and it's also what I'm talking about with the disconnect between Catholicism as I experience it and and the stuff reported in the media - it's like, who are those people? I've never met them in real life. Here's a choice example. You know the story of the Supremes' avoidance of the Massachusetts gay marriage case, and how the media said the case came out of a "Catholic" organization called the Liberty Counsel? Here's the links page of their site. There isn't a Catholic-leaning link on that page, this isn't anything officially Catholic, and in fact, most of the folks they link to aren't even sure Catholics are actually Christians! I'm so puzzled by how the media picked this up and reported the backers of the Supreme Court case as the "Liberty Counsel, a Catholic group out of Florida...." They're as Catholic as Jerry Falwell, and they seem to be in bed with him (snort). I'm not saying that there aren't Catholics who are deeply into this rightwingnut crap, and maybe the wingnut on the home page is a Catholic, but that's a long way from calling it a "Catholic group" as if the Church endorsed it or sponsored it. But I saw that in at least three stories about the Supremes' throwing this one back. Oy.
I could have a full time blogging career explaining what the media does to Catholic stuff - how every time some Cardinal shoots off his mouth, it's reported as Official Policy of the Catholic Church(tm). It isn't, and the disconnect between the reality and the media is quite surreal, but it's too time consuming to explain it so I won't bother. Whatthehellever.
I have a three day weekend this week and next week, and the weekend after that I have four days off, then it's Christmas and a three day weekend, then New Years and a three day weekend, and I am focusing my energy on feeling happy. And paint and carpet. I am on the shedule for the carpet guy - I'm the first stop tomorrow morning, at, Oh Lord, 7 a.m. This is actually great, because I can then go get my car serviced and be in and out of the oil change place in no time, and be through Home Despot before the contractors are done picking up their stuff. I'm about 1500 miles overdue for an oil change and I do believe I'm Driving Mr. Boss to a mediation next week, since the week before my son's accident, he was the middle of an expressway sandwich and HIS car was totalled - and he and his son were uninjured, yay, seatbelts. We are seatbelt crazy in this extended family, let me tell you.
It will be a LONG day on the highway, the car needs to be ready, so they will see my smiling face and knitting bag right after the carpet measuring guys are done. I will pick up paint and supplies, and get a coat of primer on the Girlchild's room this weekend. That blue needs primer. It's going to be two coats either way, but with a primer it'll be so much better.
Then on my NEXT 3 day weekend, I will put the finish coat on. Carpet installation date is still TBD, if it's before the 20th life is REALLY good, if it's after, oh well, Home Despot anticipates moving furnture, why disappoint them?
I also have to ship the box of yarn to Alderson Hospitality House. It may end up being two boxes by the time I'm done, I still have some odds and ends to address. I'm so serious about a yarn fast for all of 2005, or until I finish 24 projects (yes, socks do count, that will lessen the load quite a bit). I really will bring my knitting to next week's mediation, it's not a cattle call like the last one so we will have a private room when we split off, it won't be like sitting in a really drab banquet hall (where no food is ever served) for two days.
Temps are dropping here tonight, we are supposed to get down to the 40s by morning. Am I ready? Does Murphy have a lovely warm new sweater? Uh, no. I actually do not have ENOUGH projects in play right now. I need to cast on at least one or two more, so I have something appropriate for the oil change, the mediation, etc. As Bonne Marie said a few days ago (I think - I have a poor sense of time) she works projects flat because in the round gets too cumbersome. I totally agree, but I also have this intense dislike of seaming - it's not that I can't do it, and I do work projects flat, but damn, I hate sewing seams in knitted things, it's so Tedious. So I prefer to work in the round, and prefer small projects in the round for the Portables. I think Murphy's getting a new sweater out of some earthtone handpainted wool I unearthed in the stash. It's so Manly, and not enough for something for an actual full-sized male. That would be ideal for the mediation, plus the other parties would think I'm some sort of loon, knitting a dog sweater, and Boss and I don't mind being the craziest people in the room.
Yay, three day weekends!
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