there's no place like gnome.

I scored a few things at the auction too.  [pre-auction.  bid I did not.]  Funky metal drawers and – wait for it – A CARD CATALOG!  A mini-card catalog.  We’re talking twelve drawers.  It held screws and things in the shop and it’s in pretty rough shape.  I will refinish it, clean it up, and love it as my own.  [It’s a secret dream of mine to have a card catalog.  This one is on a small scale but I’m still thrilled.  Photos/perhaps a before/after series to follow!]

I’ve been a bit absent [again] as I’ve been busy preparing for today.  [and for a cousin’s graduation party yesterday.]

It’s here.  It’s time.  People are on their way …

the ordination.

I’m nervous as all get out.  But excited too.  It’s down to those last minute details like where the clergy will vest and who will use what microphones.  It will be okay.  God will show up.  I will be ordained.  There will be many tears and much rejoicing.

Prayers welcomed.  Stories to follow.

I just ordered an alb.  [About time, eh?  It’s the robe pastors wear for worship.]  And a cinture.  [The rope that ties around the waist of an alb.]  And a short-sleeve-poly-cotton-tab-collar-button-front blouse. [A clergy shirt.  Again, about time, eh?  I didn’t wear one once on internship and the one I used in the cooking pastor videos I borrowed from a friend.]  I had to enter my “title” to register on this specific site [what does “the most Rev.” even mean? whatever it is, I don’t think I’ll ever be one.] and put down my role as ‘clergy – priest/pastor.’  

Seems like I’m about to be a pastor or something.

The host for this blog, blogger, was down for nearly a whole day and, boy, did I miss my bloggy blog.  A lot of things happened yesterday – good and bad – and I found myself wanting to share the day with you.  But I couldn’t.  Every time I tried I got an error.  No worky.  

I followed Blogger on Twitter and they constantly said that the site would be up and running again soon, along with the missing posts on this blog that suddenly went missing.  I waited.  I wrote blog posts in my head.  I exploded my thoughts onto paper.  

Joel even wrote a rap about it last night.  He and his wife use blogger too, and were equally frustrated!  But fear not, as I live and breathe and type here, blogger has been resurrected.  I blogged here briefly in the absence of this gnomepreacher if you want to check that out, and even though it no longer technically applies, please enjoy Joel’s rap about blogger being dumb.

1.  blog.

2.  students vs. staff/faculty softball game. [wednesday]

3.  watch Friends/Modern Family/Gilmore Girls on dvd/hulu.

4.  file fingernails.

5.  plan senior week events. [ie order tshirts and reserve a cotton candy machine]

6.  cover clothespins in pretty tape and mod-podge.  

7.  drink wine at Joel & Melissa’s.

8.  see George Washington’s wooden teeth at the MN History Center. [tomorrow]

9.  text/facebook/twitter/pinterest.

10.  think about you and when we can hang out.

It’s official.  I have entered my last full week of seminary classes.

[I’m going to say it again, because sometimes I don’t even believe it.]

I have entered my last full week of seminary classes.

I have four class periods and four final papers that separate me from the end of my seminary career, plus a few other minor assignments.

Ca. ray. zee.

[and here I am blogging instead of working on any of them. procrastination of schoolwork is my life.]

oh-my-goodness.  i-cannot-wait-until-i-no-longer-live-in-this-parking-lot-facing-apartment-in-the-city.  i-cannot-wait-to-have-my-windows-open-and-not-hear-daycare-children-screaming-and-fighting-over-a-swing.  i-cannot-wait-until-i-don’t-hear-ridiculously-loud-cars-pull-up-and-drive-away-right-under-my-window-at-all-hours-of-the-day-and-night.  i-cannot-wait-until-i-can-simply-have-my-windows-open-and-enjoy-the-quiet-of-nature.  because-this-right-now-is-driving-me-nutty-beyond-sanity.  

rant over.