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Dec. 25th, 2017 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'd intended to post before we left for the family gathering, but I was feeling really sick. That didn't calm until I took Ativan. I don't usually get like this about these gatherings, so it confused me. I can only think that it's because today is in the middle of about ten days of stressful stuff.
The snow was really coming down when we headed for Scott's parents' place last night. It snowed all evening, so getting home was interesting. The church service was a little odd for me because the church has a new pastor who does communion. I couldn't partake because of fasting (water only) in order to take my thyroid medication. I couldn't have had the grape juice anyway because the purple stuff makes me very sick. The sermon wasn't quite as long as I feared it would be.
We went to the church Scott's parents normally attend. I never quite feel comfortable there and prefer the other Methodist church in the town. The one we went to last night always talks about 'the poor' as if no one there ever had been or had ever seen someone who is. I find it something I don't want to be part of. There was also a really weird responsorial that was phrased as if we were giving God orders.
Cordelia enjoyed the singing. I think that hearing me and her grandmother sing made her realize that she was allowed to even if she hadn't learned the song ahead. There weren't as many songs for the whole congregation as I like, but most of those were things people have fun with. I couldn't sing The Doxology because I invented a tune for it when I ran across the words in The Secret Garden when I was about 7. I can't put the words to any other tune.
Scott's parents gave me three DVDs. Cordelia gave me Disney's Princess and the Frog. Scott gave me a set of Ingress dice, a book, a Stan Rogers CD, and season 5 of the Sarah Jane Adventures. We don't have the earlier seasons yet, but season 5 cost about a third of what any of the others did, so I gave that priority on my wishlist.
The snow was really coming down when we headed for Scott's parents' place last night. It snowed all evening, so getting home was interesting. The church service was a little odd for me because the church has a new pastor who does communion. I couldn't partake because of fasting (water only) in order to take my thyroid medication. I couldn't have had the grape juice anyway because the purple stuff makes me very sick. The sermon wasn't quite as long as I feared it would be.
We went to the church Scott's parents normally attend. I never quite feel comfortable there and prefer the other Methodist church in the town. The one we went to last night always talks about 'the poor' as if no one there ever had been or had ever seen someone who is. I find it something I don't want to be part of. There was also a really weird responsorial that was phrased as if we were giving God orders.
Cordelia enjoyed the singing. I think that hearing me and her grandmother sing made her realize that she was allowed to even if she hadn't learned the song ahead. There weren't as many songs for the whole congregation as I like, but most of those were things people have fun with. I couldn't sing The Doxology because I invented a tune for it when I ran across the words in The Secret Garden when I was about 7. I can't put the words to any other tune.
Scott's parents gave me three DVDs. Cordelia gave me Disney's Princess and the Frog. Scott gave me a set of Ingress dice, a book, a Stan Rogers CD, and season 5 of the Sarah Jane Adventures. We don't have the earlier seasons yet, but season 5 cost about a third of what any of the others did, so I gave that priority on my wishlist.
