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  Happy (ecstatic) news, Walking on Air...

  by CeriseRose in

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  i've been a bit lax in posting, life got really busy over the last while.

  i've had my own business that's been gaining contracts, but not quickly enough for mortgage payments and cat food.

  hehe so i took a 5 month temp job to supplement.

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  hehe Well, we're getting married, we're not dead. Flirting is always okay (we all know our boundaries). :P
  
  Thanks everyone!
  
  As for details, our first 'need' is to get immigration started. We've decided on a really really small wedding, just close family. Beyond that my biggest thing is getting my apartment into 'sale' mode and get that sorted out.
  
  Those are the tasks for when we come back to earth. hehe
  
  Thanks again on all your good wishes! :)
  
  P.S. I actually have typed up a letter to my sis...I may post it in the members only section with names removed...I haven't finished it nor have I decided. It's REALLY long. Stay tuned!
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  This is your subconscious speaking...

  by seattleniceguy in

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  many of us have had the experience of our subconscious trying to send us messages.

  sometimes we refuse to listen and it has to resort to more forceful measures, even making us physically ill. for example, while in the final throes of my witness-ism, i found that i would get horribly painful sore throats within seconds of repressing a thought about something that challenged my faith in a way i could not legitimately dispute.

  it was as though my brain was saying, "you need to think about this, now," and then punishing me for refusing to do so.. i was wondering if anyone has experiences like this.

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  I suffered from debilitating migraines for about the last 3 years as a JW. My parents had died, I was majorly stressed and grieving so I put it down to that (I'd also way overextended myself physically and figured it was just my body making me slow down).

  However, even as my grief was working itself through, I still had migraine after migraine. Right up until I left the JWs...now I still get one now and then but not several a week. My body was telling me I had to deal with my feelings and treatment at the hands of JWs. I'm glad I listened!
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  Happy (ecstatic) news, Walking on Air...

  by CeriseRose in

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  i've been a bit lax in posting, life got really busy over the last while.

  i've had my own business that's been gaining contracts, but not quickly enough for mortgage payments and cat food.

  hehe so i took a 5 month temp job to supplement.

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  CeriseRose

  I've been a bit lax in posting, life got really busy over the last while. I've had my own business that's been gaining contracts, but not quickly enough for mortgage payments and cat food. hehe So I took a 5 month temp job to supplement. I've taken on 3 university courses so I've been running like crazy.

  I celebrated my birthday about a week ago, for the first time in 14 years. Actually I've been celebrating it since May...I have no friends in the area so when I was in Mississippi with good friends we did a little thing for it. And then last weekend my boyfriend (Mr. Pookiehead on here) came to celebrate with me. We got an ice cream cake, went for a nice dinner, and then he showered me with presents!

  One of them was a gorgeous diamond ring, along with a lovely question. I said YES! (then promptly burst into tears...hehe)

  We have to work out the US/Cdn immigration, and all of the family except my JW sis knows (and I'm dreading telling her for her negative response, or lack of response), but we're both ecstatically happy and walking on air.

  Just wanted to share our happy happy news!
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  Watchtower Opts to Make Service Meetings Even Worse

  by metatron in

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  the recent august kingdom ministry contains instructions on deepening the ennui.

  and sophorific potential of service meetings.

  they are ordering that before the circuit.

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  The Ministerial Training School came up a few years back. Kinda like the Pioneer school for Pioneers, it's a specialized week (or two?) of training for single brothers who (I believe) are already MSs.

  I knew a couple guys that went through it...they really enjoyed it, said it was full of "spiritual food." Yeah.
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  Anyone here from British Columbia, Canada

  by mbn36 in

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  just wondering if anyone here was from british columbia.

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  I am! *waves hand* Lower Mainland as well.

  Welcome to the board!
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  Cooking Ideas

  by desib77 in

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  okay, the thread on budgeting and money made me start thinking.

  the thing my husband i spend the most money on is eating out.

  there is one very good reason for this, i can't cook.

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  I splurged and spent $20 on "MasterCook" software. I bought it because I want to reduce the bzillion cookbooks I have and save just the recipes I want. The bonus there was, it has 5000 recipes included, and if you do a websearch it also has lots of links of people who have set up their recipe collections online and ready to download.
  
  I'm starting the South Beach diet in the next couple of days. So I'm back into targeted cooking, rather than targeted cookies. hehe
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  Baby hostage stabbed in police standoff

  by Elsewhere in

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  now here is a guy who's gonna catch hell in prison!!!.

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/law/06/26/baby.hostage.ap/index.htmlbaby hostage stabbed in police standoff.

  saturday, june 26, 2004 posted: 10:32 pm edt (0232 gmt).

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  Just drop the guy into the general population of any maximum security prison and let the inmates know what he did.

  End of story.

  I'm glad the baby's prognosis is good.
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  Anybody going to the Kamloops Assembly????????

  by JV in

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  just wondering, if you're going what dates are you going to???

  just seeing the bc content of this site

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  If I were not disassociated I would be attending that one.

  But then I wouldn't be on this board.

  And the one JW I still talk to is going to the Seattle one. Or has gone. Or something.
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  MORE THAN TIRED OF THE POLITICAL CRAP!

  by Valis in

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  so, even after we agree there is too much politics, some here have decided to keep going over the same bullshit time after time.

  stuff they have no control over.

  stuff that pisses people off at one another.

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  CeriseRose

  Cerise posting about going to vote versus yet another thread on yet another beheading.

  He mentioned my name! He likes me, he really likes me!

  Wait a minute, you're just trying to get the *good* beer ain't ya? I'm onto you boy...
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  At the risk of making Valis' head explode...

  by CeriseRose in

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  and while i know he's tired of political crap, i'm hoping it'll be okay to post that i voted for the first time in 14 years today.

  (canada's election day is today.).

  my polling station was in a church.

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  Well we have nothing as exciting as Bush and Kerry and their kids' boobies, but we do okay.

  Actually it's all just prep until the US annexes us and we get better food in our grocery stores.

  Cerise of the I want Cheezits class

  edited because I suck at typing and grammar today