I’m down in LA with my in-laws and need to purge my brain. As it isn’t Friday and I can’t do this in seven nice Quick Takes, I’ll do it my way.

[+] I’m going to be shot for saying this but Bad Catholic sounds like a teenager wrote it. Whaddaya know… Marc Barnes is 19! Shocker. I’m not saying that all his writing has grammar mistakes and sounds like bad text messages but the voice speaking sounds like the blogs I read of 16-18 year olds when I was in seminary. 1Flesh.Org sounds about the same. I’m not anti-NFP — I’m a huge fan of iuseNFP — but the 1Flesh.Org site sounds immature and simplistic when it’s not a simple issue in the slightest.

[+] Jon’s parents suprised him with tickets to Mary Poppins: The Musical yesterday. After the family cupcake brunch, we took Metro-Link to Union Station, took the subway to the Civic Center station, and then walked to the Ahmanson Theatre for it. The show was all manner of awesome — music, special effects, etc. were great. They had to fudge the story a bit to fit the musical but it was still pretty faithful to the Disney movie with things from the book thrown in. Afterwards, we had dinner at Buca di Beppo where I had some lovely calamari and enjoyed some of Jon’s pizza.

[+] The downside to yesterday: MY FEET!!! My nice shoes gave me serious blisters on my ankles and my small toes. I’d post pictures but the blisters on my toes have popped and are nasty-looking. (There are also some people who haven’t recovered from me posting pictures of my foot when I suffered an avulsion fracture in my ankle with a sprained foot.) I’m thinking I’ll be rocking some Old Navy flip-flops for at least a week when I get home.