Belated Quick Takes (8)

Joining the rest of you, albeit a couple days late, for another round of takes with Jen. Better late than never? You'll find out soon enough.

1. I watched the first season of Parenthood this week. I don’t want to use the word ‘obsessed’ buuuuut when it only takes 2 or 3 days to finish all the episodes and you go to three different stores looking for the DVDs so you can continue watching, I think that word may be fitting…now I just have to get my hands on the next season!

2. I think I’ve become addicted to sleep this week. I mentioned it a bit in my last post, but I keep pushing my bedtime up earlier and earlier. And then there’s the battle with my alarm clock in the morning. I think I may need to employ my friend’s method of waking up—put your alarm clock all the way across your room and have it blast a Spanish radio station so you’re forced to actually get out of bed to shut it off. I slept over at her house one time, and I’ve never jumped out of bed faster than I did that morning! Goal for this coming week—get the recommended 8 hours of sleep each night and don’t hit the snooze button.

3. I finally made my Christmas list. And now that I’m not asking for the latest Gameboy games or clothes for my American Girl doll (Molly of course), I had a hard time completing a list for Santa. That’s how it ended up with items like a lamp for my bedside table and socks. Who actually asks for socks? Isn’t that just something our parents try to pass off as a stocking stuffer because they don’t want the entire thing to be filled with candy?

4.  Pomegranates are back in season! I love those tasty little seeds, but if it were any harder to get them out, it wouldn’t be worth the effort. I think I spend more time extracting them than I do eating them!

5. One of my friends is studying abroad in Hong Kong this semester. She sent out this email earlier today, “Please urgently pray for a young woman I just met here in Hong Kong.  Her name is Grace. Please pray for all students during this exam period but especially for the students of Hong Kong-UST, too many of whom have committed suicide this semester.” I don’t have any other information, but I know she’d really appreciate any extra prayers you could offer up.

6. I helped out at an 8^th grade confirmation retreat this weekend and met two amazing seminarians! They both did Totus Tuus this summer and know a lot of my friends. So that was a really nice surprise! They were hilarious, and if it were up to me, I would have spent the whole weekend talking to them instead of trying to wipe the blank stares off the kids’ faces anytime I asked them how the retreat was going or what they were learning.

7. I was a little taken aback by some of the things the kids didn’t know over the weekend… Most of them didn’t know it was a sin to miss mass on Sunday, and none of them seemed to realize they were supposed to fast for an hour before receiving Communion. A few of them didn’t know that Jesus was fully God and fully man. And the idea of being silent during our 5-minute silent reflection period in the church was completely foreign to them. But maybe I went into the experience expecting too much out of them or maybe I’m just used to talking to people my own age!