Yes ma'am, this was all my experience. I'm a pretty bad typist anyway, but that post took me 43 minutes to pound out.
RisingEagle
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Crocs and assisted suicide attempts
by RisingEagle inthey are the shoes that everyone loves to hate.
they are also the shoes that have fans that will disregard what others in this world say about them in regards to fashion and taste.
if you wear and love them, you just don't care, your feet are happy and that's all that matters.
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Crocs and assisted suicide attempts
by RisingEagle inthey are the shoes that everyone loves to hate.
they are also the shoes that have fans that will disregard what others in this world say about them in regards to fashion and taste.
if you wear and love them, you just don't care, your feet are happy and that's all that matters.
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They are the shoes that everyone loves to hate. They are also the shoes that have fans that will disregard what others in this world say about them in regards to fashion and taste. If you wear and love them, you just don't care, your feet are happy and that's all that matters. They've been called garden shoes, hippy shoes and clown shoes. You see them or knockoffs of them on sale at Walmart as well as Nordstrom. They're called Crocs.
I first encountered them in Denver while walking through the mall. They were the ugliest shoes I've ever seen, and I've seen or worn them all -Dansko's, Birkenstocks, Merrell's, Moonboots and Earth shoes. For a time I even tried my hand at selling women's shoes and have seen the various instruments of torture often called 'fashion'. But this was a first, blue plastic with round puncture holes and a ridiculous strap that could be worn on top of the foot or behind the ankle. For fun, I tried on a pair and, amazingly, I was hooked. I listened to my wife's comments of derision, put them aside and walked on in pride. I wore them with jeans, with khaki pants and once more to my wife's chagrin, with shorts.
Until, they tried to kill me, not once, but twice.
The first time was over the recent labor day weekend. I wore them to a popular natural waterfall park in Southern Oklahoma. My thinking was what could be a better water shoe than one made of plastic with lots of holes to allow water to escape? After walking around the sandy shore I tried to make my way across some rocks and the damn things slid right off the algae leaving me with a large purple bruise on my left hip. I left an impression on the rock as well the hispanic family picnicking on the nearby shore. "Senor, are ju ho-kay?" I wasn't, but my pride or adrenaline got me back to my car.
The second time was today. I was hanging plastic sheeting attached to wooden 1x2's helping some folks get ready for a haunted house. I was at the top of an eight foot ladder and was climbing down and did not notice that some of the plastic was on one of the rungs. I tried to plant my left foot and was moving my right foot down to the next rung. My left foot slipped left kicking over the ladder, and my body went right. I landed on my right hip, right shoulder blade and head. I must have tried to break my fall with my right hand, also. It knocked the wind out of me and I actually saw stars. After the initial shock, I drove myself home, popped some ibuprofen and iced my wrist. Later I decided it was time to get it x-rayed and drove myself to my wife's hospital. Not the smartest move, but again I was probably working on pure adrenaline. Four hours later I was seen by a doctor in the ER. I have a bruised backside, a bruised scapula, a broken wrist and a goose egg on my head.
Needless to say my beloved Crocs are now in the trashbin. So the next time so see a loved one or relative wearing the shoes that you hate for sheer fashion sense alone, tell them they might die if they wear them. Friends don't let friends wear Crocs.
(forgive my discombobulated post, Lortab does that to me)
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A Virtual Party for Changeling
by journey-on inchangeling.
i'm not very good at throwing these virtual parties, so you may need to step in and help.
classy lady and love the sophisticated and elegant parties.
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RisingEagle
Hey ya'll, I just wanted to drop this song off should anyone feel the need for a slow dance. It's just a little George Straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZBBM8dimQ
Ya'll enjoy!
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Christians - Convert me! I'm Pagan!
by Sirona infollowing on from terry's thread about mind filters and being open minded....... i'm neo-pagan.
for a loose definition of my beliefs see here http://www.religioustolerance.org/neopaga1.htm.
but i'm willing to consider christian belief systems.. just recently i've been studying the jewish kabballah (qabalah).
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RisingEagle
I thought of this when meditating Thursday (full moon): What is the diffrence between Jesus, and a modern magician/mystic/guru?
