It's been rainy here the past few days and the moths have been a-swarming. I'm pretty sure I've counted 50 different varieties of moths. Grey with dark grey stripes, gold with brown stripes, grey with amber stripes, little ones, one big enough to be a sparrow, medium ones, black ones with white markings and whitish ones with black markings. They sit on the stuccoed surface of our hallways, little drab triangles that have been pasted up, and flutter only when the wind gusts or when the lights turn on. They don't make noise or spin webs, just silent observers of my comings and goings.

The streets have become mucky, the leaves have been blown off and night comes on quicker and stays a little longer. The pumpkins and my cat are out and there are strains of melancholic music that float along the air and nestle in one's ear, leaving you longing.

I love the Fall.

Warning! The Following May Contain Material Inappropriate For Children Under 13 and the Male Gender:

I bought a diva cup.
It got stuck.
We used pliers.
It hurt.
A. LOT.
There may have been a few tears.

I will try it again...


Me.

I promised I would have a blog yesterday... oops

Did you ever feel like not wanting to shake hands at church so you go to the least seated section, and all of a sudden, as if there were lights above you blinking "sit next to me! sit next to me!" over your head and everyone troops in, sitting uncomfortably close? No? Me neither...

I usually update what I did for my birthday, not for your benefit but for mine. Have you noticed that I'm getting older? By the time I'm thirty I'll have forgotten my name. It'll be good to have some form of documentation of what I did this or that year. But when the time comes that I'll need to boost my memory, the aliens will have enslaved us and are using our bodies as vessels in which to spawn their species... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

The evening before my actual birthday Rich and I went to the House of Blues, ate appetizers of file (fee-lay) gumbo and brick oven pizza. I had jambalaya and he had a po' boy sandwich. We didn't get dessert because I was too embarrassed to correct our waiter. I couldn't finish my huge bowl of jambalaya so when he came by he said "would you like a box for that?" and I replied "yes" and then as he walked away I said to him "could we also have dessert?" and he came back with the box and a check, no dessert menu. I figured he misheard me and thought I said "we wont be having dessert".

Instead, we made our way in the rain to the Haagen-Dazs store for some delicious ice cream and ate it, huddled outside, overlooking the lake, under a slim awning, trying to avoid the rain. It was very romantic. Rich had some hot fudge sauce on his chin and I had accidentally spilled mint chocolate chip on my shirt.

So that was the eve of my birthday, the next day we had two slices of cake, I blew out the candles, and munched on garlic bread roast beef sandwiches.

Yum!

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Moral Obligation

Last Sunday I went to mass and went through the motions as usual, somewhat relieved that the priest was a different one from the week before, although, I found out too late that he wasn't any better either. Really the point of this particular blog isn't about priests who speak with affectations or the ones who suffer from obesity and stuffy noses.

This is about that part of the mass where you say 'Lord Hear Our Prayer', I believe it's called "Prayer of the Faithful", this is where the cantor reads a list of things we wish to have and the churchgoers respond with the above phrase. One such example from that list is: "Lord we ask that you look upon those souls who have passed away and to comfort their family (not a true word for word but you get the gist) and then we all say "Lord Hear Our Prayer".. and so on, down that list we go.

There are two parts that I disobediently do not respond to and the first is: Lord we pray that you watch over those unborn children and that you change the minds of the mothers to a pro-life stance.
It's not exactly like this, and I think it's even harsher than this, I almost don't mind asking for this. The dilemma is that I appreciate womens' rights and I don't want someone to tell me that I can or can't have an abortion and yet I wouldn't want people to throw perfectly good babies away... hmm, I'm not wording it correctly, sounding a little too black and white, too silly an argument.

Well, whatever, it's my blog...

The second part where I don't respond is when they say: Lord we ask that there be a Christian outlook throughout this nation and that our leaders also think in this way.
Bah, I wish I brought my tape-recorder... anywho... I would fully put my heart and soul into this prayer if what they meant by it was that everyone be kind, to think of others as brothers and sisters, to follow the teachings of Jesus and by their actions show how good it is to be a Christian and to inspire those qualities in others, but I truly believe that they mean this in a way that segregates non-Christians in this nation and puts them as second-place citizens in a world that only wants their views seen and no one else's. I think they want leaders, not to go around extending their hearts and goodwill to others around this world, but rather to go about voting that abortion be banned, that war is good if done under a Christian cross, that only Creationism be taught in schools...

I dunno, maybe I can pray for the last one, only under the terms of how I want it and specific, like wishes.

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Zelda and Link(s)

Hey all! Happy September!

I love September, not just because it brings a little reprieve from the 'hot hot sun' of August, but mostly because it is my birthmonth. Which means I was conceived around Christmas time of '79.

Here are a few links to my new sites in commemoration of it now being September!
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There might be one more coming soon!

See y'all there.