saturdaying
Oh, I do like Saturdays. I have been feeling very low the last... a while... but today somehow felt better -- I have a little money in my bank account again (which means that the whole ridiculous tangled nightmare with trying to get my bank account set up, my PayPal account to connect to it, and my money to actually go into the correct bank account, is over), which meant that I could spend two dollars on chocolate to have with my library books, which I like to do on Saturdays, and my favourite dollar chocolate-covered pretzels are back in season, and it's very warm, so I traipsed off to the library in my cheery yellow trenchcoat, and rj_anderson's Knife* finally came in for me -- getting inter-library loans in is like getting presents! I am always so gleeful -- and coming home with a satchel-full of shiny readable books is very nice.
* Okay, technically since I am in the US it is Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter, but I like the UK title + cover a lot better.
So I am listening to Sarah Blasko, sipping hot tea -- I do wish I had some of my own pretty teacups + saucers, though! -- and waiting for the new Legend of the Seeker episode, and anticipating church in the morning, to which I plan to wear my gothic Victorian governess dress. I love the new church we've been attending for their worship possibly more than anything else, especially as I've attended so many churches where the worship was a performance by musicians that we followed along to (and occasionally it transcended off-putting to become downright offensive), and a fair amount of churches where it is utterly lifeless, but here it's so joyful and participatory -- there's a regular "band" up there, guitars and drums and piano and such, but there's no lead singer, no one's microphone louder than the others, and the congregation stomps and claps percussion along with everything else, and it's fun, and loving, and in fact more musically exciting to me than any of the performance stuff I'm used to. (It reminds me a lot of field workers singing as they used to, enjoying their own musical expression and the community of singing with others -- a reverent, fun outpouring of enjoyment and pleasure. Plus the group-sing/group-clapping has always been one of those musical elements that just gets me.) And I've really liked their song choices thus far -- a good mix of traditional hymns, some modern stuff, and some stuff from the sixties and seventies, and very few of the worship songs that particularly irk me. It's such a lovely way to put yourself into joy for the rest of the day.
I like the pastor, too, and the fact that there are people in the church and they actually act alive, and the fact that the church seems to have a fairly large emphasis on missions and the international church, so. I'm still a little bit wary, but after being burned by so many churches I don't think I can be anything else.
Oh, fie, the last of my tea's gone cold. I'm sorry, tea!
* Okay, technically since I am in the US it is Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter, but I like the UK title + cover a lot better.
So I am listening to Sarah Blasko, sipping hot tea -- I do wish I had some of my own pretty teacups + saucers, though! -- and waiting for the new Legend of the Seeker episode, and anticipating church in the morning, to which I plan to wear my gothic Victorian governess dress. I love the new church we've been attending for their worship possibly more than anything else, especially as I've attended so many churches where the worship was a performance by musicians that we followed along to (and occasionally it transcended off-putting to become downright offensive), and a fair amount of churches where it is utterly lifeless, but here it's so joyful and participatory -- there's a regular "band" up there, guitars and drums and piano and such, but there's no lead singer, no one's microphone louder than the others, and the congregation stomps and claps percussion along with everything else, and it's fun, and loving, and in fact more musically exciting to me than any of the performance stuff I'm used to. (It reminds me a lot of field workers singing as they used to, enjoying their own musical expression and the community of singing with others -- a reverent, fun outpouring of enjoyment and pleasure. Plus the group-sing/group-clapping has always been one of those musical elements that just gets me.) And I've really liked their song choices thus far -- a good mix of traditional hymns, some modern stuff, and some stuff from the sixties and seventies, and very few of the worship songs that particularly irk me. It's such a lovely way to put yourself into joy for the rest of the day.
I like the pastor, too, and the fact that there are people in the church and they actually act alive, and the fact that the church seems to have a fairly large emphasis on missions and the international church, so. I'm still a little bit wary, but after being burned by so many churches I don't think I can be anything else.
Oh, fie, the last of my tea's gone cold. I'm sorry, tea!