i sooooo want to see that movie!!!
thats where i was headed but they were sold out and i ended up seeing tdtess.. looks like classic growling snarling eastwood..
***Saw it last night and it was a great movie.
Slanted a little bit toward an older audience, quite "politically incorrect" ***
THIS was one of the things that I loved about this movie! I feel it is one I will have to watch again to catch all the little "asides" that were tossed out, LOL!
I really enjoyed it and I am pretty sure all the Eastwood fans will too.
hugs,
Annie
i have not posted since last may, and prior to that, about a year before.
in july 08 i returned to my engineering career, and now work at a nuclear power station.
life here in wisconsin is very good ... the culture is generaly laid back, but it's colder than hell.
Hello Jim!
How nice to see your post after all this time! I am pleased to see that things are going so great for you and that you are well, happy and productive.
hugs,
Annie
so who here has finished their xmas shopping?
im such a procrastinator that at this rate ill be buying gifts on xmas eve :( but i love xmas so its worth it!
anyone else here just staring to buy gifts now?.
I'm done, as of last week. All wrapped and ready to go.
I didn't get some made....I planned on making some beaded Christmas lapel pins (sweet little angels and snowmen with hats) and got everything I needed but could not find proper little boxes to send them in when I was finished making them. I decided to shelve it for next year and look throughout the year for the boxes I need. I just got too pooped out with going to different stores and all and decided to give up on it.....too close to the Christmas deadline.
Quite by accident, I happened to try my hand at making beaded necklaces and bracelets last summer. I picked up a couple of kits to make necklaces at the Dollar Store. I LOVED putting these together and then I bought more "loose" beads, and began to create my own designs. I started out with a small box (like a large sereal box) of beads and clasps, and have now worked up into two huge plastic containers filled with all sorts of styles of beads and pendants in every color imaginable LOL!
hugs,
Annie
we had a major snowstorm last night, to add to the week of snow we've been having off and on.
temperatures wayyyy below freezing.. i took this photo from the living room window.
you can barely see our steps.
We have had blizzard conditions before sunrise this morning. There was already approx 18" on the ground before that. My son that has a truck with a plow, came by to clear out the driveway....was half in and half out in the road and the radiator blew. He monkeyed something up to get himself home but our driveway still is socked in.
Hubby went out and got the snowblower started....did a small section....and a piece broke off of it. (UGH) He just came in and said the wind is picking up and it is even colder than before.
Isn't this only the official first day of winter?
hugs,
Annie
i am sorry, but i just find it so hard to see a bunch of former witnesses doing the whole born again thing.
acting in a way that is just trading one line of thought, for another.
basically, one time you said you were waiting for the "new system" and now you pulled that thought out and replaced it with the "waiting for heaven" comment.
I don't feel as if I traded one set of "pie in the sky" beliefs when leaving the WTS' idea of earthly paradise for the heavenly one. When I left the WTS I did not leave my spirituality behind (as the WTS teaches we have left God himself) and I didn't automatically become a Christian either.
I was disgusted and disappointed in the WTS and I knew in my gut that there had to be something better. I just didn't know WHAT.....but too many scriptures rang true for them to be lies.
I had been skeptically reading the testimonies of Christians online, and figured they were nuts and/or fanatics.....but then too many of these testimonies all seemed to have one main thread running through them....and this intrigued me. I admired their assuring tone and found myself fondly wishing I had that kind of faith to rely on. Mine had taken a real beating because of the exposure of the WTS, but it was still there somewhere.
One night a few years ago, I was reading a website that I now believe I was led by Jesus to find (after ALL, his voice had successfully led me OUT of the WTS)....and I admitted I was a sinner in dire need of direction and mercy....asked Jesus to come into my heart and my life....and IMMEDIATELY there was SUCH a calming peace that came over me like a huge fuzzy warm blanket wrapped around me. I had never experienced anything like this before in my life, even in 30 years as "one of the happiest people on earth" as a JW.
Since then, scriptures have taken on new meaning, ones I have read hundreds of times before as a JW....now leaped off the pages at me with a new understanding, and so many things made sense...that did not do so before.
I do attend a lovely country church up the road from me when I am able to, a very family and community oriented church with warm and terrific people. The sermons are uplifting and thoughtful and the Pastor is a gentle and humble man, but I can honestly say that I don't "HAVE" a religion other than Christianity.
I feel that "religion/faith" is a purely personal thing between you and Christ, and NO organization will help you to be found any more "worthy" simply because of belonging TO it. It all boils down to what YOU do and how YOU behave with the information and the truths you absorb and act on.
Due to my bringing my family into the WTS, we have been shredded and torn to bits over who is "in" the WTS and who has left by DFing or DAing....and those that never were baptized but were at different stages on "progressing TO WTS baptism"....we were a real mess. Since I put my heart in Jesus' care and keeping, our family has made wonderful progress.....in forgiveness and love. Strong differences just seemed to vanish.
