Yay! It is Friday! I love going to the new school but I will be so happy when the book part is done. I know I am not learning anything that is new for most people but a lot of it is new for me. I didn't know that tomatoes are supposed to be treated like raw meat in the kitchen and I didn't know a lot of things about food safety. There is a lot more to learn and I guess it is good I am learning all of this since I cook for the family.
Macy's wedding is tomorrow and I am Maid of Honor which is really cool. She is just having me stand there with her so it is not like it is a big wedding party. Steve is friends with Peter and will be standing there for Peter as Best Man.
Macy is wearing Lisa's wedding dress and it will be a church thing and then the next day we have the monthly Church Sunday and that will be at Pastor Jeff's home. It will be a big party weekend and the nice thing is not a lot of cooking at home and not a lot of kitchen cleaning to do. I love all the time with everyone from the church and it will be fun.
I am just going to stop there because I have a lot to do tonight. Everyone have a nice weekend!
A New York steak, medium, with garlic & carrot mashed potatoes and asparagus spears.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Culinary School
I started culinary school today and it was all classroom stuff today. I have to learn a lot of chemistry and a lot of things like what temperature different oils burn at and what temperature alcohol burns off from food and a lot more stuff. It is funny I don't like class work and that is what we have to do for the next three weeks. We have to learn about food safety and then things like nutrition and portion control. We have to learn about building menus and buying food and supplies and what things you need to make different kinds of menus and more.
There are already four books I have to be reading so tonight I have a lot of homework and I need to be doing it.
I had an email about the Honesty post and all the comments and I am just letting it go. Have fun!
Time for me to go do a lot of reading!
There are already four books I have to be reading so tonight I have a lot of homework and I need to be doing it.
I had an email about the Honesty post and all the comments and I am just letting it go. Have fun!
Time for me to go do a lot of reading!
Monday, July 27, 2009
10 more things...
I got tagged again by Mts511 http://hopeloveandlife-mts511.blogspot.com/ so here's 10 more things most people don't know about me.
1. I once worked at a gift shop in Skagway, Alaska for the summer.
2. I went skydiving and my parents never found out.
3. My favorite steak is a New York.
4. I've never smoked a cigarette.
5. Never did any drugs.
6. I love satin anything.
7. I love being in bed with sheets on it that just came out of the dryer.
8. I hate crowds.
9. Never liked any kind of rap music because it is so angry.
10. I never had a computer until last Christmas.
1. I once worked at a gift shop in Skagway, Alaska for the summer.
2. I went skydiving and my parents never found out.
3. My favorite steak is a New York.
4. I've never smoked a cigarette.
5. Never did any drugs.
6. I love satin anything.
7. I love being in bed with sheets on it that just came out of the dryer.
8. I hate crowds.
9. Never liked any kind of rap music because it is so angry.
10. I never had a computer until last Christmas.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Honest Scrap Tag
CM tagged me from http://cm-justthinking.blogspot.com/ because I wanted to play and CM says: Here's the deal. Tell your readers 10 things about you that they may or may not know, but are true. Tag ten people with the award, and be sure to let them know they've been tagged (a quick comment on their blog will do). Don't forget to link back to the blogger who tagged you.
Because Minty http://polgygynyitis.blogspot.com/ tagged me too I get to write 20 things.
I really wanted something happy to do today so I really appreciate this! Thank you CM & Minty!
1. I get to be a Maid of Honor for the first time next week!
2. Blueberry ice cream is my favorite ice cream of all.
3. Going barefoot in the summer is my favorite part of summer.
4. I had my first kiss when I was 14.
5. I'm 5'10" tall.
6. I love being kissed on the neck.
7. I hate paisley patterns on anything.
8. I have aphasia.
9. My normal temperature is 95.7 to 96.1 and if my temperature is ever 98.5 it means I'm really, really sick.
10. I used to party and drink a lot. I mean A LOT.
11. I never slept with anyone before I moved here and now I love having anyone sleeping in my bed with me and I'm sorry I never did this before when I was growing up.
