| Ward Christmas celebration |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:34 pm] |
Today was the ward's Christmas celebration—a bit early (even before the first Sunday in Advent).
It started off in the chapel, with a short talk and a video about the birth of Christ (with dialogue only in—presumably—Aramaic, and no subtitles). A couple of songs, including one by the ward choir.
And at the end of that segment, we were asked to leave through the front door of the chapel because there were some angels standing there who would give each person a little bag of biscuits and a booklet.
The booklet was about four Christlike virtues or attributes that the bishopric asked us to focus on in the four weeks of Advent, and which would also be the topics for the next four Sundays: faith, hope, charity, and patience.
The angels were the young women: Esther, Jeva, Verena, and Melissa. The last three were even dressed up as angels, with white blouses, white dresses, and white wings.
So, after that, we went into the cultural hall, where a buffet table had been prepared; everybody chose a seat at the tables which had been put up and set, and when the buffet was opened, could help themselves to the cakes and biscuits that had been provided, as well as to the fruit tea, cereal "coffee", or mineral water that was there.
After a while, three wise men (who looked rather similar to the bishop and his two counsellors) came in, bearing a big wrapped box. They each told a short story and then asked one child to unwrap the box carefully.
The box inside bore the inscription, "For the Primary children of Wilhelmsburg Ward". Inside were individually addressed envelopes with a card in each and small chocolate bars stuck to the outside, as well as a couple of somewhat bigger presents, two of which were for the missionaries and two of which were for the Primary as a whole; those last two ended up being xylophones (since the one the Primary has now is missing some of its "keys"(?)).
Amy exemplified the spirit of Christmas when she brought me the card and confided to me, "But I wanted a real present!". Ah well :)
What was less nice was getting Amy home afterwards; she didn't want to leave and kept disappearing rather than getting dressed. |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
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| Why Am I So Happy? |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:00 am] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021037.html Kid: Daddy, I want a big car.
Dad: If you want a big car, you have to get a good job.
Kid: I want to be an artist like you.
Dad: Well, I went to college for art and now I don't have a lot of money and I don't have a car.
--2 Train
Overheard by: Child-Averse Art Hater
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| Stella on Facebook |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:48 am] |
Stella joined Facebook a little while ago, in order to stay in touch better with her mother and her sister (her mother, in her turn, had joined Facebook to stay in touch better with Stella's sister).
And she seems to be quite the Facebook user now! Chatting with friends, uploading photos, playing Zynga social games such as FishVille or FarmVille... quite a difference to my use of the site :)
(On the other hand, she said she was annoyed that she had to answer a CAPTCHA whenever she approved a friend, but she didn't want to verify her mobile phone number. So perhaps she's not quite the power user.) |
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| Elite on the N900 |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|02:23 am] |
HECK YEAH
IT IS ELITE
ON THE N900
THAT IS ALL |
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| I am thankful for Josh Way |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
My Thanksgiving didn't actually have one discussion of things we're thankful for; therefore I must point out that I am thankful for embedded media on my blog.
(MST fans who have not yet discovered "romeorhino" on YouTube...why not?)
"I'm glad to be able to go to any church I want on Sunday morning!"
"How great it feels to be clean, and American, and Protestant, and white, and middle-class..."
(Seriously, um, has anything changed in the Midwestern US in the last 60 years? LET'S HEAR IT FOR PRIVILEGE) |
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| That was a different Friday afternoon. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|06:13 pm] |
So Bob and his dog Stain got run over by a garbage truck today. Literally, like in a MAD Magazine cartoon.
I found this out because I was reading in the patio when my phone said "DING" and the message was a Facebook update. A few of my friends I have set to text me when they update. Bob's one of them. His update was, basically: "Stain and I hit by truck. No phone. At home. Bloody mess. HALP"
I zipped over there to find them both bloody and shocked. A garbage truck had essentially parked on Stain's front paws and he was licking them mournfully. Bob was a bit of a scratch and dent himself. The kitchen looked, as Bob put it, "like Charlie Manson came over for lunch."
So far, so good. Remains to be seen how badly Stain's paw is injured. Bob appears intact.
This is an example of the power of the Internet, though. With no minutes left on his prepaid phone, the $200 netbook plus some neighbor's wifi plus facebook plus text alerts meant that several people immediately saw an alarm. Daniel turned around and biked back from Seal Beach on that alarm, I went across town here, and half a dozen other people immediately responded.
Here's to a fast healing dog. |
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