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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.

La Bene Vita

I am a professional musician

, worship leader

, small business owner

, songwriter

, aspiring author

and freelance nonfiction writer

with a chemical engineering degree

.

But that's just my resume.

My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Aiva Raine

Sep 16, 2025 at 5:57pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

ROLFMAO Cain: “Idk, not my problem.”

Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

Sep 16, 2025 at 2:51pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Right? Kinda makes me want to see the whole musical rewritten in Gen Z. They did it with Hamilton LOL, why not Joseph??

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Jayne

Sep 16, 2025 at 1:34pm
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

GETS DRIP COAT

*dying*

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Amethyst Angel h✟k ♡

Sep 16, 2025 at 8:35am
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Wow, that was actually pretty good! It goes to show how humanity has always been the same and God has His hand in everything... Or something

Thanks for sharing!

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Elycia Lee ☮

Sep 16, 2025 at 7:18am
In response to "I Asked ChatGPT to Rewrite the Bible in Gen Z"

Oh dear God.

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Robert Waltz

Jul 24, 2025 at 9:46am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Elycia Lee ☮

- yeah, maybe it's our turn to bug her to run it through Prep this year

Elycia Lee ☮

Jul 24, 2025 at 9:20am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Robert Waltz

I'll be more impressed if Michelle can walk, chew gum, and whistle without swallowing the gum all at the same time.

Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something.

Hmmm... if I ever finish that story I was writing which was my first attempt to write a novel, I will definitely ask you what you think of it.

Michelle, if you ever write your story, I wanna read it.

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Robert Waltz

Jul 24, 2025 at 8:49am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

It's certainly a thing to write about things you don't believe in. For instance, I reject the idea of the supernatural, but it's interesting enough that I've written fiction featuring it. But the problems with writing about "perfect" places are well-documented; it's tough to introduce conflict into a utopia, but it has been done. The enduring popularity of Star Trek is one example.

To address your specific situation: maybe perfection includes incorporating apparent imperfections in order to make things interesting. Like how Lucifer's fall, and Adam and Eve's for that matter, were actually all part of the Plan. After all, if God could be surprised, He wouldn't be omniscient, would He? And if Heaven's perfect, then doesn't that mean that the residents' supposed free will has been taken away, and isn't that a contradiction?

One superpower we have as humans is to imagine the impossible.

I know I'm saying all this as an outsider, so take it as you will. And you know me well enough, I hope, to know that I'm not saying any of this to be hurtful or obnoxious.

Oh, and Elycia Lee ☮, it's possible to be both a scientist and a musician. Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1! can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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Elycia Lee ☮

Jul 24, 2025 at 5:47am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

You are a scientist? I thought you are a musician.

Writing a story that involves God, heaven, hell, and angels are to me one of the most difficult stories to write especially if you want to be factually right.

I tried and fell flat on my face. Good luck. I really do like the idea of angels getting promoted... your arguments are valid too...

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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1!

Jul 24, 2025 at 5:20am
In response to "Story idea and my thoughts on Heaven and Hell"

Kåre เลียม Enga

- I welcome your different point of view once you had some sleep!

(deleted and reposted because I accidentally sent this privately initially probably because I need some sleep also haha@ my eyes don't work before 7:00 a.m.)

January 19, 2012 at 1:48pm

#744998

Thursday

My Yahoo calendar worked for a week. Then I stopped using it. And promptly forgot a church meeting Monday night. What I really need is a personal assistant.

The first half of this week, unexplained lethargy ruled. Then sometime yesterday morning, I suddenly found my giveashit again.

No idea where it went. It may have gone into hiding over the beating I took missing the church meeting.

BALANCE
Work goals:
Blog at MT.com : Pending... and due today! This will be my 750 Words entry.
Year-end closeout: In progress. Chris and I looked at the P&L and balance sheet today. That was fun. *drools over all the nerdy calculations and data reporting*
Sign-in process for students: I Googled customer sign-in kiosks, but no "easy" solution jumped out at me. Still, there are options. In related news, I've started an Amazon cart that includes eight netbooks, two large-screen monitors, a couple new lobby tables, and ten groovy Circle of Fifths mousepads (that's nerdy music theory stuff.) Let's check the scores (tee-hee... "scores"):

NERD: 2 (3, if you count the music pun)
COOL KIDS: 0

Writing goals
Town Money Saver ad: Done.

Performance Evaluations: Scheduled all week. Haven't touched them. I briefly thought about them. Once.

Church goals
9:30 Bulletin: Done!

11:15 Bulletin: In progress. I need to find time to go to church and hole-punch new songs for the congregation binders. I suppose I could just start by printing them here at work.

Family goals
Been gradually putting the laundry away.

BODY
Health goals
Weight: 171.8
Exercise: A Facebook friend sent me a YouTube video of couch exercises.

Yesterday's points: 26

GROWTH
Business Growth
Reach 400 students at MTMS by 12/31/12: 243... with good news! Chris and I discovered that we had the volume targets wrong, and I get a double raise at 250!!! AND the receptionist gets to go to full-time hours! Summary: I get MORE money to do LESS work.

Music Log
Yesterday, I practiced: Nothing.
Yesterday, I listened to: The Power of Your Name by Lincoln Brewster.
This week, I performed at: Pending.
Songwriting progress: Nothing.

Keith and I decided we're ready to be old and retired, so we can justify going to Florida for January and February every year. Am I old yet?

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