double-plus awesome

Today at CYMA was nice. not much of note, for me at least. except that I am tired!

And I had to take Jon and Rachel to a swim meet this evening :( but good stuff happened. Like, I had both The Power of Your Name (Lincoln Brewster) and Those Nights (Skillet) stuck in my head, pretty much equally. And a totally epic rainbow!

I will try to describe the rainbow (and shall fail miserably to do it justice).
It was big. I actually watched it grow across the sky. At times I swear, it was visibly growing.
It was bright, at least at it's peak awesomeness.
It was nearly doubled! Below the RedOrangeYellowGreenBluePurple bands, there were much smaller, thinner, less distinct bands of RedOrangeYellowGreen. Wow!
On top of that, some distance above it, was another rainbow. It was inverted, so it went purplebluegreenyelloworangered, and it was much less distinct. My theory is that we were experiencing double refraction, which is pretty awesome!

then it started to rain a little, and then it slowly faded away. But it was totally a doubleplus epic win rainbow!

And I get to lead the LiT small group tomorrow after CYMA! Yikes! But I'm sure we'll still have a lot of fun.

CYMA day 1

Having Olivia in the balcony for the first day was really nice, cuz she already knows the sound board and MediaShout is really easy to show people how to advance the slide. so it was awesome. (Thanks, Katie!)

There was a surprising lack of interesting, exciting, dramatic, yikes-like things happening today. which was nice, but a little weird anyway. The chaos was too well controlled! lol

But I got no work done on the outreach... I really need to start thinking hard about that. but tomorrow is another day, right?

And then small group afterwards was hilarious. "Nehemiah the bdoopa-dooper" lol

CYMA!

CYMA is tomorrow!!! and the LiT retreat/really long training meeting was today, and that was a lot of fun :D

And then I got to hang out with the Olenicks and Blackburns and Tellups and Lanman and Stummer. that was fun. I got thrown/dragged into the pool by David (that was interesting). And we were detonating Hydrocrackers. We were setting some off in a water bottle. I was in charge of putting the cap on once the hydrocracker was in the bottle. The first one failed, so the second one was held out of the bottle longer so that it would light proper. A little too long, it turned out. I was about 3/4 done screwing on the cap, Mark was telling me to hurry up, and I was actually in the process of dropping the bottle when the cracker went off. It didn't hurt my hand at all, but it sent a shock wave straight at my face... that was interesting :)

Then I couldn't get in touch with my Mother. I was a little worried, but I got to hang out with the Olenicks until 9:30 instead of 8 when they semi-kicked out everyone else.

And Mark was organizing his music binder, and I saw that he had the song "Shine, Jesus, Shine" in there. About 10-15 years ago, my parents had a couple of praise & worship cassette tapes they would play in the car, especially on long trips. That was one of the songs, so naturally I commented on the fact that Mark had it. I knew the melody for the chorus, but not the verses. So we asked Blake, who was on the computer, to look it up. (at this point, my Mother had come.) He found it on YouTube in about 10 seconds, so we listened to it (me, Mother, Mark, Blake, and Carol). In the suggestions bar or whatever next to the movie, there were a whole bunch of other songs which I also recognized from that tape... Some really nice memories come back listening to that song. It was awesome!!!