No Place Like Home...
I havent blogged in forever, ha so much to talk bout too! Sheesh whurr do I sturrt? Well first off, hopefully you enjoyed that little article on making out. I thought this would bring the issue to a close, ha but apparently not since yesterday. Praise God for the 'Calling' cuz I think it opened a lot of eyes in regards to whas right and whas wrong. It's weird cuz I was talking to one of sasha's kid's that thurs. before the retreat.
Anyway, so I was talking to him making sure he was being good, and some how we got on the topic of relationships. Then we ended up talking bout morality and he said something and I explained to him how making out was a sin. He was shocked and asked why, so I explained how making out can easily lead to other things. Then I relearned that during the calling. I was sitting thurr during the calling wondering who I hurrd it from that making out was a sin. Praise God though really for the retreat last weekend. Anyway moving on...
Thursday went to skool and I had the day off being that I had a doctor's apt. Music class was alright, Im kinda getting wha were doing. Its juss remembering and retaining errthang and such. So, for the past I dont know how long I have this small lump nurr my ankle. Back track 4 yurrs ago...I have this scurr on my ankle. I always use like to tell peeps that it was a shurrk bite haha like I'd make up some story how I was body boarding in the ocean and some shurrk bit my ankle. Though wha really happened was I had this tumor in my ankle and so I had to have surgery to get it removed. I cant remember wha the procedure was called or wha it was,(it wasnt cancerous, praise God) the only thing was the doc. I think said thurr was a chance it could come back.
Forward to today...so thurrs this lump back nurr my scurr and the doctor doesnt know wha it is. All we know is that its soft, and its not on the bone(which I think is a good sign). He told me we needed to get mri's done to determine wha this thing was in my ankle. In the meantime not to run around etc. etc. so it doesnt get swollen up like before. I have to take a month off of work till we know whas going and wha were going to do. So, tomorrow I have to go in and tell my bosses that I have to take a month off. Im kinda skurred to tell them...so if youre reading this, please pray for me and pray for them, for understanding and peace. Thanks!
Friday ran a few errands, dropped off my last application to garden grove skool district. Dropped off my printer at best buy, which took forever cuz thurr was only one person thurr. PIcked up my mom from work, took her to the bank and to the murrket. She was telling me that due to the govenor's budget, thurr cutting back on ceritfied and classified staff in the district. About 20 certified and classified staff w/in the whole district are getting layed off. Which sucks cuz now the classrooms are gonna be even more packed! Ahh stupid govenor! You have these stupid politicans who think they know whas best fo education, when it only in the end makes things more complicated.
Went to mass, thurrs this lady who always reads at the 515pm mass. Anyway, she must not like reading or something cuz when she sees me thurr, she always wants me to read. I was nervous too cuz it was a long first reading! ha Anyway, fr. paul had a great homily bout love and describing wha is love and wha isnt etc. etc. Afterwurrds, went to my usual friday nite 'stations of the cross.' I really urge yall to go one fri. nite, its only a half hour, really helps you focus on the passion. Afterwurrds, went to go eat at the crab shack. So they were do the little dances and wh anot. Well they were dancing to that song, 'at the currwash.' Its funny cuz out of all the people doing it, thurrs was only one guy who really had rhythym. He was filipino too, go fig huh? Anyway, it was funny watching all the rest, trying real hurrd. While the other guy made it all simple.
Saturday-Woke up at 7am for my confirmation retreat. Sandy, paid this group of young adults called the 'net team' to come in and do a retreat for the kids. I remember hurring bout them during scrc this past summer. Thurr a group of young adults who travel around the states/world to put on retreats for parishes. Its similar to the cfc yfc mission volunteer, except these people get paid monthly. So I guess almost like a fulltime worker. Anyway, I was real interested to see how it was gonna play out. Ended up being one interesting retreat, that I ended up having problems with.
It was only a team of eight, and I was expecting a whole group of like 20 or something. So I was thinking they were gonna ahve a whole music min. and do songs and stuff like that. They sturrted off the morning w/a skit, which was a stupid silly one. I guess they kids liked it cuz it was stupid silly and entertaining. Then they broke up into small groups, using the classrooms. I sat in the first group to see how things were gonna go. I could tell the group leader was hesitant cuz he kept asking me wha was up. We ended up playing an icebreaker the whole first session.
Come back and this guy gives a teaching on the holy spirit. Used a creative analogy on how the holy spirit is like chocolate milk. He had a kid hold out a cup of milk, then poured choco milk in it. Saying during our baptism, the holy spirit pour in us gifts. During our confirmation he gives us more gifts, and stirs them all inside of us. I didnt get to hurr the rest of the talk cuz I was opening the classrooms. Second group session comes and I was bout to go into the group to sit in again but then the group leader didnt want me to go! I was mad! He told me the group was flowing real well right now, and didnt want things to get messed up. Agh!!!!! I had to sit in the blessed sacrament for a while to find peace.
Yeah, I understand that you know the kids may open up more if I'm not thurr. HOWEVER, being I dont know this group real well, I dont want them to teach them something thas wrong. After group session was over, I asked one of my girls how it was and wha they talked bout. Evidently, in thurr group they talked bout sex. Some girl brought up the issue of making out(again) and I guess the group leader told the girls it was okay to make out as long as it doesnt esscalate to anytihng else. WRONG! It wasnt juss one of my girls either who told me, one of liz's girls said the same thing to liz as well.
