Urban Poly Princess

Will asked me at Mosa's luncheon how my BBQ went. I told him how Laie saved me with the actual BBQing and George made me learn to hook up his sound before I took it with me. Will told me I could've taken his sound stuff too. I told him I like to start with the largest genetic obligation first which is George. Maria told me how she learned to hook up sound when her brothers were DJing dances. Will said if Maria wanted a ride to the dance she got to do that too. Wow!!! I told Maria NOOO you get a ride, they get to buy you dinner when you get there AND you sit there and eat your dinner they just bought you and watch while they assemble the stuff. They just laughed at me and told me their father wanted Maria to learn to do everything her brothers did. She would even go and work with them cleaning yards.

My dad was a contractor-he had manual labor jobs all the time for my brother and many of my cousins. Union jobs demanded certain wages. Once George got to sit there watching some sort of machine. He was paid 18 dollars an hour and that was a long time ago. I remember trying really hard to convince my dad to let me work for him. Yeah that was NEVER happening.

THE POINT-I have my diva princess ways partly from my culture and partly just because of the family I was raised with. The cultural differences I might have with David are miniscule and are as significant as family differences which EVERYONE has unless you are from some mountain hick town in the deep South where incest is practiced-yeah if that actually happens. David's misunderstandings are NOT cultural at all unless he really is an alien from Mars.

No I'm not actively working to shed the righteous indignation. This is my last snarky post about David. Kindness, patience, compassion-NOOO I don't think I'm going to be able to muster compassion for at least another minute!!!

Institute is tonight. I'm sooo happy I get to go later!!! I will learn something new and awesome!!! Pres. Taylor talked last night about how the temple is a house of learning. That is exactly why I want to work there. Simply working there will require me to memorize stuff that I will ponder simply because there's no other way to memorize something or repeat something without doing that. I have the veil stuff down completely. Initiatories are going  to take a little more from me. The words are familar-I did initiatories a lot with my Tongan singles ward. Whenever I was late for a session I would do initiatories then join my ward later. Everyone did that in South Jordan 11th. We also had a ward goal of working for 30 names. I procrastinated and did ALL my names the Saturday before it was due. When I entered the Jordan temple that day it was light outside. It was dark when I left. I've only seen men work sealings so I don't think I need to learn anything there BUT I'll find out soon enough.

I KNOW the email I sent David that offended him so much was fine BECAUSE it was a product of prayer. It was when I was worried about offending him. After I realized what his problem was my patience wore thin so the last 2 emails I sent him were accompanied by my irritation.

I hate that I keep thinking about this. I'm calling the temple now.