Another weekend in Vegas
Mini highlight and low light this week.
Highlight: Vegas weather. This weekend was absolutely gorgeous. I sat outside and read all day (more on this later) and had a cookout/laid by the pool yesterday. It was GLORIOUS.
Low Light: Chicago weather. The freaking Cubs game was canceled today because of rain. What makes this suck even more is that I didn’t get to watch yesterday’s game because Fox out here played the stupid 22-2 loss by the Yankees instead. I must admit, though, it was nice to see the Indians (and Mr. Mark DeRosa) crush the Yanks.
So Mike and I took a walk to the library yesterday. Good thing we didn’t wait because apparently the library is closing for the next month for renovation.
I have this picture in my head about book people. See, I’m a book person, and most of my friends are book people, so I always think they’re friendly, witty, sweet people.
The people at the Henderson library do not fit my stereotype. It was oddly depressing for me. I wanted to make friends with the library people.
I guess that tells you something about my social life out here in Vegas. I’m lonely sometimes. And pathetic. At least I have my cat…
At the library I picked up two books, one of which is Running with Scissors. For some reason, I had anticipated a funny book. Not so funny. I mean, there are funny aspects, but mostly it’s a really dark book. I read almost the whole thing today because I kept wondering what crazy thing would happen to the narrator next.
I went to church today, like I do most Sundays. I found out that our church is going to start Saturday services, so that will be awesome during football season.
Okay, you caught me, I’m a heathen.
Speaking of heathen, have I ever mentioned that Mike and I live together? That’s right, we aren’t married and we live together (gasp!).
Mike is a relatively new Christian and he still has a lot of questions. My pastor brought up premarital sex today and Mike had a LOT of questions about this. I realized that I had to explain to him (and myself) why I don’t think that we are doing anything wrong. I welcome debate and disagreement about my explanation because I believe that everyone has a different interpretation of certain aspects of the Bible.
I told Mike that I think the definition of marriage we have can be different than what our pastor believes. I think that marriage is kind of like baptism. Someone can be a Christian for a long time and commit his life to God before he decides to publicly show it to his friends and family through baptism.
For me, marriage is like baptism in that you and the person you are with can know that you are in love forever, but you can wait to have the public ceremony and make the public commitment until the timing and circumstances make it possible.
Mike and I want to have a beautiful wedding to celebrate with our friends and family, but we don’t have the money to do that right now. We would if we could. We know we’ll be together for the rest of our lives, and that makes us living together okay in my eyes.
I don’t know, maybe everyone else thinks that sex is only okay after rings have been exchanged and a pastor says “I now pronounce you man and wife,” (and I’m definitely NOT saying that marriage is unimportant, because I think that commitment is beautiful and necessary) but I think sometimes we make a piece of paper or a tradition more important than people’s feelings. Or, maybe everyone thinks that premarital sex is a non-issue now. Am I out of the loop?
And now I have gone from baseball, to books, to church, to sex.
Obviously I’m blabbering.
