What a delightful concept! :)
If you do decide to ever do another one, I've got tons of recipies I could give...heck, I could even give you both empirical and metric measurements. :)
::trots off to look at the cookbook offer more indepth::
forsharry
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I'm so bummed...
by forsharry intook my firefighter physical agility test today.
got to the second part, the hose pull...and then crashed and burned.
talk about supremely disappointing.
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forsharry
thanks for your votes of confidence...I really appreciate them...as far as me going first? I have no earthly idea why...but everyone seemed nice about it and were bummed that I failed that part...or at least they came across that I wasn't a wimpy girl kind of thing. I was very nervous about going first though...I would have liked to have seen another person go through the ropes so to speak before going myself...but at least now I know what the first two tests are...I guess it means more push ups for me. (ARGH.) it's frustrating...I have a lot of leg strength and very strong core...my arms are strong too, to a degree...but I saw that if I don't get it very quickly, the fatigue sets in and it was downhill from there...
ah well. I'll just have to find another road to go down...but not today. Today I think I'm going to lick my wounds and cry in my beer. ;)
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I'm so bummed...
by forsharry intook my firefighter physical agility test today.
got to the second part, the hose pull...and then crashed and burned.
talk about supremely disappointing.
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Not sure about the gloves thing. I do know that they had given me the smallest pair, but if I do go back for another go at this I will be bringing my own gloves if I'm allowed. It wasn't the thing that caused me to fail solely, but it's hard to keep ahold of a ladder or rope when the weight is literally stripping the gloves off of your hands. what a pain. I did make sure to voice my complaint as i huffed and puffed through the 10 minute torture. ;)
that's what my mom says...that if it's meant to be it will be...maybe this isn't the exact direction I should be taking...maybe I should just go back to school and do solely paramedic versus being a dual firefighter/medic. who knows...that's where the true bumminess comes in cause it's like...well Sh!t...now what do I do?
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I'm so bummed...
by forsharry intook my firefighter physical agility test today.
got to the second part, the hose pull...and then crashed and burned.
talk about supremely disappointing.
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Thanks! Yeah I guess that is true...what really stunk was I was the only woman and I was the first one to go! AAAAAHHH! No pressure. On a good note, I know that I'm not afraid of heights, and that I can pull about 50lbs from three stories for about 7 minutes before my arms give out from muscle fatigue.
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Help the Newbie
by confused_101 inhey all i'm sure that this is probably a silly question and maybe i'm just a bit slow (no, not a blonde...lol) but could y'all let me know what all the abreviations mean.
i get some of them...jw, dw but like dub, what is that one and any others that are used on a regular basis.
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forsharry
well first off you have to use IE...it won't show up on Mozilla foxfire...believe me...it stinks to post from home versus work.
anyway. if you have IE at the top of this box where you type everything in will be a little smilie face. Click on it and a box will open...there is a veritable cornucopia of smilies in there to use...or you could ask Legolas...She's got lots of high-tech NICE smilies to use. I'm not sure where she picked hers up from.
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Help the Newbie
by confused_101 inhey all i'm sure that this is probably a silly question and maybe i'm just a bit slow (no, not a blonde...lol) but could y'all let me know what all the abreviations mean.
i get some of them...jw, dw but like dub, what is that one and any others that are used on a regular basis.
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hehehe...we are very quick...
our ninja typing skills are very good... ;)
Forsharry of the "Kung-Fu" Class
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I'm so bummed...
by forsharry intook my firefighter physical agility test today.
got to the second part, the hose pull...and then crashed and burned.
talk about supremely disappointing.
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Took my firefighter Physical Agility Test today. Got to the second part, the hose pull...and then crashed and burned. Talk about supremely disappointing. I was so close to getting the nozzel up over the bar, and then it would have been clear sailing so to speak...but the gloves they gave me to use were so big that I couldn't get a proper grip on the rope let alone cinch it enough to pull the nozzle over. Anyway...I failed...couldn't do the other parts of the test that I would have been able to pass with flying colors on and all I got to do was climb a 75 foot ladder.
