the171 Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Greetings from sunny wherever I am in the world! I found myself scrolling the forum today for the first time in a couple years and wondering ... are any of the cool people still around? Anyone remember your favorite thinks-she-knows-it-all teen? Hope y'all are all safe, sane, and cared for right now. Know that y'all have remained and will remain in my prayers. (Whoever that one person was on this phorum like 10 years ago told me I should reconsider my calling to the religious life .... beaver dam you got the gift of prophecy or something! <3 ) In solidarity, the171 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 how do you delete posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 5 minutes ago, the171 said: how do you delete posts Hi. You can't. What kind of religious life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 Just now, Lilllabettt said: Hi. You can't. What kind of religious life? the not kind. happily living as a single lay person. started doing political organizing in my early twenties. now i'm involved in labor organizing and community based mutual aid. and for money before the pandemic i was working as a server/bartender. now i'm living an accidental vow of poverty because of the meager payments offered by unemployment. it's a happier life than i could have imagined. harder, but much happier. i mean except for covid. that smells of elderberries. and what about you? married or single or what? i think i remember you having a blog and on it there was a verse from sirach that had to do with bees. im forgetting it now, but i have to tell you it's been years and it stuck to me. i would often go back to it when i was doing lectio. if that's not you i am sorry hah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 15 minutes ago, the171 said: the not kind. happily living as a single lay person. started doing political organizing in my early twenties. now i'm involved in labor organizing and community based mutual aid. and for money before the pandemic i was working as a server/bartender. now i'm living an accidental vow of poverty because of the meager payments offered by unemployment. it's a happier life than i could have imagined. harder, but much happier. i mean except for covid. that smells of elderberries. and what about you? married or single or what? i think i remember you having a blog and on it there was a verse from sirach that had to do with bees. im forgetting it now, but i have to tell you it's been years and it stuck to me. i would often go back to it when i was doing lectio. if that's not you i am sorry hah Interesting. I had a blog with a bee reference but not sirach. Bees are pretty neat. Covid is horrible. I haven't had it yet. My sister in law got it but no long term effects. Supposedly we will have a vaccine out where I live (chicago) before the end of the month. I am married, expecting first born in March. Your description of life brought back fond memories. I lived much the same way from early 20s until age 30, had no need for or indeed interest in, being anything but single. It can be a deeply fulfilling lifestyle, never give into pressure to give it up unless you find an irresistible reason to. Encountering my husband ruined being single for me, made it so I couldn't relish it the same way as before. But how I did relish it prior! I was the baddest spinster who ever bada$$d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiscarriageSucks Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Is this the beautiful friend of mine who came to my wedding and lost your phone in the Uber at the after party? And did painting with a twist with me for my Bachelorette party? If so heyyyyyyyyy sis If not pls ignore me -katie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 Just now, MiscarriageSucks said: Is this the beautiful friend of mine who came to my wedding and lost your phone in the Uber at the after party? And did painting with a twist with me for my Bachelorette party? If so heyyyyyyyyy sis If not pls ignore me -katie oh my gooooodness katie i lost ur number text me tomorrow and it wasnt in the uber it was under the guest bed! dont forget the part where i was so hungover that i missed my flight. that's crucial. literally wildest night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiscarriageSucks Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 I love you and I will text you tmrw. Miss you lots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/2/2020 at 4:46 PM, the171 said: are any of the cool people still around? umm.. totes obvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 10 minutes ago, MIKolbe said: umm.. totes obvs if i remember correctly you made this amazing rosary for my confirmation. you should know that i gave it to a young woman i later sponsored for confirmation and then she gave it to a woman she later sponsored. now it’s kind of a sisterhood of the traveling confirmation rosary kinda situation which is dope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 hmmmm... I am normally not a maker of things.... Maybe I bought it and sent it to you? TBH, I don't see myself being that nice. That said, I am glad to hear the tradition you've started and am assured the prayers prayed with that rosary are quite efficacious. maybe you were the one I almost met at DFW?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) I am not often on here, but I like to style myself as a cool person. Despite all odds set forth by reasonable people on here, I have somehow remained in seminary for 4 1/2 years and am even doing well in it. Formation in both my past and current seminary has always liked me for some inexplicable reason. Maybe they just find the idea of me becoming a priest funny and want to see what will happen? That would be me as a formator, which is why it will be a good thing if I never become one. I still listen to One Direction and dance, and thanks to nearly four years of counseling I am now considerably more confident and mostly like myself, which I think has actually backfired because now I'm really outgoing and talkative and just do the weird things I used to do here but in real life. Again, I think formation keeps pushing me forward simply because they want to see the dumpster fire of my priesthood happen. Thanks to UD I have an undying love of classical literature and the constant temptation of my life is to abandon everything, return to UD, and get a PH.D in English so that I can get paid to talk about Dante and Homer for the rest of my life. It probably won't happen. Probably. I've been making empty threats to leave for years now, but there's always that small tinge of thrill that this time I might actually mean it. Edited December 9, 2020 by PhuturePriest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Thanks heaps for update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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