Here Comes the Sun

Last Night

To those of you who were there to help me celebrate my confirmation: thank you so much. Seeing each and every one of you meant so much to me, and the sacrament itself was so amazing.

For those of you who weren't there...
I was confirmed on May 12th at 7pm at St. Alphonsus parish along with Grace Jeane-Marie. My sponsor is Angela Kim, and that weekend we had gone on a confirmation retreat down in Auburn. There were 24 confirmands from St. Al's, and I think 11 from Blessed Sacrament. Fr. Daniel read the gospel, and Erin read the readings. We had Bishop Elisandro (I'm sorry I can't spell it correctly) and it was such a powerful and amazing sacrament.
During the imposition of the hands, I literally felt like it was forever, and I remember thinking, "Why is he spending so long on me?" When he annointed me, he applied a very liberal amount of chrism, and I can still smell it and feel it on my face. It has that special chrism smell, and throughout the entire night people were smelling my face and I shared chrism with whomever wanted it.
Another beautiful addition, as if the sacrament itself was not enough, was that Claire came down for the day, and that Andrew and Patrick and Cowee were back and they came. Madeleine, Grace, Cowee, and I rode down, and that was really fun.

Everyone was so generous and sweet with cards and presents and prayers, and I can't wait to put to use all the graces I've received with my confirmation into the adult life of a Catholic!

Illustrations

These things absolutely rock. They were what kept me sane in drivers ed. Alysen helped, but these were so absolutely dumb and stupid and funny and pointless. Had to share.
I am officially done with drivers ed, having passed with 90 on the written and 92 on the driving tests. YES.

I realize in the last post the group I extolled would have come out to be one billion strong against Hillary, but I'm sure there's a less popular group which bears that name. The one I mean to say, however, was one million strong. just to clarify.

Next, I gaze outside the window and wonder at the state of our yard. There are many inches of snow on it and the temperature is very very cold for the END OF APRIL. Thank you, I find it most irregular and odd. I went over to the Russell's tonight (last night, if we're being precise) and we made cookies and watched Agatha Christe and had a great time and now I don't want to go to sleep.

In very short, my dear readers, there is a bunch of snow at the wrong time of year, and I had a great time at the Russells.

Oh! And 2 weeks until my birthday!!!
One week of drivers ed left.
A bunch of weeks...too tired to count, until my trip to Ojai.
A bunch of more weeks until my trip to Las Vegas.
I love flying.
Good-night.

April 7th...April 7th...April 7th...

YAHELLO!!!

I'm Michelle. Nice to meet you! Get Facebook, it's so amazingly awesome. Allow me to extole it's virtues for a second. Not only can you buy and sell people, but you can also race each other, pinch, flirt, slap, karate chop, and throw stuff at your friends. If you're more liberal, you can take Disney princess quizes, if you're conservative you can join groups like "1,000,000,000 strong against Hillary". You can proclaim everything from you religious views to your mood as expressed by a smiley emoticon. You can reconnect with old friends, while arching eyebrows at new ones. You can spend your life on it, or spend only a few minutes once a year (although I don't recommend that). Yes, and if I haven't convinced you, see me in person, and I'll try some specially tailored methods of persuasion.
Right now I just ate dinner, and I had a drive today with my instructor where she taught me how to parallel park and back around a corner. I also learned that I hate parking on the right side of a lot, and I need practice on that (although I still did pretty well) :)
I am also working on a beautiful Liszt Sarabande (it was a Handel melody, then he did everything else). It is so so so beautiful. *SIGH. I love it.