first, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
they took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.. .
then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.. .
lol. yes brenda, I love it. oh the memories...wonderbread, tang, slip n' slide, pink floyd playing in another room...
I may have been born in the late 70's, but I paid close attention.
...instead of running around the house singing cutesy spongebob squarepants songs, or sesame street rhymes, I ran around singing..."we don't need no ed-u-cation."
tell me what you think is cool, and things you think are uncool..... cool.
rock music .
trainers .
ou, ou... the airstream. yes, very cool!
well guys, school starts back tomorrow, so you won't have to tolerate as much of me for a while.
i'm going to be quite busy: .
advanced calculus .
Holy smokes John,
Any three of those would be a full load in itself...but wow, yes, with all of that you will be one busy boy, no doubt.
i think the hardest thing i ever went through was my divorce.
it was something i knew i needed to go through, and get over, but it was the hardest thing of my life.
i wanted the divorce, but it was so very painful.... what's the hardest thing you've ever gone through?
Deliver my baby daughter. Still gives me chills!
lol. With all due respect, are you sure you want to take credit for that, roy?
gee, after reading through everyone else's toughest obstacles the thing I was going to mention starting sounding like kiddy stuff somewhere in between colon cancer, prison, and bottles of brandy.
if you could choose, which person in history would you like to be?.
(okay, i allow bible characters.
danny.
john muir
good choice!
you mean none of you men would like to have been Gloria Steinem? just think, you could have been a real moving force as an advocate in the women's liberation movement.
Rachel Carson also, was a pretty amazing woman. **or Marie Curie... so passionate for her cause, it consumed her**
check out this website:.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/.
i want one of these houses!
aw..those are adorable!
i want to throw out all of my stuff and move into front gable at once.
a recent thread where people were recommending music for someone going through a breakup, reminded me of the movie high fidelity.. the main charatcer, rob lists his top 5 breakup albums (and songs too i think, does anyone know what they were?).
what are the albums/songs that make you feel better, by making you feel worse?
here's a few of mine:.
Baby Bitch
LowKey- lol. if the title is any indication...hehe.
I think sea change is a good choice...slow, lots of break up material going on there.
Some of the saddest relationship music I have ever heard has come from the Red House Painters. (retrospective album).
But if I were a girl going through a breakup I would leave it to my girls from Heart circa 1976ish, to cheer me up. (dream boad annie and little queen)..eww...barracuda.
tell me what you think is cool, and things you think are uncool..... cool.
rock music .
trainers .
cool:
jenna bush (the cool twin) 
questioning authority
transatlantacism
putting splenda in diet coke
and sure, che guevera (minus the communism)
uncool:
barbara (the other twin)
road rage
customer service and high pressure sales...customers should help themselves & anything that cannot sale itself is probably unnecessary and therefore uncool. lol.
when they hand you back your change and your receipt is sandwiched in between the bills and the coins.
there is this guy going around another blog area thinking he is the last coca-cola in the desert.
constantly spewing nonsense from his big gob.... anyway now he has started up this did you know topic about the church's involvement in america's government.. one of his did you knows is:did you know?
every session of congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.. .
coca cola in the desert..te he.
sorry peaches, wish i could help. I don't know about that jesus and the money makers bit...the bulk of my biblical knowledge and I parted some time ago.
As for the prayer in congress, I guess it goes along with the "founding fathers" being christians themselves. I use that term loosely as to not disrespect native americans who's genocide was basically mapped out by the successors of the founding fathers, also known as Lewis and Clark.
i just returned from ontario, where a family member died, i was reading the obit, and i know its been said millions of times, but this really blew me away.
"a private family burial at ______ cemetery.
a memorial service will be held at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses on saturday august 13, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. as expressions of sympathy, please send donations to world wide work of jehovah's witnesses.".
yeah, its a very common practice now for people to include, within their funeral arrangements, a addendum for donations "to go to charity of choice" rather than dropping dough on perishable flowers. personal choice. but, I hear you, no one here wants to see the wts's wallet get fatter out of it.
