rly boring wkd

[hermionesviolin]

On Saturday, I walked into the Sears at the CambridgeSide Galleria and they had a display of fake Christmas trees for sale. Whut? It was October 11!

I bought a pair of (black) pants that actually fits -- though the pockets are a lie (sigh). I totally blanked on checking for pockets for some reason. I'm not going to return them, 'cause pants that fit are rare enough, but it's still annoying. Also annoying: when those circular size markers on the the hangers don't actually match the tags on the actual clothes so you still have to look at each one individually.
I also got a bunch of knit tops. Yay for having more work shirts which I don't have to worry about the buttoning puckering.

On the bus ride home, I saw that Saint Peter's Episcopal St. James's Episcopal (between Porter and Davis) has 8am (and 10:30am) Sunday services. 'Cause I need more church in my life. I need to get to Pub Church at some point (which Tiffany mentioned last Sunday -- we were talking about how CWM has spread, and apparently a friend of CWM runs Pub Church -- and which I then saw in the QueerAgenda events listing).

This weekend I did a bunch of errands and housecleaning and a fair chunk of my extension school reading and so on, but I didn't actually feel like I'd been productive until Jonah and I put some of my furniture together today. (Putting together the shelving cart from Target, Jonah said something about Tim Gunn and I said, "This is not a fierce table.")

Sunday I kept feeling like I was going to work the next day ('cause that's usually how Sundays are). Monday I kept feeling like I was going to church the next day ('cause it felt like a Saturday). But no, I really am going to work tomorrow. Why am I still up?

Comments

[immortalavalamp.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh I miss talking to you!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Aww! I'm sorry I'm never on chat anymore! Maybe we can set up a phone date some time?

[happymartian.livejournal.com]

I know with the Christmas trees. I saw those today and was a bit "wait..." On almost related stuff, I'm amazed by how many Episcopal churches are around here. The one problem with an early Sunday service is that it's usually not sung, which is one of the major things that gives Episcopal its "flavor," if you ask me.
"This is not a fierce table", hah!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the website says:

Sunday
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I (Said)
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II (Sung)

It's funny, I know I've been to Episcopal services before, but I have difficulty remembering how much of the service was sung. Maybe it was just so unlike what I'm used to that I just felt at sea and thus didn't have a strong enough impression to really stick in my mind?

[happymartian.livejournal.com]

Well they're not sung sung like an orthodox service. But they do include chanted parts and tend to have a larger musical component than many other services. Usually the choirs aren't around for the first Sunday service. Of course the churches I usually deal with on that side would probably much prefer to be called Anglican than Episcopal, so maybe that has something to do with it as well.

[bella-loki.livejournal.com]

There was a story in the morning radio news about how retailers are starting Christmas advertising/decorating early this year to try and help offset the bad economy= less staff/less inventory/less sales problem. (I'm happy my boss, despite the fact we have x-mas cards out already, doesn't think it's time to decorate yet...nov 1st apparently, is decorating day.)

early decorating

[onwingsofeagles.livejournal.com]

A woman at church has major issues with how Thanksgiving gets eliminated. So we're planning a T'day breakfast and putting up a big paper tree so people can put things they are thankful for on autumn leaves (construction paper) and decorate the tree.
November 1st seems wa-ay early for Christmas decorating.