Miscellaneous Monday

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MS Call for Funds
My deepest thanks go to all who have donated, online or offline, to the Team Wench MS walk. I've gone well beyond my initial expectations... and yet, I am going to make one last appeal. With the money that has been donated online and off, I am only $30 away from bringing in $250. If just six of you could toss in $5 here, I could make it, and Team Wench as a whole could get that much closer to their overall fundraising goal. Please help, they're only halfway there! Remember, all donations are tax deductible!

In other news, our Team Captain faireraven was made the MS Walk Ambassador at Sunday's Rally!

Another $.02 on the Pope
I had a rather belated epiphany today. Usually 24-48 hours after the death of a notable person, the backlash begins. I don't mean people poking fun at rituals or trappings, but the people ratting out all the little things the person did that were kept in a closet, inconsistent, hypocritical.

There has been none of this for Pope John Paul II. I firmly believe that this is because there was nothing to find. While I barely agreed with much of his philosophy, for a very long time he lived consistently with the dictates of his beliefs, and applied them evenly to all he met. That is so rare in a world leader or a celebrity - and he was both in his own way - that I think I can count those who qualify without taking off my shoes.

A good and faithful servant indeed. May the same be said of his successor.

Cagle (link to right on my LJ, under "Wish they had a feed" has a very nice set of tribute editorial cartoons.

From the worldwide sacred to the personally secular... my car & clothes
Tomorrow my car goes in for repair; Friday I get it back. In the meantime, I get a fully funded rental. The Eddie that returns to me will be FrankenEddie; they've told me that they're going to use a used hood. As long as it's the right color and fits, I guess.

In the resolution of another very old thread, remember my complaining about a skirt that had gotten ruined when something dripped on it at Home Depot? I tried dying it and a stained blouse this weekend, both black. The blouse was not a complete success. The skirt came out a lovely deep black... except for the now dye-resistant spots where the corrosive material dripped!

Next stop - airbrush ink for both. I can get airbrush fabric ink from Dharma Trading Company and run it through a regular spray bottle. Hopefully that will cover evenly!

Standing to center
Posting my monthly do-to lists publicly may be navel-gazing, but it has also proven highly effective in getting me to Get Things Done. Therefore, while both weight and diet (outside of the general lines of the polydiet) are too personal, I will make this public as well:

I pledge to find a way to walk at least two miles daily for exercise, preferably three, and to post my exercise regimin here by the end of the month on the assumption that I will be able to consistently maintain it throughout April.

And if I don't, I have to post my failure.

Comments

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it. While I may have disagreed with some of his philosophies, he was consistent. None of the "do as I say not as I do". He practiced what he preached, so to speak. I may have disagreed with the man in many respects, but I also have a lot of respect for him... And I think, so did many others.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of respect for him, too; he certainly showed a lot of bravery in WWII, and was a good ambassador for the church as well as a voice for peace. But I can't whitewash the man - in a position to do good for members of the church and others around the world, there were some people, some of the most vulnerable, to whom he did harm.