Last night was uncomfortable.
My back hurts. I think I slept on my arm. Normally lying down relieves the discomfort on my sutures. Are they sutures? It's glue... Anyway, for some reason, unlike usual, laying down seemed to apply stress on my incision sites. I woke up in discomfort. I was upstairs for a bit and felt like I was doing more than I usually would and that exacerbated the discomfort. Still feel uncomfortable. Anyway, that's my daily medical update.
Last night was the Altar Boyz reunion.
It was planned to happen before, but with all the riots and protesting it was postponed. Memories!!! Looking back. Like it was the first time when there was a real online community that I felt connected to. The first time I stage doored. I totally fan girled, etc. Like I'd follow anyone and everyone that was and became an Altar Boy. Hahaha... Then going to like clubs with sparkyboy and Aures to "Stalk the boys". How... Aures and Roscel went to Musical Monday with me one time and... It was so weird, like I expected to feel like these were my people, but at the same time feeling so out of place! I don't even remember my exact feeling. But... It was too overwhelming. Anyway... Part of me feels like I should bring this up in confession. Lol... Yeah, I get there are innuendos, but... I believe it was all in good fun and overall had a positive message. Like it poked fun, but was respectful. Like I still get emotional listening to Epiphany and I Believe. Livestream reunion. They first started with the production team. And the original premise was supposed to be spoofing music from the Missalette. HAHAHA!!! I follow Ken Davenport on twitter and every lent he talks about how he's no longer practicing, but likes to go to Ash Wednesday services, etc, etc. So... Once a Catholic always a Catholic! He definitely has a Catholic world view in a sense. But yeah... They soon realized that wasn't sustainable. He (?) then asked his niece who was into Christian Music for things she listened to and introduced him to DC Talk. HAHAHA!!! One of the podcasts I listen to is, the brother of the priest (from the DRVC!) is a tour manager for the former lead singer of DC Talk. Anyway, he was talking about how they'd have weird rhymes like... I can't think of anything right now!!! But anyway, yeah imagine if it were even more Catholic heavy! They brought out more creative people, but then eventually the original cast. Ho... I wrote notes in my instagram... Oh yeah... Fr. I must be so confused!!! HAHAHA!!! Mom to this day still thinks they are an actual band. 😂 Comments:
Jim Daly is giving me Tom Chaplin vibes. - He's now got silver hair and honestly... He kinda looks like him.
The host responded to someone's "Peace be with you." with "And also with you." Is Altar Boyz, pre "And with your spirit."!?!
They all gave their characters last names and Andy Karl gave Luke the last name Skywalker! Juan is Juan de la Cruz.
Confession session! - I forgot what I used to write. I think once I wrote that I lie on my confession card to just have it read. HAHAHA!!! Never happened. :(
Pirate Scott! - Scott Porter did a lot of the talking. Would he be considered the most "famous"? Or Andy Karl? I mean... I think Andy is more Broadway famous. Anyway, he talked how he was basically fresh in the system. He did one off bway show prior, but then was still doing the Orlando circuit when he was discovered. So yeah... He was doing some musical revue in Universal Studios, but then has his face plastered on some Pirate dinner thing like Medieval Times in Orlando.
HAHAHA!!! They were talking about how they pretty much never left the stage, except maybe for brief moments. They never had time to go to the dressing room. And at one point the guy playing Mark would piss in bottles, they eventually got him a male urinal. HAHAHA!!!
Non live livestream comments.
Tyler Maynard talked about being in a locker room, like it was very much a boys club.
Scott Porter talked of different times. He basically solidified getting the part by sexually assaulting the casting director. He seemed kinda embarrassed about it, saying it was different times and he wouldn't do it today. But at the same time he's like take chances. Basically during his audition of Something About You, he was running his hands though her hair.
To less happy things...
