32 posts tagged “knitting”
Seriously. You can make pretty much anything in a rice cooker. Rice, obviously. But, also, cake. Pasta. Risotto (does that count as rice?). Soup. Just google it. So, it stands to reason that you could make rice wine, as well. Or other alcoholic beverages, since I think they need cooking. How is this relevant? Well...
So, a bit ago - a few weeks, not sure exactly; it's probably best not to know - I was going to make some rice for dinner. Or something with rice. As it turned out, I ended up eating out for dinner, or perhaps not eating dinner. I don't remember the details - but both options are equally probably. Anyway - I washed the rice and put it in the cooker with some water. Soaking rice is fine, after all. And then, like I said, ended up going out, so I figured I'd just make it the next night.
So, a bit ago - last week sometime - I was going to make some rice for dinner. I think I was going to make chicken and rice, actually. Had my chicken all thawed, and figured I better cook the rice first, cause you know, it takes longer. So I opened my rice cooker up and found this:
Obviously, I had forgotten to cook the rice the next night. Oops. Perhaps you can't see this from the picture, but there's at least 4 different textures in there. It definitely smelled like it was alcoholic, tho I can't imagine what sort of hallucinations you would have gotten from it (or what sort you would have had to been seeing to eat that). I was so delighted that I bounded down the hall to show Donald, who was, let's say, not as excited as I was - I think he referred to it as 'rank'. And neechan, I know you always yell at me for stuff like this, but this was as cool as that time my arm did that exploding thing... I wonder if that video is still on my phone...
Anywho - I guess we won't be doing that again.
In other news - I've been busy this month. I may have mentioned Wrestlemania, the knitting competition I'm participating in. I'm happy to say I have finished two of the projects I started for that - a lacy mohair cowl and the dismantlement of (the gloves formerly known as) my Plum Pudding Gauntlets. Really, even considering my usual disregard for things like 'gauge' and 'recommended yarn', those were just... bad. I've grown so much as a knitter since then, so I decided they needed to die, and be reincarnated as dishclothes or something.
The second thing I finished is this - my Ice Queen. (link goes to the pattern from Knitty) I'm actually really happy with this - for one thing, the yarn is SPARKLY. for another, it's MOHAIR. I luvs me some mohair. Also, despite that I have done lace before, this was my first time doing a feather and fan pattern, which is like, the most beginningest lace pattern evar. And I had to learn 3 or so new techniques for this - so I'm really glad the way it turned out. Now, to figure out what to do with it... I might keep it, or might give it to someone deserving.
paqui = wheel
saja = lion
guishin = ghost. well, a specific kind of ghost. (to be fair, I actually learned this word a while ago, and forgot about it. There's a few ways to say ghost in Korean, but guishin has a certain implication, of the traditional female Asian ghost with long hair, in traditional dress, who's usually been murdered in a grisly fashion by her lover or committed suicide because of aforementioned lover's assholery. Think Sadako from The Ring or Oiwa from Japanese legend.
What else recently? hmm... that's all that comes to mind, really. Got summer break coming up in two weeks - can you say 'excited'? I'm sure I'll miss my kids, god knows I love the lil munchkins, but I will definitely be glad for the time off. Plan to get lots of knitting done, certainly, and hopefully finalize all things for Thailand and find a new job. It's monsoon season, so we're getting wicked rain - I went out tonight and made it as far as the train station before I realized I wasn't leaving Songpa-gu tonight. I came home soaked, accompanied by thunder and lightning. My bathroom ceiling is dripping a lil bit, and the stairwell smells like some odd cross between greens, wet dog, and those silk worms that people like to snack on. Glad to be in my cozy apartment with my trance music and a napping Gizmo.
Now, off to watch the rest of Torchwood: Children of Earth.
But I don't feel like it. Maybe later. Midnight here in the Land of the Morning Calm, and I need to go to bed so I can get up for work in the morning (don't feel much like doing that either, but that's another story.
Here's what I wanted to show y'all. I pulled it out and finished it tonight. I'll start the second one this week.
Here we are, the promised pictures of my recently-finished dragon shawl. Looks damn awesome, if I say so myself. No long-winded nattering about the details of it, since I have been informed that that is boring. :P Feel free to ask though, if you want an earful.
