Making resolutions for the first time in years!
- Dream big.
- Start small.
- Now.
My husband says this sounds like multi-level marketing, but hey -- he's holiday-impaired anyway.
GentlyFeral
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HAPpeeee new year! :)
by SPAZnik ini just can't wait!
letz skip right to my favorite part.
happeeeeee new year everybuddy!
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Xmas xchange present(s) arrived safely........
by scootergirl ini have already gotten an email from someone stating that their gift arrived safely in the mail.
i thought it would be nice to start a thread where we can post what we got (for those nosey like me who want to know!
) and a thank you.. as for me, i haven't even begun yet!
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My husband decided that opening our gifts at midnight was the way to go. No, I don't understand either.
I really appreciate the unscented handmade soaps! Thank you for remembering!
Unfortunately I can't use the mulberry candle, pretty as it is. We have fragrance allergies in our family. My fault for forgetting to mention it.
And, you know, the box looked so much like a couple boxes of low-carb bread mix
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Holiday Traditions
by meadow77 inevery year since i was young, we got to open one gift on christmas eve.
when i was little i used to get excited wondering what it would be.
it took me many years to figure out that it would always be pajamas.
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Wonderful post, jgnat
I pick out gifts all year. I take in the January sales and scour discount stores for outrageous deals. I have a "gift shelf"
This reminds me of another cool custom I've been meaning to start: When shopping time begins, look through all my possessions and put aside any really cool stuff that needs a new home. (Do I really need six Christmas tree pins? Two pairs of amber earrings? This is a cool DVD, but we only watched it once...)
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Holiday Traditions
by meadow77 inevery year since i was young, we got to open one gift on christmas eve.
when i was little i used to get excited wondering what it would be.
it took me many years to figure out that it would always be pajamas.
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I think we may be starting some. My kids were raised without Christmas, and my husband really appreciated the excuse to not spend money (we've been poor all our adult lives). Me, I've been a Christmas slut ever since I was tiny, and only Great Devotion to the One True God (patent applied for) could tear me away from it.
Thank the other gods that's all over, but...my husband is still kinda squicked by Christmas, and my kids don't quite get it. But they do it "for me," because they love me.
I hate that. If they're not liking it for its own sake, I don't wanna. I was seriously thinking about declaring this to be Our Last Christmas, but the prospect of giving it up frustrated me much more than I thought it would.
We're gradually feeling our way. So far, we have figured out this much:
- Keep Jeebus out of it! My husband's remarks on "Jesus is the reason..." are concise and unprintable.
- Start shopping early, even before the store decorations go up. That way you can take your time, pay cash as you go and be all done before the crowds gather.
- Keep the entertainment weird. "Nightmare Before Christmas" is the obvious choice, of course, along with "The Bells of Dublin" and Mojo Nixon's "Horny Holidays." But if we never watch "It's a Wonderful Life" again, it'll be too soon. We're still looking for weird Christmas movies. We've already seen "The Grinch," thanks.
And we have just about decided to include these new ideas:
- It's all about the shiny stuff. This year my lady workmates all got shiny Christmas tree pins. We didn't have a tree, but we put up lights in the house anyway. Shiny wrapping paper and ribbons. Taking the most Christmas-lit route home from work. Whee! Next year I think I'm going to get my daughter a portable battery pack and some ForeverBright LED christmas lights. We're thinking a "Christmas Ent" kind of outfit.
- My daughter's presents will arrive late. She really doesn't care about presents, either giving or receiving, so there's no particular motivation to wrestle with crowds of shoppers, figure out what the hell to buy in the first place, and so on. She doesn't even begin to brainstorm until about Dec. 22. I'm teaching her how to shop on eBay; we just bought a knife for a friend of hers. I hear everybody else is getting books. Eventually.
- Plan for the really important holiday -- Halloween. I go all out for Christmas, but Halloween is my daughter's big day. So it's only fair that I spend some time on my favorite holiday helping with hers.
