i am a rather old fogey on the matter - just black and hot.
but i like the occasional mocha.. what use of this universal bean is your favorite?
how many do you drink a week?
If I'm making it at home, decaf & heavy cream & splenda - add a few shakes of cinnamon to the grind for zip -
If I am at Starbucks (which is quite often) then I am the one with the long winded order:
Grande -decaf -sugar- free- breve -Cinnamon Dolce Latte, please!
i know of jws that celebrate "family day" at this time of year.
i have asked these jw about where they got the term "family day" was it from the watchtower?
they seem to deny the watchtower had ever mentioned "family day", but i can sense they are trying to hide something here.
We always had family day growing up, usually January or February. We now refer to it as our childhood "un-christmas"
i have depressingly frequent dreams of being back in the borg.
i am out on the work thinking why am i here i don't do this anymore.
i am in kingdom halls with my mag - underlined!
I've had a few nightmares about that, but definitely no dreams!
when you will have been an exjw for as long as you were a jw?.
i was raised in the jws from before the age of 10, and stopped going to the kh at the age of 31. i was involved with the jws for a total of 23 years.
i will be 54 years old by the time i have spent more of my life as an exjw than i did as a jw..
Well, if i count from the age I was when I missed more meetings than I attended and stopped going out in service, I will be roughly 44.
If we count from the very last meeting of any kind attended, then I will be 52 when I pass that milestone.
just did a mapquest... weekend after this i'll be staying at a hotel only 17 miles away.
any idea who owns it now?
is it visible from the street?
It is right on the street, so yes you can drive right up to it.
this is for the us crowd, what state do you live in?
or from?----i live in tennessee, but from ohio and kentucky.
California now, originally New Hampshire
since modern music keeps coming up, we need to address the classical!
what are your favorite pieces and the artists?
if you play an instrument, pick the piece that's your favorite to play or you wish you could play.. r.. my favorite is fantasy impromtu by chopin.
Suite bergamasque 1890, Clair de lune by Claude Debussy
yet another article in such a short period of time...someone already mentioned it would be in the jan15 2007 wt.
here are the scans:.
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What stuck out first for me was that those leaving are compared to Satan in the opening paragraphs, and that comparison is made several more times in the article. As if everyone that is leaving has some nefarious plan for their lives and everyone who crosses their path!
I know it is nothing new - I think that article has been regurgitated with updated pictures at least a dozen times since I learned to read, but it still pains me to think about all of the people who lap it up and shun their families, and the pain that is caused by all this backwards drivel paraded as "advice."
your absolute favorite song of all time.
no lists.
just your absolute favorite and artist.. mine:.
One song? There are so many that move me and I have so many favorites , but for the sake of following Jeff's guideline for his thread, I will post only ONE of my favorites:
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
i can't help it... i love the freakin' place!.
i know it's insanely expensive, has long lines and possibly, no, actually is quite obnoxious.
i don't care.
I don't do caffeine, but I had to jump on the Starbucks wagon...currently I'm attached to my Grande decaf cafe americano with cream & 3 equal ! But I don't go that often - less than once per month.
I remember my first starbucks experience - a kiosk at O'Hare about 7 years ago - I got a cup of it before a very early morning flight - put my usual amount of creamer, and was amazed that the color hadn't changed one bit, (and I am routinely teased by being asked if I want a little coffee with my cream). I took my first sip and about gagged, poured an inch out and added an inch of cream and more sugar - still tasted like tar... needless to say, by the time I got down to 1/2 coffe and 1/2 cream and it STILL tasted like a pound of beans had been used to brew that one cup, I chucked it in the trash. I had a negative opinion of Starbucks after that, until I tried the Caramel Macchiato a few years ago and that changed my opinion.
But when I go back east, there is still no beating a great plain old cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee, which I will take any day of the week over Starbucks - unfortunately, there are not any DD's to be had in California!