So here I am on a Sunday night catching up on my blogging. It's about 1230 and I have open lessons tomorrow so I need to get to bed soon, but I had some pics I wanted to post. Plus I slept in a lot today, since I didn't go to SnB and I was sick.
What goes first... here. Yesterday was Worldwide Knit in Public Day, so the Seoul SnBers had a bit of a celebration. I didn't take my camera, but I will share some of the amazing-ness when it is posted somewhere else. We all met up at Seoul Arts Center, and we knit, and took pics, and traded yarn and did a fun quiz and Nikki gave away hand-dyed yarn. She and Carson showed off their spinning, and I'll be damned if it didn't look cool and I wanna try. But I have enough projects on my mind right now without adding more. Might start spinning later when I design this shawl and need some appropriately colored laceweight. (Yeah, I wanna design a lace shawl. So what? :P)
The trading was awesome - I got rid of a bunch of yarn I had leftover from projects/stashed and didn't want. And I got some new stuff!
We're also knitting a blanket, and raffling it to give the money to a charity that works with victims of sexual violence here in Korea. ('cause they don't know what it is, for the most part) it's going to be patchwork, with all of us knitting squares. I decided to put together various things that I knew I would never use for anything else (Yes, you, Lion Brand chenille!) and make up some squares. I have til the end of the month to finish them, but here are two I did last night. I'm really proud of them - I think they will make great additions, besides being a tad too big. Oh well, gives them character.
One is blue chenille and sparkly eyelash yarn, and the other is some black acrylic held with a black/gold sparkly thing the woman at the Gangnam store gave me. She likes to give stuff like that when you buy things, so I thought I would put it to good use. Both of them look surprisingly good - just normal garter, but nice. I have some more I'm thinking of, and will probably do another one tomorrow.
Did I mention I started my first sock a couple weeks ago? Yeah I know I am slow - I've been working on it in bits and pieces, cause both my shirt and my shawl are nearing their ends. I found a crochet edging for the shawl and I am about to cast of the sleeves for my shirt. I need to get some beads... have to get up and go to ddm some saturday. Anyway, here is the sock!
And then when I got home, there was this waiting for me.
Just in case you can't see from the picture, the paper was in a plastic sheet protector. And he shredded that to get to the paper inside. He's been doing this a lot lately, and so I went and got him some new toys and chewy things to help out with that. No dice, apparently. Now he's sleeping all cute on my bed, but last night, he stayed in the bathroom for a good few hours before i decided to let him out. UGH!!!! I'm really not sure what to do. It's not like he doesn't have things to chew on, or toys. I know he gets bored, but there's not much I can do about that - I leave the door open for him to play on the balcony during the day. I could leave him in the bathroom, but that would be mean. Still, I'm not sure what else would work. I probably shouldn't leave stuff out, but hell if I know what he's going to try chewing on next.
Okay, and now it's 1 am and I need to get to bed. I still have planning to do for Thailand/Ashley's wedding/home trip tomorrow, and parents to impress as well. Oh, and I need a shower before work. At least I don't have to worry about my car payment anymore.
Here I am drinking my peach nectar (love this stuff, tho I like Japanese Peach Water better) and chilling, and I thought I would post something real quick, since I'm in between things at the moment.
I did a lot of reading last night (read: was up til 8 this morning), and I can never have too many books on my blog. I was going to watch a movie (Twilight, again) but then I realized the copy I have is crappy and recorded in the theater, so I went looking for a DVD rip, which is out. Love to Axxo and his support of us piratey types. While that was dling, I figured I'd read some Fables, since I haven't in a while. I got thru quite a few issues, including an Animal Farm-esque stroyline and the most recent, 'Storybook Love' in which Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf finally hook up - sort of. I went to read the next issue tonight and have to re-dl it. Grrr.
After I was stalled on Fables, I started the second volume of the Tir Alainn trilogy, Shadows and Light, and finished
The shirt is now about 34 cm... less than 10 to go before I can switch needles!! I can't wait,
Okay, off we go.
Here, this is my cute new knitting needle holder, made by a Rav friend in exchange for some yarn I sent her. I got it today and it's so adorable! Tho a bit bigger than I expected, which is cool.
Also, I discovered that Gizmo had eaten a chocochip cookie when I came home this afternoon. So far he hasn't exhibited any symptoms of death. I think maybe he's just indestructible or something.
