Oh, and ~ma to your sister, Connie. {{}}

And congrats to Gris!

Honestly, Amyth, had she known all these years what a seekrit kenyan muslim communist socialist you were all these years she'd have never had you over to begin with...

::rolls eyes 4 evah::

What she said.

Yeah, for real.

The best part? Her son and his wife just had a baby last Friday, and I'm the closest thing that baby has to a godmother, so we're going to be seeing a LOT more of each other in the coming years, so she can suck it.

I'm just *daring* someone to do that to me...I have about five million Alan Grayson quotes I could use. Or Rahm's "Fuck this up and I'll kill you. I love you, bye bye." They probably know that, too, of course.

How did I end up being the person who gets into a political fight on Facebook with one of my best friend's MOTHERS? I've known this woman for 21 years, spent holidays at her house, and she just fucking defriended me on Facebook.

The Internet is so bizarre.

My sympathies, amyth. I am SO ready to defriend the lion's share of my face-to-face friends. They have no clue how to be internet friends and it's driving me nuts. Also, a number of them need to buy a sense of humor.

I believe that in some parishes at least, they will do a general confession/absolution during the service - which is frowned up by their higher-ups, and yet, they do it that way anyway. In those parishes, the priests will still make themselves available for those, usually older people, who prefer the old fashioned one-to-one confession. Of course, my knowledge of Catholic churches in America comes mostly from Andrew Greeley novels, so what do I know?

Well, it's that you used to have to go to Confession every week, prior to taking communion, or you couldn't take it (because you still had sin on you).

Now, it's actually called "Reconciliation", not "Confession", and it's built in to the mass, so that you aren't required to do it every week, unless you've done BAAAAAD things, you can still take communion. You ARE still supposed to do it (with the priest, and it used to be with the screen between you and now it's face to face, but some will still do the screen thing if you want) at least...er...once a year? Before major holidays? Mind is slipping on that one.

I really hate the whole worlds-colliding thing about facebook.

Oh I love that about Facebook! But I am unusually blessed with relatively sane family and friends (or at least we have similar political beliefs).

Yeah, it's me, and my worlds not fitting together all that great.