Posts by wings

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JUST FINISHED talking to my dad, & wow, what a door knob he is.

jw
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sorry to put it that harshly.

i posted previously that i wrote my parents a heart-felt letter, an after-months-of-fighting-letter, my dad responded, i wrote back 2 times and he didn't respond for 2 and a half weeks.

so yesterday, i called him to ask if he got my last two emails and he was short with me and nervous and wierd, i don't know why i expected different.. today he called back to say how sorry he was for being short and nervous and wierd, that he was up all night because he was rude and he knew it, his words.

wings

Wow, so sorry. It is unbelieveable (in the real world) how they give ABSOLUTELY NO VALIDITY to any thinking outside of the borg. Of course we are not talking about the real world.

Mr. Flipper, you have some very good points. There is so much to talk to a loved one about besides the differences in beliefs. It is easy to get offended by them, but a much better place to be when you can resist that and find a pathway through it. For a daughter I am sure it is easier than for a father, especailly if you are raised in the borg. However, not impossible, just harder.

I have a door knob FIL, he can be so hard. My SIL is easy for me to be patient with, my husband is hard.

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Any introverts out there?

by wings in

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i took freedom frogs personality test yesterday, three times.

my lowest introverted score was 67. i think that borders on recluse.

are you comfortable with that part of yourself?.

wings

I took Freedom Frogs personality test yesterday, three times. My lowest introverted score was 67. I think that borders on recluse.

So, are any of you introvert/recluse?

Are you comfortable with that part of yourself?

Are you concerned that your idea of a good time is to drink wine and watch a movie ALONE?

just wondering

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2 yrs good health left + 1 yr severe pain. How would it change you?

by Open mind in

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first off, i'm fine so don't go getting all worked up on my account.

we've all heard the "6 months to live question" before.

i'm just stretching it out a bit longer to 2 years.

wings

I too try to live each day with the understanding that I honestly don't know how many I might have ahead of me. However, to know for sure, I would pick up the pace a bit and TRY harder to enjoy each day. For me that would be my family, and friends (I hope to make some before I die). To enjoy every sunset and moonrise, the stars, the clouds, flowers...etc. I would journal more, and try to create special journals for my kids and grandkids. I would hopefully laugh easier (without the weight of the future it should be easier). I would like to learn to be more grateful for what I have.

I would love to take a road trip with my youngest daughter. Somewhere in the midwest I have never been. See the ocean again. Play the piano more (I'm terrible, but I love it). Take more time to relax in my appreciation of music and art....you know, let it sink in. Go camping and fishing as much as possible. If I was given $6000 to do what I want with I would probably go to Europe (don't know where, but planning the trip would be most of the fun). I would cook good food and have lots of sit down meals with family and friends with the wine bottle on the table. I would love to rent a house on the beach of the Sea of Cortez for a month and invite all my kids and grandkids (6 kids, 3 kid in laws, 7 grandkids) big house. We would drink lots of beer and shop for food at the local markets, shrimp and fresh fish every day. Build sand monsters with the kids. The above mentioned would take all my money, so I would depend on my x to take care of my grandkids for me. Glad he can be good for something.

I would continue in my quest to watch every R rated movie that came out during the time I was trapped in the borg. That would be 92 thru 06.

I would also like to go to an apostofest...maybe Dallas.

I would only out myself at the very end and probably seek professional help for it. After jaguarbass's post about his father, I know this to be true. However, I wouldn't want to count on the pills and a bottle on wine. My son tried that and all he did was almost kill himself. Big difference.

Thanks OM for helping me start the day with this perspective.

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Your dying, you are given one last wish, and that is ....

by free2beme in

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my mother in law was diagnosed with breast cancer in october.

had the surgery and they found it metastized to the lungs.

she is doing chemotherapy now, but the cancer is spread pretty wide and thus an organization called making memories has given her a one last wish grant of $6000.

wings

I was so excited she was going to take her grandkids to Disneyland, then I finished your post....ouch. I'm so sorry.

My two nephews both had MD, and both got money from the Make a Wish Foundation. The family got to go to Disneyworld twice. They had a blast. They died a year later, a week apart.

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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #160 - Why no windows?

by ozziepost in

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it seems a long time ago now, but we used to regularly have an ozzie's weekend poll - kinda weekend stuff, y'know?

they ran weekly for three years but they faded - my ill health didn't help.

anyway, it's sunday evening downunderneath youse lot and things seem to be kinda quiet on the board - (where the hell are ya???

wings

I go with 4...we all know that looking at the back of everyone's heads (trying to figure out how brother whosit gets his hair to do that swirlly thing) is all the entertainment they should be allowed.

Also 7....that new light can be a rasky little devil.

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Who's on first?

by wanderlustguy in

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wings

All I know is He is on third.....thanks for the laugh.

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Attn.Everyone here! Has anyone here been sooo pissed off that....

by worldtraveller in

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you just gotta bitchslap someone?

here's your chance!.

http://www.counterfeitmini.com/main.swf you may have to copy and paste in file/open and paste, then slap away!.

wings

I think that I may have had a little too much fun with that.

Thanks

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The personality/career test...you in the right career? (Fun Fluff)

by FreedomFrog in

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here's the personality "quiz" changeling posted on my last thread.

there are 72 questions and tends to be pretty accurate.. http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

once you've done that then find your personality type and click to see if you are in the right place.. http://www.personalitypage.com/careers.html.

wings

I didn't mean to go off like that, but my personality type sincerely upset me.

The struggle of a lifetime I suppose.

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I know it's illegal, but would a good old-fashioned INTERVENTION work?

by OnTheWayOut in

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a loved one is a jw.

it's not a hardcore cult, but it's a mind-control cult.. (the purpose of this thread is not to argue that point, but to answer the thread question.).

i am not proposing that i hold a loved one against their will, but would a straightforward.

wings

I would bitchslap anyone I knew that was actually considering joining.

I could not have said it better.

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The personality/career test...you in the right career? (Fun Fluff)

by FreedomFrog in

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here's the personality "quiz" changeling posted on my last thread.

there are 72 questions and tends to be pretty accurate.. http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

once you've done that then find your personality type and click to see if you are in the right place.. http://www.personalitypage.com/careers.html.

wings

I'm not looking to make the big bucks. I've been there, it about ruined me. I would however, love to be able to support my grandkids and myself. I don't care how simple my life has to get. I don't want to HAVE to go back to my husband because I can't make enough money.

I turned 50 last August. I have some education, but it was so long ago......

I dropped out of college when I was 20 to support my husband so he could finish. Then I got pregnant, and spent the next 14 years raising kids and supporting his career. Got divorced (he had a girlfriend), remarried a JW. Spent the next 16 years raising kids, step kids, getting brainwashed, running businesses and buying and selling realestate. Then I had a breakdown (kind of a 10 year meltdown sort of thing).

I currently care for my parents, and am raising my two granddaughters. My parents both need full time care. My grandkids are 3, and 4. I don't have time to entertain myself with writing classes. I can support us through my father's income for now, but if I can't manage their care then that money has to go to a nursing home, and during this interim I would love to try to figure out an education path to help me get a job I can enjoy.

I know I could go out there and work. I know how to work. I have computer skills, management skills, bookkeeping skills.....yuck. I am too old, or too INFP for that.

INFP, 1% of people have this one. Did I read that right? I knew I was wierd.