Well I thought I would get here and write a blog post whilst waiting for my steak to finish cooking in the oven, and post some pics of stuff that I thought would be fun to share and have been meaning to post, but then I realized my camera battery is mysteriously dead, so it’s charging now. Breaking things into categories is easiest, I suppose.
Plans for next year (and by that I mean, after September): I looked up CELTA courses last night for a few hours, and Thailand and Vietnam seem to be the main places to go. Vietnam sounds cool (and is $100 cheaper), but I have no huge desire to go there, and I would love to see Thailand. Unfortunately none of the schedules for the classes look super-amazing – the earliest one that I could do without getting out of my contract early starts in late September. The others start the first week or so of October. This is good if I want to work here a few extra weeks/go travel around Thailand a bit before starting. But it does also mean I will get home later in the year.
A couple of friends have mentioned they would possibly be able to look after Gizmo for me, so that should be fine. My project for this week, I think, will be to dive into the wonderful world of recruiting again and see what jobs are available in … hmm. How long will I be home for? I don’t want to inconvenience the cat-sitter for longer than necessary, so maybe 3 weeks? Anyway, need to look into getting another contract, as well as decide for certain which CELTA course to take (almost certain it will be Thailand, probably Bangkok. The Chiang Mai one is out in the wilderness, although there is a package where you have room and board for $2400 provided. Still think I might like Bangkok better, me being a city girl.
So yeah – looking for a job again. Should be easier this time around, since I’m already here. I think. Here’s hoping.
Knitting: So here’s where my camera would have come in. Never fear, pictures will be posted, as they are necessary (and I have to put some on Rav too.) I have … 3 projects I’m working on right now. (I mean, I’m pretty sure it’s only 3.)
-- The Shawl: It’s
about 50 cm deep now. Yay. I just
started the 3rd ball of the sparkly stuff, and my plan for the moment
is to finish all the sparkle stuff, and crochet or knit on a lace border with
the rest of the non-sparkly stuff.
-- The Shirt: Well, I did a fair bit of knitting the other
night at Feast to keep my hands busy and stop me from just walking out (they
were talking till 10:15 PM OMG and I wanted to get home before midnight. Didn’t happen.-sigh-) I’m on my third set of skeins, and have
realized omg I have a ton of this stuff.
(I bought 20balls just to be sure I would have enough.) The last time I checked, the shirt was about
25cm done, but I can’t remember if I’ve done more on it since then. Oh well.
The point is, it’s getting there!! Soon I will be able to start the
ribbing for the bodice, and if there’s anything more stimulating than
stockinette, it’s 1x1 ribbing. Woohoo, good times.
I’m trying not to think how bored I got with the ribbed scarf I made. It's SOOO SOFT, tho. Silk/cotton, gotta love it.
-- My most recent project, the ‘Tank Top Enabler’: This is a lace shrug I found on Knitty.com, ‘cause
I like my tank tops and I want to be able to wear them without having people stare
at me. So I’m making this shawl, and we’ll
see how it goes. I was working on it tonight for a bit before cooking dinner –
it’s marked as a ‘piquant’ (difficult) pattern in Knitty’s archive, but I did
the Argosy scarf, and that was too, so I think I shall be okay. I’ve only gotten about 15 rows into it, ‘cause
I’ve had to pull it out, restart, figure out the decreases, etc. I think I am going to be okay for the moment,
though. This will def. need to be blocked when finished.
And there was a huge sale at yarn.com so I went shopping for stuff for projects next year. I think I have at least 4 things planned, not counting whatever I just decide to do with the stash I already have. That will be my last yarn purchase for a while, I think - I probably want a new computer before September, so I should be saving for that.
Stuff I do while knitting: I can’t work on anything too complex while I’m knitting, especially if I have to read subtitles- I still haven’t quite gotten the habit of not looking at what I’m doing, probably cause I’m working with double-stranded stuff and don’t want to accidentally split it. Anyway – I’ve finished the drama I’d been watching recently, Romantic Princess. Despite the usual annoyances with plot holes, it was pretty fun. I totally was wrong about the main guy not really being attractive – he definitely grew on me (especially after that swimming scene). One thing that surprised me about this drama – actual kissing. Srsly. After watching Hana Yori Dango and Devil Beside You, this show was way more explicit (though not to be compared the Korean HYD where there’s a ‘bedroom aftermath’ scene.) Once I got into the show, I really enjoyed both lead characters, and they’re interesting strong characters, especially Xiao Mai.
