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A Change To The Sunday Schedule
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
For some reason, Mormon wards change their meeting schedule every year. I'm speculating that this is because interest in attending tends to wane towards the end of the year and mixing things up might give the membership a renewed interest. My idea would be to stop making church so fucking boring and useless but I'm just practical that way, I guess.
It may also be that church leadership tends to make wards barely large enough to function, with barely enough members for each calling or assignment. This makes for some creative scheduling when it comes to building usage. Despite the fact that I can see no fewer than a hundred crossless steeples by standing on the roof of my house, each building still often has as many as six or seven congregations assigned to it. As a result, one or two wards inevitably get stuck with a less-than-desirable block for meetings.
So I think another reason they may mix the schedules up each year to keep people from bitching so damn much about having to go to church before the apostate neighbors are even up mowing their lawns or so late that the older members get lost in the dark driving the block-and-a-half from the Eagle Gate Apartments.
Whatever the motivation, the schedule for Donna's church meetings has changed. Starting this week she will no longer be gone to church before 9 AM. Instead, weekly indoctrination will happen smack in the middle of the day. With early meetings, I found a hundred little things I could do to distract her from attending once in a while.
Once in a while I would "forget" to set the alarm after a late Saturday night. Sometimes I would make the night before a little longer by choosing the later movie time of a longer film if Saturday was a date night. Other times, getting the kids dressed and ready on her own was just too much and she'd go without them to just one or two meetings.
It looks like I'll have to mix things up a bit myself to accomplish the same thing later in the day.
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TalkrGOTSAG
Submitted by Pete on January 3, 2007 - 7:00pm.
I'm sure the verification image was referring to the Screen Actors Guild.
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I have faith
Submitted by Sister Mary Lisa (not verified) on January 3, 2007 - 11:04am.
You can do this, Pete. You are up to the challenge. What will suck is if she has a calling that requires preparation...she will be preparing lessons all morning and her mind will be on that stuff.
The good news, from experience: it is WAY EASIER for her to call and get a substitute and skip fully when it's afternoon vs. first thing in the morning.
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Calling...
Submitted by Pete on January 3, 2007 - 11:38am.
She's a cub scout leader. Zero Sunday responsibilities. You know damn well though if she started to slack in her church attendance she'd find herself called as Young Women's president or some crazy shit like that.
That won't keep me from trying though. If only I could get her to understand the joys of mimosas and Sunday brunch.
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Sunday Brunch
Submitted by Sideon on January 3, 2007 - 12:31pm.
Ruth's Diner.
The Dodo (at Gateway).
Market Street Grill.
Hell - make her breakfast in bed sometime.
Best of luck!
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Calling...know the feeling.
Submitted by Tiggerlane (not verified) on January 3, 2007 - 4:17pm.
I started missing, and they made me the pianist. Hmm..this may really require some creativity on your part.
I live in the Southern Bible Belt now, and church usually runs from 10:30 to noon - how late is Donna's service? You never said...
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What the hell are they thinking!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 5, 2007 - 12:05pm.
I can't believe the keep with the three hour block...when the only need 15min to rehash the same shit every week! But, that is just my apostate personality speaking!
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Aaaaiiirrrrr baaaaalll !!
Submitted by Trevor (not verified) on January 9, 2007 - 9:11am.
Aaaaiiirrrrr baaaaalll !!
Aaaaiiirrrrr baaaaalll !!
Aaaaiiirrrrr baaaaalll !!
Nice try, dude! LOL!
Get back to church where you belong.
LOL!!
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In response to the Priest of Baal
Submitted by danny on January 9, 2007 - 3:32pm.
"Go back to church" as advice presumes the inherent value of that advice. The point of being a free thinking person is to actually review and evaluate that advice. To take an appraisal of its merits.
Just claiming that one belongs at a church makes an extraordinary claim without any evidence at all, especially if you do not know the person to whom the advice is given.
It's not people being scheming creepy mormon borg to which I specifically object.
One might as well say to an alcoholic, "have a drink, it will all feel better....DRINK DAMNIT!! GET DRUNK, You belong there!" but in a very easy going charming laughing church-ball kind of non-threatening yet disturbing way.
Sometimes it IS the medicine that IS the problem. That's a rare insight of, shall we say, sesquicentennial proportions.
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{6 weeks 6 days ago}
Hello Everyone
In my church-going days,
In my church-going days, afternoon church was much more convenient to skip, because there was always other things to do in the afternoon involving family stuff... like early dinners with my parents or in-laws, extended baby blessing lunches, etc. Morning church easier to attend because it's first thing, then you have the rest of your day to observe the sabbath. :) I'm seeing great things in your future. I know you'll find a way to help her skip afternoon church, I have faith in you Pete. You could make your Monday blog posts all about how you managed to get Donna to skip church the day before. Think of the possibilities.
PS- the verification thingy says "GOTSAG" how rude!