I haven't written in quite some time. This is less because I've fallen off the planet and more because I've been very busy with traveling (to Washington and Wisconsin and Minnesota) and falling (and staying) in love and celebrating holidays and birthdays and parties and buying a house with Jesse and moving into said house and renting/selling the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I made the decision to start taking communion via intinction. This is dipping the host into the wine and consuming them together instead of drinking from the common cup (which does contain pretty potent wine, and which is also wiped off by the adminstrants between recipients). My rationalization for this was as follows:

1. There are ( Read more... )

I read the One Year Bible, New Living Translation about three to five mornings out of seven while I'm eating breakfast. Yesterday I was reading and was all "Wow, Jehoshaphat was the shiznit!" and was super-excited about cool stuff God did while he was king and then today I was like "Wow, his son Jehoram was horrible - killed his brothers and ( Read more... )

Listening to Jars of Clay always makes me cry. It's a very strange thing these days, because right now I am really happy with life, but these songs can undo me in a way tasting of bittersweetneess and love-lost nostalgia like nothing else. I've been listening to their two most recent non-holiday studio albums (Good Monsters and The Long Fall Back ( Read more... )

It's Memorial Day and I've still got a few things to do around the house - plan to change the furnace filter and add this fancy "clean cotton" scented thing my mom convinced me to buy when we were out shopping for curtains. I helped her pick some out and got a few new skirts, one of which I'm excited to wear when I go out later ( Read more... )

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There is an internet meme going around right now which has as one of its questions "Do you know anyone in jail?" I tend not to do memes, and I tend not to read other peoples' memes, but I've glanced at this one by mistake a few times and none of my friends seem to know any prisoners. I find this interesting because I do know some prisoners - ( Read more... )

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I and my randomly paired partner Joseph (via names drawn from a bucket) won the Anti-Valentine's Day Breakup Contest last night. That is all. I felt a little sheepish for even trying to win (I'm not sure why, since it was a contest, and contests are, well, contested) but we rocked our skit. I mean, it could have been better, but the crowd ( Read more... )