Last night I watched a movie I’d never seen but have been hearing about for a while – 10 Things I Hate About You. I’ve been on a bit of a 90s teen movie kick anyway, but this was surprisingly good. I felt like it could have been a lil more fleshed out, story-wise. But it was a great, witty movie with lots of quirks (guidance counselor who’s writing a romance novel? White rastas?), and I’m a fan of Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance – need to watch that again…) and of course, Heath Ledger is just yummy. I hadn’t heard his accent before, but it’s adorable.
What next? Hmm... have several TV shows I need to catch up on – have yet to see the new Who special cause I haven’t watched S4 yet. Maybe I will get started on that. Or all those like 5 other shows. We’ll see.
I’ve been reading here and there lately – some vampire novels and started (finally) Oku no Hosomichi the other day. I think I’m about halfway through it, but it’s one of those books that will probably bear re-reading. I especially want to go back and write down some of my thoughts on the haiku. And Anand reminded me, I really should write that post about why I chose this name for my blog. I need to get started on that translation too, before I forget all the Japanese I ever knew. At least I have the stuff printed out and in my house – that’s a step. I’d like to get enough into it to see if I should bring one of my dictionaries back with me – my grammar ones especially.
The rest of the time: there’s work. Which is fine as usual. I made one of my 7-year old boys cry the other day, on accident (not that I was sorry about it, mind you. ) Before you think I’m a horrible person – Korean children have this annoying habit of molesting foreign teachers. It’s not just my kids – it seems to be some sort of epidemic. It’s really annoying, because it stems from rudeness/disrespect – many Korean children are not taught that it’s rude to stare or point at foreigners, and several of my kids seem to think it’s funny to be disrespectful to me, not only verbally, but also touching me. I always get onto them about it, cause they wouldn’t dare do it to a Korean teacher, but it’s still really annoying. Anyway – I was in my afternoon class on Friday, and one of the boys, Reo, grabbed my ass with both hands. He only comes up to a bit higher than my waist, and my first response when someone does something like that is to backhand them. Thankfully I didn’t, but I spun around and grabbed his wrist so fast that one of my nails caught the side of his next and scratched him a bit. I don’t think it hurt him very much, probably just mostly surprised him, and he started crying a bit. Hopefully he won’t do that again.
Friday was also Teacher’s Day, a pretty important holiday here. Well, for us it was anyway. We didn’t get the day off, but we did get lots of flowers and chocolate. A couple parents brought cake, so we had 2 cakes, and 2 large boxes of fruit as well. And we got a bonus, which was nice. Donald and I went to Costco with Debbie and her kids that night, and I have stocked my freezer with meat, so I will almost def. not need anymore till I leave, I think, unless I start eating a lot more of it. Of course, I will have to go back for cheese, but that’s understandable. Next year I really need to get my own card. That reminds me – I need to go grocery shopping for normal-ish stuff tomorrow. I didn’t find maple syrup there, sadly (add that to my list of stuff to bring back with me), but I did get chicken broth, so I can try to make risotto again. Sweetness!
Like my awesome vase for the flowers? Yes, you too can own this awesome 1.5liter coke bottle vase....
Maybe I’ve not mentioned this before, but I like making (iced) tea, and since I have like 8 different kinds, I usually mix 2 together and see how it goes. Tonight’s mix is some Ahmad Black Mango and some Celestial Seasonings Peppermint. I like it. It’s a very light mix, and the mango comes after the peppermint but doesn’t get overwhelmed by it. I think I might do that again sometime. That mango is amazing! I’m running out tho – might have to traipse back to Itaewon.
Ah! Music! Well, I’ve
been feeling a little bored with my music lately – I haven’t gotten anything
new for a while. So I found a torrent
from November, some ranking list, and picked a bunch of songs I thought looked
interesting, as well as the new Fray and Three Days Grace albums. Haven’t listened to the latter yet, but the
former is… well. The Fray takes some
sinking in. I’ve been enjoying quite a
few of the others though – Rihanna’s ‘Disturbia’ which sounds like it could be
the theme for some upbeat version of the Silent Hill movies or something… well,
maybe more Resident Evil? Something set in a city. More towards psychothriller
and such. I was intrigued to see a new
OAR song, ‘Shattered’, which I like.
