Emo -
I hope things calm down for you, I know how you feel about driving home in the dark. It seems like I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark
Have a wonderful weekend!
nj
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by compound complex 1320 Replies latest jw friends
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ESTEE
Exnjjw wrote:
Estee - You'd think after going through pregnancy and childbirth there would be nothing else for us women to go through .
Sigh . . .
and . .
On Sunday my son's band won the 2007 National Grand Champion trophy! This gave them the bragging rights
That is wonderful news, Exnjjw! Congrats!
CoCo wrote:
I encourage all my students - including JWs - to reach for the sky. . . . I like my new perspective ...
I can’t imagine you having another perspective. Unless it’s the one most of us on this forum had --- the brainwashed jw perspective perhaps? . . . Glad that’s history --- and what a lesson!
Soldiergirl wrote:
Sailor Creed and 11 sentry rules. I'm so excited my job over there will be a military cop or call master at arms.My goal is to become a CSI when I finish. I want to live in Florida or California I plan to be single while I'm in the Navy (not married but just dating) so much fun to catch up on. Thats all the things I'm thinking about. I wish someone else could do my push ups for me.
Wow, congrats Soldiergirl! What a change from dub-dumb. Pushups are not in my repertoire, either. I’d rather be dancin’
Sad Emo wrote:
... ah well, spring is just around the corner!
Now there’s optimism!!!
Love to all
ESTEE
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compound complex
Dear ESTEE,
Thank you for your little summaries of the posters' comments. It's so nice how you do it! Regarding my "new" perspective, I've always been enthusiastic about teaching but, as a JW, was so careful not to direct my Witness students toward career objectives: "Well, Johnny, this is only for now but by no means training for a career. Education and the arts are all right to a point, but the most important training you receive is the education for life at the Kingdom Hall. You are going to become a regular pioneer after high school, with Bethel as your goal - am I correct?"
That is SO far from my current thinking and practice. It is amazing and gratifying to those of us who gave up college (for the reasons above) that many JW youths in our area are now preparing for college or are already attending.
CoCo
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Sad emo
Hi all
I've been getting on with my next essay - and loving it!
We had our first snowfall of the winter yesterday - not much though, but this is the earliest I've known it for a long time, maybe we'll get a proper winter this year in the UK instead of something nondescript.
It's cloudy, windy, raining, foggy and cold today. I'm hanging on to 'spring is just around the corner'!
Just had a telephone engineer spend 2 1/2 hours trying to work out where a fault was on my phone line and repairing it. The poor guy had to climb the telegraph pole twice - not the best place to be considering the weather! But as they say in lolcat lingo - Iz all fixted nao! My phone no longer clicks and crackles and my broadband doesn't go down every 5 minutes, I'm happy! I was praying they would find a fault on the line, if an engineer comes out and it turns out to be my telephone or something that is the problem there's a £135 callout charge (about $270!) OUCH!!! - that's why I didn't report it for ages - now, because the problem was on their side of the phone socket, it got repaired for free.
Back to the essay now!
Have a great day everyone
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Sad emo
It is sooooo dark today!
It's just after 1.30pm and the movement sensitive light in the shop doorway (which only works when daylight drops below a certain level) is operating.
And it's cold.
I want my bed lol!!
Have a great day everyone, whatever the weather may throw at you!
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ex-nj-jw
Emo,
It's a cold gloomy day here also - so I feel your pain I hope your day get's better or at least you can get home to your bed ASAP!
Well 2 days till Turkey day, I finally finished all my shopping so the only thing left is to start cooking. I won't start that until tomorrow night, It doesn't take me long to cook and I don't like to start too many things the day before. I feel like I'm eating left overs if I cook it the night before I'm ok with the prep work and of course the sweet potato pies.
This sounds crazy but I have to make 7 pies! One each for my hubby, and each kid that's 3 and the other four for dinner guests. My nephew will probably try to hide 1 to take home with him. Last year I made him one and he wouldn't even share with his wife and kids Maybe I should make her one this year!
I know I won't be on the computer much after tomorrow so just in case I want to wish everone a Happy Turkey day, enjoy it and most of all enjoy the family and friends you will be with as this is the real reason to give Thanks to whomever or whatever.
nj
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Sad emo
Happy Turkey day to you too ex-nj! - and everyone else who celebrates it
Good job we don't have Thanksgiving over here at the moment because a few big turkey farms are having to have their entire flocks culled due to bird flu (the H5N1 type) just when you think it's gone. They'll probably use it as an excuse to charge higher prices at Christmas too
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AlphaOmega
Wow... I'd forgotten about this thread.
This seems like a good place to say that I bought some new shoes the other day (my old ones looked like Cornish Pasties !!).
Hope Ms Emo's studies are going well.
Something in brewing, ever get that feeling ? You know, the one where you know that events are conspiring to make something happen... but you're not sure what it is ? It has to be near bursting point now... so I wonder what it is.
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R.Crusoe
I disturbed a bat the other day in my attic by threading some twin core earth 5 amp lighting cable over the insulation just below the eaves. It must have entered via a hole I'd left in the wall that I'd left since I changed my mind about the location of a new boiler. There are a number of bats in surrounding houses eaves which come out at dusk to feed on mosquitoes each evening. I wasn't aware I'd disturbed it until I went down the two flights of stairs to my living room. I heard it wings flapping as it circled the room at about 1 revolution per 3/4 seconds. I switched on the light, confused by the noise, and was surprised by the size of its wingspan - it being 8 or 9 inches since the bats I'd previously seen appeared smaller. Anyway, I was worried in case I frightened it because I've previously captured a mouse by hand which died from the shock. I closed both doors to confine it to the room and crouched to make my way over to the window. Its echo location must've sensed my presence because it flew a couple of figure eights so close to my head that the beat of its wings could be felt on my ears and down my neck. I had to unlock the restrictors on the sash style window so as to open it as far out as possible. I then propped it ajar with a long piece of studding and waited to see how it managed. It flew out into the night sky and left me feeling overjoyed at how amazing they are and how I'd had the chance to be so close with it circling my head. Excellent! I blocked the hole up so it doesn't get trapped up there after I plaster the ceiling. It will likely go back to its previous home which may be in a smaller roof space of my house which has an iron grate for access but which is inaccessible from inside the house. It will soon be time for me to leave. Finances demand it!
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*summer*
It finally happened! I got up to a white scenery this morning!
I am NOT a winter person. But for some reason, the first snow always wakes up my inner child:-)
Memories of snow angels...making snowmen...hot chocolate with marshmallows...*sigh*
*summer*