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  TICKLE ME ELMO....

  by memario in

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  there is a factory in northern minnesota which makes the tickle me elmo.

  toys.

  the toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.

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  Very funny!
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  In my computer room

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a nice window looking out on a tree lined street.

  i have an old table cloth nailed in the window that i pull back with a hair clip during the day.

  all day i watch families on bike rides, dog walkers, and i have my own personal road runner searching for lizards.

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  I am trying so hard to correct the typos...but I cannot get the freaking edit feature to take. It keeps reading error. Whats up with that? At any rate, I see the errors this time and I WANT to fix them, but do not seem to be able to. WOW this sucks!

  And yes wings...the sun will be out. I am excited for the change. I miss NM and I willl be there soon. There are many people that have lived here over the years and I have all those memories in my head, some bad...mostly good and even though the home will be flattened, you can't take those away from me, nor them.

  This place was holidays for many exjw's and a few will not be able to ever see the outside walls of a prison, so it was their last holidays. There is a HUGE Xmas scene across the street at the end of the year. Santa's village and there is this tree I love with lights so big and spaced. I wanted one last year in front of that tree and I got it. Then I wanted the buyers to let me stay here till June...they agreed. So I cannot complain. I know it is only going to get more pressing as time goes by. The city wanted this land.

  I had hoped my last set of holidays would have been better, for example we would not have been broke, and maybe things would have been so different...but I think it was a huge telling for me to wake up and say to myself that if something I wanted so badly was so damn crap...I think it was time for a change. Next Xmas morning, my son may be gone. Off to college. He may not come back. I just wanted his last year here to be a good one. instead he woke up to hell that AM. I just know it is time for us to go. None of us REALLY like it in little ways....but it feels so RIGHT in many ways. And I am happy and feel like I have gained so much of myself and them back by starting to do this.

  Like today, Sunday, I usually wake up and goof of on JWD and the computer in this room. Instead, I slept in. I got up, went to see my mom and spent quality time with my girls. Had a few kids over and we hot glued all we could find on old colored wine bottles I have been saving. still broke as a mugg but it was fun. We all pitched in and just had fun. It was more of what life should be. Peace. Then By the time I was done, bathtime and my littlest was so tired she took a bath no argument and ate and went right to bed. Now I get to goof.

  Here at the desk again, but with a twist. I have a day of "LIFE" in front of my computer goofing. Something to talk about and something to think about and treasure instead of cry or dwell on. It just is good.

  So this next week, I am starting the packing process and hon, I do believe it gets better. I really do. I hope that when we get there, maybe we can meet you. You might like our new computer room. Maybe we will too!

  Decki
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  In my computer room

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a nice window looking out on a tree lined street.

  i have an old table cloth nailed in the window that i pull back with a hair clip during the day.

  all day i watch families on bike rides, dog walkers, and i have my own personal road runner searching for lizards.

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  Hi Wings!

  My computer room is a buzz of activity. It is a built room that used to be a garage. They lifted the floor and layed wood parquet down and opened it up to the living room via French doors. There is a big window across one side and I can watch TV from the room by looking into the living room from my desk. I have my bed, camera equipment, costumes, lighting, and dress clothes all along one wall in this makeshift closet (but no doors).

  As you , I have loved, cried, gone crazy, lived, hidden and healed in this room. I have gone through marriages, divorce, debt, rejoicing and bringing my baby girl home, and family breakings in this room. The doors are mostly open and my kids come and go freely from the other parts of the house into here. When friends stop by, they always wind up in this room. I think it is the most welcoming. We have pierced ears, noses, braided hair, and cut hair here.

  I write, edit photos, plan scheme and have lusted here.

  My house will be torn down this year and it will be hard on many of us and I have been called and told by many that it is going to be odd to not have this room to come and crash and have talks in. My girlfriend and I have been drunk here, we have cried and yelled at each other here. Xmas presents are stored and wrapped here. Budgets set and broken. Dreams dreamed and euphoria reached as with disaster come smashing.

  Above the computer are pictures of loved ones and family. My children current and past. Photos loved ones have sent me from overseas and tickets I still have to take care of pinned to the wall.

  There are boxes of paper I have to sort through yet and work I need to get done, and plans I need to finish. Baskets of unfinished dresses I have not sewn yet and scattered and assorted ideas I have not finished before I got distracted to the next project.