Always enjoy Nickelback’s singles – stop cringing, okay? There’s a few more, but I think my favorite
one is by someone I’d never heard of before.
It’s called ‘Shake it’ by Metro Station.
Dance-poppy, and addictive like whoa.
And on the other end of the scale is ‘Addicted’ by a band called Saving
Abel. The latter two are below for your
listening pleasure, but be warned that ‘Addicted’ is probably NSFW.
Hmm. 12:30 am. I should… go to bed, I guess? Wanna try out the camera first. And damn, I was going to finish that email to Julie tonight. -sigh-
Blogging has been in the back of my mind for a while. In that nagging, 'you haven't posted in x number of days' sort of way. But I usually can disregard that little voice with the rationalization that a) no one in the blogosphere is particularly devastated by this and b) attempting to reason with me like that is usually the best way to make sure I don't do what you want.
I don't have anything particularly amazing to post, either. Life's been relatively quiet. Work, knitting, friends, etc. No big deal. Well, technically, a lot of stuff has been going on. I finally figured out what I'm doing next year, and have a tentative plan (that I really need to make less tentative pretty soon... ) My general plan is to finish out my year, go to Thailand for a month and a CELTA, visit the States for a bit, and then come back to a new job. Which requires a few things: finding said new job (I'm thinking public school, depending on what I can find), how I'm flying to Thailand/US, how long I'm staying, what to do with the furball while I'm gone.
Other than that, been selling a few things here and there on Etsy, (www.kizunaonetsy.etsy.com), drawing occasionally, and mentally designing things. I finished a pair of gloves I started a bit back. They're alpaca and the weather is getting hot, so no way they're getting any use this year, but I'm totally breaking them out the moment it gets cooler...
I'm quite proud of them, despite that they took me longer than I wanted and the pattern was a pain in the ass. Also, I did make a few mistakes, but they're not huge. And I love the buttons. -shrugs- Oh well. Nothing like the 20 cm I knitted on the shirt I'm doing and then had to PULL OUT CAUSE IT WAS TWISTED. Yeah, I almost cried about that one. My dragon shawl is still coming along too, just taking it's time, cause, let's face it, it's a shawl and I'm doing it with two strands of crochet thread held together. At last measurement it was about 14 inches deep though, and the pattern says 48 inches. And I've got a shrug I started last night too. Normally I'm not a huge fan of shrugs, but I like my tank tops, and in Korea it's pretty much indecent exposure if your shoulders are showing. Granted, this shrug is going to be lace, but perhaps it will protect me a lil bit - +5 Defense against old Asian ladies.
And then there's my hair. The last time it was cut was when Kaylie did it - in August. So it was pretty long - down to the middle of my back. It was so awesome having hair I could *do something* with again. But like I said, it's getting hot. And my split ends were awful. And I shed more than my cat. So, here we go -
Maybe it's just cause I'm not having short hair (the last time it was this short was my freshman year when neechan and I cosplayed gay boys) but it's certainly fluffier than I remember. Like, it doesn't just flop, which is nice, but also a lil unnerving cause I'm not sure what to do with it. Also I think cause the last few times I have washed it I've gone straight to bed and I don't have a dryer, though Tim did recommend I get one. -shrugs- He was the one who went with me. I was thinking of just getting a trim, and he was like, "Let's cut it all!" So now our hair is the same length. Altho I think he can put his in more of a ponytail than I can, even a tiny one. Excuse to buy hair clips, yay! -grins-
Okay, it's midnight. and I think I want to work on my shawl some. or do some jewelry. or something. laters.
I suck at Nablopomo. -shrugs- Sorry. I mean, it's not that I don't have interesting things happen to me all the time, just that I don't think about blogging about them everyday. I'm usually busy, you know, experiencing them. Also, it's been something like 2 weeks since I had a night home by myself/got home before 9pm. So, when I did have time, I just wanted to chill and not have to worry about being under pressure to do something like blog.
