Interesting and mysterious

 In all of these pictures with Troy's West Point  mug, Tristan is a blur. He was so excited.

I really liked the marriage conference at church. Hud McWilliams was the speaker. He said that if you are looking for safety and sameness you will be disappointed. Even if you find those things, you will be bored and unsatisfied. 

     In a healthy relationship, you are constantly adjusting to each new day and to each other. As you "process" everything together, you perceive each other as interesting and mysterious. 

    So here's my contribution towards interesting and mysterious, or just weird. Troy needed 100 pounds to fill his training dummy.  So he bought a 100-pound bale of used clothing. I wondered why someone got rid of a perfectly good hazmat suit. 

But then I realized the hazmat suit WAS the training dummy. 

To my mother: NO, you absolutely may not go through those clothes. 

   The speaker said that sometimes you have to unlearn things you learned previously. Troy is unlearning jujitsu in order to succeed at judo. You do it by drilling with the new skill. I guess arm-grabbing is completely different depending on whether you want the arm to end up in handcuffs or somewhere three feet away from you.

   My head is spinning from the conference. He also promised the key to Christian Growth!  I was suspicious, but I didn't leave disappointed. That will be a future post.