Thanks, all, for the lovely wishes! It was a great service. I managed not to get anything horribly wrong, and they had put a chair at the back of the church for me (so I didn't have to do all of the process-ing around church). My hair is full of oil and my clothes caught wax from my confirmation candle. (The Girl made up a joke and laughed at it all the way home. "How do you get confirmation candle wax out of your clothes? With holy spirit." Ha. Ha. Ha.) But at least I did not set myself on fire, mostly thanks to my friend's mother, who was assigned to look after me and carry my candle while we processed around church. I was given a new testament and a beautiful rosary by the clergy of my church. Then we went out for a Sunday roast and chocolate fudge cake. It was all very nice indeed and now I have sent all the parents away and I need sleep.
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Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims, the Superbowl is next week.
Sounds like a really nice ceremony.
I'm babysitting this afternoon -- a friend is performing with ABT at the Kennedy Center, and her babysitter plans fell through, so I'm taking care of her toddler in the dressing room during the performance.
It is??? Fuck. There goes that reason for being lazy. I'll go outside and think of another one.
And also, it *is* the last Sunday in January, right? When did that change happen?
Well, there's the Pro Bowl, but nobody watches that anyway.
Dylanism of the morning. (This followed a brief discussion about the cookbook episode of SuperWhy.)
Me: I like to dive into cookbooks because cooking is fun.
D: I like to EAT because I think that's fun!
And also, it *is* the last Sunday in January, right? When did that change happen?
I have no idea. I just looked at TCG and said, "Is the Superbowl this week?" and he said, "No, next week." And my Superbowl knowledge ends there.
Wikipedia says
the decision prior to the 2003 season to start the regular season the week after Labor Day, moving the start of the season to a week later than it had been
waving Hi Cricket!
There's always a week between the last playoffs and the Superbowl. What's new this year is slotting the Pro Bowl into that slot, rather than doing it the week following. Which means that any Pro Bowlers from the SB teams won't play, but I guess also means the PB won't disappear into a black hole the way it usually does. Or that's the hope anyway.
Yay, Confirmation, Seska! (Confirmed Seska?)
Tep, much doggy ~ma for the Dalmie. When that happened to Mooshu last year, it was basically explained as a transient ischemic attack-- later on, of course, we discovered it was probably the first sign of his diabetes, but no one thought to check his blood sugar at that time.