Go Granny Go

So, I hear tell that my LCMS grandmother was stating today...how women had such a big role in the Bible. That she was displeased with the LCMS stances on women's roles. Go gramma :)

Needless to say she's proud of the calling that I'm answering. I think she even wishes she could've taken that path? I learned...oh probably soon after college.....that this grandmother had won a full college scholarship when she graduated high school....but her father would not let her go because "girls don't go to college". Isn't that sad?

Heee :)

Heh...

A New Diet...

Bier Bier Bier!

Comeon Spring get your ass in here already

I'm in a total and utter fog right now :)
Part of it is asthma and part of it a cold and part of it, a feeling of being bogged down.

Work is busy and stressful. I am having trouble going along with its pace because I know I'm leaving and therefore have ceased to care about the company. There I am left with trying to be a good little actress so that I can stay employed at least til late summer. I took today and tomorrow off.....and they still called me expecting me to save them and do some work today. I don't think so. How dare they invade my personal time. I told them I was taking the days off to do stuff around the condo. Not implying that meant to get it ready for sale. For you see, I think they suspect that I'm interviewing for other jobs. The truth ended up being that my psych eval for candidacy is scheduled for tomorrow.

I'm trying desperately to plan out the sale of my condo. It's hard because I haven't had the health or energy lately to do the major cleaning and purging that I really need to get a move on. I see things in a few rooms that must be repaired...and have no idea how to go about it and if it'll be crazy expensive.

Everytime it snows, I worry....because my asthma makes it very difficult to shovel the snow. I have somehow become a wuss at the thought of driving in anything but rain. And now snow is forecast for tomorrow into Saturday....which would include the hour plus drive to the psych eval and the hours there and the hour plus back.....and the whole night actually. I wouldn't care so much but it was difficult to schedule in the first place, and it'll darn hard to come up with a convincing excuse to take a quick day off since I just did a few and I've been sick so often (i'm tired of my boss trying to diagnose and prescribe).

This and I'm trying desperately to complete all the last things that the seminary needs for my application (including financial aid) but some things are a little confusing and others require my full attention, and I just don't have it right now.

At church it's confirmation, choir, helping with this that and the other thing....and that's all fine.
I've gotten good at just saying no to things. My only concern is that with everything else going on in my life, I've been neglecting the spiritual. I can't say that I'm really observing Lent right now.

That's a rambling negative post, but I felt the need to write it out....because I was just a mumbling crankpot a short while ago when I schlepped over to the evil store for some gatorade.

Book Meme

I was tagged by dear Trish. So here I be.

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!) Find Page 123. Find the first 5 sentences.Post the next 3 sentences.Tag 5 people.

The book I am currently reading, that is right by my side, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (written fifty years ago, but very very relevant today). The interesting thing? I turned to page 123....and that was the page that I was currently on! Weird!

"He bit at his knuckles. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh God, sorry... He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, to much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime."


I tag the next five people to read this.

Baptism Five

Noticed that RevHRod did this Five, so I played

1. When and where were you baptized? Do you remember it? Know any interesting tidbits? October 1979 at Christ Lutheran. Um, no...I don't recall! :) I was about a month old. It was in the sanctuary of the "phase one" building..now the basement of that church. They called it the bomb shelter.
   
2. What's the most unexpected thing you've ever witnessed at a baptism?Well, I can't remember anything greatly unusual. I remember the first baptism I assisted with our new pastor (woot).....it was a little baby girl and she was wearing one of those silly little garter-like hair bands (what hair?) Herr Pastor had managed to knock that over her eyes. I was trying to quietly point it out :)
3. Does your congregation have any special traditions surrounding baptisms? We let all the kids come up behind the font and watch. And the usual, parade the kid down the aisle afterwards.
   
