing. Didn't a stage collapse? A few days after that almost the same thing happened at a concert here in America. Stage collapsed right before the band was to come on, injuring and killing several.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Good Luck with the group! I wish I lived nearby so I could hear what your band sounds like.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

When the time comes we will have Myspace and Facebook pages and the music will be there.