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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

Celia,

I make jam. I actually mash my blackberries and then blend them a bit in the blender. After that I strain them. Some seeds go through but not that many.

It's more work but I agree with you I don't like ALL those seeds in my jam. They get stuck to my teeth.

All this sweet jam/jelly talk has made we want to go and buy goober grape (strawberry & peanut butter) & make myself a peanut butter & jelly sandwich! I think that I will do just that and wash it down with a cappuccino from starbucks.

I have a sweet tooth.

XOXO

Capp

ps. I'm not a confrontational person. Emotionally it would be harder for me to "drag" this into court or drag the police in it. Some one mentioned writing a lette to the editor. I might do that as a rhetoric queston Stealing or not stealing?

I'm also going to take finals (I'm a 1st year graduate student clinician) the 2nd week of Dec. (2 weeks) & I need to make sure I know my material. I missed days with my surgery & then my daughter had strep throat.

Emotionally her actions drained me out of my energy & anything would make me cry. (& It's not PMS) There has been way to many bumps on my road this quarter.

I might just do an inquiry with the police & ask for their opinion & maybe I can just file a report. I'll ask them if they'll take any type of action. If it's over $50.00 they might just say that the retail value of 4 jars full of jam is not $50.00 & that I might not be able to do anything.

Thank you all for the wonderful input.

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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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friends

yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

Thank you all for your amazing comments. I will definately change my locks. The elders from the English congregation have been hounding me for months.

My JW housekeeper goes to the Spanish congregation (the only one in the are) way out in Timbuktu (the county.) All I need is for her to relay the info to the English congregation elders & have them come into my home.

Can you imagine them looking in the boxes in my closet with x-mas decorations; or in my drawers & finding a Silent Lamb T-shirt?

1/2 of my family are still hard core JW's & they still talk to me cause I'm not DF. My pioneer sister in law would rejoice if I were to get DF. She would rub it in my brother's face.

Okay, I'm changing my lock TODAY,

Thank you all; My heart is starting to feel a bit better. It was really down & sad.

XOXO,

Capp

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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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friends

yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

Thank you Celia for offering your blackberr jam. Blackberries grow like crazy here in the NW (late July & August).

It's super expensive to mail that is why I was saving mine until I flew south. I'm going to see if any of the stores have frozen blackberries. Even if I can only make a jar or two for my grandman. It would be a different story if my hand wasn't in a cast and if I would have full mobility once the cast comes off.

As it is, I can't evn hold a cup full of coffee with my left hand. I have six screws, 1 metal plate, 8 inches of stiches and a bone alograft. I saw some Knotts Berry Farm Jellies/Jams (x-mas pack) at Costco & even though it will not be the same thing I'm going to see if they will offer to buy those in place of the ones she took.

If they don't then I'll just have to buy them for my grandmother. I could probably decorate the lids with fabric & add a special touch to them.

Capp

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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

I have no idea what homemade blackberry jam sells for. The emotional value is greater than $50.00. Ff I were to charge $10.00 (the amount I pay her per hour) and not the amount that I make $29.00 per hour as a graduate-clinician.

It would be two hours for picking.$20.00

One hour for prepping.= $10.00

Two hours for canning. $20.00

The jars are 1.00 a piece $4.00

That would be a total of $54.00 not including sentimental value.

Capp

edited for math correction

So I'm a Graduate Student Speech Language Clinician and not a mathmatician

Edited by - Cappuccino OC on 23 November 2002 17:34:26

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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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friends

yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

Hi everyone,

I totally understand that her being salvadoran has nothing to do with it. I'm latina my self; I was born in Mexico but raised in the states. I thought it could have been a cultural difference that I just diddn't understand.

Most born & raised Latins don't consider me a true Latina for having been raised in the states. My paternal family is from Texas and my maternal family from Guadalajar, Jalisco, Mexico.

I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. But everyone that I talked to has told me that taking "items" big or small without permission is stealing and not cultural.

