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Catching up - birthdays and interfaith
Jan. 22nd, 2009 04:18 pmBoy, I sure have gotten out of the habit of writing in Lj. I suppose I should catch up and try and keep going. I was put off at the beginning of the month by the layoffs and didn't want to post until I got my Lj-book together. But having done that I still didn't post. *shrug* So... the highlights.
I had a great birthday week. Tuesday I went to dinner at MacArthur Park with Russell, Marina, Brigid, Fiona, Ember, Albert, Linnnea and Chris. The food was great (almost all of us had ribs) and they were out of Gloria Ferrer so they gave us Moet Chandon White Star for the same price. Score! Pictures on Flickr.
Then Thursday for Pagansing I bought two cakes and after we had sung for awhile (including an amazingly silly song called "She Can't Be 55" to the tune of "I Can't Drive 55" written by Kurt we shared cake. Yum, Prolific Oven rocks.
Then Friday I got taken out to dinner at the Grill on the Alley and had filet mignon crusted with blue cheese that was awesome. And more champagne. Yay.
There was a lot of playing of World of Warcraft and a bit of time in Second Life (which is not behaving very well). OTOH, Ricoh bought my Snapz Pro so I could make a short video in SL of someone handing off a document. Yay! I haz machinima ambitions again.
In other news, our coven is doing very well and have an initiation coming up. I am really happy in my spirituality at the moment. I spent a lot of time in December/January working on the interfaith event on January 19th in celebration of MLK Day and the eve of the inauguration. The event came off beautifully with about 400 attendees. I wrote the litany we used and put the program booklet together. For the first time in several years of attending steering committee meetings with the local South Bay interfaith folks I actually feel like more of them see me as a part of the group and not some fringe person. Kurt, Marina and Chris joined me at the event and Ember represented Earth Religionists by reading a litany section. I had thought I might sing in the mass choir but I decided at the last minute I didn't want to sit where they were. LOL But it was the right decision.
Russell recorded the inauguration on Tivo and we have been watching bits of it. I am feeling more hopeful than I have in a long time. The notion that we will go back to funding UNFPA again is great news. And science unfettered by right wing ideology. On the other hand, the invasion of Gaza by Israel and the syncophancy of the US media makes me crazy.
( The interfaith litany for those interested )
I had a great birthday week. Tuesday I went to dinner at MacArthur Park with Russell, Marina, Brigid, Fiona, Ember, Albert, Linnnea and Chris. The food was great (almost all of us had ribs) and they were out of Gloria Ferrer so they gave us Moet Chandon White Star for the same price. Score! Pictures on Flickr.
Then Thursday for Pagansing I bought two cakes and after we had sung for awhile (including an amazingly silly song called "She Can't Be 55" to the tune of "I Can't Drive 55" written by Kurt we shared cake. Yum, Prolific Oven rocks.
Then Friday I got taken out to dinner at the Grill on the Alley and had filet mignon crusted with blue cheese that was awesome. And more champagne. Yay.
There was a lot of playing of World of Warcraft and a bit of time in Second Life (which is not behaving very well). OTOH, Ricoh bought my Snapz Pro so I could make a short video in SL of someone handing off a document. Yay! I haz machinima ambitions again.
In other news, our coven is doing very well and have an initiation coming up. I am really happy in my spirituality at the moment. I spent a lot of time in December/January working on the interfaith event on January 19th in celebration of MLK Day and the eve of the inauguration. The event came off beautifully with about 400 attendees. I wrote the litany we used and put the program booklet together. For the first time in several years of attending steering committee meetings with the local South Bay interfaith folks I actually feel like more of them see me as a part of the group and not some fringe person. Kurt, Marina and Chris joined me at the event and Ember represented Earth Religionists by reading a litany section. I had thought I might sing in the mass choir but I decided at the last minute I didn't want to sit where they were. LOL But it was the right decision.
Russell recorded the inauguration on Tivo and we have been watching bits of it. I am feeling more hopeful than I have in a long time. The notion that we will go back to funding UNFPA again is great news. And science unfettered by right wing ideology. On the other hand, the invasion of Gaza by Israel and the syncophancy of the US media makes me crazy.
( The interfaith litany for those interested )