Started this entry "watching" a youtube vid on this girl's experience being a conservative Catholic in college. She admitted not in every case, but listed like 2 examples where she butted heads with professors and didn't do as well as she should have had. Reminded me of my World Religion's class. Basically the professor said outright he used to be a catholic and could therefore criticize. In addition he admitted he saw beauty in every other religion for their practices. Anyway... Every day we'd have to submit a short paper, like a paragraph about the previous class and a lot of my papers were contradicting what he was saying. But thankfully it never affected my grade. Everything is on my computer upstairs. But... I remember he was talking about how Priests are seen to be higher. Like... I get it. But I said as a Catholic and having had priest as family friends, etc, I never put my priest on a higher pedestal.
This week's bulletin. We lost $100K from March to June vs last year. I don't know if that's a lot... That's like 25K a month. I don't remember how much we got per week... But I think average is $10 per family. We have 3000 families, average attendance is 1.2K... Add to that they lost a lot from Easter. Oh and... Twitter is pissy the "Catholic Church" got PPP money. Comments, they don't pay taxes, they don't deserve the money. All the Catholic response is they're lumping all Catholic institutions together. There is no collective "Catholic Church", each church, hospital, outreach is a separate entity and small business, etc, etc.
takyttik82 texted family chat last night about the closure of Catholic schools in NYC / Brooklyn (arch)diocese. I was gonna comment as someone who went through a school closer... But the convo didn't go that way. takyttik82 was thankful Aaliyah's school was still open, thankful for education and to have a job, etc. But yeah.... Having gone though a school closure. It sucked. Sure I "met" new people... Actually in a sense it was a culture shock. We ended up going to the school in the better / richer neighborhood. Like I'm not destitute, but... Like the kids from this school had horses and country club memberships! Add to that... It was the first time I met like white Hispanics. Anyway, I always bring up how b/c of the close / merger I had to finish my sacraments in my parish. I guess that's good. But... I was alone, I knew no one. I guess... Have a connection to your school AND your parish is my talking point. Hahaha... Like I barely have a connection to my parish, aside from my priest. Even that lady is telling me I really need to be more connected to my parish.
BRB... Lunch.
Lunch was leftover steak. Mom said pork chops for dinner. I guess I will do my alt penance. FYI, I had tuna for breakfast, I could have had it for lunch... But I opted for the meat b/c Mom prepped it.
Did I have anything else to write??? Oh yeah, texts and tweets.
I sent 7500centfish an updated belly pic. I can't tell if it looks better or not. I think the incision, especially the bigger one is more defined? Like the scar line is more linear? I don't know...
I have no tweets. Mom asked me how many twitter followers I have. (After this GMA program said they had millions.) Uh... 230. But of those I interact with. None really... I barely post these days actually.
I RT'd something a Bishop tweeted about going to confession. How if you go monthly you'll grow in virtue, overcome sins, be more joyful. I mean... I RT'd it, but... I don't know... Overall do I see a change? Yes, I've overcome sins and am more conscious of sin. In the beginning I was definitely more scrupulous. At the same time I remember... Like I said, there is something about the 3 week mark. The same with prayer... Do I see the fruits? I don't... But I remember something Fr. Mike said, basically God is pruning you so that you may bare fruit, it may not be immediate, but it will come.
Last night was the Altar Boyz reunion.
Click to viewIt was planned to happen before, but with all the riots and protesting it was postponed. Memories!!! Looking back. Like it was the first time when there was a real online community that I felt connected to. The first time I stage doored. I totally fan girled, etc. Like I'd follow anyone and everyone that was and became an Altar Boy. Hahaha... Then going to like clubs with sparkyboy and Aures to "Stalk the boys". How... Aures and Roscel went to Musical Monday with me one time and... It was so weird, like I expected to feel like these were my people, but at the same time feeling so out of place! I don't even remember my exact feeling. But... It was too overwhelming. Anyway... Part of me feels like I should bring this up in confession. Lol... Yeah, I get there are innuendos, but... I believe it was all in good fun and overall had a positive message. Like it poked fun, but was respectful. Like I still get emotional listening to Epiphany and I Believe. Livestream reunion. They first started with the production team. And the original premise was supposed to be spoofing music from the Missalette. HAHAHA!!! I follow Ken Davenport on twitter and every lent he talks about how he's no longer practicing, but likes to go to Ash Wednesday services, etc, etc. So... Once a Catholic always a Catholic! He definitely has a Catholic world view in a sense. But yeah... They soon realized that wasn't sustainable. He (?) then asked his niece who was into Christian Music for things she listened to and introduced him to DC Talk. HAHAHA!!! One of the podcasts I listen to is, the brother of the priest (from the DRVC!) is a tour manager for the former lead singer of DC Talk. Anyway, he was talking about how they'd have weird rhymes like... I can't think of anything right now!!! But anyway, yeah imagine if it were even more Catholic heavy! They brought out more creative people, but then eventually the original cast. Ho... I wrote notes in my instagram... Oh yeah... Fr. I must be so confused!!! HAHAHA!!! Mom to this day still thinks they are an actual band. 😂 Comments:
Non live livestream comments.
