gold

Whoever said gold is soft was a big fat liar.

It's not soft; it's brittle.

And it's broke.

There's $150 down the drain.

Other stuff

Cuddling in the morning is good.

Getting to work an hour and a half late is less good.

Josh spending the entire evening on homework he probably could have done during the day today or yesterday or some other time instead of doing homework make me unhappy.

Other random thing

So I've heard in various places of the "True Love Waits" ring. I never gave it much thought really, but I thought it was a nice idea. Since it was a ring, I imagined it as regarding marriage, and of course with the name, I came to the obvious conclusion: You wait to find your true love to get married. If you have to wait a long time for your true love to be ready to marry you, you wait patiently for him or her to be ready and don't pressure them. Nor do you rush into marriage because you want to feel loved and start a family already, you wait until you find somebody you'll be truly happy with, not just someone you can live with who will have you. You wait for each other as you both learn as much as you can about what a lifelong committment to each other would mean, even if that learning takes a long time--even if one person is ready long before the other. You wait because you know that it's true love and being married will not make your relationship more stable or secure.

I was so wrong. It's not about getting married, it's about sex. Well, it's sort of about marriage in that it's about not having sex until you are married. The funny thing is, I never consider those people to be the ones who "wait", I consider them to be the ones who rush into things. I know that's a grose generalization, but in some of the wedding-planning-ish journals I read, I keep hearing from these people who want to get married right away so they can live together and have sex. And it just makes me wonder which is the greater sin, sex without being married, or getting married because you're so horny. I'll respect anyone's right and choice to wait, but I'd hardly call 9 months of abstinance between meeting each other and getting married "waiting"... I'd call it jumping the gun on the more important issue. I know they're not all like that (probably--hopefully--not even most of them), but man...

"True Love Waits" eh?

So different than what I thought...