Too cool

Just for fun, I was poking around on facebook and I decided to send a short note to Michael O'Leary, who used to play Rick Bauer on The Guiding Light. This daytime soap was my absolute favorite, and I followed it for over 30 years, beginning in the mid 70's, when I would watch it after school with my mother. I didn't send him a friend request or anything (I don't want to come across like some crazy stalker fan) but I DID tell him how much I missed seeing him on GL. I actually got a note back! Pretty cool! I told him he should have a fans page, because I can't possibly be his only fan.

A shameless plug

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Cool!

My lovely niece Vanessa has her own blog! Check it out!
http://livinmysimplelife.blogspot.com/

Wow.

I really continue to amaze myself as to how terrible I am at updating this blog.

Anyway -- Our transition to inclusion in ROCOR is complete! Who would have ever thought that a dyed-in-the-wool, born and raised Protestant would ever wind up as an Orthodox Catholic Christian? What a journey this has been! Baptized as an infant in the United Church of Christ, then raised in the Presbyterian Church USA, having a salvation experience and attending the Assemblies of God, rebaptized, Married in the Charismatic Episcopal Church, switching to Church of God, and finally landing at my current Parish of Christ the King in Tullytown, PA. Finally home!

I lost one of my furbabies in December to liver failure. My poor Sammi-kins. I miss her terribly, but I still have her brofurs and sisfurs to amuse me. Her littermate is handling the loss well, and Guinevere is a happy girl. She has tried to take her sisfur's place as my cuddle-kitty-girl.

The company I work for sent all claims and phone people to work from home. My first full day home was the same day I had to put my Sammi to sleep. I will miss her forever.

If anyone is out there -- what's new with you?

Great Day!

I went on a little adventure today. Dan and I drove into NYC (yes, I drove) to attend the Ordination of our home Parish Priest! We have been officially welcomed into ROCOR, and he, along with our Deacons and Sub-Deacon, needed to be received into the Diocese through a re-Ordination service.

I have never attended an Eastern Rite Orthodox service before. Aside from the fact that 98% of the service was in Russian, it was beautiful.

One sour note to the day: I got a parking ticket. Figures.

I told you so.

See? I suck at updating my blog. What's funny is, I wish I wasn't. I wish I even had some followers! Doesn't look like I do though -- because you can't count Travis. Since he's my cat. And I do all of his typing.

Nothing much going on. We had a family get-together in June at my cousin Tammy's place. It was so great to see everyone -- especially my younger second cousins (who aren't children anymore). Kind of surreal. I feel so old. Take Patrick for instance. I remember his Christening like it was yesterday. I was holding him that day, and he was so HEAVY! The kid was a beast. He's bigger than me now! But then, so is my 14 year old nephew. He was measured the other day and he's about 1/4 inch shy of 6'2". When my sister told me that today, I said to her "Don't worry -- he'll be 6'2" by tomorrow morning. He's part mushroom.

Oh well.

If I didn't mention it before, I am absolutely horrible about updating blogs.

Lots happened since my last post. We were going to move -- so we were very busy apartment hunting. We FINALLY found a place, but when we went to switch over the insurance and stuff, the costs wanted to double (who'd have thought that insurance rates in PA are double that in NJ?) so we had to pull the plug on the whole thing.

Of course, by then, we were half packed -- so then we had to UNpack. Then cleaning and cleaning. In between all of that, lots of overtime for me. Then undoing what had already been arranged.

Then last week, my husband's brother passed away suddenly. Rocky was more a brother to me than a brother-in-law -- and he was only 45. So last week was difficult. We are all okay though -- and we know that Rocky is in a better place.

So -- happy holiday weekend! Stay safe!