4. Are you a godparent or baptismal sponsor? Have a story to tell? You know what? I am. At first I was thinking, no. When my parents moved out my way during school they found a new church. I went down with them the first Sunday. There happened to be a baptism of a baby born to a military family. As they had no local ties they asked that the whole congregation be her sponsors. So, there you go..I'm that girl's godmother (amongst many) although I don't remember her name!
5. Do you have a favorite baptismal song or hymn? ' Wade in the Water'! How can you beat that? No one wants to sing it around here though. 'You Have Put on Christ' is the standard here, and I confess, I like it.

Chillin' with the Episcopate

So, last night I had a good time :) Boy, do I know how to rock out a Friday Night! :)

I heard a few weeks ago that there was going to be an ordination at the episcopal church down the road, our churches are trying to get our youth together for events (love ordinations!). Better still, I had heard that a certain well-known new england bishop was presiding. I was totally going to go! I was telling my choir director and her partner about it...they had already been tagged to help fill out that church's choir for the event...so I got in on the action!

What great fun :) It was a female being ordained and her sisters in the collars came out. I still get excited to meet female clergy since I had such little experience with that til recently.

The only thing that sucked was, their choir loft is really out of the way and it was hard to see things. But I did manage to see directly into the laying of hands through a rail ;)

The presiding Bish had a few amusing comments that we'll be talking about for a while :)

Dude! The processional was Earth and All Stars......I don't know what resource it was from ...but they changed some lyrics! I'm not talking of the gender neutrality change.....in the...oh fifth verse or so...they replaced "loud boiling test tubes" with....um....something about loud conference meetings.....DUDE!.................OKAY, first of all, this is one of my favorite hymns, always has been. The reason? Since childhood? LOUD BOILING TEST TUBES! 'Loud conference meetings' lacks creativity and poetry. BOOO I say, BOOO. I sang it my way! :)

Thankfully the ELW did not change that verse.

PS- Any one have lyrics and chords of a good easy song to teach the kids for Easter? :) :) :)

Checking In

Why does Google have to own Gmail? I keep thinking about posting but I'm too lazy to log out of Gmail and into blogger :)

Work is, uh....less of a headache that it was last week. I've figured that I can give my notice some time in July. As soon as I figure out the appropriate dates to have overlapping health insurance...I'll know the exact date! :) Can't wait!

It was amusing. Tuesday or Wed (can't remember now) I was in with the Big Boss, with my Boss to go over some design thing. And the conversation ended up on Lent (working hard, right?) Boss went to catholic school and is a baptist and Big Boss is catholic...you know...goes when the kids have first communion class etc. Big Boss: "Ash Wednesday is this week? No way!" My Boss: "Yeah, you should go to church!" blah blah blah, then BB looks at me "RuthRE is sitting there thinking we're terrible people for not going to church...I mean she's practically a priest" gulp...hee....little do you know Me: "Ha ha. Naw, I'm Lutheran. We don't do guilt as much!"

I assisted for the Ash Wed service. Was my first time doing the ashes. I thought it was a very beautiful experience to trace an ashen cross on my friends foreheads. I didn't mind that there were ashes stuck in my nail for days. I let it stay as a reminder (yes i did actually wash my hands, ahem).

This evening I'm headed off for dinner with one of our confirmation kids. I'm mentoring her once a week, we started last week. She's been through the foster system, etc. She needs some consistent encouragement and well...mentoring. It's unfortunate that her guardian and I appear to have different opinions on the kid's tastes in dating. More on that later, maybe.

I need to set up a little job shadowing for her with a Vet. I'm trying to get her to think to the future...of what she wants to do when she grows up. Not to force her to decide or anything....but to put together the fact that what she does now in her life matters....and that she's working toward something.

And....it's COLD HERE! PJ would disagree. Mark, this would be a break for you I guess....but...oy.....I'm cold.

Pass the Advil

I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job.

Did I mention that I hate my job? Geez. There's a reason I'm on the reflux meds, man.
I was remembering today that it was nearly a year ago that I almost left it to work somewhere else until seminary. I had decided that I could stick it out for the sake of maintaining my health insurance and my 4 weeks of vacation time, which I never can use.

UGH. Is it September yet?