I really wanted to do this...it was a firefighter/EMT job...I'm trying to be practical about it, but I never fail...or I never allow myself to...and I fought with that rope till my time was up too. Just a very much bad disappointment. :(
I'm guessing the meds are working pretty well, cause so far so good...I don't feel like my life is over because of this (the old-Sharry would have) and I don't want to die or give up or anything...I was just looking to get into a new field because I'm burned out doing design work for the newspapers around here and there isn't any real advertising agencies where I'm at. I want to keep moving in the direction of getting out of my job...but I just don't know where to go now...sigh.
I'll have another chance, maybe, to retake the test in january (that has not been decided yet.) And I'd like to try it again, but i'm not sure if I could take a twice fail yanno?
I'm sorry that I'm babbling here...i just wanted to get this off my chest. Thanks for reading.
Forsharry of the "I thought I could, I thought I could" Class
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Help the Newbie
by confused_101 inhey all i'm sure that this is probably a silly question and maybe i'm just a bit slow (no, not a blonde...lol) but could y'all let me know what all the abreviations mean.
i get some of them...jw, dw but like dub, what is that one and any others that are used on a regular basis.
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hmmm...WTS - Watchtower Tract Society
DA - Disassociated
DF - Disfellowshipped
CO - Circuit Overseer
DO - District Overseer
Troof - Truth
SO - Service Overseer
MS - Ministerial Servant Dub/Dubbie - Jehovah's Witness <example> (I used to be a dub, but then I was DF'ed)
I'm sure more will be added...that's all I can think of atm.
Forsharry of the "Alphabet Soup" Class
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Card of Encouragement From Long-time JW Reeks of Despair
by Seeker4 ini happened to see a card a few minutes ago from a jw i grew up with to another jw that we grew up with.
all of us are in our 50s now, and we've known each other since we were early teens.. the sister who wrote the card has pioneered for decades.
she's married, but decided to never have kids.
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"You can either get busy living, or get busy dying." - Shawshenk Redemption
That quote stuck with me after I saw that movie...because that was the choice I was stuck with while being subjected to the "TRUTH." We were living to die...and deep down inside, dying to live. However, do I feel sorry for this woman who willingly made that choice? Nope. Somewhere in ourselves, we all reached that crossroads...whether we were 12 or 112. Do we choose to continue to believe, even though we're miserable (insert reason here ie. cause it's a lie, cause i'm miserable, etc. etc. etc.) or to we get out and try to free that dying songbird that has been shut away in our little cage for so long that it doesn't even remember how to sing?
It is incredibly sad that someone would choose the latter...to simply endure till death...as another poster said, To Live for GOD'S sake. Oh yeah, this is what our loving God wants for us...to live in misery. What a waste of the very short existence we were granted.
I mean how many of us would sit up at night and wish for death? I know I did when I was a dub. Why? Because at 19 I was tired...tired of the pioneering and the constant, incessent meetings and Dubspeak. Tired of all of it. I couldn't imagine going on until my 50s existing that way. I was 19 and wishing for death...and thinking that in death I would gain the salvation of resurrection. Why? Cause the dead had it easy. All they had to do was die, cause death covers our sins, right? So it was die...or c-o-n-t-i-n-u-e on till what? Armaggedon? Oh yeah, I was REALLY looking forward to that. All of my non-believing family, friends from school...and generally majority of nice, good people were going to be destroyed...oh I really wanted front row seats for that.
Forsharry of the "Rambling and rambling and rambling" Class
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HELP ME WITH MY TALK! DON'T MAKE ME BEG!
by stillAwitness intheme: what can we learn from jesus' family?
source material: student research
working on point #25: use of an outline- (basically making sure i don't read straight from my notes and my words flow)
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Oh, I know, you can use the theories out of that Dan Brown book...DaVinci Code...
Jesus' Family...well of course you can talk about how close and spiritually connected he and Mary Magdalene was and how she brought up her child under the same theological guidelines that her husband and martyr set forth...and that she too, preached across the land (while really fleeing the romans) and entered into France where she helped found the French Royal Family (whom claim that they had the blood o' christ flowing through them with Christ's child.) - I'm sure I'm butchering or somehow getting these explosive points wrong...but you get my drift. ;)
Forsharry, of the "As the world turns so do the days of our lives" class