Baby steps to recovery
After the chaos of my Thursday, I was very relieved that Friday turned out to be a relatively normal day. Kailyn was acting MUCH better...if Thursday wasn't so recent in my memory, you'd never know she'd been sick...well, she does have a lingering cough, but she's running around a playing like any 3-year-old who's happy to not feel sick anymore. I want to run and around and play, too, now that my own illness seems to be disappearing.
Still, Zachary is running a fever (lasting through today), but he's pretty easy-going about it so far. Stacey's also still fighting this off. All along, they've only been a couple of days behind Kailyn and me, so maybe they're almost out of the woods, too.
But, good grief. I haven't felt that sick since I was in college over 10 years ago. Usually, I can fight the cold off after 2-3 days, but not this time. I really hope we've seen the last of the tough colds this season.
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Spent most of the day yesterday over-dubbing a scene from Braveheart for church. Though I sound nothing like Mel Gibson as William Wallace, I did my best to substitute some dialogue we got from Granger Community Church over the existing audio track. Turned out to be a pretty fun task, especially as I got to tinkering with the video to try to preserve background 'ambient sounds' and the moving soundtrack. In the end, I had one layer of video, and 4 separate layers of audio underneath it...combining the original track with our own voice recordings, a separate .mp3 soundtrack, and a tediously created track of ambient noises (the crowd, the sound of horses, etc...). That was a lot of work for just 3 minutes of video.
Though the video itself is designed to be goofy and humorous, the task of putting it together is really helping me get more and more familiarized using Vegas 6.0 video editing software. Maybe I'll find some time soon to get creative with home movies/pictures we've shot of our kids over the past few years.
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Today's been spent doing what I like best: Nothing. After this week, though, can you blame me?
I'm probably functioning around 80% right now. I'm still short of breath, still coughing, and still tiring easily, but I will hopefully be at least 90% tomorrow morning for church...which would be a good thing, since I - foolishly - picked a lot of songs this week that fall into a high vocal range.
Nothing like singing "Open Up Your Eyes" by Tonic and having phlegm cause your voice to crack on the word 'eyes.' Yikes...
Here's hoping that won't happen...heh.
Still, Zachary is running a fever (lasting through today), but he's pretty easy-going about it so far. Stacey's also still fighting this off. All along, they've only been a couple of days behind Kailyn and me, so maybe they're almost out of the woods, too.
But, good grief. I haven't felt that sick since I was in college over 10 years ago. Usually, I can fight the cold off after 2-3 days, but not this time. I really hope we've seen the last of the tough colds this season.
...
Spent most of the day yesterday over-dubbing a scene from Braveheart for church. Though I sound nothing like Mel Gibson as William Wallace, I did my best to substitute some dialogue we got from Granger Community Church over the existing audio track. Turned out to be a pretty fun task, especially as I got to tinkering with the video to try to preserve background 'ambient sounds' and the moving soundtrack. In the end, I had one layer of video, and 4 separate layers of audio underneath it...combining the original track with our own voice recordings, a separate .mp3 soundtrack, and a tediously created track of ambient noises (the crowd, the sound of horses, etc...). That was a lot of work for just 3 minutes of video.
Though the video itself is designed to be goofy and humorous, the task of putting it together is really helping me get more and more familiarized using Vegas 6.0 video editing software. Maybe I'll find some time soon to get creative with home movies/pictures we've shot of our kids over the past few years.
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Today's been spent doing what I like best: Nothing. After this week, though, can you blame me?
I'm probably functioning around 80% right now. I'm still short of breath, still coughing, and still tiring easily, but I will hopefully be at least 90% tomorrow morning for church...which would be a good thing, since I - foolishly - picked a lot of songs this week that fall into a high vocal range.
Nothing like singing "Open Up Your Eyes" by Tonic and having phlegm cause your voice to crack on the word 'eyes.' Yikes...
Here's hoping that won't happen...heh.
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