i feel like i've been away from this place for eons now and it's probably true, none the less, i feel on top of the world.. my wife gave birth to a set of the most beautiful boys one could ever dream of last monday and i am absolutely elated, whooooooaaaah.. i can tell you all is well is well with mother (a godess) and children (sons of god almighty himself, me .
what can i say say other than telling the whole world about it including you guys.
Congratulations! Now the real fun begins! Back to back nightime feedings, etc. If your Mrs is nursing, I can recommend a great "wrap around the waist" nursing pillow that helps tremendously. A good friend of mine nursed twins, and I got her this pillow. She would take two bedpillows, prop the babies and lay them across this nursing pillow and feed them. It worked great. In any case, the best to you all!
much to her embarrassment the cashier got on the intercom and boomed out for the entire store to hear: "price check on lane thirteen, tampax, supersize.
one of the craziest things i ever witnessed as a jw was a funeral for an unbaptized publisher...she attended my cong.
and was very quiet and softspoken...the type who never caused any trouble and who would ocassionaly comment, directly from the paragraph....nice lady with a young daughter about 11. well one day she's driving down the road and gets hit by a pepsi truck....(can anyone say lawsuit???
) she's hospitalized and is in critical condition....to make a long story short...she's faced with the blood issue and finally gives in and accepts a transfusion and dies anyway...ok let's fastforward...no one apparently knew about this except her mother....a non-jw who had studied off and on for years and years.....so the obituary appears and it's public knowledge that her funeral will be at such and such kingdom hall at such and such time....actually published info...well, she had tons of non-jw family...typical of us black folk...anyway let me get to the point....apparently the day of the funeral, just some hours before in fact....the elders find out about the blood and don't want to have the funeral in the kingdom hall....but what are they to do????
It is a real shame what they did to that woman, but I would have to say, they did the non-believing relatives a real favor! No way would they ever want to be a JW after a rotten display like that, and that's a good thing!
This happens sometimes, once is too often. Me and my wife be curling toes, you know, we got it going good, sweatin and shiyt, ahhh shuky shuky now, then you start to feel it :).... meanwhile I also feel a pain, that is getting bigger and bigger while we curling and spreadin toes, that fruggan little ball of pain in the back of my leg, yup, that muthafrugga turns into a dayum CHARLIE HORSE!!, SHIYT!!! Aahhhh shiyt, it hurts, I be saying, "charlie horse, rub it here baby, please!!" I end up stretch out begging for relief. Don't that just pisses you off? DAYUM!
Sometimes that dayum Charlie Horse hit both of us, neither one of us can help the other. LOL
ROFL! Spartacus, thanks for sharing that. I thought I was the only one it happened to!
In conjunction with the driving peeve above: people who bring their families with them to the store, spread out side by side from left shelf to right shelf, and amble down the aisle at .ooo1 mph: plod... plod... plod... I have been known to remark to my companion when confronted with a group like this, "Dang, honey, we got one of the carts that doesn't have a cowcatcher on it." Did it spur them to move? No. Did it make me feel better? You bet.
Comf,
Good point! You'd hate it here in Western Australia. The shops are only open Monday-Saturday 9-5. And that's IT. So EVERYONE is shopping for their groceries on Saturdays, and the aisles are so full you would NEED a cow catcher to move the herd! Plus everyone is rushing to get the food before it's gone (meat, perishables). It's extremely frustrating, especially when you're used to American shops being open 24 hours per day and you can go when there's no crowd to bother you!
I would hazard to say that All of them do, Ozziepost. That is one of the big differences between the American and Australian tax systems. I see no big deal in Dubs being able to take advantage of the laws that are there, in order to lessen their tax burden. They are just as entitled to it as people of other faiths.
I think I prefer to just coast for the time being - not taking in a particular "poison" as a part of my mindset. I don't know everything, nor do I believe any other person does either.
I do know I'll never be in another formal religious group. But as to the existence of anything supernatural, including God? I think I'll stay away from "hardlining" on either side. Too many things unknown.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard