Untitled For Reasons of Randomness

I have made a decision that I think will be hard for me. I am going to erase from my bookmarks all the blogs and websites that I frequent for no real good reason. The list has become waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long. And, sadly, keeping up with them has become more important to me than spending time with my own husband. Man, I wish marriage came with a manual. No worries, to those friends who keep their own blogs, I will still be reading those. But I've got to break this addiction I have to all things intranets, and become a real girl! We'll see how this goes.

I love this quote by Hugh Nibley. It's from a group I wish I could join on facebook but I'm not going to BYU, so I can't. Poo. They got it from Wikipedia:

Here's a passage from wikipedia about one the coolest self-deprecating Mormons of all time, Hugh Nibley:

"Nibley was strongly opposed to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War during an era "when it was very unpopular in LDS culture to do so." [2] Nibley was also bothered by what he saw as the unthinking, sometimes almost dogmatic application of some portions of BYU's honor code. Nibley had no objection to requirements of chastity or obeying the Word of Wisdom, but he thought the often intense scrutiny directed at grooming (hairstyles and clothing) was misguided. In 1973, he said, "The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.” (Waterman and Kagel, 153)

And here's a link to a talk given by Ann N. Madsen about tolerance and labels. I love it. And I hope that I can take it's message to heart. I'm terrible at labeling people, and avoiding those whose labels I don't like, and then turning around and preaching tolerance. Anyway, here's the link: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6835
It's good stuff.

I'm so glad that spring is trying to show up. Now I just hope it dries up in my swampy backyard soon so I can con my husband into raking all the accumulated winter poop from The Dogs. It's hard to scoop poop when you can't see it because of snow. And I bet Dog 2 is chewing on the picnic table again. I had better let them in.