7QT: Non-political soundbites

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Kathryn is going through a phase where her favorite toys are my clothing. She would much rather play with my sleeves, collar, or whatever else she can grab as opposed to her toys. Silly baby!

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So I put her in this dress thing because it was 70+ degrees out. I bought it because it was $1.99 at the thrift store and she needed clothes. 

Wasn't quite expecting her to be SO DANG CUTE. I kind of want to dress her in nothing but these and turn all of her onesies into dresses like this. 

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I like Lent and all, and I love the Triduum, but I will be very glad when it's over. It's just very tiring with all of the things we end up going to for RCIA since Shane is in charge. It will be nice to go to Mass 10 minutes away instead of 45. 

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My Verizon contract is up soon. For a variety of reasons (namely cost), Shane and I had decided to remain on separate plans (the cost of the combined plan was higher than two separate plans. Yes, it was ridiculous) after our wedding 14 months ago. 

Instead of moving to a joint Verizon plan, right now I think we're going to sign up for Project Fi, a Google project moving into the phone plan business. It's a flat $20 for talk and text and $10 per gigabyte of data, and they reimburse you for data you don't use. (Which is great since I now work from home and hardly ever use even a full gigabyte.) It's currently only compatible with Nexus phones (5X, 6, and 6P), so I'll be moving from my Galaxy S4 (which has a better camera). I'm hoping that I can continue to use my old phone as a point-and-shoot camera since it's all I have. If not, we'll probably get a DSLR. (Which we want to get anyway, but haven't yet because they're expensive and we have to talk ourselves into spending that much money on one thing.) 

If anyone has a Nexus 5X, any suggestions for good cases? Otterbox doesn't make them, so I can't just say, "Otterbox is very good" and use them. I'd like to get a waterproof case (because Kathryn wants to chew on my phone, and she will someday be mobile in addition to grabby), but they don't appear to have an option like the Otterbox. 

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I'm very ready for election season to be over. It feels like it's been going for over a year already and I just...really don't care enough to spend TWO YEARS out of every four thinking about this circus. I do believe politics are important, just not so much so that I want to immerse myself in it. (My husband likes politics. And spends so much time on it during the election season that he gets completely burnt out the rest of the time.)

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I found this article today, "Why the Vocation Crisis is a Fiction". It makes an excellent point, and one that not enough people are thinking about — the actual number of faithful, practicing Catholic families, and the ratio of them to priests is up. Read the article for a more in-depth analysis. 

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Just because it's funny. 

Happy weekend! You can find more quick takes at This Ain't the Lyceum with Kelly.