what's up

no, not you. i meant me.
sorry! i suck at titles. seriously, my first novel (12 pages....hey, i was 9) was called the Secret of Mary Smith. Seriously. Mary Smith.

Anyway. I went to Florida, which was humid and educational. Humid because it is a freakish land down there where people don't walk through the air, they have to swim.
Educational because I met 400 people with more experience than me with life. So, answer to prayer. I was visiting my Mimi and Ted in Vero. They run a refuge for emotionally damaged women, and I hung out with the staff a lot of the time, or people that have graduated the program. We ate out a lot, shopped, went to a C.S. Lewis convention, kayaked, swam, and visited a bajillion people.
So now I'm still recovering from a whole week of people actively listening to me, and actually caring, understanding, and liking what I say, being amused by my company, and teaching me a lot about marriage and friends and *cough* driving.

Then I went to Camp Delaware with some other homeschool families, which sounds like a camp but it really isn't, it's a giant house on top of a hill and you can see the Delaware river roll by as you sip hazelnut coffee on a porch swing reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
So we canoed (which I learned the hard way should never be done with two teenage boys high on soda), tubed in FREEZING FREEZING FREEZING water, hiked a miserable hike up a mountain, which was rewarding at the top, as all good mountain hikes are, and drove around a lot in golf carts. I firmly believe that if everyone rode around in golf carts and not SUVs, we'd all be happier. Golf carts are awesome.

I've been trying to process all this, but gave up. Something I committed to is reading the Bible through a year. I'm already on day 9. It's something much more solemn than "oh I wanna read the Bible." I'm treating it much more seriously than a whim.
The cool thing about this Bible (the 24/7 Bible) is that it's chronological, so as I read Genesis, I'm reading bits of Chronicles too. And it's separated into days so that I always know what to read. I'm liking it so far, except I still don't get why God tested Abraham about Isaac if he already knew he was a good guy. Maybe that shows the extent of how free will reaches down into our faith? And God tests that?
Also, it's weird to think about people marrying a) their half-sister b) their mistress c) random girls at wells and d)all of the above. It's gross. It's a good system to propagate growth of a race. Sucky way to run a household.
Also, Abimilech is a loser. So was Lot. And so was Laban.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you've seriously missed out on Human Race 101. 9 days and I'm already learning so much about our murderous, jealous, strange, uncomfortable, and sexy history. All found in the cute little Bible you have sitting by your bed with the cute verses in the Beatitudes all underlined. You only have a chunk of the story.
Two girls in my church did not know the book of Song of Solomon existed. THAT my friends was a hilarious 10 minutes. "This stuff made its way into the Bible??!" You know Jewish men in certain Jewish denominations aren't allowed to read that book until they're 35. Interesting book. You'll never look at a gazelle the same way again.

Gotta sleep. Definitely gotta sleep if the post has made its way to Biblical boob metaphors.