really Dams? I met Talesin at Kwin's too...maybe we were there at different times. Scully and I were there at the same time...gosh, must have been a year ago now!
Kaethra
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What are you reading?
by damselfly innow that i'm done with school for the summer i've got some spare time to read as much as i like.
heaven!
i just finished "sylvanus now" by donna morrisey.
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What are you reading?
by damselfly innow that i'm done with school for the summer i've got some spare time to read as much as i like.
heaven!
i just finished "sylvanus now" by donna morrisey.
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Kaethra
hey sweet scully! I'm great. How are you?? I just finished writing an exam so I'm taking some well-deserved time off from work to pop in here. :)
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What are you reading?
by damselfly innow that i'm done with school for the summer i've got some spare time to read as much as i like.
heaven!
i just finished "sylvanus now" by donna morrisey.
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Kaethra
Hey! you're here right now? cool. :) did we meet at kwin's??
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What are you reading?
by damselfly innow that i'm done with school for the summer i've got some spare time to read as much as i like.
heaven!
i just finished "sylvanus now" by donna morrisey.
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Kaethra
'k. I'll play. I have a monthly book club meeting where we all bring suggestions as to what to read for the next month and then vote on the suggestions. I brought this book up as a suggestion a few months ago and finally last month some others decided it sounded interesting. It's called A Complicated Kindness and it's by a Canadian author, Miriam Toews. I have only begun reading it, but it's great...in spots hilarious, tragic, and oh-so-relatable for xjws. (In the congregation where I grew up, one of the elders had actually converted to jw-ism from Mennonitism...he was the hardliner you would imagine.) Some selected quotes: "We're Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager. Five hundred years ago in Europe a man called Menno Simons set off to do his own peculiar religious thing...Imagine the least well-adjusted kid in your school starting a breakaway clique of people whose manifesto includes a ban on the media, dancing, smoking, temperate climates, movies, drinking, rock 'n' roll, having sex for fun, swimming, makeup, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities or staying up past nine o'clock. That was Menno all over. Thanks a lot, Menno." "When we were little, Tash and I would sit in the darkened dining room of my grandmother's farmhouse, listening to the funeral announcements. They came on after supper, on the local radio station we were allowed to listen to because the elders knew that it was better for little children to listen to the names of dead people being read out in a terrifying monotone than the Beatles singing All We Need is Love." "...Golf was another one [of the games we were allowed to play] because it consisted of using a rod to hit something much, much smaller than yourself and a lot of men in this town enjoyed that sort of thing."
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Skin care for the maturing lady (fluff)
by Crumpet ini have been using the same facial moisturiser loyally for the last 17 years - but i'm thinking what was great for me at 14 might not be so effective at 31. what most irks me when i look in the mirror (neck up early - we simply don't have long enough for what irks me below the neck) is that my pores seem really big and the overall effect is to make me look tired as the security guard at work pointed out when i left work last night!.
my question is to you ladies (and cosmetically aware gents) is what is your skin care regime and do i have to switch to a really expensive brand sponsored by nazi sympathisers and advertised by supermodels to spruce up my skin?
what do you swear by?.
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Kaethra
I'd be very surprised to learn that dermatologists are against mechanical exfoliation. (I'll be sure to ask mine next time I go though.) Of course - I'm not advocating scrubbing the hell out of your face...a GENTLE scrub that doesn't have sharp edges to the granules is fine however. I think most dermatologists would agree that mechanical exfoliation is still needed even with the use of alpha-hydroxys. Then again, my job title isn't "dermatologist".
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Skin care for the maturing lady (fluff)
by Crumpet ini have been using the same facial moisturiser loyally for the last 17 years - but i'm thinking what was great for me at 14 might not be so effective at 31. what most irks me when i look in the mirror (neck up early - we simply don't have long enough for what irks me below the neck) is that my pores seem really big and the overall effect is to make me look tired as the security guard at work pointed out when i left work last night!.
my question is to you ladies (and cosmetically aware gents) is what is your skin care regime and do i have to switch to a really expensive brand sponsored by nazi sympathisers and advertised by supermodels to spruce up my skin?
what do you swear by?.
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Kaethra
har! probably not, since it should be loaded with lovely dead skin cells. btw...I didn't give you the proper instructions, as I was only half-awake when I wrote them. You don't mix the sugar with water. You wet your face, then massage in the sugar. Mixing with water first will just make it dissolve too quickly. Doh! I should never give out advice before my morning coffee!
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Skin care for the maturing lady (fluff)
by Crumpet ini have been using the same facial moisturiser loyally for the last 17 years - but i'm thinking what was great for me at 14 might not be so effective at 31. what most irks me when i look in the mirror (neck up early - we simply don't have long enough for what irks me below the neck) is that my pores seem really big and the overall effect is to make me look tired as the security guard at work pointed out when i left work last night!.
my question is to you ladies (and cosmetically aware gents) is what is your skin care regime and do i have to switch to a really expensive brand sponsored by nazi sympathisers and advertised by supermodels to spruce up my skin?
what do you swear by?.
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Kaethra
to add to the above - exfoliate, exfoliate, exfoliate!! so important. You can do this cheaply at home using ordinary table sugar mixed with water. Massage into face in a circular motion for about 2 minutes, three times a week. Rinse well! And...can't believe noone has mentioned this yet, but always, always wear sunscreen!! Even on cloudy days. You need the kind that protects you from UVA and UVB rays. (UVA causes sunburn. UVB causes the dreaded wrinkle!)
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Whacky Witness Weirdness
by limbogirl inok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
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Kaethra
Looking Glass and Limbogirl - glad you got my post! I'm terrible at getting the quote thingy to work and even worse at changing fonts to make a point. And ewwwwwww to the woman who used a pot in the pantry! wtf?? ok...wacky witness story - we used to pick up this old guy who was pretty much the weird outcast of the entire town. He studied with the witnesses for years and years...for the company, I imagine. I hated when we had to pick him up, poor thing. But he smelled bad and he was soooooo strange. He was skin and bone and whenever we had a congregation "get together" (theocratic language), he would inhale a dozen or so hotdogs...seriously...one gulp and they were gone. It's all he ever ate. yikes! And beware if you had to sit behind him at the meetings...he just let 'em rip, which was especially giggle-inducing during song and prayer. He was a kind old soul though...I feel kinda bad making fun of him, but well.... I grew up in a pretty rural area, so there was lots of weirdness at my hall...and in the surrounding "territory" (more theocratic language).
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Whacky Witness Weirdness
by limbogirl inok, i'm sure all of us have met some incredibly bizarre jws over the years --- i have met some that could have been characters in a movie...just unbelievably weird.
i've shared some of my stories with a good friend (non jw) and she swears i'm making this stuff up.
how in the heck could i make these people up??
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Kaethra
Hey Looking Glass? " How about the couple that had a 4 year old son who I was watching who would try and sneak out of the house to play in the street (by sticking up his middle finger to cars as they went by - yeah this kid was a really naughty). When I finally stuck him in a coroner "
Did you really stick him in a coroner??!! That's pretty drastic...can't blame the dad for being upset, really. ahhaha! -
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Fantastic music site I just discovered! FANTASTIC!
by nicolaou injust type in a song that is typical of your tastes and the site will create a 'station' that continually plays music you should like.
fantastic to have in the background if you are surfing, even better if your pc is the heart of your music system.. it does not play requests, that isn't what it's about, although your original selection will end up in the playlist.
by the way, did i say i think this is fantastic!.
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Kaethra
Wow! I love that site!! Thanks so much for posting this.