call it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
BIG Agatha Christie fan here too Crumpet I've read all of her works except for 4 of the 5 Mary Westmacott's.
Midwich Cuckoo -Did you even read The Pale Horse and the Hound Of Death? My parents forbade those because of demonic content!!! LOL What was your favourite? Mine has to be Death on the Nile. One of the first I read. I went to The Winter Palace in Luxor where she sat and wrote some of it and then took a cruise down the Nile and it was just as breath taking as I imagined it.
call it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
QUEEN MASTODON!
I was going to say don't lie, you know you just looked at the pictures and wished you had the attention span to read a sentence.
BUT - I read the Lawhead Pendragon series too - none of the series quite thrilled me so much as the first one. I also read the Stephen King Dark Tower books as well. I don't read fantasy stuff normally, but these appealed to girls as well as boys. (Come to think of it - that's probably why you liked them too. Yeah add that to your "black book of spankings" for when I get there!)
what have you been doing today?
i have spent the last 7 hours, deleting emails.
i had over 7000, when i started.
IP_SEC, Hey IP, he is 17 years older than me. Give it time!!
LOL Horrible life! And anyway didn't IP Sec meet hubby last year at the fest??
Yesterday got up about 7.00 - neighbours having sex again in next room.
Did yoga and pilates whilst waiting for water to heat up for a bath. Ate Muesli and wondered if the weird taste was down to the soya milk being off or if that's just how it's supposed to taste.
Put on the laundry. Made a fruit smoothie and checked JWD and emails, played a few scrabble moves, noted slumping stats score. Made mental note to flirt less, strategise more.
Bath and smoothie. Started studying inferential statistics for psychology course. Worked typing documents as they came in, mainly divorce stuff and drug dealer arrest cases. NOTE: your local fast food restaurant is the best place to obtain Class A drugs. Think about that as well as the cholestorol when letting your kids go there.
Played some tennis on my Wii, studied some more.
Got locked in outhouse rubbish building. Escaped no worse for wear, but a bit smelly.
Smoked a fag. Put it out. Wrote about The "Great" Escape on JWD. Lost two scrabble games.
Retired gracefully, declining to see Siva from India's "cobra". Unless he was willing to forfeit the next 5 games to improve my scrabble stats.
Bed at 1.30 and dreamed of chocolate cake.
otherwise entitled: smoking - a cautionary tale.
i have a gift, a talent for getting myself locked into or out of places.
ever since i was small i have managed to get myself locked in most host's lavatories and unable to quite mistress the ability to unlock the door.. today i surpassed myself.
I need to lose some weight and I'm certainly fond of other women, but I don't look like a man
I need verification on that Faundy - you should exchange pics with me. LOL!
Kurtbethel - you crack me up - I don't know if you meant to, but you certainly did. FlyingHighNow - I see you've been working southern belle charm on Ipsec in my absence! Nice trip down ole memory lane then you tie it in with "I have a gift" - I know your cunning ploys lady. Sweetface - try telling every guy that you meet and are interested in that YOU are ONLY interested in casual sex and see what happens, that you don't want to be tied down to one man. LOL! You'll get called and asked out again and again. Guys can't get their head round that for the most part. Hemp Lover - Yeah well - you know door handles hard to find in the dark and stuff. Now do you understand why I am forever asking you to check I've locked the front door properly when I come in. Me and keys/locks don't mix!
dear journel, .
this is my first official entry into this thing.
i tried once before but it didn't work.
Wow - is this your actual diary from when you were 18 or 19? I think mine read very similarly, constant frustration and feelings of not being good enough and very alone.
((Nosferatu)) - Glad you're here and not there!
there were a few things that i hated about being a witness.. i love music and live concerts.
quite often i'd have to play my music privately or hide an album cover for fear it might "stumble" someone.
i hated worrying whether someone was going to somehow get "stumbled.. regarding going to concerts, it seemed that certain artists only came to town on a meeting night and i'd miss the shows.. what did you hate about being a jehovah's witness?.
Pretty much everything Myabes said!
Mainly the interminable boredom of every dreary moment occupied in "theocratic" activity. My family was one that began every morning with the text, went on the service at every opportunity, spent all evenings that weren't meeting nights having family studies, or preparing for meetings.
I think its what has genuinely contributed to my absolute terror of boredom to the point that I often decline invitations because I am scared I will be bored and won't be able to escape.
can anyone tell me what to expect of the upcoming "memorial"?
i know it is on march 22nd, but what will actually take place?
is this something that my wife will be away at, all day again?
A severe lack of white wine...
otherwise entitled: smoking - a cautionary tale.
i have a gift, a talent for getting myself locked into or out of places.
ever since i was small i have managed to get myself locked in most host's lavatories and unable to quite mistress the ability to unlock the door.. today i surpassed myself.
We can all say, "We knew Crumpet when..." And then when you are a gazillionaire, you can fly us all over to your palatial mansion for a week long apostafest.
Probably less palatial mansion and more like padded cell, but ya never know!
call it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
Faundy - I've got a 1920 edition of No Name by Wilkie Collins next to my bed. Woman in White is such a treat. Read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins as well. You sound like a voracious reader! And good on you for studying to teach English - if you have the passion you will make an excellent teacher and able to impart your love of a good story to the most stubborn child I think.
The Silence - ohhhh Anne of Green Gables - I loved that series.
call it my anal retentious streak, but i've rated every book i've ever read since i was 7. i had phases of favourite writers.. i was an enid blyton fan - the faraway tree, famous five, secret seven, mallory towers series.
then i got hooked on franklin w dixon's hardy boys and judy blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything i knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the jw world.
i started reading agatha christie when i was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books i could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as i was for the afternoon icecream van.
What were your favourite books/authors when you were growing up?
Call it my anal retentious streak, but I've rated every book I've ever read since I was 7. I had phases of favourite writers.
I was an Enid Blyton fan - The Faraway Tree, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Mallory Towers series
Then I got hooked on Franklin W Dixon's Hardy Boys and Judy Blume's eye opening, straight talking stories about growing up which really taught me everything I knew about what life was like for a normal girl not growing up in the JW world.
I started reading Agatha Christie when I was 9 and remember taking the maximum number of books I could from the mobile library van that came to our village and being as impatient for its fortnightly return as I was for the afternoon icecream van. I think that's where my obsession with violent death was born.
Whose fictional worlds did you lose yourself in as a child?