I can't remember reading about Jesus locking himself in an icecube ala David Blaine.
Eagle
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Noah Smiling Picture
by KW13 inhe's 7 weeks old (thereabouts anyway) and here is a photo of him grinning...only does it when we sing to him but hey!.
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RisingEagle
I have only two words:
Key Ute!
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Drug Addiction- Meth addiction, Did You Know Someone Addicted? Dangerous!
by flipper ini felt it was good to start a thread on this as methamphetamine addiction has become one of the most abused drugs in our society.
unfortunately, from what i've heard is it is relatively cheap to make , not as expensive as other drugs, and highly addictive once a person is " hooked" they have an extremely hard time getting off it.
crank or speed as it is called makes people highly aggressive, mean spirited, and can make them violent.
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RisingEagle
Meth is some scary stuff. Oklahoma was at one point one of the very worst states for meth addicts. There was actually one smart piece of legislation that came out of this state (I don't know if it started here, but it was adopted pretty early) -the removal of pseudoephedrine from general sales in stores and pharmacies. It actually made a dent in the meth production coming out of Oklahoma. However, production may be down but we still have a huge number of 'tweakers' addicted in my area.
We went to Target just last night and in the checkout line in front of us was a family of three, father mother and a young child about my daughters age. Mom and dad were tweaking pretty bad and had all the signs of addiction: super thin, horrible skin condition and meth mouth. Once upon a time I would have looked and thought of them as just plain poor, but sadly not now. I say sad because once the physical characteristics are noticeable in the parents many times the child is suffering from the effects and child services is not far behind.
Even worse for me was the conversation my six year old started out of the blue, also yesterday. We're driving home from school and she states that where she used to live in Texas she used to see shoes hanging from the wires over the streets all the time. At one time I had no idea what that meant but my wife told me that in a conversation she had at the hospital (she's a nurse at the hospital that does the surgeries on state and county prisoners) with a prison guard and a local city police officer she was told that shoes tied at the laces and thrown over telephone or electrical wires were a sign that a drug dealer was in the neighborhood. Anyway, in the conversation I had with my daughter I found out that she was trained to look for the shoes and she didn't understand why she doesn't see them between our house and her school. It pissed me off to no end that her bio parents had even involved her in their addictions. It's just one more reason I'm glad she's out of that environment.
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RisingEagle
Guys and dolls....j/k
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We need to have another party!
by changeling inmy last one was fancy and pretty, the social event of the season.
i'm in the mood for something a little different tonight.. when i was a popular witness (before being a witness wore me down and my kids became teenagers and people starting judging us for being "liberal") we used to entertain a lot.
i miss that.. i'm a very social creature.
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RisingEagle
Hortensia, me gossip? I wouldn't think of it!
Have you heard what's going on the porch? I've heard they're...
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one word to describe me
by Hortensia ini thought crumpet's thread was really interesting and that everyone was really supportive in their answers.
then i thought about what words would describe me - i imagine lots of folks thought that.
i used to have in my profile "short fat ugly old and mean" which was a joke but offended someone...currently i would described myself as tired and a little crabby and inclined to be unsympathetic, which was always my husband's complaint about me anyway.
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Copacetic
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We need to have another party!
by changeling inmy last one was fancy and pretty, the social event of the season.
i'm in the mood for something a little different tonight.. when i was a popular witness (before being a witness wore me down and my kids became teenagers and people starting judging us for being "liberal") we used to entertain a lot.
i miss that.. i'm a very social creature.
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RisingEagle
Changeling, I love your place, it's fabulous! We brought you a nice bottle of Reisling, a tiramisu and some jello jigglers for the kids. Wow, that's a nice fire and those chairs look so inviting! Ouch, I think I sat on some legos. I'm afraid I don't know how to meander, would you mind if I mosey a bit? I once won a gold medal in the 40 yard mosey. Is there any chance that Exwitless and LDB are here? I've wanted to meet them for a while and I think my wife wants to talk "shop" with exwitless.
Is that cake chocolate? I've heard Hortensia has a killer recipe for chocolate cake. I'd like to swap some recipes with her, if she's around.