if you keep picking your nose, your nostrils will get as big as a horse's!.
we can use your face for a halloween mask if it freezes suddenly with that expression on it.. how would you feel if your sister died after you said such awful things to her?
(this following a normal, sibling scuffle).
Crossing Eyes - "Stop that, or your eyes will get stuck like that!"
*Maybe that's why I'm cross-eyed...*
Not Finishing Food - "Did you know that there are starving kids in China? Now finish your food!"
*I always wanted to ship my left-overs to China... let THEM deal with finishing it*
There were others... I obviously didn't pay attention to them, if I can't remember them.
Regards,
Jim TX
my boyfriend and i (or i should say ex-boyfriend.
) have been dating for about 5 1/2 months.
this is not a long time i know but within this time we had both fell deeply in love with each other, it was very fast and very strong, heartfelt and beautiful.
Karissa,
I understand what you are going through. Reading all of the advice... there is a lot that is good.
Some is marginal, though.
I would recommend that you try to 'walk away' from this... as quickly as possible.
The clothes - Goodwill. He can buy more. (Plus... even if he cain't... you get to mental him wearing a barrel like in a cartoon.)
The letters and photos... I recommend tossing them. All you will be doing by 'sending them' to anyone is making it look like you are a 'stalker'... or psychotic... or something similar. If you _do_ decide to send the letters and photos... send copies, not the originals.
Also - just send them to his last known local congregation in California. THEY will know where he went - and will surely track him down - if they want to. (He has a 'publishers' card that he has to get transferred to his new location.)
If you _really_ want to stir things up... and if he was talking 'marriage' with you... in your letter to them just mention 'polygamy', 'lawyer', 'lawsuit' and 'Watchtower Bible & Tract Society' all in the same sentence.
I still say... change your phone number - at the very least. Do you want to get phone calls from him at all hours? Perhaps him trying to 'come back' to you? I don't think so. Change THAT number!!!
As an alternative - make sure that you have an answering machine. Be sure to let it 'pick-up' any unknown numbers. Also - if he tries to contact you - leaving messages... try to keep those messages. You may need them later.
At the very least - make sure that you have Caller-ID. Some fancy new phones allow you to do a 'call-block', and you should do your ever-best to make sure that he NEVER gets through via phone.
The important thing to remember is that YOU need to be in control - emotionally, and physically. Not him.
Regards,
Jim TX
elder: hi nos.
me: good.
elder: how's school going?.
Hmmm... ahhhhh memories.
When I was going through an awkward stage... my teens... well, actually late teens... hell ALL of my teens, and THEN some...
I became introverted. This was before I had my own car and could drive. My mom was the 'driver'. We would get to the hall... I would 'disappear' to a safe corner of the hall.
After the meetings, I would go to the front of the hall - and stand alone, waiting for 'the signal' from a family member that we were leaving. No one ever bothered to come up to me.
The little kiddies who liked to play on the stage would gleefully refer to me as 'The Zombie'.
I got the third-degree once... no, not by the elders, but by my OWN family, after we got home from one meeting.
One elder - an old family friend, decided to try to 'push the envelope' so to speak.
Him: "Hello, Jim." *looking down*
Me: :Hello." *looking down*
Him: "How are you?" *looking down*
Me: "Fine." *looking down*
Him: "That's good." *he walks away*
The reason that I got the third-degree? My family members all saw me there - solemnly speaking with this chap. They just KNEW there was more to it than that.
The round-table third-degree - at home - went on for about 30 minutes that night.
I made SURE that I didn't talk to too many... I couldn't take too many of those sessions.
Regards,
Jim TX
i just had a look at the picture i use at jwd.
it is really me and it was shot at a workmate's birthday party.
it is one of the nicer ones of me and i saw the fact fitting that it was shot at birthday party.
My pic is of me last fall... on an outing with a friend.
Why is it that when someone takes your photo, they think that they have to back up sooooooo far to 'get all of you' in the photo?
*grin*
Jim TX
my boyfriend and i (or i should say ex-boyfriend.
) have been dating for about 5 1/2 months.
this is not a long time i know but within this time we had both fell deeply in love with each other, it was very fast and very strong, heartfelt and beautiful.
P.S. In addition to what all the others have said...
1) Move to a new house.
2) Change your phone number - unlisted if possible.
This guy may be someone who would want to 'drop by' if he goes back to where you live - or he may become a late night 'breather' on the phone.
