As December came and passed, I was very upset to have had a Green Christmas, only I never imagined my wish for snow would exit us with record setting negative temperatures in Jan, 39 inches of snowfall in February, and a wintertime tempest in April. While I was happy that my fairy tale wintertime-wonderland was here, I did non anticipate what else winter would bring. My emotions are easily afflicted by many things – I weep during movies and if I see a cute baby or puppy – merely I had never felt the result of wintertime bringing me downwards. With so many days of snowstorms or temperatures below -xxx⁰F, we were stuck within for a good portion of the winter and nosotros were getting restless. Every single one of my housemates is so supportive, and we are really peachy nearly talking to one another about things we are struggling with – this wintertime was no dissimilar. We reached out to i another to make certain anybody'due south needs were existence met and came up with creative solutions to fight confronting the darkness of winter. Some of us went to the gym together, Bex shared her sunlamp, we watched feel-adept shows (like Kitten Rescuers and Cracking British Baking Evidence), nosotros fabricated yummy treats, and more. Simply my favorite thing we did was prepare for the spring retreat'due south LIP SYNC Boxing! The way creative projects in our business firm usually work is that ane person comes up with a swell idea and the residual of the business firm continues to build upon it with "but nosotros can accept it even one step further!" or more than like half dozen steps farther. Here's how this one went down:

Someone comes up with a absurd idea:

In the fall, earlier we all started hibernating for winter, we hosted a 21st Dark of September party in honor of Globe, Air current, and Burn'southward vocal, "September". Complete with a 70'due south and 80's themed playlist put together past Dylan and costumes that we found at Goodwill and by shopping in each other's closets. In October nosotros also hosted a community night watching Rocky Horror Picture Show in preparation for the Rocky Horror Elevate Ball that we would attend together. These are two of our fondest memories of the fall since we did some really unique and fun things all together. So, when it came to deciding on what to do for Lip Sync, "September" and "Time Warp" were two of the songs thrown out at first.

"Only we tin can accept it further"

Equally we were all trying to make up one's mind which one to do, someone came up with an idea fifty-fifty one pace further. Why choose between two when we can merely create a mash-up? Thank goodness for Dylan who stepped up because he'd done a mash-upwards before and already had some even ideas on how to brand the music menstruation smoothly.

A footling flake of silence accompanied pensive looks and half-smiles every bit nosotros all began envisioning the operation we would eventually put together. Then, some other suggestion was thrown out: "So I'm sensing a theme of time, what if we started with a at-home song and and so transition into our songs?" Some ideas were bounced around, but we collectively decided to do "Time Later on Time" to misfile the audience before transitioning into the goofy house that we actually are with the more than upbeat songs.

The preparation begins

A few days afterwards, I'm finishing the piece of work day and my phone "dings" with a new GroupMe bulletin in the Redeemer Firm grouping chat. I open it up and a behemothic smile spreads across my face – Dylan finished the mash-upwards! I listened to that vocal probably 4 times before the work day was over! At our "family dinner" we talked about logistics of the functioning, how to wow the audience and what we wanted to do with the different components. It was decided that we would stand still for "Fourth dimension After Time" and act extremely bad-mannered. Then as Time Warp music begins, look dislocated as to why our song turned off only then get into character equally the verse started. Without any specifics, we set off to memorize lyrics and set for our first rehearsal.

"Permit's accept it fifty-fifty one footstep further!"

A terminal minute trip dorsum to my childhood home in Chicago meant but one thing: that I had access to the 10 tubs of dress up in my basement which I KNEW included graduation robes. Aimlessly, I proposed nevertheless another step further. We could clothing these during the offset song and rip them off to unveil our fun Rocky Horror and 70s themed clothes! Iv days later I returned with a giant purse filled with choir robes and other random articles of vesture that went with our funky themes, including my grandpa's quondam golf pants. After thirty minutes of playing apparel up and laughing at how ridiculous we could expect, we began rehearsal to figure out exactly how we would pull this off. Nosotros grabbed our lyrics sheets and began choreographing each section. To speed things up for you, we had more ideas built upon each other, including wearing sparkly makeup and ending the song with a soul train of LVCers. Y'all'll accept to scout the video to see the magic unfold.

Planning the Lip Sync Battle was a blast, simply it was even more than that, it helped bring us out of the winter blues and bond as a house. At Redeemer house, a statement that starts similar "Okay, this is probably besides much…" means we are nearly to become really creative and show off how important it is to celebrate other'due south ideas and passions (it'south amazing how much love and support you can feel just considering your parents refuse to get rid of their kid's childhood toys). My house is incredible, and I could not imagine going through this year without them.

2019-04-26