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Oct. 2nd, 2011 06:50 pmSo I went to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
still_lycoris’ birthday party yesterday and brought cakes inspired for the book Auntie Nicola got me for my own birthday which Nanny and I had been working on for three days :) was very pleased with them!
( pics under the cut )
Anyway the party was greatly fun and entertaining and side-splittingly humorous which was most enjoyable.
Today was the "Family Mass" which has caused so much contention in the planning and much disruption of our humble hovel. It was also the day that we had the New Translation in action in our own church for the first time. So naturally one of my altar servers phones up sick and my other older one doesn't appear (this is not unusual due to the fact her father has never been one to be concerned about either waking her up if she oversleeps, or informing me/us/her if she is going to be somewhere else one weekend. It's...weird, but has always been this way) So, Mum needed kids for this Mass anway and I was all "get the new ones before they get here because it's fine, I can do it on my own and if one of them got to and not the other the other would be really upset" but what naturally happens is both of the little 'us turns up and were all ":( I want to serve. I can do it!" Which is great! Despite my blind panic! Anyway put me to shame because they did exceptionally well. I was a nervous wreck of course but they both did the acolytes and managed it all extremely well- a couple of polishes and they've both got that down pat. It just goes to show it's been so long since I trained up young ones that I forget the whole 'just throw them in and see if it works' approach does sometimes have something to be said for it.
So that's also over. Which is a major relief. Not that I think that will mean much in the long run but it's something.
I haven't really been mentioned all of the family Mass and parish politics stuff much to people. Mostly because it's just so bloody frustrating but also because all these changes really do seem to be rocking around with people- and mostly the mood isn't a happy one. And it's all rather negative and picky and there's not really much to articulate but there are...worries...undercurrents? There's been a real sense of Things Afoot, and as with any change, it is not being met with ease but with a sort of raising of hackles. Stupid little comments about reasserting authorities and not listening and side swipes that are all rather shaking. I'm used to the usual pissing contests and backbiting- I don't necessarily like any of it but I thought I'd got pretty immune to it over time- or at least learnt to manage it all better- but this is...shaky. Uncertain. And now I'm spouting bollocks as my bathwater grows cold.
Tis nothing. Probably an undigested piece of beef,a blob of mustart, a crumb of cheese etc etc babble babble.
still_lycoris’ birthday party yesterday and brought cakes inspired for the book Auntie Nicola got me for my own birthday which Nanny and I had been working on for three days :) was very pleased with them!( pics under the cut )
Anyway the party was greatly fun and entertaining and side-splittingly humorous which was most enjoyable.
Today was the "Family Mass" which has caused so much contention in the planning and much disruption of our humble hovel. It was also the day that we had the New Translation in action in our own church for the first time. So naturally one of my altar servers phones up sick and my other older one doesn't appear (this is not unusual due to the fact her father has never been one to be concerned about either waking her up if she oversleeps, or informing me/us/her if she is going to be somewhere else one weekend. It's...weird, but has always been this way) So, Mum needed kids for this Mass anway and I was all "get the new ones before they get here because it's fine, I can do it on my own and if one of them got to and not the other the other would be really upset" but what naturally happens is both of the little 'us turns up and were all ":( I want to serve. I can do it!" Which is great! Despite my blind panic! Anyway put me to shame because they did exceptionally well. I was a nervous wreck of course but they both did the acolytes and managed it all extremely well- a couple of polishes and they've both got that down pat. It just goes to show it's been so long since I trained up young ones that I forget the whole 'just throw them in and see if it works' approach does sometimes have something to be said for it.
So that's also over. Which is a major relief. Not that I think that will mean much in the long run but it's something.
I haven't really been mentioned all of the family Mass and parish politics stuff much to people. Mostly because it's just so bloody frustrating but also because all these changes really do seem to be rocking around with people- and mostly the mood isn't a happy one. And it's all rather negative and picky and there's not really much to articulate but there are...worries...undercurrents? There's been a real sense of Things Afoot, and as with any change, it is not being met with ease but with a sort of raising of hackles. Stupid little comments about reasserting authorities and not listening and side swipes that are all rather shaking. I'm used to the usual pissing contests and backbiting- I don't necessarily like any of it but I thought I'd got pretty immune to it over time- or at least learnt to manage it all better- but this is...shaky. Uncertain. And now I'm spouting bollocks as my bathwater grows cold.
Tis nothing. Probably an undigested piece of beef,a blob of mustart, a crumb of cheese etc etc babble babble.