  My teenage girl and her ex-step sister used to come in here and raid my perfume, my clothing and always had to look and clean out my jewelry. My littlest hangs onto my chair now and types letters to my friends and cam's it up with friends overseas. My son works late into the night on homework/facebook and my house used to be filled with a live band for a few good years when things were different. Heavy guitar slashing metal heads and great acoustic folk players have played here late into the night. A full set of Tama's have stood in the corner where now a printer stands.

  If anything is missing...it usually can be found at the computer desk. There are boxes of pictures and boxes of letters and love and distress...letters and notes, files and oh so much in the memory department.

  It will all be gone soon, and even though there is a soft part of me that can see the kids running up to me throughout the years in this room...jumping on the bed and crying over heartbreaks, it is time to move on. I think a new computer room and workroom/bedroom willl be good.

  Change is good. So I think about the good. Wash out the bad and we wil see what the new computer space looks like when we get there.

  Decki
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  Remember when assemblies were fun?

  by Aphrodite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just remembered when i was a kid and we would go to the assembly, it was fun because we got to buy new clothes and put extra effort into looking good.

  when we would get there you could save your seats and even save some for your friends, then go off looking for them.. i used to love our circuit assembly because of the food.

  it was at the assembly hall and there was a big kitchen, some of my favourite brothers worked in that kitchen, sometimes i was allowed to go in and help.

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  I agree, no one escapes pain, and I have seen many die, the way they live. Thats another topic though. A good one. All is not what it seems

  I was a big nerd. I loved the assemblies when a little kid, we had the big cooking kitchens and such and till mid teens I got to make the donuts. lol Dunking cake donuts in big vats of chocolate at early hours was a blast for a nerd like me. BUT on the flipside all of the fun things I did not do have killed off most of my childhood friends in later years. Seriously. It was and is hard on the few of us around.
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  Not interested in marriage/romance?

  by LtCmd.Lore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, so the site is full of people talking about their husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, childhood crushes, current crushes, future crushes, favorite positions, etc.. .

  by the very nature of rejecting marriage, there's very rarely an occasion to voice our disinterest in romance.

  we just kind of sit their silently while everyone else talks about their sexual and romantic preferences.. i'm sure i'm not the only one here, so how about it?

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  LtCmd.Lore~ Well it is kind of like Being a JW. I can talk about it. But perhaps its just not for me. Maybe there are many like that?
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  The Human Body

  by Sparkplug in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the human body is a machine that is full of wonder.

  this collection of human body facts will leave you .

  wondering why in the heck we were designed the .

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  -The average woman is 5 inches shorter than
  
  the average man.

  I must be an above average girl dating below average men. You know Sweetface~ as your laughing with me, I am laughing with you and Aly is laughing with me. Cracks me up!! I have seen this with several of the post today! Great women think in cycles I think just like the "other cycle" lol
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  What's the craziest thing you've lost your privileges over?

  by 5thGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this question dedicated to watson!

  5th... stick to the "losing my priviledges threads.".

  love when people can't take a joke unless it's theirs!

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  Reading the "National Lampoon".

  What?
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  Grinding too Hard

  by Sparkplug in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  so at night i grind too hard.

  i have busted all the surfaces off my teeth and now my crown and my other teeth have fractured and several are worn very thin and most have cracks that if i don't fix, they are going to be exposing a nerve soon.

  i have a night guard and i am now going to pay more attention to it, but seeing my insurance does not really pay much of any of the recunstruction due to the grinding of my teeth.

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  No Juni, right now it is more like the post is part of the crown and it pops into this thing in my jaw. but I think it is not cutting it and I need either one like you describe or a partial..or perhaps one of those where it bridges. (called a bridge perhaps?) At any rate, I need to get the teeth built up, or I am going to grind them down to the nub, because as it is...that is what I am doing.

  That is what I get for laughing at that man that made up nasal breathing strips. He needs to make up teeth grinding deterents now. lol
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  What's the craziest thing you've lost your privileges over?

  by 5thGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this question dedicated to watson!

  5th... stick to the "losing my priviledges threads.".

  love when people can't take a joke unless it's theirs!

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  Bourne~ You only got reproved. It must have been the male thing. I had to play the odds on that. When I told the truth and was sorry or a victim for real, total DF. But if not one bit sorry or lied. Well that was reproval. WTF?
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  Pink Floyd - Your Favorite Songs by the group?

  by Rapunzel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers?

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  A&W That had to be so moving. That song can bring me to my knees in tears. It is the lost abandoned child in me I think. All of the people gone from my life, all of the ones that have died, left, cannot get back...It is most powerful. When I hear it, I have to fight to hold it together. That and "3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond". Kind of like a rebirth song. Do you see? Did I sound like Red Dragon there? lol