damn!!!.
i hit enter way too soon.. i've got a long post coming, so hold your applause for a moment, ok?
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Wow! Glad you're okay. I'd be looking for that first lawyer (maybe through the second lawyer) and see what happened. If there was no good reason for his dereliction of duty, I would sue. Maybe he could be disbarred.
I'd say "All's well that ends well," but I don't think is over yet.
Crafty
recently an elder called mike's mob phone wanting to speak to me, the only person who could have passed on that info was my elder dad.
mike has been waiting for my dad to call him to arrange to see the kids, as he wont deal with me at all.
so mike said to him i dont appreciate you giving our number out to the elders, we want nothing to do with them or your religion etc... mike than called me and said there was so much more i wanted to tell him.. i get a phone call about 30 mins later, mike had rang my dad and said if you want to see your grandkids then there are a few rules you will need to follow, 1. dont ever give out our personal details (which my dad apologised for and acknowldeged that he shouldnt have done that ) and 2. if you want to see your grandkids you need to speak to your daughter, you can msg her phone or even speak to her.
I agree with what everyone has said. If your father can't show you respect, why should he have access to your children? That would almost be like admitting that you did something wrong. Your husband really has his act together. What a hero!
i live in the southern united states.
i'm not too fond of the state i'm in but i'm within close driving distance of some very cool places.
the people in the south are awesome, very hospitable.
I'm in the Finger Lakes area of NYS. It's beautiful here. We don't seem to get that lake effect snow they get from the Great Lakes (my brother is in Owego and they measure the snow in feet, not inches). Summers a little muggy once in a while, but all in all its a good place to live.
I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens until I was 12 when we move upstate. Went to the Woodhaven and Ozone Park congregations but it was so long ago I don't remember many names.
Crafty
a jw's couple bought a restaurant , relatively nice one too, here in town.
so i am doing my part in spreading the good news about how my son, a member of their church, had his assembly here in my town 3 weekends ago and was not allowed to talk to me due to my no longer beign a jw (and my shop is 2 blocks from the arena they had their assembly in).
i have not spoken with him in 8 years.
A woman I work with has a part-time job waitressing on a dinner cruise. She got left a tract by some witnesses. Maybe everyone who goes to this restaurant could leave different types of religious tracts--even JW ones. Payback, ahh!
Crafty
lsu, california state,, eastern and western illinois among others offer fantastic classes.
harvard even offers a doctorate degree on line, although you will have to attend for a short time on campus.
several members of my family are finishing up degrees or advancing them through clep tests or on line classes through these sites, with testing done at local colleges or homework sent through the mail at minimal cost compared even to your local jr. college.
Just make sure that the school is fully accredited by one of the regional accrediting agencies. I work in a government job where I have to verify degrees and we cannot accept non-accredited degrees.
Crafty
i swear to god, i've gone absolutely insane!.
my kids!
will the fighting stop?
My sister and I were on a road trip with our sons (we each have one boy and they were about 10 at the time). They were bickering like brothers with the "He touched me" and "He's on my side" stuff. We tried all the "don't make me stop the car" sayings but nothing worked. I said the craziest think I could think of - "If you two don't stop, I'm going to reach back there and twist your lips off." Well they thought that was funny and it took their minds off each other for a few minutes. They still remember it and laugh about it when they are reminiscing.
ok, i about had a heart attack this morning.. i have two cats, and they get out once in a while when someone doesnt shut the door.
so my fluffy got out about 10 pm last night.
i left the patio door open a crack for him to get in........but he didnt come back.. first place i went at 8:00am this morning?
The guy who lives in the apartment above mine has a son who visits some nights and most weekends. The kid's obviously got issues and he tries to get his dad's attention by making lots of noise because he knows his dad will react. Last Friday night he started his routine--knocking chairs over and throwing things on the floor, etc., and his dad told him to stop because it would bother me. The kid said, "You don't care about me, I don't care about her." The boy will drop something over and over and over and if his dad says something, he says in that real whiny voice, "Whaaaatt? I wasn't doing anything." He's 11 or 12, not a baby.
A couple of weeks ago, he was on a real rampage and his dad said, "Do you want to go back to the psych center?" It was a cruel thing to say, but it explains a lot like the time we didn't see anything of him for a month. I feel sorry for both of them and sorry for me when this is going on.
Other than that, it really is a great apartment--off-street parking, washer/dryer, and lots of storage.
where my wife and i work, they have a refrigerator in the break room.
it's used for temporary storage of employee food items - for lunch, and in some cases for butter or other perishable items.. it's easier to take a tub of butter and leave it at work for spreading on toast, than it is to take a tub of butter in to work, use it, then take it home in the evenings.. well, we take a few things like the above mentioned tub of butter (not margarine), bottles of water, and sodas.
we usually put our initials on the top of the bottles (which is a pain - but necessary), and place them in a certain location in the refrigerator.. the water and sodas, go inside the door at the bottom, all grouped together.
A co-worker and I cleaned out the two fridges in the lunch room last Friday. We put a sign up three weeks before that if it wasn't gone by Friday morning, it would be trashed. Even so, there were some people saying "You threw my half and half away?" The other lady is quite outspoken and said, "What part of that sign didn't you understand?" One lady said, "I thought you'd just throw out the old stuff." Grr. I like FF's idea of cleaning it out every week.
Yuk and eeeww don't begin to describe the spills and spoiled food. The frozen lunches in the freezer weren't bad but lots of stuff in the fridges were nasty old leftovers. No wonder it smelled bad.
Now the fridges are so clean and smell much better. We got many offers of employment for our cleaning skills. Maybe someone knows of a pioneer who needs work.
yes, there are several of us that either have to go to the crap-assed assembly this year, or simply because we plan on taking notes and posting them here.
knowing how bloody boring the entire thing is, i've made some tips up on how you can keep awake during the 2007 borefest:are you really going to the assembly this year?
are you ready to fall asleep by 10:05am when the opening song and prayer are over?
I used to sit next to someone who always wore a lightweight jacket. She had a radio in her pocket and the wire up her sleeve to her ear. She sat there doing her shorthand homework and she looked like she was taking mega-notes. She was my role model.
flipper again.
personally my all time favorite song?
stairway to heaven by led zeppelin.one of my top favorite groups ,too.
Don't laugh, but it's Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. I love his voice and the music. Pretty woman, la, la, la..
