"And Exchange it One Day for a Crown..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Ash Wednesday service! It was really nice, although we had a visiting priest and she gave a very, very condescending sermon about how it is petty and trivial to give up things like chocolate or cola for Lent. Since I've given up both of those, I lol'd quietly to myself in my pew. Then she said that she had made a significant change to her personality by taking on the responsibility of being less grouchy in the morning, and resolving not to frown at people. So, on that note, I've resolved to frown at people for no reason during Lent. I mean, let's face it, if you're going to tell people not to give up petty things for Lent, you better damn well have devoted all your spare time to AmeriCorps work in New Orleans or personally weaving blankets of your hair for orphans or something.

Anyway, there was this terribly old lady who kept coughing like she was about to die during the sermon--not really any other time--and that got me thinking. When I am old, I am going to take full advantage of my oldness to cough inappropriately when people are saying things I don't like. And no one will dare to tell me to stop, because they'll all be afraid I'm about to have an aneurysm. Don't tell me this plan isn't perfect, because I am going with it.

Also, for erinpuff: It struck me to-day that all of our church bulletins are printed in Papyrus, and I wept inside.

And before that I got harassed by a creepy boy at the library! But that's kind of incidental.

Comments

[bewareofitalics]

*snerks* Your Lent and life plans sound awesome!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Lillie, I am going to be the most awesome old lady ever. People will tremble in fear.

[bewareofitalics]

And then you'll take over the world, right? I think I'd like to live in a world run by an old lady who wields her power of old lady-ness to annoy annoying people.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Monty Python's Old Lady Gangs are, for reals, something I would do.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

If I gave up chocolate and cola, I'd be doing a lot of frowning, that's fer sher.

Hope you chainsawed the creepy boy in the 393s.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I gave up all sweet things and cola for the second year running; it's only first first day and I already hate myself. Bleh.

No, he was--oh man. Not sexually creepy, creepy in a "let me tell you about my dead twin brother with whom I have a mental connexion and in whose honour I always carry a live carnation and a dead one--the dead one symbolises him and the live one symbolises me. Also, don't be freaked out if my eye change colour, that's just my twin coming through. Also, do you believe in ghosts?" kind of way. I honestly felt bad because I was having a really hard time not laughing.

[raanve]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat


(That's all I got.)

Also, you know, I am pretty sure Lent is not a time for judging & acting all superior.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I KNOW IT WAS SPECIAL. LIKE REALLY SPECIAL. And awkward.

Psshh, Lent is all about judging.

[watchcry.livejournal.com]

Oh my god you met a real life one of those. I've always wanted to meet a real life one of those. I came close when I worked with a guy who thought his life's purpose was to protect his brother, but it tuned out that that was just exaggerated devotion and was actually very sweet.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

HE WAS SO CRAZY. And I felt so bad. According to the other librarian, he has told her he's a vampire, and offered to point out ghosts in the library to her.

[zero_pixel_count]

Rather arrogant of the priest, no? To assume everyone else's lives contain the same priorities as her own?

I mean, if *I* gave up chocolate, that would be petty, sure, because it basically wouldn't impact my day to day life. Yours, on the other hand.. Different story, clearly. (I also happen to have given up cola, and expect it to be significantly harder than smoking, which I have also given up. So which is trivial, again?)

(waffle about the holy mother church & my rather antagonistic relationship therewith redacted to save my thumbs)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Precisely, that's why I'm going to frown more. Honestly, I'm getting to the point where I just find religious condescension hilarious when it's directed at me (less so when it's directed at other people).

I don't give up just chocolate, either; it's all sweets. Which I've done for-ever because it was how my mother taught me to do Lent when I was a little kid, and so it's my standard Lent observance. Now that I'm old enough to think about it for myself, I add on my own personal observances as well--hence the cola etc.

[eremon-lass.livejournal.com]

I decided to give up caffine for the second year in a row...and was so fried by the time I got to my 7pm rehearsal that I ordered a coffee and forgot to make in decaf. *fail* So I'm going to go until the day after Easter Sunday, so it's still the same amount of time, just shifted slightly.

And sadly I didn't make it to a service at my church because of my schedule, but I heard from Mom that it was nice. I'm sorry yours was so...presumptuous.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, it's really tough. I don't mind the sweets as much, but I want a fucking Diet Coke so bad I could kill.

Apart from the sermon it was lovely! I mostly tune out the sermons anyway, since I don't like our priest very much.

[erinpuff]

LOL fonts. D: The worst was when I went to Paris and Comic Sans was everywhere, even in cathedrals.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, I am at the Philly flower show right now and I called my sister to make fun of her because her school's exhibit was in all Papyrus, and I said "the only way it could be worse would be if there were a Comic Sans bit". Of course a few minutes after I hung up I found one.

[watchcry.livejournal.com]

I like your random frowning idea. Will it not cause you to giggle uncontrollably at them, though?

I do not think a blanket weaved of human hair would be all that nice. It tends to get scratchy fairly quickly.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Probably. XD

True. Hairshirts are not really considered a good thing. Maybe blankets woven from angora bunnies instead.

[watchcry.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I am actually picturing a blanket made of bunnies, and it's somehow not horrifying.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Their little faces sticking out and smiling at you? :D?

[the-chloroplast.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for old ladies and nobody telling them no! Your Ash Wednesday sounds like it was amusing. (I have sworn off soda.)

(I am not erinpuff, but...I am convinced that Papyrus is MS Office's secret version of the trololo song, spelled out in ones and zeros and translated into a font.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Old ladies are amazing. Truly. (God, it's awful.)

(Oh, lord, that is awesome. And probably true.)