To less happy things...
Started this entry "watching" a youtube vid on this girl's experience being a conservative Catholic in college. She admitted not in every case, but listed like 2 examples where she butted heads with professors and didn't do as well as she should have had. Reminded me of my World Religion's class. Basically the professor said outright he used to be a catholic and could therefore criticize. In addition he admitted he saw beauty in every other religion for their practices. Anyway... Every day we'd have to submit a short paper, like a paragraph about the previous class and a lot of my papers were contradicting what he was saying. But thankfully it never affected my grade. Everything is on my computer upstairs. But... I remember he was talking about how Priests are seen to be higher. Like... I get it. But I said as a Catholic and having had priest as family friends, etc, I never put my priest on a higher pedestal.
This week's bulletin. We lost $100K from March to June vs last year. I don't know if that's a lot... That's like 25K a month. I don't remember how much we got per week... But I think average is $10 per family. We have 3000 families, average attendance is 1.2K... Add to that they lost a lot from Easter. Oh and... Twitter is pissy the "Catholic Church" got PPP money. Comments, they don't pay taxes, they don't deserve the money. All the Catholic response is they're lumping all Catholic institutions together. There is no collective "Catholic Church", each church, hospital, outreach is a separate entity and small business, etc, etc.
takyttik82 texted family chat last night about the closure of Catholic schools in NYC / Brooklyn (arch)diocese. I was gonna comment as someone who went through a school closer... But the convo didn't go that way. takyttik82 was thankful Aaliyah's school was still open, thankful for education and to have a job, etc. But yeah.... Having gone though a school closure. It sucked. Sure I "met" new people... Actually in a sense it was a culture shock. We ended up going to the school in the better / richer neighborhood. Like I'm not destitute, but... Like the kids from this school had horses and country club memberships! Add to that... It was the first time I met like white Hispanics. Anyway, I always bring up how b/c of the close / merger I had to finish my sacraments in my parish. I guess that's good. But... I was alone, I knew no one. I guess... Have a connection to your school AND your parish is my talking point. Hahaha... Like I barely have a connection to my parish, aside from my priest. Even that lady is telling me I really need to be more connected to my parish.
BRB... Lunch.
Lunch was leftover steak. Mom said pork chops for dinner. I guess I will do my alt penance. FYI, I had tuna for breakfast, I could have had it for lunch... But I opted for the meat b/c Mom prepped it.
Did I have anything else to write??? Oh yeah, texts and tweets.
I sent 7500centfish an updated belly pic. I can't tell if it looks better or not. I think the incision, especially the bigger one is more defined? Like the scar line is more linear? I don't know...
I have no tweets. Mom asked me how many twitter followers I have. (After this GMA program said they had millions.) Uh... 230. But of those I interact with. None really... I barely post these days actually.
I RT'd something a Bishop tweeted about going to confession. How if you go monthly you'll grow in virtue, overcome sins, be more joyful. I mean... I RT'd it, but... I don't know... Overall do I see a change? Yes, I've overcome sins and am more conscious of sin. In the beginning I was definitely more scrupulous. At the same time I remember... Like I said, there is something about the 3 week mark. The same with prayer... Do I see the fruits? I don't... But I remember something Fr. Mike said, basically God is pruning you so that you may bare fruit, it may not be immediate, but it will come.