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rainbowjehan

"And Exchange it One Day for a Crown..."

Mar 09, 2011 23:22

Ash Wednesday service! It was really nice, although we had a visiting priest and she gave a very, very condescending sermon about how it is petty and trivial to give up things like chocolate or cola for Lent. Since I've given up both of those, I lol'd quietly to myself in my pew. Then she said that she had made a significant change to her ( Read more... )

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bewareofitalics March 10 2011, 05:12:07 UTC

*snerks* Your Lent and life plans sound awesome!

rainbowjehan March 10 2011, 05:57:06 UTC

Lillie, I am going to be the most awesome old lady ever. People will tremble in fear.

bewareofitalics March 10 2011, 06:10:14 UTC

And then you'll take over the world, right? I think I'd like to live in a world run by an old lady who wields her power of old lady-ness to annoy annoying people.

rainbowjehan March 11 2011, 01:10:08 UTC

Monty Python's Old Lady Gangs are, for reals, something I would do.

dreamer_easy March 10 2011, 05:20:08 UTC

If I gave up chocolate and cola, I'd be doing a lot of frowning, that's fer sher.

Hope you chainsawed the creepy boy in the 393s.

rainbowjehan March 10 2011, 05:56:17 UTC

I gave up all sweet things and cola for the second year running; it's only first first day and I already hate myself. Bleh.

No, he was--oh man. Not sexually creepy, creepy in a "let me tell you about my dead twin brother with whom I have a mental connexion and in whose honour I always carry a live carnation and a dead one--the dead one symbolises him and the live one symbolises me. Also, don't be freaked out if my eye change colour, that's just my twin coming through. Also, do you believe in ghosts?" kind of way. I honestly felt bad because I was having a really hard time not laughing.

raanve March 10 2011, 13:55:27 UTC

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

(That's all I got.)

Also, you know, I am pretty sure Lent is not a time for judging & acting all superior.

rainbowjehan March 11 2011, 01:10:56 UTC

I KNOW IT WAS SPECIAL. LIKE REALLY SPECIAL. And awkward.

Psshh, Lent is all about judging.

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rainbowjehan March 11 2011, 01:14:28 UTC

Precisely, that's why I'm going to frown more. Honestly, I'm getting to the point where I just find religious condescension hilarious when it's directed at me (less so when it's directed at other people).

I don't give up just chocolate, either; it's all sweets. Which I've done for-ever because it was how my mother taught me to do Lent when I was a little kid, and so it's my standard Lent observance. Now that I'm old enough to think about it for myself, I add on my own personal observances as well--hence the cola etc.

eremon_lass March 10 2011, 10:13:30 UTC

I decided to give up caffine for the second year in a row...and was so fried by the time I got to my 7pm rehearsal that I ordered a coffee and forgot to make in decaf. *fail* So I'm going to go until the day after Easter Sunday, so it's still the same amount of time, just shifted slightly.

And sadly I didn't make it to a service at my church because of my schedule, but I heard from Mom that it was nice. I'm sorry yours was so...presumptuous.

rainbowjehan March 11 2011, 01:16:16 UTC

Oh, God, it's really tough. I don't mind the sweets as much, but I want a fucking Diet Coke so bad I could kill.

Apart from the sermon it was lovely! I mostly tune out the sermons anyway, since I don't like our priest very much.

erinpuff March 10 2011, 12:32:36 UTC

LOL fonts. D: The worst was when I went to Paris and Comic Sans was everywhere, even in cathedrals.

rainbowjehan March 11 2011, 01:15:17 UTC

OH GOD, I am at the Philly flower show right now and I called my sister to make fun of her because her school's exhibit was in all Papyrus, and I said "the only way it could be worse would be if there were a Comic Sans bit". Of course a few minutes after I hung up I found one.