ok, mostly it's nothing. small out-patient operationy type thing sometime in January. Waiting to confirm a date. Should be back to work the next day or day after.
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
'The Message'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Dec 24, 2008 8:41:16 am PST #7827 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
javachik - Dec 24, 2008 8:41:30 am PST #7828 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
If I was going to choose a church entirely based on service, I'd like to mix the candles of the Catholic mass with the gospel music of an A.M.E.
I love candles and good music.
tommyrot - Dec 24, 2008 8:42:15 am PST #7829 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Connie Neil - Dec 24, 2008 8:42:39 am PST #7830 of 10002
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I love candles and good music.
The Methodists could sing, I'll give them that. A decent church choir is great training. It's how I learned.
Barb - Dec 24, 2008 8:44:25 am PST #7831 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Verb missing. Be? Do?
Actually it was "look like."
Trying to type and answer questions from a twelve year-old at the same time makes posting interesting.
megan walker - Dec 24, 2008 8:44:39 am PST #7832 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I love candles and good music.
Yeah, the Catholics really don't do music well. Which makes no sense, but there it is.
Hil R. - Dec 24, 2008 8:46:15 am PST #7833 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, the Catholics really don't do music well. Which makes no sense, but there it is.
My officemate (who worked at a Filipino prison school for a while) played me this Filipino Christmas song that was really neat. I can't remember what it was called, though.
megan walker - Dec 24, 2008 8:51:35 am PST #7834 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I should say I meant in the week-by-week mass/service hymn sense. At Christmas time, the music is carols so it is more similar. And the one reason I'm tempted to go to midnight mass tonight is there is a French church here and nothing beats "O Holy Night" sung at the stroke of midnight.
Kat - Dec 24, 2008 8:52:24 am PST #7835 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, I'm not refuting that, Juliana. I'm just saying it's pretty funny to me that Christmas is a firm overlay on other traditions already.
Kathy A - Dec 24, 2008 8:59:32 am PST #7836 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Christmas is a firm overlay on other traditions already
Also, December 25th was the birthday of the god Mithras.
As much as I've turned into a lapsed Catholic, bordering on agnostic, if I have to go to Mass, I'd much rather go to a more traditional one than one of the progressive churches that are turning themselves more Protestant to get more butts in the pews.
No kneelers, singing all of the stuff that used to be chanted (which throws me off if I'm in an unfamiliar church, because no one uses the same melody), holding hands for the Our Father (and raising them at the "for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever" bit)--all of this reminds me more of the time I went to a Lutheran service than the Catholic service I was raised with.