I’ve been home since the afternoon of the 4th. We didn’t have a working furnace for 2 days but that’s thankfully fixed. (I’m also thankful that the weather didn’t drop too much below freezing — the house stayed around 58F but that’s better than 0F.)

Here’s an entry I wrote on the 1st from my in-law’s house:

I just finished The New Faithful by Colleen Carroll and it was lovely. I had heard of the book a few years ago from my father-in-law who was commenting on the fact that there was an increase in young adults doing things like Eucharistic adoration. Having seen all these things, I resolved to get my paws on the book and read it. Well… 3 years later, I’m down here in southern California and I have that chance. I read the book and I could actually picture quite a few of my friends in the descriptions they gave. (One person in the book is someone with whom I am familiar — Eve Tushnet.) I have good friends in real life and online (ahem… Victoria!!!) who are heavily into Eucharistic adoration and who were big proponents of it in college. I was also one of the people in college who wanted something concrete and who returned to my liturgical roots. In fact, I’m kind of wishing that I had a more staunch liturgical community near me because liturgy is what feeds me. It’s kind of too bad that the denomination that I’m closest to worship-wise is too liberal for me politically.