Happy Maundy Thursday everyone.
For those that don't know, Maundy Thursday is our celebration(?) or commemoration rather of the Last Supper.
So today started out with a huge deposit into the bank account which I planned on using to buy Jonas Brothers tickets later this week. That plan was short lived as Da informed me not 20 minutes later that he needed to borrow like $100 for gas and car washes for his and mum's car. T_T
After donating my Jonas $, chunk and I ventured to Food Maxx to buy groceries for mum to make party potatoes (= my favorite food of all time). On our way into Food Maxx, we passed a nasty dirty van which megan pointed out "needs to be waaa-", she was cut off because the scary, motorcycle leader-looking mama who drove that car was standing right next to it on her phone...scary. We later passed motorcycle mama 3 or 4 times in the store...scarier.
So yeah. Made some chocolate chip cookies later at home ("the best you've ever made" according to mum, i disagree) & when mum came home and flipped on some Fox News, we were privileged enough to watch one of the strangest reports I've ever seen...Panda Porn.
Apparently, the panda population was going down in China and the chinamen needed a way to spur the mating of the pandas...they tried viagra. didn't work. apparently male pandas were too lazy to mate and would rather chomp some bamboo (& who can blame them), but then someone got the idea to show them panda porn. weird.
the report went something like this:
british FN correspondant: "they show the pandas videos of other pandas getting it on which then makes those pandas want to get it on"
....yeah, it was weird. only slightly more weird than the maundy thursday service later that night...
for all my years of being a christian (i'm entering my 19th year of living as well as my 19th year of being a christian), i'm fairly certain i've never been to a maundy thursday service...soooooo, i didn't know what to expect tonight, but i know there was one thing i did not expect and that was seeing my father come out dressed as one of jesus' dsiciples...yeah.
the service paper thing said "'The Last Supper' - Presentation" which for our church usually means something a little werid...i'm expecting a video, maybe a skit. so when the time comes for the presentation to start, we hear some voices over mics from offstage and then faj comes on dressed as a disciple and i'm thinking ".....what is this?"...he was followed by 12 other men from our church (most of whom i recognized since most of them are our Elders), all dressed as disciples with the exception of the young guy dressed as Jesus who wore an acolyte's robe.
so the whole presentation was a bit on the odd side.
Jesus wasn't memorized and had to keep looking down at the table for his lines and then we had to receive communion from them which was even more odd and awkward.
upon approaching the table megan commented "oh no! i'm too short" which made me laugh/try to disguise my laugh as a cough (which didn't work). then mr. burzlaff (i don't know which disciple he was supposed to be) was attempting to break off the weird looking bread i was supposed to have but was having trouble. when he finally did break it, not only did he hand me a huge chunk, but also the several crumbs that went with it.
i ate the big chunk (which tasted like pie crust, of which i am not a fan at all), downed my wine to get rid of the taste of the pie crust body of Christ, and walked back to my seat with 4 or 5 good sized chunks of the same nasty pie crust in hand.
easily one of the more bizarre communions i've ever had.
though it was pretty funny when one of our senior pastors also got too much bread from mr. burzlaff. he was smarter than i and ate his big piece, then saved the smaller pieces to dunk into the common cup of wine, which broke off into the common cup when he did so, ahahaha. i love church :)
so that was my day in a walnut shell.
lessons learned:
-don't insult butch women's cars unless you're sure they're not in earshot.
-porn should only be advocated when advancing the panda population.
-dad doesn't need to wear disciple robes anytime soon.
-don't dunk your communion bread in the common cup.
amen.
mjl
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