it looks like my bed had just about had it and it's time to get another one... but i have no idea how to shop for one.
i've tried looking at review web sites, but there are very few with almost no information.
something i keep seeing at the stores are the "no turn" mattresses.
I just bought a new bed a few months ago.
I got one with the memory pillowtop foam ontop of an oversized mattress. The bed is super tall!
It's really cool and so comfortable.
The only thing is that the sheets that fit with the super deep pockets cost more $$$ than standard sheets.
I think you only need a new box spring if you want the colors to match or if the other is broken.
I'm not 100% sure though.
.
i read an article somewhere when i first started studying with the jw's that said that the name jehovah was actually just a hypothesis from a monk in the year 700 or some other thing.. i don't remember if this is correct in the year or where i read it - i read so many things when i first learned what the witnesses were really about.
everything i could get my hands on.. but for some reason i don't know why but calling god jehovah just really bugs me and always makes me think of the witnesses.. does it bother anybody else and do you think if he exists his name really is jehovah?
I read an article somewhere when I first started studying with the JW's that said that the name Jehovah was actually just a hypothesis from a monk in the year 700 or some other thing.
I don't remember if this is correct in the year or where I read it - I read so many things when I first learned what the witnesses were really about. Everything I could get my hands on.
But for some reason I don't know why but calling God Jehovah just really bugs me and always makes me think of the witnesses.
Does it bother anybody else and do you think if he exists his name really is Jehovah?
the texas first court of appeals threw out today the capital murder conviction of clear lake mom andrea yates, who's serving a life sentence for drowning her children in a bathtub.
the three-member appeals court granted yates?
motion to have her conviction reversed because, among other things, the state?s expert psychiatric witness testified that yates had patterned her actions after a law & order television episode that never existed.
I had our second child a few months ago.
With our first child I had horrible post partum depression not post partum psychosis like Andrea Yates.
It was absolutely horrible and it made me very fearful if I ever had another child to be depressed like that again.
The hospital where I had our second child has a very active day program where women who have PPD and PPP can go everyday and get help and not be alone while they care for their children.
I think this is a wonderful thing and I don't know why someone didn't think of it years ago.
Thankfully, I have had no PPD issues this time around. Maybe its because I am happier.
Maybe its because the JW's didn't ruin this birth experience and keep coming by telling me to pray harder and I'll be able to breastfeed my child, keep my house clean and be a good wife.
And for anyone grumpy and reading this - I'm sorry if this doesn't have enough to do with the Jehovahs Witnesses.
finally we have snow!.
it snowed night before last, but was melting by the time we got up.
last night it snowed again, and it's still snowing.
It rained, sleeted, and snowed here in Massachusetts and its supposed to be very warm on Wednesday.......over 50 degree's.
That's a big deal for this born and raised California girl!
just wondering how many others there are like me who are married to a witness who is either actively going or fading away?
i have found that even though my husband is fading away - he still has a lot of those witness thoughts.. it's definately better that he is away from them and not getting their "spiritual food (vomit)".
but i still have worries when his mother calls and invites us to the memorial or tries to give us the latest book.. i feel my blood pressure just about go through the roof.. i'm glad there are places like this board to talk with people and get support from real " friends".
Thanks all who responded.
It's nice to know that I am not alone in this situation.
For me marriage is hard without all this JW BS.
My first inclination is always to just run away.
Thank you again for sharing.
looking at the smurf thread i was wondering, in my congregation in the 80's there were also storys of demonic cabbage patch dolls attacking jw kids.
i wasn't allowed to have one because they might be demonized.
was it just my cong.
Those cabbage patch dolls all must be demonic.
Growing in the dirt like that and they are all so happy and perfect looking.
Evil evil evil!
Just kidding!
My JW friend growing up had over 25 of them - but then again they were rich and she was such a show off.
Still makes me grumpy.
it's really rough on me!
not to whine, while the czarina is being so brave, but... i'm going to anyway.. i am getting most of the symptoms!
i taste blood in my mouth, i am so scatterbrained i can't think right, my sleep patterns are all over the map!
During both of my pregnancies my husband ate for all of us.
He's such a good guy.
He had more food cravings than I did.
He also got very emotional at times.
It was funny to see his eyes well up with tears because he is not that kind of guy.
Good luck and Congratulations!
.
i did.. they are going house to house door to door in my neighborhood.. i heard the sounds of a bunch of car doors slamming and looked out my window and saw 4 cars full of jw's with bookbags and smiles.. all parked in front of my house in the no parking area.. because jehovah would never allow his people to get a ticket for parking in the no parking snow ban area whilst spreading " the good news".
hmm, i can't think what to say to them.. should i pretend to be ignorant of what they teach and be nice or just let them have it.. i have that luxury because we have moved 20 miles away from our old kingdom hall.. any ideas?.
Well to update you all - I ran to the grocery store because a storm is coming and in New England its almost the law that you must run to the store and buy Milk, Bread, and Batteries.
The neighbor 2 houses down is married to a police officer and he must have called her because he gets really pissy when anyone parks even near his house.
She came and put tickets on every car that was parked on that side of the street where there is no parking because of the snow ban.
When I got back from my quick trip I saw the cars all had bright orange papers under their wipers.
So our town will have made $100 in revenue from the Dubs.
The ladies that eventually knocked on my door said........" Oh you speak English - no habla ingles - thank you - gracias" and they tried to give me a magazine which I politely refused.
.
the buzz is that this is the scariest movie to come out in a long time.... http://www.whitenoisemovie.com.
i'll go see it tomorrow night, then write a sizzling review.
I for one am not going to see that movie.
Our house is located by something wierd because every once in awhile when the stereo or tv is not even on noises will come out of the speakers.
My husband says its just a power surge and the energy goes somewhere but how is that possible when we have surge protectors.
Okay....I am science dumb maybe.
But I don't want to imagine any of those sounds might be voices of the undead!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!
Ps. I loved The Ring too.
i was just wondering if there was anyone else out there whose "friends" came to the elders and told them a bunch of fabricated crap about you before your "meeting with the elders.
" i had people that i grew-up with tell them that they had "personally seen me beat-up my mom.
" i had also been known to "host seances" in my parent's basement.
Well unless there are 2 witnesses to each act the "Good (ha ha) Brothers" should not take those accusations at all seriously.
But hey - the rules are changed by how much they like you anyway.
One may get a slap on the wrist others the whole NWT gets thrown at them.
Sorry your friends were such Donkey Butts to you.
