And also with you
Yesterday, we became godparents for the third time. You'd think we'd know all about the process now. But no.
We were waiting for the Buntings to arrive and saw the guy who does the baptism. You know... the guy wearing the collar. The guy we assumed was the priest. Until we overheard him talking about his wife.
Uh, what?
I looked at David, a little bewildered.
"Did you hear that?"
"Actually, I did."
"If he's a priest, why does he have a wife!?"
While we're considering this, Chrissy and Tommy arrive. I ask Tommy the question.
"Who is that guy?"
"You mean the priest?" (He thinks he's so great with sarcasm.)
"Well, we just heard him talking about his wife. Splain that."
"Actually, I have no idea who he is. They don't really teach you anything useful in the baptism classes." (He had to convert before he and Chrissy got married.) "It's all about your spiritual self and other crap like that. What really would have been great would have been for them to tell me when I was supposed to stand, when to sit, when to kneal. That kind of stuff."
So we asked Chrissy, who notified us that he's the deacon. Ah, deacons. Yes, they have wives.
We all file into the church, Megan giggles as the holy water goes over her head and the video camera wouldn't turn on. While we're all standing in the front of the church, the deacon walks buy with the oil and rubs some on Megan's head.
"Hey, what's that stuff?" I whisper to Tommy, who's standing right in front of me.
"Why do you keep asking me that stuff? I told you I don't know about this stuff. They didn't tell me! I'm here just for show!"
"Humph. You've been no help to me today. But that stuff looks like olive oil."
At the same time, David and Tommy both whisper "It's EVOO! EVOO!" Yes, we watch too much Food Network.
Megan is baptized, we take a gazillion pictures, watch Abigail have a mini meltdown (we might have gotten a photo) because she doesn't feel like having her picture taken. Then as my stomach growls for the 100th time, someone says "OK! Back to the house for lunch!" I praise God -- and Mary and Jesus -- and we head to the car.
7/24/2006
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And the survey says...
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The rage meter
It's not so bad.
Rave
The rain! WOO and HOO.
Rant
The new neighbors. WHY do we always get idiots as neighbors? Need to post about that. With photos.
I really need to...
Clean out the guest-room closet
Latest obsession
Sleeping
Ancient history
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But annyoing all the same: the seat-heater saga, start to finish
- If it's the only thing you do today You just HAVE ...
- Entourage Watching the opening sequence of Entoura...
- Lessons in nature Today I saw two beetles. And the...
- Could you just shut up, please!? Do you think it's...
- And then you had to bring up reincarnation Days, s...
- The boy I heart Right before I leave for work ever...
- Just perfect for that case of the Mondays If you n...
- Doctor, Doctor During almost every aerobics class ...
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease Our bed's been s...
- I finally got it Or rather Maliavale did it for m...
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⢠Sept. 2004
⢠Oct. 2004
⢠Aug. 2005
⢠Sept. 2005
⢠Sept. 2005 II
⢠Sept. 2005 III
⢠Sept. 2005 IV
⢠Oct. 2005
Literati
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Reading
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A Year in the Merde
Last thing I read
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Eventually...
Something nonfiction
Now for the important stuff
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Cast of characters
Listening
Nothing really
Watching
Project Runway, Design Star (Somebody stop me! No wait! Don't. I love it!)
Doing
Not a hell of a lot
Eating
Peaches and cherries. Lots and lots of cherries
Making
Coffee
MMM Good. Make this stuff
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⢠Baked chicken breasts
⢠Banana bread/Choc. chip banana bread
⢠Cheddar crackers
⢠Chocolate-chip cookies
⢠Chocolate truffles
⢠Green bean casserole
⢠Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai
⢠Smoothie
⢠Spago Fudgy chocolate cake with chocolate glaze
⢠Strawberry jam, Strawberry sauce
These are people I know. These are people I know on blogs:
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⢠bucktoothed varmint
⢠i'm not a girl, not yet a wino
⢠maliavale
⢠nabbalicious
⢠no pasa nada
⢠jurgen nation
These are people I don't know. But they're on blogs too:
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⢠big red blog
⢠dispatches from france
⢠guiness girl
⢠i'm so important
⢠princess genevieve
⢠poppy cedes
⢠stephanie says
⢠this black girl reads
Some things I heart
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⢠Designher Gals
⢠Knock Knock (Organizey stuff. Love, love, love)
⢠Sew Michelle
⢠Ballard Designs
⢠Frontgate
2 Comments:
Wait...Abigail DIDN'T want her picture taken?! I'm stunned!
I know! And she looked so adorable.
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