http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/135855/1.ashx.
as some of you know i was about to quit my college courses for a while.
i was getting very discouraged.. i want to thank you for helping me continue forward.
Good job FreedomFrog! I'm sorry; I missed your first posting. Thanks for the link.
We're proud of you and know that you will never regret furthering your education. That is a good choice too! Plenty of openings for RNs. That is what my daughter is going back to school for also. She has to wait until her husband is done getting his degree. Two more years.....she can hardly wait!
Hugs, Juni
what is it that you and your family eat?.
do you have a certain cooking pattern, or ethnic preference?.
when i cook, i make many mexican dishes - such as quesadillas, enchiladas.
I love all food except for real greasy stuff (like fatty bratwurst and sausages) and liver and I won't eat lamb or veal. Won't eat baby anything.
I used to cook for 6 people and now that the kids are moved out I only cook for two. So it took a lot of scaling down w/my recipes. I make casseroles, and use my slow cooker for various recipes, Italian dishes (my favorite), tacos, pizza, stir frys, salads, steaks and hamburgers, chicken fixed various ways, baked fish, stuffed pork chops, cheese/onion omelets, BQed beef or pork ribs.
I love yogurt w/Bare Naked granola. It's the best. Also, a lot of fruit which I pile on my Wheaties or Kashi in the morning.
Desserts? Anything chocolate, banana cream pie and good melons are my favorites.
Drink? Always iced water and an occasional margarita or any other fruity drink w/vodka. No soda pop.
Juni
what the heck.
i'm sitting here with idle time.
ok, so what's so great about that?
What a beautiful and encouraging personal story Ian. That was so nice of you to share yours with all the new ones who may be lurking or who have posted.
I wish you a continued abundance of peace and contentment ......
Fond love with a big hug for you and Claire and your dear family and the three doggies too!
Juni
well folks, got back from my trip to see russell's grave site.
it was quite a interesting experience and sobering to see the pyramid right by his tombstone.
i'm kind of tired and will be hitting the sack soon but i wanted to post a few pictures.
Everyone above me has posted about the pictures from you carpenter, but all I see are red "x"s.
Juni
when i attended meetings years ago, if a brother or sister got df'd they weren't supposed to come back to their meetings right away even if they wanted to repent..... if i remeber well, you had to stay away from the meetings for a few months and them come back if you wished, as if to show that you made changes in your lifestyle and then decided to come back.. if you were disfellowshipped and went back to the meetings right after, it was a sign that you didn't understand what happened to you and you weren't trying to fix what you did wrong.. .
maybe it was different in other congregations..
NEVER experienced that JH! They want you back at all meetings PRONTO...... that shows you are performing works that PROVE you are repentant. Sick, hey? How unlike what they teach about the prodigal son.
It's all part of their "Jump Through the Hoops" repentence rules. It's getting that control over you once again before you're accepted back in so that others are then "safe" from defilement.
Juni ~~
welcome sparrow.. you're in good company here.. look forward to hearing more from you..
Welcome to JWD sparrow! We're happy you joined us!
Juni
without elaborating at length, there has been a lot going on in my life of late and i have sought out some therapies that i have used in the past.
they've helped a lot.
they are more along the lines of *natural* therapies.
No I haven't freedomlover, but I love your beautiful yinyang avatar!
Hugs, Juni
from http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/136861/1.ashx : .
variable angina.. its when the arteries in your chest randomly all squeeze up just to piss you off.. the doctor said that this isn't heart disease and it wasn't caused by high cholestoral (mine is right on the money) and it shouldn't happen again- this was a fluke.. the doctor was really kind and nice and said that with the amount of pain i felt there's no way i should have maintained consciousness, much less been able to drive 25 minutes and then go to sleep.. then we ended up talking about genital piercings and body modification in general (my xray was lol.
) he was really kind and said pretty much, let's hope it never happens again.. .
I'm happy to hear that you're all right, but also that you are getting a second opinion from a cardiac doctor.
My daughter who is 32 is going in this Friday for a heart ultrasound and then they'll put her on the tread mill the following Friday. When she speed walks she gets a racing heart, light headedness and dizzy. Hopefully they will find no physical problems w/her heart this Friday. The tread mill is used to get her heartbeat up and hopefully bring on her symptoms. If they can't get it to flutter then she will have to wear the Holter monitor for a day or so to measure her cardiac rythmns.
She told them though she has to listen to Fergie's music to keep up her pace. LOL If it is a heart arrythmia then she will have the extra tissue pathway in the heart ablated. End of problem.
So it's good that you're taking the extra step for your heart care .......
Peace, Juni
watchtower an awake .
watchtower & awake .
watchtower an awake .
That was very cute Grace! So true; and I like the "fill in the blank" prose.....
Hugs, Juni
the greeter was a woman i once called friend and who (unfortunately now) was baptized after studying with me for a year.
when i walked in i was the only one coming through the door so it's not like she didn't see me, she turned away and ignored me...not wanting to lower myself to her level i simply got a shopping cart and went about my shopping, my first instinct was to report her to management for dereliction of duty but i thought better of that because my doing so would show her it upset me.
i really owe her a debt of gratitude because it was at her baptismal talk that my first strong doubt that it was the truth finally penetrated my foggy brain, as i sat and repeated the baptismal questions to myself at the assembly when she was being baptized i realized they were not the same ones i answered in 1974, that started me on my journey out of the org.
Personally I feel Grammy did the right thing. I was shunned before I DAed myself by a friend of 21 years. I followed her through the store as I was damned she wasn't going to see a picture of my grandchild. We chit chatted a few minutes. And that was it......
ps...did Blondie get a new avatar or is that my imagination?
Yes it is.......Blondie is growing young again!!
Juni
