with all the depressing stuff going on in the world, the new is terror threat, poor people dying in the japan volcano, e-bola etc.... i just wanted to share my happiness.. my really horrible neighbours moved away in july this year.
i had 3 horrendous years living next to them, so bad that i had alopecia!!
my flat was up for sale but was bought by a investor, who is a good guy and has other properties in my local area.. to celebrate i am going to kefalonia next week, i have wanted to go for 20 years and i'm so excited.. sometimes, you don't always appreciate the good times unless you have troubles to deal with.. thanks for reading.. .
Oh, quelly, bad neighbors are the worst. I hope your new neighbors are lovely.
We once had bad neighbors on one side of us and great neighbors on the other side. Once while we were away on vacation the good neighbor texted us a picture of the bad neighbors frolicking naked in our hot tub.
Yeah.
no longer a ms ........................... can't give details atm, for it might be a dead-giveaway and it ain't quite over yet.
but, it really taught me one thing: if you're trying to fade or stay in, trust no one.
and i mean no one.. eden.
Wow, your wife? And they say this religion doesn't tear families apart.
Glad she's come around.
page 15.
"take for example a christian couple in asia.
in their younger years, they admired those who could afford to own a house.
When the housing bubble hit the US we were ready to sell and move to a bigger home, but were priced out of the market. So, we remodeled and added an addition that doubled the size of our house. While buying more square footage in the form of a new house was overpriced, building new square footage onto an existing house cost the same as it always had, about $100 per square foot.
We now own a larger home, and compared to our mortgage payment, we could rent it out for at least double that amount!
My SIL, however, bought at the height of the bubble and when they needed to move to a larger house because of having kids, they owed more than the house was worth. So, they had no equity to use as a downpayment on a larger house. They had to save tens of thousands of dollars for the next half decade for a downpayment on a new house. The old house hasn't yet rented and they may lose it to foreclosure.
My point is that you need to educate yourself about finances, mortgages, etc. I obsessively gobbled that information up and even took a college class on personal finance. I bought my first house at age 21, renovated it and flipped it for a profit that was used on a downpayment on a larger home. If I hadn't made it a point to follow real estate trends, I may not have recognized the bubble for what it was and may have ended up upside down on a mortgage right now, like my SIL, who, BTW is very smart, but just never educated herself on real estate.
Education, education, education! And that is exactly what the WTS discourages.
They might be kicking themselves in their collective ass when rents continue to rise and renters can't afford to donate anymore.
Funny, though, how the elders in my parents' congregation all own their own homes and/or businesses. It seems this advice is for the poor sidelined peons in the congregation. Maybe it helps them feel better since they can't afford to buy a house anyway.
are you more amazed by nature documentaries now, or were they better when "god did it"??.
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dd.
What I find wonderful is understanding the biochemical underpinnings for emotions and realizing that my cat is probably making just as much oxytocin as I am when I pet him. That suggests that animals "love" just like humans.
the mrs and i have been invited to join a few "clubs" since leaving wtbts.
we have looked into a local"moose lodge", but after one visit that particular one got checked off the list ( a sloppy drunk fell in love w the mrs. lol) .
i got invited to join the freemasons a couple of times, but it just gave me "hebe-jeebees" and bad memories of all those jw conventions at scotish rite temples as a kid- i must admit the shiners do seem like a happy crowd.
I once joined a new mothers club when I had my son. They were more like Corporate Moms when I needed a support group. LOL.
I just don't think I'm a "joiner." I tend to be more of an introvert. Have you tried an interest based group? For instance, cycling or sailing or gardening?
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-health-effects-of-leaving-religion/379651/.
a particularly curious quote was:.
the most mainstream research on this is a 2010 study out of pennsylvania state university, which examined data from 1972 to 2006. the study showed that 20 percent of people who have left religion report being in excellent health, versus 40 percent of people currently part of strict religious groups (such as jehovahs witnesses and latter-day saints) and 25 percent of people who switched from a strict religion to a more lenient religion.
It seems they thought the possibility was that the first 2 to 3 years were the most difficult when exiting religion and from that point on people seemed to recover.
sometimes people make special connections to animals.
sometimes they bond very deeply and are real friends.
yesterday was the end of such a friendship that lasted ten wonderful years.
My condolences. I just had to put a cat down last week. She was nearly 20. I cried for days. It's hard to do, but she was really suffering. Sometimes the right thing hurts.
this was on the news this morning.
when you buy gas air is part .
of the service, it should be free.
It's illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. I don't know whether they routinely provide services like windshield washing, air for tires, etc., though.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/eric-holder-to-step-down-as-attorney-general.
happy day - our incompetent race baiting ag who refuses to actually do his job, and prosecute high crimes right under his down in the irs is finally stepping down.
good riddance!.
Funny how people who bring racism to light are branded as racists.
i've just glanced out my window and i saw the most picturesque countryside.
i do believe we're entering autumn.
so summer has had its day and like an old friend slipped away and we moves on...how do you feel about entering autumn?.
While I think it is beautiful, I have seasonal depression which has been particularly severe this year, starting in August.
What I need is a winter home in Australia so I can enjoy an endless summer.
