Wednesday night I helped clean the church, which really meant me washing chalices and ciboria and scrubbing a black incense holder till it was copper. I don't know if it was copper to start off with, but I concluded copper was better than black. My hands are still fairly grubby ( Read more... )

At church they are having a Christmas bazaar. In Michigan bazaars are more a fall event, and they sell a bunch of homemade decorations and things like bootleg designer purses, I have to believe (I haven't been to one since I was very little, and my impression of them back then was that they sucked because they didn't have proper toys, and I doubt ( Read more... )

May has been a sort of rough month. My parents put down Princess on the first because she was going to the bathroom outside her litter box. The doctor said she had weak kidneys, and she had probably become a bit senile, but otherwise she was fine. They didn't try to move her litter box upstairs or anything. And they didn't tell me that she was ( Read more... )

- Meg got into town around Holy Thursday. I hadn't seen her since 2006, and so we have done a lot of catching up and getting back to the status quo of just talking about plants and birds. She is getting married to another guy named Jason (not that she has ever been married before), and she's writing her dissertation on things that require her to be ( Read more... )

The crazy lady at church and I have now become close enough that I need not refer to her as such but can refer to her by name--in much the same way as I refer to plenty of other crazy people I know by their names--which happens to be Joan ( Read more... )

The Diocese of Westminster has decided to take over our parish, which has been run by the Irish branch of the Pallottine Fathers for the last 57 years. Long story short, they are mainly doing it because there is a shortage of priests and they want two parishes to have the same priest (so that one day it is easier to consolidate the parishes, but ( Read more... )