they are starting a special preview in select cities to the latest tom cruise movie called the last samari.
really looking forward to going tonight.
we bought tickets to see it yesterday when we went and saw timeline (michael crichton film) which was ok. i had read the book and found it moved better than the movie did.
MY bf and I just fininshed rewatching the Shogun series too. It has been remastered and released on DVD. I loved it years ago and had read the book too. Of course the book as they always do, had more depth. But I loved them all.
I'm glad everyone else liked it as much as we did.
they are starting a special preview in select cities to the latest tom cruise movie called the last samari.
really looking forward to going tonight.
we bought tickets to see it yesterday when we went and saw timeline (michael crichton film) which was ok. i had read the book and found it moved better than the movie did.
Well they could have is right.. 
It turned out that a friend of mine who gets passes to see movies before their opening, gave me tickets and so we got to go again before the actual public opening. So it worked out. I didn't realize that that we missed so much of the beggininning the first time.. 
This movie is really good , awesome if you like the Samuri type stories. I enjoy movies about pirates and ships, but to me, this movie was better that Master and Commander. I loved it, and definately will own it when it comes out!!
dave and i went grocery shopping today, and after we came home, he noticed the propane tank cover for our rv was on the neighbor's front lawn.
on closer inspection, he discovered someone stole one of the propane tanks..............the full one, of course.
the trailer is only a year old.
how maddening.. I hate that we live in a world where you can't trust anyone or leave anything available to be carried away..
I hope your deductable isn't high..
i've just read in another thread that due to circumstances the secret santa for this year hasn't been able to happen, so i want to try and organise another one!.
according to the lady at the post office, the closing date for international mail to be delivered before xmas is this week, but for post on the same continent we still have a few weeks so i'll try and take that into account so everyone can have their prezzy before christmas day.
if everyone who wants to join in can pm or email me at [email protected] with their details before 12noon sunday 30th november(uk time), i'll try and get the details back to you by sunday night.
I never got a hint, so I got an idea from the profile of the person I got.... 
I will mail it tomorrow..
i've fought the blues all day, and now i've had all i kin stanz, i kin stanz no more!
so, this thread is my official pity party.
that's right, i want sympathy dammit!
I'm slow at arriving for this pity party czarofmischief..........but here I am!! 
i guess this is more of a "what do i expect when" type question.. my mother left the jw's when i was a child and was subsequently disfellowshipped.
i'm 28 and only remember seeing my maternal grandparents once in my life - at a cousin's graduation (who was still jw at the time.
anyways, since my mother's parents (and all my other relatives) are over 950 miles away, when we were there last, i stopped in at their address and visited.
well prepare yourself for them to perhaps try to encourage you to go to meetings, or take literature. They must obviously still love your mother if her pictures are still up. They will want to "save you and your family".. the question is, if it is brought up (religion) how do you respond? If you knock the religion, you may find you alienate yourself from building a relationship with them. If they are in their 70s, chances are that you aren't going to 'break them out' .. so remember what it is worth to you to have them in your life.. they won't be around all that great many years to come.. if it was me.. I'd avoid talking religion and be as tactful as possible
if you were not ever a jw, how would your life have been different-----socially, materially, educationally, sexually, emotionally, mentally....etc.??
?
Who knows what we would have become or how different we would have been in , had we not been grown up a JW. We couldn't play in sports or in after school activities. Couldn't go to do things with non JW kids. Couldn't go to college. I didn't even take business classes in high school because I was going to be a good little JW submissive stay at home raise the babies housewife. Didn't get to have traning for a job until I was 30. By then it was only the technical route because even then Armegeddon was coming and who had time to go to college?
Stunted? is an understatement.
....i feel very grrrrr today...i dont know why.
anyone else feel like taking a sledgehammer to a watermellon?.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
HERE YOU GO!!!
All right ........no more grrrring...
all are welcome to attend philly phest (apostafest) brunch on sunday, january 11.
this will be the 2nd phest in the last three years.
if you missed the first one, then you missed meeting flower and her son jaden, badwillie and mrs. badwillie, and yours truly.
This sounds great! I wish it were possible. Unfortunately too much is going on right now requiring all my $$. 
Have a great time and let us know how it goes!
it's an addiction that i have tried to stop since i was a young boy.
my friends and loved ones have tried to encourage me to quit, but i just can't.
when i used to attend meetings, i would feed my addiction right there in the kingdom hall.
I crack my neck often... it slides out easily and if it is out, I have a headache.. so crack snap..........ahhhh.....yes better 
