Week One

Well, I survived. It was a rough first week of classes, and we only had 4 days. It's going to be a tough semester. But I have the support of my wonderful husband and I think that things will get better once I'm more into the swing of things. I knew the MBA program was designed to throw more at you than you can handle so you learn to prioritize and delegate. So it's actually been a bit easier than I expected. I'm glad I quit my job in February, but it's hard not having my workout schedule and tight deadlines when I'm used to the only thing scheduled being my spin class. Ah well. I guess I have to remember I'm a grown-up now.

I turned 30 this week. Yup. I'm officially old now.

Our house has carpet in it. It's mostly "done" now, meaning we can live in it. We'll need to paint at some point, but that can wait until Christmas break. All of our stuff is on boxes that were shoved into one room for the carpet laying, so we can't find anything yet. But it's still nice to be home. The carpet looks great and feels even better. I had no idea how relaxing comfortable carpet can be.

DH is at his father's house right now picking up some apples. We had regional conference today and Elder Packer said, and I quote "we don't dole out the priesthood in slices." He talked about how the prophet and the newly ordained elder have the same amount of priesthood, they just have different callings within the priesthood. This was a point of major contention one night between DH's father and I. I said that he and my husband had the same amount and quality of priesthood as President Hinckley, Pres Hinckley just had different keys. Well father-in-law was highly offended by that comment and furious that I said it. He said it was blasphemy and basically threw me out. DH actually called his father today to point out that Pres. Packer said the same thing. Of course, father in law said he'd always believed that and DH didn't press the point because just bringing it up had humiliated his father, so he decided not to press for an apology. I certainly didn't expect one and was proud of DH for even calling his father to point it out.

I don't think the misogyny within the LDS culture will ever be removed until men can see themselves as equals in the priesthood. Until that comes, there is no hope for them seeing the women of the church as equals.

Well, those are my random thoughts for this Sunday afternoon.