12. My favorite things to wear are shorts, tank tops, and flip-flops.
13. I flunked English my freshman year of high school.
15. Algebra, too.
16. I didn't go to my high school proms.
17. I didn't vote for Obama.
18. I like Taylor Swift.
19. I never did like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.
20. I will do really stupid things for chocolate.
Because Minty http://polgygynyitis.blogspot.com/ tagged me too I get to write 20 things.
I really wanted something happy to do today so I really appreciate this! Thank you CM & Minty!
1. I get to be a Maid of Honor for the first time next week!
2. Blueberry ice cream is my favorite ice cream of all.
3. Going barefoot in the summer is my favorite part of summer.
4. I had my first kiss when I was 14.
5. I'm 5'10" tall.
6. I love being kissed on the neck.
7. I hate paisley patterns on anything.
8. I have aphasia.
9. My normal temperature is 95.7 to 96.1 and if my temperature is ever 98.5 it means I'm really, really sick.
10. I used to party and drink a lot. I mean A LOT.
11. I never slept with anyone before I moved here and now I love having anyone sleeping in my bed with me and I'm sorry I never did this before when I was growing up.
12. My favorite things to wear are shorts, tank tops, and flip-flops.
13. I flunked English my freshman year of high school.
15. Algebra, too.
16. I didn't go to my high school proms.
17. I didn't vote for Obama.
18. I like Taylor Swift.
19. I never did like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.
20. I will do really stupid things for chocolate.
Honesty
I'm writing about honesty today because it is the new topic in comments.
Demoiselle thinks I am a 50 year old pervert luring girls into polygamy. That's part of what is so funny with people who just can't believe I am happy is that they have to come up with an explanation for me so they can feel better about being right. The truth is that for a couple weeks there were a lot of girls emailing me and wanting to check things out and then I sent them to Pastor Jeff who said no to all of them except Macy who was really serious about wanting to be here. For a long time now no one is emailing me so no one is being lured here, okay? Even me when I first came here everyone was trying to get me to leave to make sure I really wanted to stay. They don't want you here if you don't really, really, REALLY want to be here. No one is lured here and it is the other way around that people who come here are not encouraged to stay. Demoiselle if it makes you happy to think what you want then okay. Call me anything you want and I will agree so you can say you won your little game and then you can move on to the next person to trash them and then leave me alone.
ALM, I was really hurt to see what you wrote after you got your answer. No one here runs around quoting the Bible saying "See, we're right!" on polygamy or anything else. I explained in my first posts how this came to be and it really was not started because of anyone believeing anything in the Bible. It just happened and people were happy with it and that is what happened. You asked me for religious reasons why we think this is okay and I got your question answered. By the way most of the families in our church are regular couples with kids and they won't be poly so it isn't something we make people do like maybe the FLDS do. But about the question I don't like that you set me up just so you could be happy about yourself. If I don't answer anymore of your questions in the future this is why.
What is sad is I came on here to write some happy news and now I am just going to save it for another time.
Sorry I don't feel like putting a happy feeling here.
Demoiselle thinks I am a 50 year old pervert luring girls into polygamy. That's part of what is so funny with people who just can't believe I am happy is that they have to come up with an explanation for me so they can feel better about being right. The truth is that for a couple weeks there were a lot of girls emailing me and wanting to check things out and then I sent them to Pastor Jeff who said no to all of them except Macy who was really serious about wanting to be here. For a long time now no one is emailing me so no one is being lured here, okay? Even me when I first came here everyone was trying to get me to leave to make sure I really wanted to stay. They don't want you here if you don't really, really, REALLY want to be here. No one is lured here and it is the other way around that people who come here are not encouraged to stay. Demoiselle if it makes you happy to think what you want then okay. Call me anything you want and I will agree so you can say you won your little game and then you can move on to the next person to trash them and then leave me alone.
