I just have to set the record straight. I'm not 32 yet as Mulan posted. 31 until November 5th
Princess
get a life -- 10 facts
by joelbear 174 Replies latest jw friends
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larc
GINNY,
You win the million dollar prize. You got the answer to my quiz question. My wife, myself, and my son are first born. If you ask that question of people, about half can't figure it out. I think it is because, when you say "family" they think of children and not the parents.
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Thirdson
Ten known and lesser known facts
1. I was born in the UK, have 4 brothers and one sister, all raised as JWs, only two remain in.
2. I married last year (2nd time around) the most wonderful person who I met by chance and never dreamed I could ask her out…(she gave lots of less than subtle hints)
3. I have circumnavigated the globe & crossed the Atlantic 18 times.
4. Minnesota is home but I have been a resident of Australia as well.
5. I am a mechanical engineer but work in software development having retrained in the early 90’s.
6. I qualified for a FAI ‘A’ Certificate as a parachutist.
7. I like dark beers, red wine and scotch. My favorite dishes are curries and I cook my own.
8. I like female vocalists in the main but have a number of classic albums from the likes of Fleetwood Mac, the Beatles, the Beach boys and Queen but in my car you’ll also find classical recordings and opera.
9. I watch F1 racing on Sunday mornings (spring and summer) and Football (NFL style) on Sunday afternoons (fall and winter)
10. I have one son who I have joint custody of and a cat who has full custody of everyone else.COMF is my pal ‘cause he shaved at least 13 years of my age recently – I’m 41.
'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'
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7robert7
1. Born in Visoko, in former Yugoslavia
2. 6', medium build, brown hair, green eyes
3. Left handed
4. Favorite movie presentley, The Body (Antonio Banderes)
5. Favorite color, Yellow
6. Two beautiful kids, and a hotty for a wife.
7. Job as a Robotics technician
8. Favorite animals cats and dogs.
9. Read a book a week.
10. Flavorless christian. -
Farkel
10 Significant things about me:
1) I was born, or hatched. I'm not sure, I don't remember the event.
2) I was raised a dub and suffered accordingly.
3) I left the dubs and suffered accordingly.
4) I trusted people in life and business that shouldn't be trusted and suffered accordingly.
5) I had a mother who made me wrong for everything I ever did or didn't do, and I suffered accordingly.
6) I married and my wife made me suffer accordingly.
7) I divorced and my former wife made me suffer accordingly.
8) I've tried to help dubs see the truth about their religion in the only way I know how to do it, and others have made sure I've suffered accordingly.
9) I've taken chances in life and made contributions in numerous ways that very few people have been able to do. This includes inventions, music, writing, computer programming, auto racing, dirt-bike racing, and giving seminars for large groups of people. The mark of a true pioneer in any endeavor is that once you finally catch up to him, you will find him face down with an arrow in his back. True innovators are those who generally suffer most from jealous losers and non-creative types. As a result, I've suffered accordingly.
10) I will one day die, and I'm sure that in so doing, I will suffer accordingly. It seems to be my style in life.
Farkel
"When in doubt, duck!"
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Tatiana
I really was waiting for a post like this. I haven't been here long and I wanted to get to know everyone. Thank you, Joel.
1. I was born in Portland, Maine, but lived in South Carolina most of my life. I am 44 and live in Chicago now. I love it here.
2. I am the oldest of 3. I have one brother and had one sister. She drove her Camaro into a tree at 38 years old. That is another story having to do with jws, but I'll go into it when I feel more comfortable here.
3. I was raised a jw. All I ever knew. My mother is a missionary in Ecuador. Hasn't spoken to me or seen her grands in 7 years. My uncle claims to still be anointed, but is inactive. Go figure!
4. My favorite color is black. I always wear black. My home is all black. I have naturally red hair and think it goes well together.
5. I'm divorced. And happy. For now......
6. Some of my favorite movies are The Matrix (that's the REAL world), The Crow(I want to come back), Event Horizon, Desperado (I'm in love with Antonio Banderas) 9 1/2 Weeks, Angel Heart, Andromeda Srain, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 8mm, City of Angels (if only I had him watching over me)Prince of Darkness.
7. Some of my favorite artists---I love music----The Doors, R. Kelly, Teena Marie, Billy Holiday, Enya, Seal, Outkast, Janis Joplin, Deep Forest, Enigma, Rick James.
