you know, its a very bizarre thing that happened today and i thought it best to warn you all.
especially since some of you are fighting the battle of the bulge and dieting as am i.. you see, its been about two months since i went on this diet, and its gone along pretty well so far.
ive managed to eliminate 22 lbs.
Jeannie:
Good luck on your diet. Mine starts this week. This morning me and some coworkers are competing on how can lose the most weight in the coming months. We are all pitching in a $1 a week and weighing in about every 2 to 3 weeks and at the end of the month whoever loses the most wins. I weighed in at 197 (UGH!!!!); but I know I can lose at least 20 pounds. I want to try for 40. Wish me luck. BTW, Im doing the low carb diet.
i'm really nervous and scared right now.
i just brought my boy kitty to the emergency care clinic with a blocked urinary tract.. i noticed something was wrong last night when i came home and his sister greeted me at the front door (he is always the first one to greet me).
i went into my bathroom and saw that one of them had pooped on the floor - something neither of them had ever done before.
Im so sorry you are having to deal with that and I hope your cat pulls through. My cat's urinary tract was blocked and had to take him to the vet the next day. His bladder was drained and he stayed at the vets for a week but it was too late as uremic poison spread through his body. The vet didn't tell me this but I knew as I took him home a week later right when I got him in the house and layed him in a bed for him he died. I got the cat from Oklahoma, had him flown in as there were to Bengal catteries that I knew of in the state of Arkansas. Anyway I now have an ocicat; well my father has her now as he and my stepmother have grown attached to her and I let her stay with them as they live out in the country where she can run around in the yard and chase squirrils, birds, etc.
i almost used the word "art" in place of "illustrations" in the subject line.
anyway, i always thought that wt illustrators were of a fairly high calibre.
after the hideous 70s-ish gray-orange-green my book of bible stories era (and, yes, i know some of that had to do with printing tech at the time), some of the illustrations were (are) of quite high quality.. .
I remember seeing the artwork from the magazines hanging on the walls when I first visited Bethel but I really liked the paintings that were put in the stanley theatre.
jc = jesus christ but also judicial committee - any other unfortunate coincidences of this nature you can think of
SI book = Simply Illusional book.
Do they still use that book in the TMS = Too Much Stupidity
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the witnesses say that they put the kingdom first in their lives, and that the rest of the world puts pleasures and money and sex first.. a kind of black and white picture of them and the world.. so, you evil people .
family that I really care about, money and my vices
at one of the last bookstudies i ever attended i heard a comment that really struck home to me how desperate these people really are getting, to the edge of insanity.
an older woman commented, "you can tell the end is coming.. its in the air.. you can feel it.. there is something in the air.. times are just.. different" and the whole time she was manically glancing around the room.
the conductor agreed with her.
its in the air.. you can feel it.. there is something in the air..
somebody probably just passed gas
yet again my dear matt wanted to make an attempt to break the ice with my father and his stupid new wife, whom i feel no responsibility to like or accept because she's young enough to be my father's daughter (she's 29 and my father's 60!!!
) and she's trifling and two faced.
i honestly feel that she's just with him for the money.
Yah the 29 year old is for sure a gold digger. And your Dad is just trying to relive his youth.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Your stepmom sounds like a condescending Anna Nicole Smith wannabe and father sounds like a judgemental and self-rightous a$$hole. I know there are circumstances in which you may have to deal with family but I just about cut off as much unnecessary association as possible people like that in my family. You can still do that and "honor" your mother and father. It is a matter of self preservation. I know it is extremely hard to respect and give honor to parents who treat you like dirt.
My father made promises he never kept, beat the hell out of my mother when they were married, put down me and my brother and sister, embarassed me in front of my friends when I would have some over as a kid by being sloppy-ass drunk, the list is endless. It has taken me a long time to forgive a lot of things he has done which still to this day effects my life. Forgiveness is a continual process, and not a moment in time. I have to remind myself that because if I dont when I have flashbacks of the past in my mind I am able to let go of it and move in a positive way.
My father is not the same person as he was over 20 years ago and I dont bring up the past when I see him. But I have to say letting go and moving on allows me to have more energy to continue on going in the right direction in my life.
Anyway, I hope things get better for you :)
yes, i live in hell, otherwise known as my bedroom.
outside it is 17 degrees c, inside my room it is a humid 30 degrees c. my windows are open and the fan is blowing, but this room won't cool down.
guh, just think how bad its going to be when summer comes out in full blast.
Nina:
I never been in Dallas during the summers but heard stories about how bad it is there this time of year. It gets about as bad here in Little Rock with the humidity added. It only bothers me when Im going to and from work. My office on the second floor where I work stays plenty air conditioned; so much that I keep a cardigan in my office because sometimes it is too cold even in the summer.
what is the stupidest thing you have ever done, or heard someone else do?
i have a few, but my latest was sitting right here on the computer during a thunderstorm.
(last week) lightning struck, the speakers made a really loud noise, and the whole thing blew!!!!!!!!!!
I have went around the apartment looking for my keys only to later to find out I had been holding them the whole time!
looking back, i can see how the elders could "terrorize" different persons.
some people are shy by nature.
others were trained from their previous religions to be in subjection to the "shepherds".
There was a time or two during the time my mother would use the fact that I was a baptized JW against me. Once she found a pack of cigs in my room (I was staying at my grandmother's at the time when I was in college) so she felt she had the right to go through my stuff there. She took them from where I hid them and left a note "what would the elder's think" and I wouldn't put it past her at that time to report it since one of her brothers (my uncle) was an elder in the cong and she had talked to him about the "association" I had been keeping. With a mother like that when an elder wanted to speak to me all kinds of things would go through my mind.
