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Aug. 28th, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshine_queenSo, today I went to church with Amanda, Chelsea and Ollie.
It was nondenominational, which means "not Catholic," which meant it was extremely weird for me.
Ollie, Chels, me and Amanda.
I might not be totally onboard with the Catholic church, but I am a big fan of their methods. Boring, maybe, but comforting and the same and I like it. I like the kneeling and the crossing and the prayers and the songs I know.
This church- they sang for a half an hour to live music that was loud and boisterously praising Jesus, with lyrics on a projector screen above the pulpit thingy. There was no kneeling and no crossing and no prayers like mine. Most of it was a homily, and during the homily you got to take out notes and look up passages in Bibles. (That was my favorite part. I like taking notes and reading.) And it was interesting and different but oh boy. Amanda is catholic too, so we were talking about it, and we both agreed that we felt it was a little too... informal for our tastes. So next week we're taking them to the Catholic church.
Church notes front...
... and back. Lots of notes.
(In the middle ofmass the service I started longing after my own church, and then I was thinking about taking Chelsea and Ollie there, but I realized I couldn't take them to my church and hear my priests, instead I would have to take them to some strange church I'd never been to, without Monseignor and our organ and our stained glass windows, but somewhere alien, and I was completely choked up with homesickness.)
We had lunch at Steak n' Shake, and then I went to my dorm and got into gym clothes and the four of us went to play racquetball!
It is SERIOUSLY the funnest game of all time. When Chelsea and Amanda told us, Ollie and I were all, yeah, whatever, and we agreed to play as a joke. But oh man, it's so, so fun. And I didn't completely suck at it!
Ollie, me and La Chelsea, so classy.
Ollie, me, La Chelsea and Amanda. Amanda has crazy long arms, so she can get us all in the shot at one time.
Hard-core playing, man.
Yay!
Us, with our amazing glasses that the gym required. They're like the glasses used on Alias in the firing range!
Me and Amanda, who is freakishly pretty. I'm looking up because I was about to get hit with a ball.
In racquet jail.
Now with Ollietron.
Ollie calls that "the Madi face."
Being bums while Amanda and Chelsea played.
And in an effort to help me finish House before the new season starts, Ollie is staying home next weekend so we can watch House and go to the first game together of the season (with La Chelsea too, natch) and she's going to take me home for the Shakira concert. I love Ollie.
(I am ignoring this HUGE chapter I need to read. And my laundry. Oy.)
It was nondenominational, which means "not Catholic," which meant it was extremely weird for me.
Ollie, Chels, me and Amanda.
I might not be totally onboard with the Catholic church, but I am a big fan of their methods. Boring, maybe, but comforting and the same and I like it. I like the kneeling and the crossing and the prayers and the songs I know.
This church- they sang for a half an hour to live music that was loud and boisterously praising Jesus, with lyrics on a projector screen above the pulpit thingy. There was no kneeling and no crossing and no prayers like mine. Most of it was a homily, and during the homily you got to take out notes and look up passages in Bibles. (That was my favorite part. I like taking notes and reading.) And it was interesting and different but oh boy. Amanda is catholic too, so we were talking about it, and we both agreed that we felt it was a little too... informal for our tastes. So next week we're taking them to the Catholic church.
Church notes front...
... and back. Lots of notes.
(In the middle of
We had lunch at Steak n' Shake, and then I went to my dorm and got into gym clothes and the four of us went to play racquetball!
It is SERIOUSLY the funnest game of all time. When Chelsea and Amanda told us, Ollie and I were all, yeah, whatever, and we agreed to play as a joke. But oh man, it's so, so fun. And I didn't completely suck at it!
Ollie, me and La Chelsea, so classy.
Ollie, me, La Chelsea and Amanda. Amanda has crazy long arms, so she can get us all in the shot at one time.
Hard-core playing, man.
Yay!
Us, with our amazing glasses that the gym required. They're like the glasses used on Alias in the firing range!
Me and Amanda, who is freakishly pretty. I'm looking up because I was about to get hit with a ball.
In racquet jail.
Now with Ollietron.
Ollie calls that "the Madi face."
Being bums while Amanda and Chelsea played.
And in an effort to help me finish House before the new season starts, Ollie is staying home next weekend so we can watch House and go to the first game together of the season (with La Chelsea too, natch) and she's going to take me home for the Shakira concert. I love Ollie.
(I am ignoring this HUGE chapter I need to read. And my laundry. Oy.)
