okay, i already told yall the one about slamming the door on the christmas carolers,.
* http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=16654&site=3.
i have another one for you.. one december afternoon back in the late 1980s my mom and i were looking out of my back sliding glass doors.. we could see a santa clause sneaking around the side of my neighbors house and then he climbed into their house through a bedroom window.. we thought we were seeing a burglary in progress!.
How funny! I admire your willingness to share these stories, I don't think I could tell on myself.
Thanks for the note on Mulan's Christmas card, it was real sweet. As soon as I get my cards ready, I'll send you one. I'm almost done with my shopping, I just finished wrapping, I've decorated and the tree goes up this weekend. Next week, the cards.
Merry Christmas
Princess
this friday, december 7th., is our 28th wedding anniversary.
her ladyship and i intend to visit our favourite restaurant, dimitri's, for a slap-up greek meal plus a considerable quantity of excellent wine.. its a time when we like to reflect on our life together, the lows as well as the highs that we have experienced over the years.
mainly, our life has been one of laughter and fun.
Hey mom, I'm 32, if you were six when you got married 39 years ago??? Reminds me of when little princess asks me where she was when I was a little girl.
Princess
this friday, december 7th., is our 28th wedding anniversary.
her ladyship and i intend to visit our favourite restaurant, dimitri's, for a slap-up greek meal plus a considerable quantity of excellent wine.. its a time when we like to reflect on our life together, the lows as well as the highs that we have experienced over the years.
mainly, our life has been one of laughter and fun.
Congratulations Eman, you have so much to be proud of.
Many many more,
Princess
i posted this on the thread from little_red_birdie, but thought perhaps it deserved it's own thread.. to some of the posters on this thread:.
you guys are just too suspicious.
some teens are so grown up, and have good vocabularies, because their parents talk to them, and they learn how to speak.
I think Mulan had the guts to post what a lot of us were thinking when we read the cynical posts in response to little red bird. Thanks for standing up for her mom!
It would be a shame if a lurker were discouraged from posting lest he be called a troll. Like Simon said, I'd rather be duped than to hurt an innocent newbie.
Princess
another famous aussie apostate bbq is going to be held this coming sunday, 9th december.. any aussies (or anyone else that's willing to fly, swim or sail to our country) that wants to come, please email me or ozziepost for details.. who knows, maybe we might be able to convince ozzie to dress up as santa for us!!
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Ozzie, do they subject you to Alice White down under? Absolutely unfit to drink IMHO. Their shiraz is just awful, disgraceful. Most of the stores around here have a nice selection of Australian wines. I stick with what I know. I have tried a few different ones, but I always go back to my favorite.
Waiting, have you tried a shiraz? Just wondering...
Princess
21. it has the world headquarters of the christian congergation.
of jehovah's witnesses.. 20. your fellow citizens might not agree that farts are funny, but they will defend to the death a magazine full of jokes about them.. 19. we have the best mexican food...and many of the best mexicans!.
18. cowboys.. 17. all superheroes, from superman to mighty mouse to the thing, are on our side.. 16. no other chant at the olympics has quite the cachet of u.s.a.!
Princess needs to make a correction. Sleeping Beauty's castle is in Disneyland. Cinderella lays claim to Disneyworld. Bitch.
Princess
last week, i told about how i watched the christmas eve sky, for santa claus, after my parents became witnesses, thinking he just didn't come to our house anymore.. here is another thing i did.
all through school (my parents became dubs before i went to kindergarten) i participated in decorating the room for christmas.
i sang all the carols, and ate the goodies that were brought my the moms.
I did NOT have a liberal mother. I went to the library during all the parties at school. I never ate the goodies the kids passed out on their birthdays, I refused them. I never really cared much. I was usually embarassed if someone made a big deal out of it. Sometimes the birthday child's mom would try to make me take a cupcake and I would be horrified at the thought. I preferred to disappear to the library to read for an hour.
I hated going back to school after Christmas vacation. They were all wearing new clothes and everone wanted to know "what did you get for Christmas"? Hated that.
I'm just throwing myself into it this year. Just mailed my invitations for my family Christmas party and I'm getting ready to print some invitations to my neighborhood Christmas party. My kids are getting way too much stuff. We are getting our tree this weekend and we were the first in the neighborhood to put up lights. Fun fun fun!
Princess
1. we got pubs.
1000's and 1000's of pubs.. 2. liz hurley.. 3. manchester united.. 4. the harrier / concorde / a380xxx.
5. we got more overseas territories than anyone.it is still true, even now.. 6. the s.a.s.. 7. lots and lots of steam railways!.
Did anyone mention Blackadder?
Princess
why i began thinking on prayer was the request from my spanish neighbour to my wife.
they requested that she come down and pray for his/her child who has been sick.
my wife believes in prayer and says she knows it works.
It's funny, I've never discussed prayer with Mulan other than what she said above about it being a form of goal setting. I suspected that she didn't pray, we basically feel the same about religion these days without having to discuss it. I never pray anymore either. My husband says a prayer at dinner for the whole family and he prays with the kids at night...I think. He has always been a more spiritual person than me. I was never good at praying as a JW and I am just like Mulan. I never even think about it. I remember as a small child we were expected to pray silently before we ate if we weren't eating together as a family. One day either my mom or dad asked me what I said when I prayed. Well, I couldn't tell them that I silently said the abc's so I just refused to talk. I had myself so upset that I didn't finish eating. It didn't make me a better prayer, I just gave me time to think up an answer if they ever asked again. Funny how those memories pop out of nowhere. I couldn't have been more than six or seven.
Anyway, I agree with Mulan about the cancer prayers. Doesn't work. I have a friend who credits God with his current remission, but I personally think it's his incredibly positive attitude that has helped him along. He has a strong faith in God but he also puts on a smile and has a positive thing to say no matter how he feels.
Princess
another famous aussie apostate bbq is going to be held this coming sunday, 9th december.. any aussies (or anyone else that's willing to fly, swim or sail to our country) that wants to come, please email me or ozziepost for details.. who knows, maybe we might be able to convince ozzie to dress up as santa for us!!
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I am so jealous! Not about the snow, about the wine. Sounds fabulous Ozzie, enjoy.
I love the snow, it is so beautiful. The kids love it and it's good for business (plumbing).
Merry Christmas
Princess
