Learn to Whine Convincingly

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I didn’t fall asleep until about 3 this morning (shouldn’t have slept in yesterday…) so I was feeling icky and tired today.Â? I commented to one of the nurses (who is also a parishioner) that if I’d been thinking, I would have had Doc-Who-Was-On-Duty see me because I thought I might have a sinus infection.Â? Her response: “Go ask him.”

So I went and told him that I thought I might have a sinus infection and would probably not be able to see my normal doc for a week and asked politely if he would pleasepleaseplease look at me.Â? He checked my ENT (ear/nose/throat) and wrote me a script for antibiotics.Â? I thanked him profusely and went and re-scheduled 2 of his procedures off of his on-call day.Â? It was the least I could do.Â? 🙂

Hellooooo Sinus Infection

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My neck was bugging me last night and the lovely Flexeril tablet I took made me sleep until 1:30 pm today with a few phone interruptions.Â? Ever since I got up, it’s been like I’m floating on a happy cloud. Lalalalalalalalalalalaaaaa…

Jon’s at a pastor’s conference until tomorrow so I drove to Town Where I Work and got my gas cap back from the gas station where I left it yesterday and curled up in the town cafÃ? for lunch.Â? Came home and decided to actually get online and check email.Â? 4 hours later… I’m still here.Â? I discovered the A Day in My Life community on LJ.Com and I swear it’s worse than MySpace in terms of addiction.

Oh yeah… the sinus infection: I’m stuffed up, have had headaches where the front of my face feels like I’ve been in a boxing match, and my ears are plugged.Â? Hopefully this all disapates a little because I can’t see my PCP for about a week.Â? (I work Monday – Wednesday next week and have stuff in Great Falls on Thursday which means that I can’t see my normal doc until Friday.)Â? Perhaps one of the docs at the clinic where I work will take pity on me and just call in some drugs?Â?Â? I doubt it but one can dream.Â? This could also just be allergies…

My Weekend

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The Good Friday service was very meditative and meaningful.Â? (I have a problem talking about the “excellence” of a service where we crucify a guy just for being nice.Â? Oh yeah… there’s that realization of Him dying for my sins and well… “good” doesn’t describe the service adequately.)

Jon had an Eagle Court to attend on Saturday so I went into SBY and had lunch and then curled up at my favorite coffeeshop/boutique and read my copy of “Real Simple”.Â? We don’t do Easter vigil so I had a quiet night.

I skipped the sunrise service on Sunday morning — my neck was really achey and I didn’t fall asleep until 1 so I decided to sleep in until the more reasonable hour of 7 a.m.Â? I did the second and third services at church which was great — traditional hymns where I could sing harmony and enjoy myself.

We had Easter dinner (noon meal) with a family at Church #3.Â? I work with the wife (she’s a nurse) and they ended up having all their kids home for the first time in ages.Â? Jon went and shot at things with their sons and daughter after dinner while their daughter-in-law and I took a walk.

Before dinner, their daughter, daughter-in-law, and I dyed Easter eggs.Â? Dude… I can’t wait to see the pictures of the three of us.Â? Their daughter and I colored our fingers all sorts of colors in the process and had a great time of it.Â? :)Â? I think it was the first time in maybe 9 years (?) that I colored eggs and I had forgotten how much fun it is.

Other than the sheer disappointment at no Grey’s Anatomy last night (!!!!!!!!!!!!!), it was actually a good holiday weekend.Â? If only I had gotten this morning to sleep in…

(Actually, I got up easily and willingly this morning — I love my job that much.)

A Hymn for Good Friday…

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We sang this tonight at the Good Friday service. It is one of my favorite Holy Week hymns.

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.

Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee.
â????Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee!
I crucified Thee.

Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;
For manâ????s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,
God intercedeth.

For me, kind Jesus, was Thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and Thy lifeâ????s oblation;
Thy death of anguish and Thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.

Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,
I do adore Thee, and will ever pray Thee,
Think on Thy pity and Thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.
–LBW 123

Why Can’t My Church’s Publishing House Be This Cool?!?!?!?!?

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I know I’m going to end up enduring the flames of Hades (or the ice depending on how much of a sin reading Dooce is) but…

I heart Heather Armstrong and I so heart the review she does of this book.

*heavy sigh* Lutherans just don’t do the apocalypse thing that well.Â? Heaven for us will be hotdish and jello and singing hymns in “the mother tongue”. (Umm… is that German?Â? Norwegian?Â? Swedish?Â? Danish?Â? Swahili?)Â? We’re too nice to conceive of all the crap in the Left Behind books.Â? Well… I shouldn’t say that because there is a semi-fundie strain in some ELCA churches that is into that stuff.Â? (Isn’t “Focus on the Family” a little *not* in line with some orthodox Lutheran tenets?)

Heavy Sigh

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I was having a wonderful dream where I was getting to experience one of those exclusive things celebrities come up with (in this case, fudge that was cat-friendly and something else that had special scents but was all-natural or something) and Andrea Bocelli was singing.Â? I reached out and held his hand and was enjoying it when all of a sudden…

BREEEEEEEEEEEEEHCH!Â? BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHCH!

I woke up and Finian was spitting up his breakfast.Â? I had to leave Andrea and the cat-friendly fudge and clean up the cat vomit before Freya decided to eat it!

CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!