I also agree with the advice to throw out any of his belongings that he wants sent back. Take them to the nearest Goodwill Dropbox.
Oh! And MOST importantly... STOP that 'home bible study' with that JW neighbor!!!
*grin*
Regards,
Jim TX
i wonder how many readers of the watchtower have noticed the seeming inconsistency of the 144,000 teaching in the april 1st issue?.
after discussing the symbolic nature of the numbers 666 on the wild beast comes this statement:.
"immediately after disclosing the number 666, revelation mentions 144,000 followers of the lamb, jesus christ, who have his name and the name of his father, jehovah, written on their foreheads.".
Dang!
When I read 'April 1st' Watchtower... all I could think of was an April Fools' issue.
*kicks dirt* *walks away*
Jim TX
last saturday, i was at home - minding my own business, and the phone rings.. of course, i have caller-id (great invention!
), and can see that it is from my mom's house - where the remaining siblings live... all three of them.. i answer the phone, "hello?".
"hello, jim - this is pri*****", says the other voice - of my older sister.. "yes... how are you?".
Sheesh!
I think that yall forgot the point of the whole story.
Which was... I helped out my Aunt. I visit my Aunt. I phone my Aunt.
My older sister doesn't. The next time she gets a phone call from the rellies - it will be to tell her that my Aunt has died, and when the funeral will be.
All these 'riteaid' or whatever suggestions don't replace a phone call or visit from a relative, do they?
Yall seem to be real helpful about one bottle of medication that my aunt takes.
She does not have many prescriptions to worry about. Just the one bottle of 'blood pressure' medication.
Due to the doc upping the dosage... it threw off her 'calculations' - and she would've had enough medication to last through the month, if she wasn't taking more than she usually did.
I hope that this clears up the confusion.
*wide grin*
Regards,
Jim TX
last saturday, i was at home - minding my own business, and the phone rings.. of course, i have caller-id (great invention!
), and can see that it is from my mom's house - where the remaining siblings live... all three of them.. i answer the phone, "hello?".
"hello, jim - this is pri*****", says the other voice - of my older sister.. "yes... how are you?".
Hey Bebu,
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't know her situation - and wasn't interested in prying to find out. All I knew at that time was that she needed to get her medication.
I believe her doctor had also upped her dosage - or something... not sure about that either... other than she had run out a day or three earlier than normal.
She gets her medication through Wal-Mart... not sure if they 'deliver'.
Regards,
Jim TX
it was totally unexpected.
i'm off work today to drive hubby to doctor, and had just opened the garage door to take the garbage can to the street.
i saw this burgandy car approaching very slowly on the main road and wondered what they were up to...i could see that it was two older women and i then figured they might want directions.
Sentinel,
"...and had just opened the garage door to take the garbage can to the street.
I said "sure, I'll take them"..."
I would have done the same... except would have dropped them straight away into the garbage can at the street - in front of them.
This way, you are taking their litter-ature out of circulation - and she gets to count a 'placement' - even though she sees you drop-kicking it into the can.
Just my thoughts.
Jim TX
last saturday, i was at home - minding my own business, and the phone rings.. of course, i have caller-id (great invention!
), and can see that it is from my mom's house - where the remaining siblings live... all three of them.. i answer the phone, "hello?".
"hello, jim - this is pri*****", says the other voice - of my older sister.. "yes... how are you?".
Blondie,
"Go in peace, keep warm and well fed," but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it?"
Good points. (Yeah, I know... it's from the bible...)
My Aunts' daughter and husband - who live near her - and usually take care of her daily - went on a 2 week vacation. Well, while they are gone, I was talking to my aunt on the phone, and she mentioned that she was out of blood-pressure medication.
It's a 60-mile trip to her house... and takes about an hour to get there... I told her that if she couldn't get anyone else to take her to the pharmacy... another 30 miles away - that I would take her.
Well, I called her on Saturday morning - and she had not gotten anyone who could - so I drove up there - picked her up - drove her to the pharmacy - and then back home. A total of 170 miles that trip.
I ain't looking for any awards or 'kudos'... I never really thought about it. It just had to be done. She needed her medication.
(Plus... I knew that when my cousin got home... she would thrash me if I didn't take care of my aunt. *grin*)
Anyway... I may have been one who was negligent in the past... I am trying to rectify that now... if I can. She's the only relative living (other than my cousin) that claims me - or even acknowledges that I exist.
Regards,
Jim TX
