{"id":6811,"date":"2015-02-12T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2015-02-12T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:27:53","slug":"7-quick-takes-things-ill-be-doing-this-weekend-instead-of-going-to-see-50-shades-of-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Things I’ll Be Doing This Weekend Instead of Going to See “50 Shades of Grey”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m pretty sure that dissing “50 Shades of Grey” is going to appear in most peoples’ Quick Takes this weekend. There are already some interesting posts on the subject here<\/a>, here<\/a> (warning: some swearing which makes it NSFW), here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Letting Kelly pick my Lenten discipline.<\/strong> I’ll be giving up Coke, doing some extra spiritual reading, doing some extra praying, and then one more thing that Kelly<\/a> (our Quick Takes hostess-with-the-mostess) gets to pick. She has until 11:59 PST on the 17th to tell me what it is and get supplies for said discipline to me.<\/p>\n

<\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trying to learn all the words to “Baba Yetu” (and how to pronouce them).<\/strong> The utterly amazing Peter Hollens<\/a> and his friend Malukah<\/a> covered Christopher Tin’s<\/a> Grammy-winning composition “Baba Yetu” which is the theme to the computer game Civilization IV<\/a>. It’s the Swahili translation of the Lord’s Prayer (or at least most of it). It’s amazing but I do have to work on how to pronounce some of the words. (I’ve learned from previous experience that Swahili is not a language that flows from my tongue well.)<\/p>\n