{"id":6866,"date":"2015-03-28T01:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T08:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2015-03-28T01:12:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T08:12:23","slug":"7-quick-takes-all-over-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6866","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: All Over the Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m really wanting to smack some people.<\/strong> Rebecca of <a href=\"http:\/\/theroadhomewv.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"The Road Home\">The Road Home<\/a> posted something on her blog for the first time in months yesterday and <a href=\"http:\/\/theroadhomewv.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/mercy-and-grace.html\" title=\"The Road Home: Mercy and Grace\">it was a bombshell<\/a> to say the least.  (The tl;dr version is that she and her husband civilly divorced at the beginning of the month, part of it was due to infidelity on her part, and she is now pregnant as a result.)  She turned on anonymous comments and some of the anonymous commenters have raked her across the coals, telling her in no uncertain terms of their disappointment with her and how she should stop blogging as a result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Their words are making me quite livid.  Rebecca has said in no uncertain terms that her actions were wrong and is taking responsibility for them&#8230; and yet, people still feel that they need to tell her about how she is a horrid example.  To those anonymous commenters, I have this to say: it&#8217;s easy to make comments like that when you&#8217;re anonymous so why don&#8217;t you OWN YOUR WORDS AND SIGN YOUR NAME!  Rebecca owes you no explanations and you have no obligation to read her blog.  Seriously y&#8217;all, there&#8217;s a lovely saying we learned in preschool: if you can&#8217;t say anything nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trader Joe&#8217;s love.<\/strong>  For those who have never experienced the awesomeness that is <a href=\"http:\/\/traderjoes.com\" title=\"Trader Joe's\">TJ&#8217;s<\/a>, I pity you.  Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/eat\/nation\/things-you-didn-t-know-about-trader-joes\" title=\"Thrillist: 14 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TRADER JOE'S\">some things that the rest of us probably didn&#8217;t know about them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Must take up cross stitch again.<\/strong>  It is quite NSFW and not safe for me to show parishioners but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subversivecrossstitch.com\/\" title=\"Subversive Cross Stitch\">Subversive Cross Stitch<\/a> is a guilty pleasure.  I particularly love <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.subversivecrossstitch.com\/products\/pdf-the-internet-is-made-of-cats\" title=\"Subversive Cross Stitch: The Internet Is Made of Cats\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.subversivecrossstitch.com\/products\/pdf-i-have-a-very-prestigious-blog\" title=\"Subversive Cross Stitch: I Have A Very Prestigious Blog.\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yay Simcha!<\/strong>  The amazing Simcha Fisher had a lovely piece in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\" title=\"National Catholic Register\">National Catholic Register<\/a> on Tuesday about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/simcha-fisher\/what-can-catholic-parents-learn-from-dzhokhar-tsarnaev\" title=\"National Catholic Register: What Can Catholic Parents Learn from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?\">what Catholic parents can learn from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Simcha.<\/strong>  Girlfriend posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2015\/03\/25\/simchas-favorite-passover-recipes-that-will-have-you-schvitzing-under-the-eyeballs\/\" title=\"I Have to Sit Down: Simcha\u2019s favorite passover recipes that will have you schvitzing under the eyeballs\">some amazing recipes for Passover<\/a>.  Well&#8230; the actual recipes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2015\/03\/25\/simchas-passover-menu-part-two-just-the-recipes\/\" title=\"the actual recipes\">here<\/a> but her commentary on the food was awesome including the stuff on gefilte fish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like I need more crochet projects!<\/strong>  Anyone want to order <a href=\"http:\/\/planetjune.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=11_22&#038;products_id=276\" title=\"Planet June: AmiCats Collection\">this<\/a> for me?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disney Princess rap battle.<\/strong>  This has been around for a while but it still cracks me up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CINDERELLA vs BELLE: Princess Rap Battle (Sarah Michelle Gellar &amp; Whitney Avalon)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeZXQf77hhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; I&#8217;m really wanting to smack some people. Rebecca of The Road Home posted something on her blog for the first time in months yesterday and it was a bombshell to say the least. 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