Monthly Archives: November 2004

Advent I

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Light one candle to watch for Messiah:
Let the light banish darkness.
He shall bring salvation to Israel,
God fulfills the promise…
–WOV 630 (stanza 1)

Prepare the royal highway;
The King of kings is near!
Let every hill and valley
A level road appear!
Then greet the Lord of glory,
Fortold in sacred story:
Hosanna to the Lord,
For he fulfills God’s Word!

God’s people, see him coming:
Your own eternal king!
Palm branches strewn before him!
Spread garments! Shout and sing!
God’s promise will not fail you!
No more shall doubt assail you!
Hosanna to the Lord,
For he fulfills God’s Word!

Then fling the gates wide open
To greet your promised king!
Your king, yet every nation
Its tribute too may bring.
All lands will bow before him;
Their voices join your singing:
Hosanna to the Lord,
For he fulfills God’s Word!

His is no earthly kingdom;
It comes from heav’n above.
His rule is peace and freedom
And justice, truth, and love.
So let your praise be sounding
For kindness so abounding:
Hosanna to the Lord,
For he fulfills God’s Word!
-LBW 26

This Weekend

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I spent Thanksgiving with some pastoral colleagues of Jon’s and their families. Good fun, good company, and a really cool jam session of Advent hymns afterwards with people playing guitar, piano, recorder, bodhran, and other instruments in addition to those singing. We also had snow flurries that day, so the first snowfall of the year is definitely upon us.

Yesterday, I was at the doctor’s in the morning because some problems from earlier in the week were refusing to go away. (Some of them are birth control related.) I got more antibiotics, some pyridium, and instructions to haul butt over there on Monday if things don’t improve. Joy of joys.

Today, I baked black n’ tans for church coffee tomorrow at Church #1, made some minestrone soup, and helped to fold bulletins like a good pastor’s wife. Oh yeah… there was also the sleeping in until 10 something and getting woken up by the phone.

I have a black cat who has her front paws on my lap, so I must go be a good cat slave and attend to her…

Very Wrong

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This is just plain inappropriate. I don’t care if it’s a “docu-game” — killing the president is not an acceptable form of entertainment.

Seattle: The Good, The Bad, and the Adorable (II)

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This will probably be done progressively as I remember things to include…

The Good
-dinner on Saturday which was an early Thanksgiving for Jon, me, my parents, my brother, and his girlfriend
-working out on Wednesday on the treadmill –I needed the exercise
-dying my hair red with henna (yes, the pictures will be posted)
-not having to deal with snow on the way to or from the airport in Minnesota and South Dakota
-coming home last night
-Edda purring as hard as she could when I returned
-the catnip from Pike Place Market + my catish creatures
-the stuff Mom sent me home with (clothes, a Waterford crystal angel, cat toys)
-watching my cats play with Mom’s cat toys
-getting a PT Cruiser as a rental car
-the family cats 🙂

The Bad
-having to leave Washington
-the $300 security deposit for the rental car which was unexpected
-the cats being angry when we returned
-the henna leaching out onto various towels for the last week or so
–Zoolander (which I watched while working out) — it wasn’t that great

The Adorable
-Cullen on the catnip. He’s being a ferocious bengal tiger cub. 🙂
-Benjamin’s response to the ride in our PT Cruiser (our rental car)