Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Random thoughts on my birthday

Rocky planned for us to go away for my birthday weekend but the Great Snow of 2010 canceled that. It's okay, we'll just try to do something for our anniversary next month. Today I'm going to read, nap, watch the Discovery Channel and eat ice cream cake. And I'm going to mentally marinate in some random, raggedy thoughts.........


If you want a happy marriage don't hang out with toxic women. Your man hating cousin, your buddy who's had five husbands and is living with a sixth man, your sister who's a vice president of a company and who always harps on what your husband should be doing financially.... all these trouble makers should be kept at arm's length.

Did anyone notice how ugly pro-abortion people are? They ranted and raved over the very subtle Tim Tibow ad and showed that the truth is that they don't care about choice and they don't really care about women. All that matters to these blood crazed witches is that a baby will die.

Speaking of witches, now that the Harry Potter hooplah is over do any of the bloggers who tried so hard to present Harry as a Christian allegory feel a bit silly now? According to J.K. Rowling Dumbledore is gay. And can we admit now that Dumbledore is the worst gaurdian ever? He sends Harry to a household where he is not loved, not starved exactly but never fed enough either and raised in a similar fashion to wizardom's archfiend, Voldemort. Dumbledore also did a piss poor job of protecting the kid at school. Let's face it, Harry survived to adulthood due to his own wits and luck. HP was fun. It's a ripping adventure tale but it's not Pilgrim's Progress and it's not the greatest bit of kid's lit ever written.

The fall of don't ask, don't tell is going to lead to a whole lot of misery. I work in DC and at my job we have a number of homosexuals. The males are ususally discreet. We talk about work and that's it. The females are not. I've heard stuff that I really didn't want to know about. One of them is compulsive about discussing her life. I keep a neutral expression and ususally pick up my phone, run to the bathroom or find some excuse to exit the conversation. I can't go to HR and complain because guess what? All of these people outrank me. They could have me and the HR head fired. That's what it's like in a civilian DC office so what recourse will a Private in the army have?

Monday, February 08, 2010

No more football---


My Colts lost, and now I have no more football. What shall I do? Oh wait! There's the draft and the NFL combine to look forward to.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Well, here's your problem, Father.

I'm late to the party on this story and talking about our blizzard would be a lot more fun but a sad story is taking place in my diocese. An ex nun, married to an ex priest spoke to the local rag newspaper on women's ordination : she's for it. Her priest asked her to resign from her position as music director. The parish is in upheaval. A number of parishioners seem to love the ex-nun more than Jesus.

I've only been to St. Leo's once and I can't remember if I liked it or not but I am continually horrified at how much power and influence church musicians have. At another local parish several families actually left after the leader of the folk choir got into it with the priest. One elderly couple had been going there for decades but left for the sake of kumbayah music.

Fr. Whitestone has a problem but I suspect that it started when the music director got her job. An ex-nun married to an ex priest--- that sounds like a whole lot of trouble right there.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Mass at St. Anthony's.

Rocky works on Saturday and Sunday so we usually go to the Saturday vigil Mass. Well it snowed so much that we couldn't make it and had to go to the 5:30 Mass at St. Anthony's. When we arrived Rocky noticed that Bishop Loverde's assistant was there.

As it turned out our wee bishop was the main celebrant. Fr. Grinell, the pastor was very subdued which was quite nice and dear Fr. Nicholas, who is Haitian gave the homily.

The choir was dreadful. Over amped music, a cantor wailing into the mike, a guitarist who is NOT the second coming of Jimi Hendrix and tuneless tunes. One thing I found interesting was that nobody was singing alogn with the choir or the psalms. Old, young, black, white, Asian, Indian, Philipino, African... nobody was singing. We all just silently endured the noise.

I was very annoyed by the jolly old man who stood at the ambo before Mass to tell us what the readings were and what they meant (essentially he gave us a mini homily.) He then instructed us to all stand and greet our neighbors. After that business was done the clergy processed in. Despite having a bishop and four priests we still had a small army of eucharistic ministers. Were they really, really needed?

After Mass the rush to get out was like a cattle stampede. People only slowed down to greet the bishop and Fr. Nicholas and getting out of the church parking lot was like Death Race 2000.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

the truth sucks sometimes


I've never had a successful pregnancy. The last time I got pregnant back in 2007, it ended in an ectopic rupture. I've told myself and others that I'm okay, Since I can't have children I've tried to convince myself that I dont' like them anyway 'cause they're noisy and then I see a photo like this and I just.....

Catholic Charities giving needles to junkies?

Crap like this is why I don't give to Catholic Charities. That's like telling a drunk driver to use a scooter instead of a car becuase it's safer. The drunk, like the junkie is still slowing killing himself and making life hell for his family but at least you've "done something", and feel good about yourself.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Okay, Archbishop Dolan, what're you going to do about this?

Sacrilege took place at St. James Church in Manhattan. Apparently the pastor thought the concert was going to be a Life Teen type thing which is bad enough but the poor man was too trusting and horribly mistaken. I don't wan to beat up on a priest but oh how I wish he had taken better care of his church by checking out the promoter or at least having someone from the parish staff at the church to observe things instead of naively allowing the concert promoters and the attendees to wound the Sacred Head of Our Lord in His own house. I've looked at pictures of the event on other blogs and tears poured from my eyes.
Lord have mercy.

If you want to get married in the Phoenix diocese you'll have to take 9 months of prep classes

I predict that a lot of couples in the Phoenix diocese are going to say to heck with it and get married in a civil ceremony or go to other denominations.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

God bless you, Grant


Grant Desme has given up a major league baseball career to go to the seminary and become a priest. A lot of people are mystified and angry. Poor silly folks. God bless you, Grant. You have chosen the better part.