- Bake a few loaves of bread to give away. Little ones. Just because we can. And that's going to be the extent of our holiday baking.
Can't think of anything else, yet. This is an evolutionary process.
gently feral
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More news you won't see in "Watching the W...
by GentlyFeral ingreen technology
by james k. glassman
the chairman of syngenta, the swiss-based agricultural firm, said last week that the way to reduce world hunger and preserve the environment is to produce much more food on roughly the same amount of land - and the way to do that is through technology.
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By James K. Glassman The chairman of Syngenta, the Swiss-based agricultural firm, said last week that the way to reduce world hunger and preserve the environment is to produce much more food on roughly the same amount of land - and the way to do that is through technology.
The chairman, Heinz Imhof, who is a trained agronomist, spoke here in the middle of Iowa on Friday at a symposium honoring the 2002 winner of the World Food Prize. The $250,000 award goes each year to men and women - mainly agricultural scientists, often from developing countries - who have done the most to reduce hunger and boost the global supply of food.Click here for the rest of the story.
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Solstice - First Cast - pics working now
by COMF inlisa is a solo-practicing wiccan whom i've been dating for a while now.
she explained to me early on, that she had never "cast" because she didn't feel that she had enough knowledge, or experience, or something, and was afraid of getting it wrong.
i encouraged her to go ahead and cast, saying that experience is obtained by the doing.
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Xander, on skyclad rituals:
What if there was, say, a moderately attractive woman in the group?
Wouldn't that be...oh, I dunno...a PROBLEM?
Prob'ly not. Unless it was a Dianic (all female) coven! Otherwise it would be politely overlooked...
Or, in some traditions, might be considered an enhancement to the service.
Skyclad work isn't terribly common anymore, anyhow, nor is it considered essential. Don't know how much Gerald Gardner actually insisted on it, but I've heard that what he (the inventor of most modern Wiccan traditions) was trying to achieve was a sort of British Tantra.
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The Ways Of A Weasel
by Yadirf ini've taken note that the person that goes by the name "outlaw" continues to post daily.
yet, he hasn't entered the thread whose title bears his very own name.
yes, conveniently, outlaw skips past a thread that calls him to account for the lie he spoke about yadirf.
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Yadirf,
So far, we only have your word that you never claimed to have the heavenly hope. That is what Outlaw's original "charge" boils down to, isn't it?
You've already insulted virtually everybody who speaks to you -- "poisoning the well" is the name of that particular logical fallacy -- and attempted to pass off the work of others as your own (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=17235&site=3). Among many other smarmy things. And since I hate plagiarists, you can put me in the first place on your list of "those who hate the lie"!
You are a thoroughly unpleasant man, someone I would cross the street to avoid, and the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses fully deserves to be represented by you. May every foul word you utter show up as a smear on your bed linen.
GentlyFeral
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Xmas xchange present(s) arrived safely........
by scootergirl ini have already gotten an email from someone stating that their gift arrived safely in the mail.
i thought it would be nice to start a thread where we can post what we got (for those nosey like me who want to know!
) and a thank you.. as for me, i haven't even begun yet!
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Turns out queer_reality got and opened her present a week ago. I only discovered her thank-you email this morning.
<self-thwap>
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Looking Back, Were You Easy Prey For The Witnesses
by minimus inbased upon your life and circumstances, were you easy prey for witnesses to get to you with their message?
were you going thru some trauma or bad times?
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Yeah, it was the free-floating anxiety that got to me, at seventeen. I was already half-convinced that I would see the world would end in disaster. All I needed to hear was "The meek shall inherit the earth", and I was in.
Hey! another six years and I'll have spent only half my life in the bOrg!
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What Do You Want To Be Remembered For?
by minimus induring your lifetime or after you pass away, what do you want your legacy to be?
what do you want people to remember about you?
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What everybody said, mostly. But I also have one good book of poetry in me somewhere, and I want to get that into print before I die. And have it read by smart people, working poets.
My doctor says I have only 35 years left to live.
GentlyFeral