That being said, lots of fun/interesting things have happened. Where to start? The most recent are easiest to remember. Or perhaps to group them into categories. Here goes:
Knitting: I've been working on my dragon shawl, mostly. I'm just starting the third repeat of the pattern, so I have a ways to go. Still, I like how it's turning out. I would take pictures, but it's hard to see very well. I did a swatch the other day for the tunic I'm going to make, and will probably take that to SnB to work on this week. Yummy, silk/cotton blend in a nice light green. I finished my cowl as well, and am pleased with it, despite having to rip out the bind off and redo it. It's very awesome, and I'm supposed to take pictures at some point. I got into trading stuff on ravelry, and now have a hand-dyed skein of alpaca and a skein of blue/green sock yarn. I also bought some really nice alpaca to make a pair of fingerless gloves with - the new Sourwood Mountain pattern from Knitty. Unfortunately I need to learn cables before I can do it - it's supposed to be fairly difficult. However, the weather has taken a turn for the worse, so I'm sure I will be able to get them done and still have time to wear them a bit. If not - well, there's always next winter.
TV/Books: Did i mention I finished Hana Yori Dango, both seasons? I was happy with the ending, for the most part. Of course, now the Korean drama that's a copy of it is all over the place here - they even have F4 fajitas at On the Border. Let me tell you, Hanazawa Rui's Korean counterpart is not as attractive, especially when drawn with an oversized head on a shrimp's body. But in general, the whole Korean cast is not as attractive. Especially Korean-Makino. She's supposed to be cute, but... no.
Since then I've vague cravings to watch the last season of Doctor Who that I never got around to, but I've been watching another drama, Taiwanese, Romantic Princess. The lead guy is growing on me, and the lead girl, Xiao Mai, is beautiful as well as really sweet. But she's also naive as fuck and kinda annoying at times. She tends to do things without thinking (like getting engaged to play a prank on someone she doesnt like. I know, right?) It hasn't annoyed me enough to stop watching, so I'll keep going. I also watched the pilot for a an American drama called Damages that Jon was pestering me about. Still haven't gotten to True Blood. (shh... don't tell him).
I got a book from BookMooch a few weeks back, and picked it up last night. I liked it so much that I finished it
I've been working on another audiobook as well, when I'm knitting at home, or jsut when I don't feel like listening to music. I'm continuing with the Sword of Truth series. I always liked Stone of Tears, though there are some parts in the middle that drag a bit, and I'm about halfway through it right now. I still haven't decided if I will listen to the books I haven't read yet on audio, or read them first. I guess it depends.
Okay folks, that's pretty much not it at all, but I'm zonked. More later. In the meantime, here's a song I've been liking lately.
today was a good day. I got a lot of things done - boxes mailed to neechan and to a fellow Raveler, money on my phone, a time for Gizmo to go to the vet to get fixed, took my jeans to be altered. I even dropped by Knitting Tree for an hour or so to tell them about the Myeongdong meeting and do a repeat or so on my cowl. It was fun to be there again - I told them I would come back Friday and bring some of my FOs to show them, since last time I was working on the legwarmers.
After all my errands, I ended up in McDonalds to meet my new friend. We had a lot of fun talking for an hour or so before he had to go do homework for a marketing class. He lives in Kukdong, which is like, right next door to me. When I walked back by KKW the lights were still on, so I ended up going back to McDonald's with Kim-teacher, Kyung Mi (Violet) and Soh Jin (pansy). We stayed there talking about all kinds of things till 10. And now I'm home, browsing ravelry and attempting to figure out what pattern I want to make with this cotton/rayon blend from Knitting Tree.
Also today - yummy kimbap. MMM...
I'd like to finish this cowl this week so I can be wearing it. Also, wanna start my dragon shawl but am still working out if it should be double-stranded or single. Need two more balls to make it double.
And then Jon sent me this article.
Excommunicated doctor hailed for abortion
Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife excommunicated the doctor, the child's mother and the medical team involved in the procedure.
However, the stepfather was not excommunicated, with Sobrinho telling Globo TV that, "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life."
Um, no, I don't think so. Because rape isn't the elimination of anything innocent at all. This is just wrong on so many levels. First one - 9 y/o raped by stepfather, pregnant with twins. Abuse had been going on since she was 6. (Can 9y/os GET PREGNANT?) Hello, where was the mother in all this?
2ndly - the girl's mother and the entire medical team who performed the abortion have been excommunicated. Guy who did the raping? Totally cool in the eyes of God. And the Archbishop has the nerve to say that "God's law is above human laws." Of course it is, but I think you are getting confused here, because the law that says it's okay to rape your stepdaughter is probably not God's law. My two cents, anyway.
Brazil bans abortion? What?
