a brief scheduled absence

[cimorene]

well, so, last night i went to bed at about 3 am, filled with inspiration for writing but unable to keep my eyes open any longer. "that's okay," i said, "i'll just write in the morning." i woke up early, but writing didn't happen! before i even got out of the house, our flat was full of extended family. there was some wholesome togetherness and consuming sushi and then HELL. wax_jism and i, on the limited budget of how much money i happened to have in my regular disposal account, were trying to find a wrap to match my dark red dress for her brother's wedding. we looked for hours, getting side-tracked several times by shoe sales, until finally going back to the first store we'd gone to and buying one that isn't even the same colour as my dress. uck. and before you decry my frivolity with the shawl, i hate shawls.

cim: have you ever heard of this idea that you can't go inside a church with bare shoulders?
cim: apparently it's like iron-clad in finnish lutheran churches and we had to spend hours today hunting for a shawl to match my dress for wax's brother's wedding. i hate the sight of this shawl now. i wish i could burn it in effigy
kessie: !  I never heard of that!
kessie: i know there's certain regulations if you meet the pope, but i don't know much about lutheran churches - we don't have many here.
cim: apparently in finland they're so traditional that for a catholic wedding women can't even wear short or half-sleeves. they have to have on long-sleeved jackets.

so, yeah.

so now we're leaving tomorrow at lunch for the wedding, coming back saturday night just in time to download doctor who, probably. victors, it would displease me if i don't finish this [apparently] never-ending band of princes fic before then.

Comments

[morningfine]

...I. But. I always thought the no bare shoulders rule was one that doesn't really exist in Finland, which is why Finnish tourists keep making idiots of themselves visiting churches in continental Europe in shorts and tank tops. It's certainly never occurred to me that this might be a Lutheran thing, because it so clearly isn't, where I come from. If you thought to cover your shoulders for church you were posh, or possibly a Swedish Finn (which, you know, same difference for these people).

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:(( well, wax's mom is adamant which means wax is adamant. i tried to argue, slightly, but she was very firm.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

I will learn to knit pretty shawls if you ever need another. <3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥! if only i could knit... and could knit REALLY, REALLY FAST. then i could've made the perfect shawl when i started thinking about it, which was a couple of weeks ago. ;)

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

awwww....

what does the cursed shawl look like?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

lightweight and kind of shiny in several shades of lighter red, on the purplish side. i'll have pictures when i come back from the wedding.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

I can't wait. I want to see this thing.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

heh, it might not be too bad if a) it matched and b) i were a bigger fan of fuchsia.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Dude, the bare shoulder thing is insane. I was kicked out of St Peter and Paul in Rome for having bare shoulders in a nice summer dress, but apparently ratty jeans shorts and an old t-shirt (which I changed into) was fine. The hell?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

what, actually KICKED OUT? o_O