i love to christmas shop, but i have to admit it i am one who kind of leaves things to the last month.
but i feel the adrenalin rush more and it gets me in the spirit of things faster.
but i love to decorate early.
granny linda wrote:
Hey, Scooter...I'll have to get some pointers from you on country living.
Anytime......anytime!
Green acres is the place to be
Farm living is the life for me
Land spreading out,
so far and wide
Keep Manhattan,
just give me that countryside.
sorry to be another october babe but it is my b-day and i would really treasure some of those warm wishes.....oh how pathetic am i?
lol
Happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday
dear Donna
Happy birthday to you!!!!!!!!!
i love to christmas shop, but i have to admit it i am one who kind of leaves things to the last month.
but i feel the adrenalin rush more and it gets me in the spirit of things faster.
but i love to decorate early.
larc wrote:
You too, huh? I LOVE their smoked salmon! You know what is also good about shopping at Sams? If you hit it right on "sample" day......you can walk around, shop and have lunch all at once!...Two items that we have gotten for the last couple of years there are European chocolate, and smoked salmon.
i love to christmas shop, but i have to admit it i am one who kind of leaves things to the last month.
but i feel the adrenalin rush more and it gets me in the spirit of things faster.
but i love to decorate early.
I usually pick things up all year round. Little things here and there......just have to remember where I hid them! I love Christmas too.......love the "spirit" in the air, the music, the smells...it makes me really happy and giddy.
I still shop around the holiday time though. I enjoy picking up those last minute gifts......
..because they have a head to toe beautifiying support system and you don't.. .
a few examples from ebaum's world that show the before and after of celebrity makeup application:.
christina applegate:.
Good Lord.........ewww.......
one morning three jw "sisters" went out in "mid-week field service" together.
the oldest of the three sisters was a spinster in here late 60s who bore a remarkable resemblance both in her dress and attitude to comedian dana carveys "church lady" impersonation.
as a "pioneer" who was already in the "truth" at a time when most of todays elders were either not yet born, or still in diapers, she was respected in her congregation in a grudging sort of way.
natta........zip I suppose.....no time since she didn't "actively" preach? That is my guess.
While I was reading your thread, I could invision each and every one of those sisters. Thanks for sharing.
tonight i took my kids to my aunt and uncles yearly halloween party.
this was the second year we made it.
the kids had a blast, many activities and ran around like the bunch of wild indians they desended from.
brenda wrote:
Scooter -- I don't mean to sound rude, and there are many others on this site like you, but it seems to me that all of us who post here on this site have NOT recovered ... yet. And it's not that I'm doubting that your quality of life is much improved, that you've found your 'niche', that you've learned to be gentle with yourself (good advice for ALL of us!). It's just that our ex-JW-ness is and always will be an integral part of who we are and how we react to things.
First, no, you didn't sound rude.
Secondly, recovery is a journey....not a destination. No one is every really "cured" IMHO. I have sought help to "deprogram" myself. I no longer react to things as a dub does/did. My thinking process has done a complete turnaround. This took many years of hard work and determination on my part. I have recovered, but recovery to me is something that I must maintain.
True, being an x-dub, is an intergral part of who I once was, but it no longer dictates actions in my life.
If you look at the different topics, threads, comments and posters on this board, you will find a wide range of recovery from the dubs. Some are still hurt and angry and voicing this, some have been out awhile and are farther in their journey of recovery. Some are questioning while others are certain.
One thing that I have noticed w/newly da'd or df'd people (and also by past experience) is a sense of loss, a sense of grieving. We all have lost part of ourselves, part of who we were defined as. We go thru (or have gone thru) the stages of grief just as if someone has died. Any kind of loss brings on the stages of grief (i.e., death, divorce, loss of anything important). Grief is a process.....a process that takes its course.
I will never forget where I came from. Never forget the experiences I had . But I no longer ache and hurt like before. Time had healed my wounds-taken the sting out.
For me, after awhile it became a part of life. My x-dubdom became an information fact just like where and when I was born. I had no part in the decision to be raised in it, just like I had no part in the decision what city I was raised in. As an adult, though, I can say "yes, that WAS me.....but this is me NOW". Look how far I have come.
i think it is time to stop cheerleading for the christmas gift x-change......we have quite a few names and i am really excited!
i am crossing off names as they post to this thread...... .
gentlyferal beckmelbourne truckergbveniceit pettygrundger talley mamashel nilfun beautifulgarbage orangefatcat been_there simon angharad heaven vickie butalbeexenawarrior mouthy animal debradoll ladylee mulan the_star joannadandy searchin50 happy2b scarlet randomtask celia siegswife caligirl waiting tinkerbell4125cc ridercoolbreeze onacruise/bikerchick ballistic windchaser flower elsewhere queer_reality kelpie revmalk funkyderek grout notinterested joy2bfree connielyne valis cowboy englishman plumkrzy lyineyes dutchie eyegirl scootergirl perry syn scully mac trotafax lovesdubs wild_thing lilacs yerusalyimbobsgirldawnmackincassiline maximumflash granny linda sortafairytale.
Good thinking, lady lee!
Please make sure you have posted your wish list.......everyone has received names now!
besides the one we are currently in, i mean.. for me, i feel a strong draw back to the late 1930s and early 1940s.
as i get older, i find myself enjoying the big band sound even more than i ever did, as well as the movies and radio programs of the era.
for some reason, the appeal to that era stops about mid ww2.
francios.......for some reason, that era just "speaks" to me. I watch shows/documentaries on television and can imagine myself right there! Damn......I was born too late.
Me and jw got to get to that time machine and take a trip! LOL
besides the one we are currently in, i mean.. for me, i feel a strong draw back to the late 1930s and early 1940s.
as i get older, i find myself enjoying the big band sound even more than i ever did, as well as the movies and radio programs of the era.
for some reason, the appeal to that era stops about mid ww2.
1960-70's. I would have loved the whole hippie scene! I think I could have made a great "flower child" Free Love...communes....VW van.......the music.......
~Christy of the "wanna be a hippie" class
