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Met Chapin at the cell phone store at 10:45 a.m. We were attended to immediately. An hour-and-a-half later, after he had made 10 calls to different corporate reps, I finally told the salesperson I was leaving. Chapin called at 1:09 p.m. to say he was finally gone. Glad I didn’t stay. He paid $50 on my account to cover the new cell plus he offered me $100 of the money he owes me and half the cost of the storage unit rental. Go Chapin. Thank goodness he is being reasonable now!
DivorceCare this morning was all about how we can regain our “purity” and set boundaries with our prospective mates to please God. The video actually said something along the lines of “God thinks wild and fulfilling sex is awesome… when it is inside the marriage covenant.” Yes, I understand. And I also understand the idea that having sex with someone who doesn’t respect your boundaries about sex or who treats you like an object is not going to help your self-esteem and foreshadows their inability to respect you on other issues. That’s the point, I believe. Date and marry Christian men who will respect your boundaries. Don’t act like a ho to validate yourself. Must have missed that part in Sunday school.
But I promise that I did not laugh when they said, “Oh, and masturbation is just not acceptable in the eyes of God. Pray for Him to fulfill your desires in other ways.” Okay… I might have snorted a bit. I did, however, fall out of my chair when the priest on the video discussed pornography and its special place in the Devil’s toolkit. 
Hey, I was raised by a pair of free-spirited hippie Christians. They are all about God’s Word… but in terms of bodies and sex and all that stuff, freedom and happiness (preferably, but not necessarily, with a husband) were their words. Thank God. 
You should have heard the woman who had been married 30 years. She practically sputtered and said, “But what if you wait until marriage and then he is bad?!? I just cannot go through that again!” ROFL.
Blue Eyes came over around 12:30 a.m. Brought awesome pictures he had taken of various members of my family at a gorgeous downtown location yesterday. Hooray for Christmas card pictures! My Mom was soooooo excited this morning when I showed her.
Anyway, both Blue Eyes and I have colds and he has a sore tooth. So the green bean recipe didn’t turn out that great with both of us sniffling and the occasional, “Ow, my head!” But even bad green beans are good and he slept over for much-needed cuddles. Hopefully we can get back in the kitchen later this week after I turn in this paper I’m going to work on all day (due Tuesday).
I have a feeling the even bad is good theme will follow me through the next few weeks as I tackle papers and exams. I cannot even begin to talk about how completely unprepared I am for my one exam. I have an outline (thank you ProtoAttorney!) and I have study cds. That is about as prepared as I am. Reading consistently during the semester might have been helpful… okay, reading at all would really have helped. But I guess we’ll see about the whole stair-step theory of exam grading. I’m taking it all one day at a time. First up, ethics in negotiations. Once that’s over, I will see about my exam. Fortunately I wrap it up with what should at least be a more interesting and career-relevant paper on asset forfeiture under the UNCAC.
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