I am sorry that I got her hubby involved. I wanted him to help me speak to her in a way that she would acknowledge that what she did was wrong (stealing & entering with out permission).

But he blew me away. Remeber I'm inactive so I don't know a thing. How dare I use biblical scriptures if I don't go to meetings. He defended her & excused her actions. He told me that I was not a "good" JW and true chrisitan & so & so on.

He's on her side. I gave up trying to reason with him.

I can't get my jams back because she sent them to California Monday during the wee hours with her sister in law for her mother. The jams are long gone.

Luckily, my key can't be duplicated. It says on it "Do not Duplicate."

Bummed out,

Capp

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Salvadoran JW house cleaner STOLD my homemade JAM

by Cappuccino OC in

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friends

yup, .

i have a cleaning lady because i had surgery on my left arm and i have a cast.

i hired her because i thought i could trust her.

Cappuccino OC

Yup,

I have a cleaning lady because I had surgery on my left arm and I have a cast. I hired her because I thought I could trust her.

I gave her my house key. (Big mistake).

While my duaghter and I where asleep, she used my house key to come in and steal my last 4 homemade blackberry jams that I made for my grandmother last August.

She just helped herself to them. Her sisterinlaw was leaving to California in the wee hours of Monday so Sunday night she came in without asking if she could have them.

I had made them for my 83 year old grandmother. I'm heading to Calif. next month. I was going to mail them but it would have cost me $32.00 dollars.

When I picked the blackberries I accidentally got stung with Stinging Nettles & my hands hurt for a couple of days.

She then told me Monday night what she had done. She wasn't feeling guilty or anything. I had no idea what to do. My jaw just dropped. I was irate. I then told her, "I can't believe I slept through it all. A robber can break into my house and I don't even feel it." She didn't get it.

I then talked to her hubby the MS. I told him that what his wife did was "breaking in" and "stealing". He got irate at me. He said he couldn't beleive I was making such a big deal about a couple jars of "jam". I tried to explain things to him & he said, "I don't want to hear your story. What do you want me to do?" I told him I need my jams back because they are for my grandmother; she needs to ask foregiveness for breaking in and stealing and I Want my house key back.

I used a bit of their own medecine on them by telling him, "the bible states that he who is faithful in the minimum is faithful in the maximum; and when someone committs a bad thing then their has to be acts of redemption."

He had the odacity to say, "You're blowing things out of proportion." Many brothers/sisters can vouch for her character." I then told him I'm sure she has a good character but I'm referring to WHAT she DID last Sunday night.

Then he said, "you're not applying the biblical scriptures correct." I said, well I can apply Ceasar's law by contacting the police and filing a report of the break in and burglary."

He then got upset and said he'd have to get back to me but not to call the police on his wife.

I was so emotional distraught. I picked the blackberries; got stung by stinging nettles; I canned my jam in special jars. Then they get stolen a couple weeks before my trip to Calif. My grandmother is expecting her jam. It's a tradition that I do every year for her.

I was so upset; I felt violated. I cried & cried. I can't believe I trusted her. I'm not DF but I'm inactive. She doesn't know that I will never go back.

To top it off, my left arm is in a cast till the 12-03-02 & it's not like I can pick blackberries. THey are seasonal.

What do I do? Do I file charges? I got my house key back. Her help was only temporary until my cast came off.

Capp

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Harry Potter New Movie opened yesterday 11/15/02

by Cappuccino OC in

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i took my daughter to go see the new harry potter movie yesterday.

we bought the tickets last week on fandango.com.

how many of you guys have watched it?

Cappuccino OC

It's going to keep rising. I'd go watch it again. I saw LOTR. Now I want to see the new one comming out next month.

Capp

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Should I continue to support Bill Bowen?

by Gamaliel in

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to whom it may concern, .

i have contributed financially to the cause of silentlambs.org and have, to a smaller extent, even promoted the website.

it is difficult enough to fathom the depth of hurt heaped on humankind, but impossible for me to understand how such suffering can be compounded with injustice, as i read experiences on silentlambs.org.

