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  Dessert after LUNCH??!!

  by rebel8 in

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  2. physical

  i've always had a real sweet tooth but when pioneering that was the first time i ever heard of anyone eating dessert after lunch in addition to dessert after dinner.. sometimes the few pioneers who cared about their weight would just have dessert for lunch, but i digress.. anyway, where i work we have a cafeteria and dessert comes with lunch.

  it's not healthy!

  i wish they didn't even offer it, because i have a hard time saying no.

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  I agree, dessert has no place on a lunch menu
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  They were out New years morning, I couldn,t believe it.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i,am watching the rose bowl parade, and the wife.

  call me to the front of the house.

  a couple knocking on doors at 10 oclock in the morning.

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  I don't remember if I ever went out on New Years Day, but if I did, I'd like to express my apologies to all those who I disturbed.
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  It all is begging to crumble

  by lostinthought in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been mentally out for about two years now.

  i am in my 30s and i don't live at home, am not married or anything like that.

  i was visiting my mom this past week, i tell you the women has a 6th sense if she weren't a jw shed be a psychic.

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  No matter how rough the ride, you are on your way to freedom. I wish you the best of luck, and remember that you have friends here who will support you.
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  Need advice from a female

  by CADSkin in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  long story short.

  ive been married for 18 years to my beautiful wife.

  when i was younger i had a lot of attention due to my looks which has always made me extremely uncomfortable.

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  It sounds to me like she isn't feeling as connected to you as she needs to. Just Ron and I have been married 21 years now, so we are similar to you in age and length of relationship. Like your wife, I have gained weight and I'm all old and saggy and I feel like I'm not much to look at. I feel best about myself and my life when I feel like Just Ron and I are on the same team, working together towards the same goals, like when we spend the evening sitting together on the porch talking rather than camped in front of the TV, or when we spend time working on a project together. I'm getting the sense that she feels left behind or left out of your new project. There are a lot of things that Just Ron enjoys that I just can't get interested in and that's OK. Your desire to exercise at the gym is OK too, but you need to find a way to connect with your wife that will keep going while you are at the gym.

  I was very insecure and very jealous for a long time. Even now it doesn't take a lot to provoke those feelings. Whenever I start feeling that way, I try to remember to remind myself that he's always stuck with me and he loves me. Maybe your wife could be encouraged to rewrite her internal dialogue to be more positive.
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  District Assembly Vehicle Parking Passes: $5.00

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been out for a few years now, but when i was in, we frequently had to purchase "vehicle parking passes" several weeks before the start of our district assembly (depending on the coliseum or stadium being rented at the time).

  it was usually $5.00 and you were given a 10" x 4" (or so) card with the assembly title/theme printed on.

  according to the instructions from a branch letter that was read out loud (usually at the end of the service meeting), this card had to be placed on the right side of your dashboard such that the dub parking attendants can easily see it as you drive through the parking entrance.

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  None of the assemblies I ever attended in Louisville KY or Evansville IN between 2000 and 2011 had any sort of fee for parking.
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  Should people be able to live on the dole ?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  a petite row is brewing in the australian teacup.

  jenny macklin, a rather grandiosely titled, minister for families, asked by a journalist, whether she could live on the $35 dollars-a-day social services payment for job-seekers, replied that she could!

  but her staff cut that comment out of the official transcript.. the row is a bit more complicated than that- but that's the gist.. the full story is at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/minister-riles-welfare-groups-20130101-2c4ct.html.

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  Where I am, cell phones run around $45 per month if you want texting and data. I pay $50 per month for high speed internet, which is higher than what people in metropolitan areas have to pay. I haven't had a land line phone in years, so I have no idea what that would cost. You can get a MagicJack for $40 per year that works off the internet to make phone calls. It's not portable like a cell phone, but it's better than nothing.
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  How Was Your First Day of the New Year?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a sick kid.

  how was your day?

  any new year resolutions?.

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  It's 6pm here in Southern Illinois. Actually, the bottle isn't quite empty yet, but I'm working on it. I've got ham & beans to eat first.
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  How Was Your First Day of the New Year?

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a sick kid.

  how was your day?

  any new year resolutions?.

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  I spent the day doing laundry and scrubbing toilets. Yay for me! Plus, I drank a bottle of wine and watched The Avengers.
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  Should people be able to live on the dole ?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  a petite row is brewing in the australian teacup.

  jenny macklin, a rather grandiosely titled, minister for families, asked by a journalist, whether she could live on the $35 dollars-a-day social services payment for job-seekers, replied that she could!

  but her staff cut that comment out of the official transcript.. the row is a bit more complicated than that- but that's the gist.. the full story is at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/minister-riles-welfare-groups-20130101-2c4ct.html.

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  I think the basic issue is whether or not the dole should provide more than just enough to survive on. IMO, welfare is a safety net to keep people from starvation. I don't see any reason for basic welfare benefits to provide more than subsistence level benefits. I don't know what the exchage rate is, or the relative costs of living, but $12,000 where I live (small town US Midwest) is enought to squeak by on, as long as you don't have medical issues.
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  GIVE A PITHY recounting of what 2012 did to or for you life!

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i moved in with my cousin deb and her husband bobby at the first of 2012.. this mean i didn't live alone any longer.

  that was both a good and a not so good thing!.

  i eat home cooked meals.

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  went to Florida - good

  went to Alaska - really good

  had to pay for Florida and Alaska - painful

  all in all I had a really good year, here's hoping for a great 2013