I can SEE the hand of Jesus in how this has all come about....some very insurmountable hurdles have been swept away and we are FINALLY getting together (with the exception of one JW) at holidays and birthdays and the 4th of July party we have every year, etc. Things I never thought I'd see in my lifetime have all taken place just in these last few years. I just cannot chalk it up to "coincidence".
When Jesus touches your heart....you know it. There is no mistake.....and then too, I look forward to whatever he has in store for me.
hugs,
Annie
boy..just when i thought things couldnt get weirder in my life...i spent a whole day designing a christmas newsletter with colorful pictures and stories about what my kids and family have been doing, and the election and you know...year end things and greetings, to send out.
i do this every year.
this year i had to file bankruptcy in august and decided to email the newsletter to save money.
I am normally a tender and compassionate person, but I have also learned that jerks are always going to be jerks no matter what I do or say. Chalk it up to his insensitivity and do not respond to him at all. He is just looking for ways to be miserable. He won't understand what a clod he is even if it is gently explained to him. YOU did nothing you need to apologize FOR. I would let hubby care for all future correspondence with this arrogant man. Try and put this out of your mind.....and have a GREAT Christmas, sweetie.
hugs,
Annie
i love christmas, i don't know if i am going to have a christmas tree this year.
most of my family live in kentucky.. i love decorating the christmas tree.
i have a ten month old cat that gets into everything, eats everything.
Thanks for the angels, Barbie Doll! The one on the left is almost identical to the one hanging in the corner window.....it nearly takes up the full 36"x36" pane.
We had about 18" of snow on Friday, flurries all day Saturday, and woke up to blizzard conditions this morning. It is supposed to last all day here....more than a foot more is expected to fall by this evening.
Tomorrow, I have company from the Mohawk region due in for Christmas to spend the holidays here with us....(we will all be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together at my second oldest son's home) and I still need to get out to get milk, bread, coffee, meat for dinner and soda pop before they get here.....the last time I was out, I picked up all the last minute gifts, decorations and stuff....and all the baking ingredients for the cakes, cookies and pies. Our family does a lot of swapping of different wrapped up "goodies" before Christmas actually arrives.
hugs,
Annie
wtf people??!
i mean if jw's can watch &/or purchase xmas movies, toys and other stuff during the holiday season, then isn't that celebrating?
we went out & bought a an x-box 360(the $400 one!
GaryBuss said:
All witnesses I know, "observe" holidays. To "observe" means they watch. We "observed" fireworks displays. Many with jobs "respect" the holiday by receiving bonuses, and taking paid days off. So . . . when Witnesses I know say they don't "celebrate" holidays, I condone that, while I know they "observe" and "respect".
The one thing the Witnesses advertise that they do "celebrate", they celebrate with disrespect. They "celebrate" the Christian sacraments in their passover play, with "contempt", by most all refusing the offered bread and wine. They turn it into a black mass.
I went along for a couple of years fixing my family anything but turkey on Thanksgiving (didn't want to "not please" Jehovah ya know) but when I realized that just about every JW family I knew was eating turkey, having JW friends over, and watching football on TV.....I began to do the same and continued with this for the balance of 30 years. WHAT was the difference between what WE were doing....and what our doomed and evil
worldly" neighbors were doing? (I never did wrap my head around that one)
We brought our kids to see the fireworks on July 4th, we accepted gifts on Christmas from well-meaning relatives and neighbors, but being "good JWs" we cheerfully (and smugly) avoided returning any warm greetings of Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or even a quick Happy New Year, although we WOULD BE entering a new year just like anyone else. We just weren't allowed to acknowledge it.
Go figure.
i still spend some time here and there exposing the wt society for what it truly is (a man originating, man run, high control religious cult-like religious institution), rather than what they tell people they are (god's appointed channel/organization/people etc).
the facts prove without a doubt that god was never behind any of this:http://www1.tip.nl/%7et661020/wtcitaten/part1.htm.
here is the link to that letter: http://newsblaze.com/story/20081209054218zzzz.nb/topstory.html.
Vinny, there is no doubt that your talents in writing are being used to expose many more sincere ones to the evils of the WTS, to see their paths lightened by the real truth and are being led out of them as they heed Jesus' call.
2 Cor 6: 17 "So, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor"
my choices are:.
atonement.
the black balloon .
Shhhhh!
I haven't been inside a movie theater since 2002.....I only asked what the three BEST movies that you had seen this year LOL! (I didn't even ask what year they were made!)
I am a huge movie fan, usually try and watch two or three every week..... and I wondered what films that others were enjoying.
hugs,
Annie
