sitting here on Friday night watching Dr. Who, humming "Mull of Kintyre" and thinking about the gold stars I found in my desk today. Think I'll give myself a gold star - I taught myself to weave and finished my first hand-woven-with-love-totally-useless-really-pretty thing. That was an accomplishment! Another gold star - got my landlord (at my business) to cut my rent in half!!! Solving financial problems. Humming and dancing around in the cave of silence here...What have you done that deserves a gold star lately? I've got plenty of gold stars to share.
gold stars
by Hortensia 29 Replies latest jw friends
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quietlyleaving
Hi Hortensia
30 years later I've completed the first year of my degree. I'd love a gold star.
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Satanus
Congratulations hortensia and quietlyleaving. Youse deserve gold stars. Wonder if i could get my rent cut...
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Hortensia
wow! gold star to you!!! I never got that far, although, ironically, I own a school! As for cutting your rent, wish I could do that for you - I just asked and the LL said yes, but then he's trying to refinance and doesn't want to lose a tenant. Still he was very generous about it.
So Dr. Who picks up the terra-forming machine, says "I'm Dr. Who and I declare the war is over!" Then throws the machine and it breaks and the new world forms, ta-da! Made me think of Phil Ochs. Remember Phil Ochs? Remember his song "The War is Over?" The refrain was "I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over..." Gold star to anyone who remembers Phil Ochs so I don't feel so old. Anyway, what ever happened to all the good old anti-war songs? I guess 9/11 happened to them.
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StAnn
Anyway, what ever happened to all the good old anti-war songs?
Hortensia, last semester I took a writing class at university. I was the only "old" person in the class, except for the instructor. We were reading a short story about VietNam. In the story, a character named Joe Lemon hit a booby trap and was blown up, body parts landing all over, including in a tree. The narrator started singing, "Lemon Tree."
Well, I had to laugh. After class, in the elevator on the way down, I was singing, "Lemon Tree, Very Pretty, and the Lemon Flower is Sweet, but the Fruit of the Poor Lemon Is Impossible to Eat." The other students were stunned: "That's a real song?" I was like, yeah, haven't you ever heard of Peter, Paul, and Mary? The answer was: No, they hadn't. Not even Puff, The Magic Dragon. Talk about feeling old!
StAnn
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StAnn
My gold star moment of the day: I bought and mailed to my sister a silver wedding anniversary card, even though I'm not invited to her party because I'm not a JW anymore. Of course, I just had to buy the card at the Catholic book store down the street, so there's a little scripture quoted on the card, and it ain't from the NWT.
StAnn
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White Dove
This is old news by now, but I got my college degree and will get a masters next year if things work out. Gold star?
I've been visiting a Catholic church and I like it. No gold star for that. It was just fun to say.
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Hortensia
St Ann - two gold stars - for the anniversary card and for Lemon Tree. Trini Lopez, yeah I remember. Remember the Draft Dodger's Rag? Or "Outside a Small Circle of Friends"?
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Hortensia
Lots of gold stars - a degree and you'll have a master's degree? Gold stars all around! I was just watching a youtube video about why ex-JWs don't move on. I think we move on pretty well, don't we?
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Hortensia
I'm posting on this thread because I am also watching Battlestar Galactica and I don't get it AT ALL. Could be because I've never watched more than ten minutes of it - what's the point of the gal in the bathtub, for instance?