My brain is all askew

[saifai]

I've got jumbled chaos running rampant in my head this morning.  I slept like a log last night, and good thing too.  My dreams have been strange, and last night was one of those that I dread sleeping because I fear what I'll see. 

Casper's Revenge
It wasn't all bad though.  I ended up having a strange dream alright, but one where I had a good heart to heart with my brother-in-law about my beliefs in spirits and the reactions I've gotten from people in church.  In an odd way, I'm happy to have seen him like that.  His dream self was very much like he is in real life, and I forgot how funny he can be.  Granted, my dream version was also making fantastic impersonations of Gollum and a few characters from Harry Potter, but other than the chosen characters...

Jumbled Chaos, Chapter 2
I can't seem to make my body work right.  First thing I did this morning once my morning routine was done, is sit down at the computer to wait out my brain.  I almost set my water down on a candy dish.  I picked it up to move it, the lid fell off, and all the little Hershey Kisses fell down between the wall and my desk.  I'll move them eventually.

Holiday Spander
Today is also the day I get to work in my Twelve Days of Christmas spander piece for lazuli_kat (links are here in case you're curious).  I've got a plot, I've got my research done, and I've got about three or four different perspectives already written out.  Hopefully it turns out well.  It'll have a Holiday theme, but with BDSM aspects to it.  Anyone up for doing a beta on something like that?

Hiding in the Hobbit Hole
It's day two of my Christmas vacation.  Yesterday, I ventured out of my hobbit hole only once, and even then I did it half dressed in my jammies and never left the car.  *gr*  Thank goodness for drive-up windows.

I bid thee adieu...
I'm gonna go make breakfast, clean up the Kisses, read a tiny bit of Snarry, and start on my story.  Not necessarily on that order.  There was more, but this was all my brain would let me have this morning.  More of my jumbled thoughts later when I think of 'em.

P.S.  Where are all the Christmas icons?  I need some in various fandoms.  I feel naked without them.

Comments

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

LOL, there's a joke in South Park about Mormons being so nice it's creepy. :D One of the neighbor girls heard Jeff swearing in the garage once, and I think she's scared of us now. Now the family doesn't talk to us much.

When I went to the Evangelical church, they told us never to date non-Christians because they would contaminate us with TEH EBIL. I figure that someone's faith must be insecure to be so afraid of that kind of thing. Same as all the parents so terrified of what their kids might see on TV instead of monitoring what they watch and instilling solid values that TV won't ruin. (I tried to explain that to a phone solicitor once and she got very angry.)

This is really interesting to have the LDS church's opinions cleared up more. Sometimes the church is a little secretive. :) I do hope the church members treat you well, and not in the "you poor, pathetic thing" way. It's been hard, but there are some great opportunities to change your life ahead. (But I expect a few people will be desperately trying to fix you up with a new guy, argh.)

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention the South Park thing. I had much the same reaction when I first got married. I didn't join the church until maybe three years in (and on my own, not something hubby or his family encouraged). When I first met a couple friends of his family I told him, "She's so nice it's creeping me out. Is she on something?"

Ironic about the swearing thing too, as I would imagine many of them swear in the comfort of their own homes. At least, where they don't think anyone's listening.

I think there's far more discouragement from associating with non-members for the children than anything. Mark's parents had a hard time accepting me because I was a non-member. Part of it was their beliefs in dating (only in groups, never the same person twice sort of thing), and partly because of our potential future (how would we deal with raising our kids with different faiths). I think you're right at least on that part, that people are insecure in their faith if they can't take talking with a few non-Christians. If you instill solid values in them, you won't need to worry about your kids as much when they go out and meet the real world.

...and soooo not looking forward to people trying to fix me up. I'm just waiting for someone suggest I start attending the "singles ward" downtown. Ugh...

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

I think it's very important for children to be exposed to a wide variety of religions and races (unfortunately Boise's awfully white). Should I take Elizabeth to a church, I think we'll go to the Unitarian one, which has a "university religion class" style that ties the main religions of the world together and encourages spirituality in general. I'm a spiritual atheist, which is kind of hard to explain, but it works for me. :) I find it hurtful that so often I'm considered to be a bad influence or even a criminal for not being religious, but it's something I've had to deal with for a long time. The funny thing is I "sin" less than when I was Christian, and my values are more important to me. When I was a fundamentalist, all I worried about was how everyone else was going to hell! :P