Fighting the Current

Do-It-Yourself Blessings

A note to anyone reading this: if you have an online journal, save your entries to some outside file as you're writing them. Otherwise, you might lose them if your computer crashes (as mine is prone to doing) or something goes wrong with your journal server. Thought I'd share that with people since it took me a while to catch on (a month or so...) ... And people keep complaining to me about losing their entries.

Just practiced piano for the first time in... over a month (outside of lessons). I need to go back to it later though, I only did one song. (Granted, it was the first two or three pages of the Moonlight Sonata...)

I'm avoiding studying for history. The teacher said it would be completely objective... Even her objective can be decidedly subjective. At least it's pretty easy material. I had a basic knowledge of this era (very early 1900s) already.

Well, the groundhog saw his shadow... but I saw robins today, so there still might be some hope.

At church last night, the priest was giving out candles for Candlemas. My mom asked my youngest brother what the candles were for (she hadn't heard). He answered, "I dunno, but they're candles." Helpful. Then she asked me. I knew, and told her. She thought they were a sort of take-home version of throat-blessings for St. Blaise Day... So, of course, I teased her about Do-It-Yourself Throat Blessings for the next half hour or so.

Already one o'clock. Wasted enough time. This entry took over two hours. There were huge breaks, really.