*Tomorrow is crepes with sugar and lemon.
*Tonight is basil walnut fettuccine.
*Last night was pinto bean dip with cilantro and corn.
*Tuesday the Son made mashed sweet potatoes and peas and corn with thyme and bacon.
*Monday we had chicken salad sandwiches with a pea and radish salad on top.
*Over the weekend we ate leftovers other than a brunch at Homegrown.
Friday will be the last menu meal as we'll move into using up any food we can in the cupboards, fridge, and freezer.
I'm completely done with work music, so I'm working on four pieces to keep my fingers limber:
1. Hanon 4 octave exercise in C major
2. Landslide, one page a day
3. Widor's Toccata, one "section" a day, which is about a page and a half.
4. One page per week of Final Fantasy IX, playing that one page for a week before moving to the next page.
We are...half...moved? Maybe? We are still living up here but plan to move two of us and 95% of our stuff next week. My beloved students honored me with a countdown to my "firing" date. It's been a blessed and stressed season.
*St. Justin Martyr died in the 2nd century as a martyr under Marcus Aurelius. A description of his martyrdom written at the time:
The saints were seized and brought before the prefect
of Rome, whose name was Rusticus. As they stood before the judgment seat,
Rusticus the prefect said to Justin, "Above all, have faith in the gods
and obey the emperors."
Justin replied, "We cannot be accused or condemned for obeying the
commands of our Savior, Jesus Christ."
Rusticus said, "What system of teaching do you profess?"
Justin said, "I have tried to learn about every system, but I have
accepted the true doctrines of the Christians, though these are not approved by
those who are held fast by error."
The prefect Rusticus said, "Are those doctrines approved by you, wretch
that you are?"
Justin said, "Yes, for I follow them with their correct teaching."
The prefect Rusticus said, "What sort of teaching is that?"
Justin said, "Worship the God of the Christians. We hold him to be from
the beginning the one creator and maker of the whole creation, of things seen
and things unseen. We worship also the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
Rusticus said, "You are a Christian, then?"
Justin said, "Yes, I am a Christian."
The prefect said to Justin, "You are called a learned man and think you
know what is true teaching. Listen: if you were scourged and beheaded, are you
convinced that you would go up to heaven?"
Justin said, "I hope that I shall enter God's house if I suffer in that
way. For I know that God's favor is stored up until the end of the whole world
for all who have lived good lives."
The prefect Rusticus said, "Do you have an idea that you will go up to
heaven to receive some suitable rewards?"
Justin said, "It is not an idea that I have; it is something I know well
and hold to be most certain."
The prefect Rusticus said, "Now let us come to the point at issue, which
is necessary and urgent. Gather round then and with one accord offer sacrifice
to the gods."
Justin said, "No one who is right-thinking stoops from true worship to
false worship."
The prefect Rusticus said, "If you do not do as you are commanded you will
be tortured without mercy."
Justin said, "We hope to suffer torment for the sake of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and so be saved."
In the same way the other martyrs also said, "Do what you will. We are
Christians; we do not offer sacrifice to idols."
The prefect Rusticus pronounced sentence, saying, "Let those who have
refused to sacrifice to the gods and to obey the command of the emperor be
scourged and led away to suffer capital punishment according to the ruling of
the laws." Glorifying God, the holy martyrs were beheaded, and so
fulfilled their witness of martyrdom in confessing their faith in their Savior.
--from the Acts of the Martyrdom of
Saint Justin and his Companions
*Flourless chocolate cake with whipped cream and berries
*The joys of Easter dinner
*Lemon cream cheese coffee cake
*Just the chocolate cake without the toppings
*Tomorrow will be Margarita Pizza or Rigatoni with Meatballs.
*Today is going to be leftovers or food out, depending if we have house showings tonight or not.
*Yesterday was sweet and sour pork chops.
*Tuesday was a sheet pan dinner of gnocchi and veggies (including butternut squash). It needed more onion but otherwise was very nice.
*Monday we had beef stir fry with rice.
*Sunday we did a lemon roast chicken with lemon oregano potatoes.
*I'm down to my last two Masses here in the area before our move. One was added at the last minute, but I'll have a good cantor, and the other is at one of my long time parishes. It will be bittersweet, but every day I'm becoming more reconciled to the adventure that moving will be.
*I've also been able to go back to my personal music, so I'm back to C major 4 octave scale, part of Widor's Toccata, and part of FFIX music.
