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I’m glad that the drought is over and all, but it sure would be nice to have some sunny weather Real Soon Now. I enjoy some rainy days, but a whole week of them is pushing it a bit. Hear that Mr. Weather? You’re pushing it.

This evening, I hung out at Dawn and Mark’s with that whole clan. The nephews (they’re not my nephews but that’s what everybody in the family calls them so it’s just easier for me to use the same terminology) were totally wound up and hilarious as usual. Jared (3 years old) told Courtney that the alligator was going to eat her clothes and then she would be naked… and then there was something about going to the naked something-we-didn’t-understand which Ney interpreted as "store." So if an alligator ever eats your clothes, watch out, you’ll have to go to the naked store.

After that, Ney and I went to a community discussion thingy in Common Grounds on "The Sex Gap." The starting point was the fact that there is now more time between the onset of puberty and marriage than ever before. In fact, back in the day, people would get married pretty close to puberty, but now there’s an average twelve year gap. What do we do with our sex drive and the sexual part of ourselves during that time? There weren’t many answers found, but there were a lot of good questions and ideas brought up. It was also really great to hear people actually talk honestly about sex and not be too squeamish about it. Making sex to be a dirty, hush-hush thing has been one of the church’s biggest mistakes. I understand that it’s very hard to move away from that mind set, and also that there is a certain level of intimacy and trust that is nice to have when talking about such a personal part of life. But still.

I came away from the discussion with a lot of things to think about, and since it usually takes me a while to process ideas, I’m not going to try to elucidate on anything further. It was an excellent event, thanks much to Safe Place for sponsoring it (go Dave!).

Tomorrow is Arbor Day, so in our tradition of somehow celebrating holidays everyone else mostly ignores, we’ll be having a meal or something in honor of the trees. Awwww. This tradition began with last year’s Bastille Day potluck (where Courtney separated the icing on the French flag cake with a toothpick). Celebrating random holidays is fun!

It might be nice to mention that nanovivid.com is now fully up and running with Assorted Internet and I’m extremely happy with the service so far. Much more than with Eryxma.

Abbey now has a journal. She funny. Go read. And laugh.

I should be in bed. So that’s where I’m going (hopefully).

♫ The Album Leaf - Last Time Here