Cappuccino OC

So elder, (newbie) oh yeah, Gamaliel,

Are you trying to cause division beteen us?

Are you trying to make us doubt Bill?

It isn't going to happen.

You claim to have helped SL. It's only a claim. We don't know if you really have.

What's your motivation for posting now?

Why didn't you even take the time to introduce yourself. If you were a regular here you'll notice how "newbies" introduce themselves.

Or are you the WTS posting as Gamaliel?

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Should I continue to support Bill Bowen?

by Gamaliel in

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to whom it may concern, .

i have contributed financially to the cause of silentlambs.org and have, to a smaller extent, even promoted the website.

it is difficult enough to fathom the depth of hurt heaped on humankind, but impossible for me to understand how such suffering can be compounded with injustice, as i read experiences on silentlambs.org.

Cappuccino OC

Good observation Prisca. Gamaliel is a newbie - 1 post.

The screen name made me curious & l looked up info on who Gamaliel is. The info is pretty interesting.

Gamaliel: the Elder", ....and remained a member of the Sanhedrin for the purpose of helping secretly his fellow-Christians (the bold & underlining are mine.)

(Greek form of the Hebrew name meaning "reward of God").

The name designates in the New Testament a Pharisee and celebrated doctor of the Law.

Gamaliel is represented in Acts, v, 34 sqq., as advising his fellow-members of the Sanhedrin not to put to death St. Peter and the Apostles, who, notwithstanding the prohibition of the Jewish authorities, had continued to preach to the people.

His advice, however unwelcome, was acted upon, so great was his authority with his contemporaries. We learn from Acts, xxii, 3, that he was the teacher of St. Paul; but we are not told either the nature or the extent of the influence which he exercised upon the future apostle of the Gentiles.

Gamaliel is rightly identified with an illustrious Jewish doctor of the Law, who bore the same name and died eighteen years before the destruction of Jerusalem.

In the Talmud, this Gamaliel bears, like his grandfather Hillel, the surname of "the Elder",and is the first to whom the title "Rabban", "our master", was given.

He appears therein, as in the book of the Acts, as a prominent member of the highest tribunal of the Jews. He is also treated as the originator of many legal ordinances; as the father of a son, whom he called Simeon, after his father's name, and of a daughter who married the priest Simon ben Nathanael.

The Jewish accounts make him die a Pharisee, and state that: "When he died, the honour of the Torah (the law) ceased, and purity and piety became extinct." At an early date, ecclesiastical tradition has supposed that Gamaliel embraced the Christian Faith, and remained a member of the Sanhedrin for the purpose of helping secretly his fellow-Christians (cf. Recognitions of Clement, I, lxv, lxvi). According to Photius, he was baptized by St. Peter and St. John, together with his son and with Nicodemus. His body, miraculously discovered in the fifth century, is said to be preserved at Pisa, in Italy.

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Harry Potter New Movie opened yesterday 11/15/02

by Cappuccino OC in

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i took my daughter to go see the new harry potter movie yesterday.

we bought the tickets last week on fandango.com.

how many of you guys have watched it?

Cappuccino OC

Christian O,

Thanks for the update. I'll watch it without my 9 year old daughter. She liked HP but the LOTR might be too much for her. Tolkien sounds like a very interesting person to have worked on translating one of the bible's.

Twinkletoes,

No, it's not bragging. I would do the same thing if it was my son. How exciting. I loved the special effects. I like the pictures moving & how the candles float when they are having dinner. The invisible cloak is also pretty neat. The mandrakes were pretty ugly squirmy things. The crashing Owl is funny too; poor little owl. How long has he done special effects? I heard that there is going to be a new producer for the 3rd movie. I think it's some latin man. I heard it on entertainment news about a month ago.

Capp