Time Changes Strike Again

So Sara and I agreed to swap with Greg (our guitarist) and Janelle (our other pianist) this last weekend, since Greg and Janelle wanted to run to the slopes while they still could. Normally Sara and I play and sing at the Saturday 5:00 Mass, while Greg and Janelle take the 11:00 Sunday. We agreed to the swap, and even decided to show up for the 8:30 Mass, since it typically suffers without a pianist, relying instead on the player-piano.

However, we were not prepared for Daylight Savings Time. Perhaps we've been a little out of the loop on that, or perhaps we simply never worried about it, since our Sundays tend to be a little lackadaisical. But I had set my watch to beep at 6:30, giving myself time to shower and shave before waking Sara up at 7:00, and then heading over to St. Paul's Newman Center at 7:15 or so.

Well, as Sara worked her way through her morning donuts, she had a terrifying suspicion that something was wrong. So she checking on my computer, and the time was not 7:00, it was 8:00. Panicking, she checked our cell phones, and sure enough, they registered 8:00 as well. So we dressed in a hurry, threw things together, and hurried over to the Newman Center--15 minutes before Mass was to start, as opposed to 15 minutes before practice!

Ugh. It is a mess when there's no time to practice liturgy music prior to Mass. We're not quite coordinated, and there's always these little hiccups that make us feel sheepish--or even a little guilty for volunteering our time and subjecting people to our mistakes.

Oh, well. At least the 11:00 Mass went well.