ALM, I was really hurt to see what you wrote after you got your answer. No one here runs around quoting the Bible saying "See, we're right!" on polygamy or anything else. I explained in my first posts how this came to be and it really was not started because of anyone believeing anything in the Bible. It just happened and people were happy with it and that is what happened. You asked me for religious reasons why we think this is okay and I got your question answered. By the way most of the families in our church are regular couples with kids and they won't be poly so it isn't something we make people do like maybe the FLDS do. But about the question I don't like that you set me up just so you could be happy about yourself. If I don't answer anymore of your questions in the future this is why.
What is sad is I came on here to write some happy news and now I am just going to save it for another time.
Sorry I don't feel like putting a happy feeling here.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Biblical justification for polygamy
I see this is a big deal so I will answer it. I called Pastor Jeff and asked him if there was a Biblical justification for polygamy and he said the Bible is filled with men who had multiple wives and with men who were instructed by God to take more than one wife. King David, Abraham, King Solomon, Jacob, and more all had multiple wives and so did Moses according to some people.
This part is from Pastor Jeff:
When read in the metaphorical context of the original Aramaic the use of the word 'wife' in the singular tense in Genesis and Deuteronomy denotes the relationship of marriage as being between a man and a woman but not between the women who were the wives of that man. In Aramaic a'aan tat is a wife and in the proper context you have to recognize that there is no plural form of a'aan tat in Aramaic because the relationship was not plural, it was singular between one man and one woman. Yet the man could also have other singular relationships that were not shared with anyone else. To clarify this, in Levitcan law a man could have multiple singular marriage relationships yet if a woman proposed to share a husband's relationship with one of his other wives she was breaking that law by laying with another woman. The sum of this is that the passages some people say are about monogamous marriage are literally about the relationship between a man and a woman not being shared with his other wives or concubines. Therefore, unless a man is a priest or a bishop or a deacon in the church he is not prohibited from having more than one wife.
To me it is simpler that God is okay with it because so many people are happy this way. It isn't perfect and it isn't for everyone I know but it is for some of us and no one should have a right to tell us we can't live this way.
The smell of fresh cut grass.
This part is from Pastor Jeff:
When read in the metaphorical context of the original Aramaic the use of the word 'wife' in the singular tense in Genesis and Deuteronomy denotes the relationship of marriage as being between a man and a woman but not between the women who were the wives of that man. In Aramaic a'aan tat is a wife and in the proper context you have to recognize that there is no plural form of a'aan tat in Aramaic because the relationship was not plural, it was singular between one man and one woman. Yet the man could also have other singular relationships that were not shared with anyone else. To clarify this, in Levitcan law a man could have multiple singular marriage relationships yet if a woman proposed to share a husband's relationship with one of his other wives she was breaking that law by laying with another woman. The sum of this is that the passages some people say are about monogamous marriage are literally about the relationship between a man and a woman not being shared with his other wives or concubines. Therefore, unless a man is a priest or a bishop or a deacon in the church he is not prohibited from having more than one wife.
To me it is simpler that God is okay with it because so many people are happy this way. It isn't perfect and it isn't for everyone I know but it is for some of us and no one should have a right to tell us we can't live this way.
The smell of fresh cut grass.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Questions
Lots of questions so I will try to answer some of them.
- Our dresses for around the yard and house go below the knee and have long sleeves. Long dresses would not work on a ranch with cattle.
- I have plenty of rights but you'd have to read some of my earlier posts to know about them.
- Steve is older than me and I don't care. He is 1000x the man any of the boys I knew before are. If I only get to have 20 years with him then 20 good years are better than 40 okay years with some guy my age. He is the most wonderful and caring man and I would not trade him for anyone.
- There will not be a 4th wife. Shari has said so and that is final. I would not agree to it either because I don't want to share Steve anymore than I already do.
Vanilla ice cream, blueberries, and apricot sauce.
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