A Day in the Life

Today was insane. What a day. J & I were both so optimistic about how things would go today. We planned to spend the morning in the studio recording J's first podcast, and the afternoon in the studio finishing my vocals on two of our songs for our CD. We also wanted to upload 2 of those songs on mp3s to our E-junkie account. It was going to be such a productive day!

But… life isn’t always predictable. Actually, it’s, like, never predictable.

9:30am

We got to the studio and had a couple errands to run, got those done. We were all ready to record when we felt out of sorts with each other. J “hadn’t been able to read me” all morning, and I said I was fine, there was nothing to read… because I didn’t know how I was feeling myself, so how could he read me?

That is why think time is SO IMPORTANT!! It’s been a huge theme for our lives recently. Whether you spend think time journaling, praying, or just in quiet with God, it’s a necessity, especially if you are in a relationship, where communication is so important! I hadn't had any think time to myself since I'd woken up, and it was showing.

11:00am

After getting frustrated, we went out to the dock on the lake and talked it through – I so love that about J, he will put everything else aside to deal with the internal stuff going on inside. In fact, we were so successful at getting to the bottom of our frustrations that we “podcasted” about it on J’s phone! He whipped out his phone recorder and we talked about it, making a cool podcast – a sticky situation turned into a blessing! Right?

Wrong. It wasn’t really finished, it was more of a first draft, and there was wind noise too, so we really had to redo it to get it up to par. We had all day though, it was only about noon.

So we set up the studio with the mics and everything when I got ravenously hungry. My phone was dying and I didn’t have my charger, so we decided a break to go to J’s house and grab food and his charger was in order.

1:00pm

Now, here’s something few people know about me: I NEED MEAT. I need protein or bad things happen to my body! I’m very small with a super fast metabolism, and I don’t know what it is, but there’s some kind of meat-and-carb law about my body that if I don’t have both of them, my body freaks out. I feel light-headed and nauseas and kinda like I have a fever, like I have general pain and weakness in my body.

I conveniently forget this fact, even tho my body has tried in vain to drill it into my thick skull! I couldn’t find meat, so I had bread and tomato sauce – all I had for breakfast was a bagel, so about half an hour later I had a weird sugar rush and had to lie down! I felt awful. J and I have found that Boosts (nutrient- and protein-rich drinks) work WONDERFULLY when this happens to me – they are life savers! So he brought me a Boost, I felt instantly better, and fell asleep for an hour. Meanwhile, J did some research on how to market podcasts and the best way to post them online.

4:30pm

After doing some chores for J’s mom, we realized I still needed to get my snowboarding season pass, and had to go in person, so we went to Mountain Creek to do that. We felt like we had the rest of the evening to get stuff done, and we should really pick up my pass before Christmas.

6:00pm

I apparently hadn’t learned my lesson about eating, because on our way home, I got some hash browns from Dunkin Donuts and by the time we got back to the studio, I had another sugar rush and crash. And the Boosts were back at J’s in my car! J quickly scrounged up some ground beef and cooked it on the stove for me – the studio has a kitchen, it's the bottom floor of a house – and I felt better again. Man, my body is SO annoying sometimes!! I guess actually eating a decent meal would help, tho :-P

7:30pm

By now, we still needed to lay my vocals and redo the podcast. While recording me, we realized we couldn’t post those songs tonight – they SO weren’t mixed properly yet, and we want to redo 2 of the songs with our band, so it was pointless to work on them for final tracks at this point. We laid some scratch tracks and moved on.

9:00pm

Onto the podcast… Ok, you have NO IDEA what a struggle that was! Between technical difficulties, tired brains, and frustrated emotions, it was tough, but we persevered. We tried our absolute hardest to put together an awesome podcast for you: explaining who we are as J & Kay, what our goals for our podcasts are, some lessons we’ve been learning. We got some tracks down, in one take, even - THAT'S not the hard part. But the quality of the recording was terrible. Terrible! We couldn’t get the distortion out of the mics, before or after recording. Even redoing what we had just done for the last half hour was pointless because it would just happen again. We were getting too burnt out to keep going, so even tho we're both excessively stubborn, we decided to call it a night and go home.

11:00pm

Now, we’ve left the studio, and I realize that sometimes, you just have to keep on keepin’ on, get yourself out there, and press through the opposition and distractions. Some things you just have to chalk up to experience: we learned a lot tonight, about who we are, how we react in frustrating situations, and how we want to do podcasts in the future. And really, at the end of the day, I can still say this: Following your dreams is worth it every step of the way. And I'd rather do this every day alongside J than do anything else without him.

:)