i was recently introduced to a new british musician, adele.
i really like her new album, "19".
this is a live performance of her single, chasing pavements.
I am not a Brit, but an american woman from good ole Illinois, I love Adele. I have been listening to her for a couple of months now, just the single Chasing Pavements. I think her voice is unique and I cannot wait to buy her CD this weekend.
Her style reminds of a mixture of Corrine Baily Rae (?) and Joss Stone, and I think Adele is beautiful, glad she not a bone skinny musician, you know?
Nikki
in massachusetts, possession of pot, if under an ounce will only get you a fine, under a new law.. some say this will send the wrong message about illegal drug use.
(personally, i don't imbibe but i know many that do).
so, do you think allowing this law to pass will bring about more illegal drug use?.
Yes, I think it should be.
Marijuana does not make people violent, nasty, mean, or angry. If anything, it makes some lazy. All in all, I feel its a relaxer and I am not against it.
Nikki
taken from another posting on here (holy disfellowshipping batman).... 50 kids have been disfellowshipped from the following areas, round lake, palatine, crystal lake,cary,barrington, in the last 30 days.. anyone have any further info?.
I am from the area too, I wish there were more details!
Nikki
wow, .
i heard yesterday that 50 (yes 50) young people have been disfellowshipped within the past month in my .
old circuit.
Hey, I am from those areas, and still live in the area. I know there are a few people from Illinois on this board, I am so curious!
Kerj, if you read this, let us know if you heard anything?
Nikki
having a baby doesn't make you a loving and selfless mother automatically.
mom had her hang-ups before we were born, sis.
i think she took out all her frustrations and anger on us because she was so mad at life and the hand she was dealt.
Sorry CC, I do not post much, but read here alot, sorry for the gender thing, I assumed!
Take care!
Nikki
this has me very confused.
if someone is agnostic or leaning strongly that way, how can the fact that people claim to be haunted by ghosts, spirits, say they can talk to the dead, are possessed by evil spirits, etc be reconciled to make sense?
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I am an agnostic, I simply do not know what to believe in.
If I have proof, I will believe. I do not think there is anything wrong with this thinking. Others might, but so what. It's the way it is. I have not accepted Jesus or God into my heart/mind, and I do not plan on it until I have proof. That means I am faithless when it comes to this, then I am faithless. But this does not stop me from living life, I do not feel I am fault because I need proof. I enjoy life very much, I do not have to have all the answers. When I get the answers, then thats when I get them.
Nikki
having a baby doesn't make you a loving and selfless mother automatically.
mom had her hang-ups before we were born, sis.
i think she took out all her frustrations and anger on us because she was so mad at life and the hand she was dealt.
I am a mother of 3 children. My 1st and 2nd were surprises, I was 22 when I got pregnant with my daughter, I wondered too if I would be a good mother due to my childhood? I used to call my mother "mommy dearest". Mom hated that, the one time I said it to her as a joke, well it was ugly and I will leave it at that. Joan Crawford reminds me of my mother. I remember my mom asking me to vaccum the living room, just a touch up she said. I decided to do an extra good job, and vaccum under the plants, and all of a sudden she slaps me across the face because I did not do what she told me to do???
I have asked myself "why couldn't I have had a different life"? since I was old enough to think about it. Why, Why, WHY?
I stopped asking a long time ago because I am me now, I know who am. I can't change what happened but I certainly can make my children's life good. They are 11 & 9 now (I have a 1 year old too) and wonderful children. They do not have to feel stressed, or walk on their toes in our house. I never spanked by kids either, I just could not do it. Frankly, it worked, they did not need spankings (although I am NOT judging those that do, I just can't do it).
Can you be a good mother? Yes, the past is the past, we can't change it but we ourselves can make our lives better, not only for you, but the children that we have or will have. There is sense gratification knowing that my children did not have to go through what I went through, and I can contribute in making their lives full, it just takes alot of love.
I feel for you, reading your post broke my heart because I still remember what I went through too, I just can't let it consume me.
Nikki
nothing makes one happier to be out of religious crap that a conversation with a true believer.. it all started innocently enough.
we talked about music.
he said i probably knew nothing about music and that he was a former disk jockey.
Sounds to me that the true believer you spoke with has an insecurity problem, has to make himself feel better by putting you down whether by name calling or acting like hes smarter than you. I was glad to read he got on the bus.
Nikki
mine is al green's "let's stay together".
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what song's your fav?
Dr Hook, "Sharing the Night Together" (I think it came out in 82-83, I was 7 or 8 I think). My mom and I lived in this apartment in a near suburb of Chicago (Addison, IL), she was a waitress and was not home alot, I stayed home alone alot at that time, I would sit in the kitchen in this big bulky rocking chair and listen to this song over and over.
I even had it played at my wedding so me & hubby could dance together to it, I sang the whole song in his ear .
Nikki
I love yellow roses. For Mother's day, someone in my family usually gets me some annual or perennial, and really that's my favorite gift for Mother's day. So far at least, it would be nice if I got something from Tiffany's...once at least .
Nikki