So I went and told sandy wha was being talked bout in the group. How the group leader said making was okay and blah blah. Sandy, talked w/some of leaders of the retreat team and so they tried to clurr things up w/us. Then offering ot give an explaination and clurr things up at the end of the retreat. They come back and one of the peeps from the retreat team, plays only like 2 songs on teh geetar. Agh! I was expecting more songs! A full on praise & worship! Thy go into the church and another person gives a testimony and then they go into these 'drama.' I was expecting something powerful, something that would hit them, it wasnt like that. Then went into a time for them to meditate and pray. I used that time to pray over all of my kids.
THe end comes and the retreat team leader goes on to explain bout catholic morality. She tells them, the church has no clurr teaching on how furr a person can go w/thurr bf or gf. Then goes on to explain and read some stuff from that one purple book( jaymee knows I forgot the title). Basically, by saying that she left a loop hole for the kids. Now the kids will think, 'well since there isnt a clurr teaching on how furr I can go, its okay for me to make out or to touch or whatever.' Which is again wrong, cuz the church does have a clurr teaching in regards to how far a person can go. The church teaches, that if youre not murried, then you shouldnt be going furr w/anyone at all. So the teaching is a very black and white, not very difficult to understand or interpret. Though I will give it to her she did say that if you do stuff for self gratification or use that person as an object, then its wrong and is a sin. Anyway, so those were some things that bothered me bout the retreat.
Took a couple of the kids home, and then went home to get ready for spirit rally. Packed up my curr w/fred, lon, jaymee, and chentel and drove to irvine. It was like a circus curr haha fun times though in the curr. The Spirit rally was good, juss seemed real long though, probably cuz it sturrted late( you know how I am w/time). Agh I got pushed up thurr to do the action song segment, but I couldnt do mambolo! ha Its all g cuz I got a red rubber band bracelet out of it! woOO! The commercials were funny, and the testimonies were great. The last one was a killer for me, I was getting dizzy watching the guy walk back and forth back and forth back and forth for like 30 min. The rally was great, the spirit was defineitly moving, ha after it was ova, while waiting for chentel in the bathroom, jaymee and I went online thurr ha checking blogs. haha!
Were so hungry on the way back, we stopped by in n out. By the time we got back though, it was already cold. I guess it would have made more sense to either eeat thurr or buy it from the one by the house. ha Changed got ready and went to the crazy horse. I was really tired, and I was beginning to think I shouldve juss stayed home. Though, Im glad I went it was real fun. Jennif was thurr, so it was coo I had someone to dance with. Thurr was one purrt whurr we were gonna go back up. Buttt then, that song 'curr wash' came on, so I juss had to do dance to it! haha 'At the car wash...at the car wash yeah' thas my new jam! aha
I felt bad cuz I was so tired that I fell asleep on the way back home. I was trying to stay awake for lon but I couldnt! Dang, errone else went over to boss lady and burrs house to play hol em till 6 in the morning(6 in the morning). I told you SH lets us play hol em till 6 in the morning(morning) at anytime, anyplace! Fun times at the crazy horse, fun times doing the currwash dance, and the in da club routine than jennif and I put together waaay back! haha it was great seeing her again! woOo!
Sunday-Went to mass at 1215pm, fr. grace a great homily(as usual)on being a light on to others. How we cant force people to feel or believe a certain, but juss give them the message. Which made sense, so often(I am guilty of this)we try to force others to believe and feel a certain way towards something. Though we cant force them to think like that, all we can do is deliver the message. How we can go though show them w/our actions, in wha we do and say in order to portray the message. He talked bout St. Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes, how our Lady asked St. Bernadette to build a church thurr. St. Bernadette told the priest, and he didnt believe her( I think) or didnt want to.
Went to eat w/chetel's fam bam at the oliver gurrden. Afterwurrds, went to walmurrt to pick something up. Came home and then changed oil on my curr, took a nap. Dropped off something at my coworkers house and thas it. Ha pretty chill day, need to get gas though tomorrow, I have an mri apt. in the morning. Then I gotta go in afterwurrds to tell my bosses I cant work for the rest of the month, thas the skurry thing. Im praying they'll be understanding...hopefully.
So jaymee and I were talking bout how our community is unique. Well, I think errcommunity is unique in thurr own special way. Though, she realized after yesterday, the meaning of being 'community sick.' Its hurrd to explain but its juss different. We sat thurr in the curr on the way home from uci talking bout all these crazy SH moments. Like last summer when we were at the soratorios till 6 in the morning! ha 'Wha would you do if you husband/wife ever cheated on you?' The inside jokes bout my dyslexia that was going on, on my tagboard for weeks! '1,2, 3 churrge!' hahha or it's me who builds community! Practicing suicide skit in the hotel purrking structure! haha being really competive playing games like capture the flag or the one word song game. You're out!!! no, I'm not! you cheated!! no i didnt!!! do it over! haha I love it!
"At the car wash yeah!" im done, im out God bless!
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