Okay, I’ll start with the good news. Zac and I got to go the the Pearl Awards on Friday night! These are the annual awards given to LDS musicians. I helped with the scheduling and volunteered to usher so that I could go. I was totally expecting to be starstruck when like, Michael McClean and Julie de Azevedo walked in, but actually it was kind of a low-key night. We had a nice dinner, we got to dress up (whoever heard of “Black tie optional”?), and hear some amazing performances from people like Jenny Jordan Frogley, Cherie Call, Mark Dowdle, and others. Amazing, really. These people are so talented. Whoever says that Mormons don’t have “good christian music” are whack.
We sat next to Jessi Clark Funk and her husband Jim. She was a presenter of the first 7 or 8 awards. Visit Zac’s post to listen to some of her songs. She totally made me want to enter the music business, at least in the LDS realm. But seeing as I won’t be in Utah for the rest of my life, I’m not sure if that is possible. I guess I could start a contingent in Texas….I’ll keep working on that one.
Now, for the bad news. I spent all yesterday in the hospital finding out that I have a blood clot in my leg. Luckily I only had to be at the hospital for 3 hours so they could diagnose it, etc. But now I have to take the medicine for 6 months! I also found out that my true calling in life may have been to be a nurse. I had to give myself a shot this morning, and it didn’t even bruise! Even the nurse’s shot yesterday bruised. What do nurses know?