8. I have 6 children. 2 still at home, Gabriel, age 12, and Dominic, age 9. The rest grown, married, on their own.
9. I am starting college in the fall. Northwestern U. At 44 I will finally get a degree.
10. Right now I am unemployed. I worked for Monkey Wards almost 7 years until they went belly-up! I hate corporations!Gimme3steps, I'm a pretty good spade player too.
seven006, I am still laughing like hell at your 10!!!!!!April
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lisaBObeesa
10 things about me:
1. I am 32, married for 10 years to an amazing guy, and we have two great kids: a 9-year-old boy and a 4-year-old boy.
2. I think ‘at-risk’ teenagers are very cool people.
3. I want to move to Kaua’i. I have a coconut tree growing in my house so I can see a piece of Hawaii everyday.
4. I have the best mom in the entire world, and I feel very sorry for the rest of you because she is not your mom!
5. I believe people with learning disabilities don’t have disabilities at all, they just learn differently. And I think schools have a responsibility to teach them everything that they teach every other kid.
6. I was a JW teenager in the 80’s. My favorite song was “Dear God” by XTC. My favorite book was “The Chosen” (about a boy brought up in a strict Hassidic Jewish home), and my favorite move was “The Life of Brian.” I never got over missing the senior prom.
7. I do not curl my hair or wear make-up and I choose my clothes based on how comfortable they are.
8. I still want to be a punk rock girl, but in reality I was listening to Lyle Lovett in my car today.
9. My belief systems, earliest to latest: JW, doubting JW, non-JW trying to lead double life to keep my family, atheist, agnostic, believer in God of my own understanding, Christian.
10. Now my favorite songs are impossible to number. My favorite books are “The Joy Luck Club” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, and my favorite movies are “Shadowlands”, “The Truman Show” and “Les Miserables, Live in Concert.”
11. I think Joel is a really cool guy! And he made a really cool thread that I enjoyed reading!
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Eyebrow
1. Lived in NH for my whole life, expect for a few weeks in MO and 5 or 6 months in PA
2. Number 7 of 11 kids. ACK!!!
3. Met my husband online and we have been married for 2 1/2 years now.
4. Have 4 kids (10 year old son, almost 2 yr daughter and a 6 yr old and almost 4 yr stepdaugthers)
5. Have yet ANOTHER child on the way...and having pregnancy from hell like LDH...I have already grounded this fetus 10 times and she AIN'T getting an allowance for years!!!
6. Raise a JW, baptised at 21 and walked away at 27...best decision of my life.
7. I also love to read Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha Christie, Robert Heinlin, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams, 2 of the 3 Bronte sisters (I get them confused)...almost anything really!
8. Former deadhead.
9. Current craving is Snickers Ice Cream bars...please send!!!
10. Current pet peeve is that I cannot get my husband to rub my feet on command. -
waiting
Well, Hey! I just found this thread, a fine smile of a thread - thanks JoelBear!
1. I'm a woman, 51, happily married to a man *almost* 57, been married 20 years. Both of us are left-handed. I became jw at age of 18 - I think looking for security.
2. 3 kids. They are girl, 30, boy 26, boy 26. All beautiful, self-sufficient, and intelligent. They beat the odds.
3. 3 dachshunds, Stumpy, Ginger & Bonita Nina. Evil little happy-go-lucky dogs.
4. Love to garden - over 100 varies of Daylilies & 'bout an acre under garden cultivation.
4. My husband & I own a business, and that's ok. We didn't start a retirement fund much earlier - and now we're playing catch-up. Word to the wise.........contribute to your IRA's faithfully and you might be able to retire early.
5. Love jokes.
6. Frazier & Everybody Loves Raymond are my favorite tv shows.
7. Like all kinds of movies & books.
8. Had a lousy childhood due to father & mother. Skimmed through school faking being able to remember various subjects - so I cheated a lot (mpd/did). Good thing I could talk my way out of a lot of situations! Was an Art Major, but went no further - in my inability to understand - I just knew I could never be good enough. Went to college for 2 yrs, but never took art, somehow that door closed.
9. Like rock&roll (Bob Segar, Queen etc.) and Van Morrison - my favorite.
10. Both parents heavy drinkers, smokers. Both died of lung cancer. Father violent & rapist, mother knew. Children, only one rapist (brother). Our children, one victim. Next generation......hopefully we will have it weeded out of our family. At least from what we're aware of anyway.
waiting
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JanH
Mony baby,
Woohoo, what a great Lego castle! I'll storm it and chain you in the darkest dungeons
- Jan
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"People are apprehensive when they meet me. They think I'm going to eat
them. But underneath it all, I'm quite shy." - Freddie Mercury