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Awesome birthday card courtesy of the wonderful Lisa Miller.  I laughed way too hard and way too long at it. :)

Mmmmyelloowsss!  (Whoever reads this thing).

Yeah it's funny, I normally post on Facebook when I update my blog.  Because I want people to read my blog.  Cuz I like the attention. And I want to show people how cool I am. 

But little did I know, Blogger has this little feature where you can see when people view your blog.  And you can check, like, by the hour.  And it shows you how many people have visited it and how many page views you have.  So when I would post on Facebook that I updated my blog, I would check to see if someone had viewed it.  Like compulsively.  It was ridiculous.  I had become this different person.  Whose purpose in life had all of the sudden changed to seeing how many people viewed her blog.  (Clever, Blogger.  Very clever). And so finally when I was thinking - "What the crap?!  Only 3 people have viewed my blog in the last 23 minutes?!" - I was like, yeah.  Ok this is stupid.  

So now I don't want to publicly post when I update because it seems desperate for attention.  And even though I might secretly thrive on people's attention and praise (we all do, shut your face and admit it), the key word is "secretly".  No one will know I am desperate for other people's approval.  Shhh.  

So speaking of praise, it was my birthday yesterday!  And it was pretty low key but nice and relaxing.  I got off work and went to Tucanos with my grandparents and got to bed early for my 4am shift the next day.  Yayy!  And my roommates were sneaky and got me a cute chocolate cake and candles and it was the best thing ever.  Funny story about that!

So I was sitting, watching my Tyler Perry movie, cuz it's my birthday and I love me some Tyler Perry, and I saw through the window that my roommates were walking up to the door.  And so they open the door a bit and quickly close it after they saw me sitting there!  And so I thought, "Oh man, they must have something for me and didn't know I'd be here..."  So I tried to make a joke and kind of yell through the door "Ohh I'm going into my roooommm for no apparent reeeasssonnnnnnn ladidaaaa".  But then they just walked in and didn't have anything.  Apparently one of them almost dropped the box they were carrying, so the door just closed quickly...and they didn't actually have anything secret.  

Emmmmbarrasssinngggg.  

I was like - oh geez.  Embarrassing of me to just, like, expect them to get me something.  And even worse to make a stupid joke out of it!  Woops.  So I went back to watching Tyler Perry in shame.  

But then they actually came out like 10 mins later with a cake and candles.  So they were trying to hide it, but just played it off very nicely.  And it totally made my day. :)

So yeah that was fun.  And also, it's kind of weird how good it feels to get a bunch of notifications on Facebook on your birthday.  I noticed that a couple years ago when I felt like 100 people wished me a happy birthday and I was all filled with warm fuzzies from the wishes of my friends and sort of acquaintances.  But yeah, they're underrated in my opinion. 

So speaking of Facebook!  Have you been loving all the buzz about gay marriage??  Yay for people demonstrating their opinions and getting all riled up from it and thinking Facebook is a good place to have serious arguments!  Hahaha no yeah, it was interesting.  And I'm pretty sure most of my ward members I have on Facebook think I'm some sort of apostate.  Because.....prepare yourself. 

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I support gay marriage!

"Whaaaaat??  But you're Mormon!  Are you gay, yourself, Stephanie?  Because I actually don't know you THAT well, you're just in my ward and, I mean, you do like that "Mormons for LGBT" page on Facebook...so....."

Bahaha yeah.  I'm not going to go into huge detail, but yes.  I indeed support gay marriage.  And I also believe in the gospel.  And I love God and the church and the sanctity of families.  And I still go to church, calm down now.  And I'm pretty sure my physical bodily obsession with Vin Diesel is a clear indication of my heterosexual nature.  So sorry to disappoint.  

I basically think that just because we legalize gay marriage doesn't mean we are forcing people to agree with it, or that we're forcing churches to perform the ceremonies or anything.  I just think that under the law, they should have the same opportunities and rights as everyone else, and I think that includes marriage.  And adoption, and everything else.  And I know there are concerns about gay couples getting married and then adopting children, and whether that is the best interest for the child because, statistically, children do better in a home with a mother and a father.  But I figure there are so many families with single parents, divorced parents, abusive parents, dead parents so they're raised by other family members, etc., and I think, really, adding homosexual parents to all of that isn't much of a threat.  In fact, I think children can be raised by gay parents just as well as heterosexual parents, and it is way better than kids not being adopted and ending up in foster care.  

And I don't really know what to think when it comes to the plan of salvation and eternal families and people who are homosexual.  I don't know what God's plan is there.  I do believe that God is in control and He knows what He's doing and I am happy to have faith in whatever He's got.  And I'm happy to not know 100% about this issue.  I mean, I don't really know what to tell people who are gay and are Mormon and, truly, believe in the gospel and love the church.  Are you just supposed to be celibate your whole life?  Are you just supposed to be ashamed of who you are and wonder why God would put you on this earth to just sit there and not experience the wonderful blessings of marriage and a family?  I don't know.  So just to be safe, let's be as loving and supportive as we can, yes?  

And let's not assume that all those opposing gay marriage are crazy, closed-minded Jesus freaks who don't believe in love for those who are different. 

And let's also not assume that those in favor of gay marriage are Godless, liberal hippies who are trying to destroy the family unit.  

Stop it.  Mmkay?

Yeah forget the whole "not going into detail" thing.  I guess I'd rather put my opinion here than on Facebook anyways.  So there you go.  Whoever you are.  

Here's a boxer jumping on a trampoline.  

Right on.