okay, i can just picture me dressed up in drag, singing "do you really want to hurt me", lol!.
but seriously, my buddy is getting married sept 5, and he and his fiance have asked me if me & my wife would sing at his wedding.
seems like the cd we gave out at the wedding is creating some opportunities (one of my dad's friends bought a copy of the cd).
Yes it is quite a compliment being asked to sing at a wedding.
I've had that honor a few times.
One couple even asked me to compose a song especially for them and sing it at their wedding.
That was a memorable one and they were very pleased.
Hope you and your wife can do it .. if it fits into your schedule.
When it's your friends it makes it all that much more special.
Special K
my mom told me yesterday that my friend (while growing up) who is an elder again, (after years of mental problems), came to her house and inquired as to how my family and i are doing.
he said we have become a subject of conversation at a recent get together..... of course, my mother started crying, told him to ask me himself and told him she did not wish to talk about this subject since it severely depresses her.
he backed off but shortly asked again.
Hi Minimus
I remember those days...they try to get to you through your family or your friends.
If you keep up with the low profile they might eventually leave you alone.
It would be nice if they left your mom alone.
Special K
something odd has happened, my 25 year-old mind is trapped in a 63 year-old body!
(sigh)
my hubby sent me a card that said "i'm so glad you decided to stick around for another year!
Hi Sunspot.
I missed this thread.. How'd that happen
A very Happy Birthday to you, girl..
Man, what a hard year you had.
Hope things are looking up for you and your household.
love
Special K
after a couple of days away from the board and doing some hard thinking and contemplation about my life, and reading (though i'm not done yet and the conclusion may turn out to be a letdown) a fabulously insightful book called the courage to be, a funny thing has happened...i feel as sane, calm, and alive as i've felt in years, maybe ever.
maybe this is a manic episode or something.
probably not because i'm not really doing anything productive nor am i making any grandiose plans.
Hey Dan..
Sounds like things seem more in perspective.
Nobody is perfect. I told this to an exjw friend of mine the other day that..
If I expected everyone around me to be perfect all the time, everyday and every minute... well then I just should have stayed a J.W. .. or I should have never had kids. LOL.
I know I've made mistakes and have had to say sorry sometimes.. (my husband would argue with me on that one)..
Being open to take a look at one self is sometimes hard to do..I don't know if introspect is a natural thing to do or not. I have done a lot of intro and retrospect of my life since leaving the borg. Some I wanted to do and some I just seemed to be hurled into.
There are many posters here who I don't agree withh but I don't dislike all their posts, I just sometimes have a different point of view.
Special K
i was rather pleased with a few of these pics, so thought i would share: .
jackson & moose hanging out in the backyard .
my beautiful jennie .
Hi Nina
Very, Very nice pictures..
The grass even look nice and green.
Lots of wind here this year on Canada's east coast. Grass is quite dry and yellow now.
Moose looks like he's a great addition to the family and the kids look great too.
Special K
i quit....smoking that is, my pack to 1 1/2 pack a day habit...i quit june 4th, not a single cigarette since then...though 5 to 7 pounds...are ya proud of me...huh huh huh....i had a few of ya hoping i was leaving the board....ha!
Hi Yeru
I just wanna say... YAAA HOOO!.. for you.
I liked you when you smoked and I still like you now that you stopped.
Hope those lungs get all that stuff cleared out soon.
They say it takes awhile to get the tar or nicotine stuff out, but I don't know that for sure..?
Special K
in lowell mass.
a 67 year old former janitor won the mega millions jackpot.
what would you do with all that money?
We had a guy near where I live.. Him and his wife won 5.5 million.
They paid off their neighbours mortgage.. (disappointed that I didn't live beside them..darn!)
They took about 50 of their friends to Toronto, rented a bunch of suites in the best hotel and took them all to see the "Rolling Stones" in concert.. all expenses paid. ..including airfare. WOW!
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My girlfriend next door to me.. her father in his 80's won 6 million about 10 years back.
He took a certain portion and divided it evenly among his 5 grown kids.. Needless to say, there was still alot of griping among them and felt that wasn't fair.
He died the other year (old age..and too much drinking).. but I do believe the remaining money again was split evenly among his grown children again.
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Special K.. (Me hmm what would I do with that kind of money.. I'll think on that a bit and be back)
she is older, he is younger.
what's the largest spread in years that you have heard about that is.
1. fun.
Hi Sally, how are you doin'
My husbands mother married a man who was 31 years older than her. (Her second marriage)..
They were married when he was almost in his seventies , I think.
Draw back to it all is that he died after they were married for only 7 years or so.
She was so devastated by it.. it was very sad.
The funny thing about the relationship was that her father and her husband were exactly the same age and had been friends before.. They are both passed on now.
Special K
i am curious , especially since we have so many new ones here, as to how many actually left the organization because of this board or others similar to it.
i certainly would hope that we are making a dent in the jw organization by what we do here......,
Yes, I do minimus..
I really do think sites such as these are helping ones throught the out process
Special K
this is starting to remind me of my childhood.
of course, the plus side is that i grew out of most of it, but it was hell while it lasted.. jackson (our 8-year-old) had his tonsils and adenoids out the beginning of june, in an effort to help reduce the number of infections and viruses he's been getting.
he's allergic to a lot of stuff, most of which grows in texas (where we live), and we've tried allergy shots on two separate occasions which reacted badly on him.
Raises hand up high.. I'm the older mom.
and I'm glad I didn't have kids when I was younger.
I feel I'm more mature and more patient...
A big plus is that with children, at least in our household, my husband really helps up alot with the 3 boys.
As I read in your topic post, Big Tex was right there with you doing his part to help with the clean up.
And we have taken turns with the alarm clock to get up and check to see if fevers are soaring again.
In the past, when I have been away at the hospital with the youngest one for 10 to 15 day stints, my husband has held the fort at home with the other boys, cooking, cleaning, getting them off to school and working full time himself. He is a very good "fort support".
At one time in our lives we could have looked to our extended family for back up.. but disfellowshipping sure chucked that out the window. We have learned to rely on each other through upheaval and have now built up, what I call, some "chosen family" to help us in emergencies.
I wonder if I would have had a young husband that he would have had the maturity to see the need of his help?. hard to say, maybe but maybe not.
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((( Nina )).. It never rains but it pours when you are tired (refering to your work who let things go until it became a mad rush.. I hate that.
Special K
