okay, i got a bike a couple days ago to ride to work.
problem is, work is 6 miles away.
wouldnt be a problem normally..but im living in a very very windy city.
You probably are already doing this, but streamlining your body by bending low to the bike should help quite a bit. When you are sitting up straight, you're fighting the wind with your entire upper half, but leaning low minimizes the amount of surface area hitting the wind and giving resistance.
- CF
i just had the strangest experience at the dentist.
i went to have a cavity filled and the dentist gave me nitrous - as usual.
i have taken nitrous at the dentist many times with really good results.
DH, yes, nitrous is the gas dentists use - usually administered through that "pig snout" black rubber thing that fits over your nose.
Thanks Jean! My appointment is on Monday at 4:00 pm Pacific Standard Time . I'll take all the good vibes I can get!
- CF
i just had the strangest experience at the dentist.
i went to have a cavity filled and the dentist gave me nitrous - as usual.
i have taken nitrous at the dentist many times with really good results.
I'm bringing this back to the top because it's been a year since my scary experience, and I have an appointment to get a filling on Monday. I plan to use nitrious - but will go ask to go slow with it. I'm starting to get pretty nervous . . .
- CF
my father-in-law has been very ill - has a bad heart valve.
i am really close to my in-laws as they have pretty much adopted me as their daughter.
i lost my dad a few years ago and my father-in-law is like my father to me.
Dawn,
I'm so happy to hear your great news! I too lost my dad to a heart attack.
Sounds like they have fixed up your father-in-law really well. I'm glad for you!
- CF
so we have our circuit overseer this week.
we're getting the crap kicked out of us (figuratively) for our meeting attendance.
we have attendance in the 70% range for some of our meetings.
Look at the 1969 international assembly program, and look at the starting and ending times for all 8 freekin' days.
OMG - I attended every one of those assemblies except for the last one in 2001 (my first year of freedom). Granted, I was a baby at the first one, but still!
- CF
I just noticed the same thing - nothing new on Friends since 2-1-05.
- CF
it must be about 13 years since i went out in service.
about 15 years since i went out a couple times a month, and about 18 years since i went at least once a week.. i just can't imagine going from door to door anymore.
but to think that we all did it for quite awhile.
About 4 years for me.
I recently helped hand out flyers for a neighborhood block party in my neighborhood. As I walked up to the first door, I had what I could only describe as a mild panic attack. All those years of field service came flooding back into my memory as I tried to knock on the door. I had to take a couple of minutes to compose myself and convince myself that I was doing something good and nice this time.
Undercover, I had a similar experience the first time I went trick-or-treating (as a 33 year old adult) with my friends' kids. Walking from door to door I started to get anxious and when we rang the bell, I realized I was hoping nobody was home - then I realized I was having a service flashback.
- CF
the march 2005 kingdom ministry brings up a full article about the awake only being published once a month, starting january 2006. .
but the fun thing is the roundabout way this change is announced.
knowing that the news would be a bitter pill to swallow (there should be a 'speeding up' of the preaching work, not a downsizing), the watchtower only announces the move to monthly publishing by the end of the article.
Reading the KM article caused me to imagine the presentation during the Service Meeting:
Those brainless questions always made me laugh!
Sorry, just had a major flash-back and thought I would share.
- CF
during class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
you try to be inconspicuous while you're sitting on the stage holding your violyn in your lap while everyone else in the orchestra plays the patriotic or holiday songs during a performance.
- CF
i am, right now, watching vh-1's history of the jacksons and in particular, the charges filed against him.. they just showed how mrs. jackson became a devout jw, showed the kh, and a few wt mags.
then, without expecting it, there was bill bowen!
talking about the epidemic of abuse in this church.
sorry, those are PST (western time).
