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Definitely Maybe. in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

When I was a little girl living in rural England, I got my fourtune told by a Romanian gypsy woman who came door to door selling 'lucky' heather. Mum and dad weren't home at the time (I was 11 and babysitting my little brother. It was safe(r) to do that back then - almost 30 years ago. Nowadays - not so much) and I didn't want to cause any bad luck for myself or my family, so I spent what I had left of my allowance and she told me my fortune. It was full of the usual bullshit that so-called psyc

Reply to I Did NOT Know This in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Holy moley. I thought EVERYONE knew....I mean, didn't the outfits give it away?! What a sheltered life you lead.

Reply to The ACLU-On The Prowl in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Do you still think the ACLU is evil when they are fighting for the rights of Christians? Of course not. It's a whole different ball of wax then. KFC thinks the ACLU is evil. I think that some born again christians are evil (note I said 'some' not 'all'. I haven't met 'all' of them but I have met 'some' and it's those people that I'm basing my opinion on.) I think that says all I need to say about the differences between KFC and I. <

Reply to The ACLU-On The Prowl in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Jesus Christ was named by almost all our founders as the one we put our trust in. Umm, no, he wasn't. 'God' was mentioned, but not Christ.

Possibilities in Misc JoeUser Forums

I've been given permission to teach my not-your-common-or-garden knitting class, and once I've saved up enough money I'm hoping to apply for a TM for the title of the class. I'm also gathering patterns that I've come up with myself in the hopes of some publisher liking my TM'd title and thinking that a book would sell well. Knitting has become very popular and I'd LOVE to be able to capitalize on that. I've searched the TM/SM database and there isn't any TM in existence fo

Reply to A delightful little talisman in Art JoeUser Forums

You know what, you might just be on to something there, Karen. Something bigger than teaching a local class! Even the name is cool, Altern-knit-ive, lol. (did you make that up? if you did, patent it NOW.) There's a book called 'Altern-knits' or something like that, but 'altern-knit-ive' for a class name is all my own doing. How do

Reply to A delightful little talisman in Art JoeUser Forums

Haha, I dunno whether to be flattered or flabberghasted by that! Flattered. You're one of the few folks over the age of 20 who I know that would appreciate something so....well, gruesome. I told someone else that I was going to be making these, and they just looked at me like I was a freak (the fact that I'm a closet freak isn't re

Reply to Idiot neighbors and vigilante justice... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

*sings* Neiiiiighbors, everybody needs good neiiiiigggghbors...(it was the theme tune to an Aussie soap called 'Neighbors') We have ignorant fecks for neighbors too. One of them is a white trash bitch with a voice like a foghorn who likes to sit outside until 3am cackling away with her drunkard husband. She's best friends with the other white trash bitch across the street, and they let their kids roam free in other people's yards until gone midnight most every night, screa

Reply to A delightful little talisman in Art JoeUser Forums

You don't have to grasp the concepts involved in a combustion engine, nor be able to name all its parts and the functions of those parts in order to drive a car. And you don't have to understand every little thing about God (or have even a single one of those things make sense) in order to see and touch God, or be seen and touched BY God <

Reply to A delightful little talisman in Art JoeUser Forums

I want one. That can be arranged.

A delightful little talisman in Art JoeUser Forums

*yeah, I know this is posted under 'art'. As far as I'm concerned, what I do with two sticks and some string is just as creative as what Picasso did with a pen and ink or some paints. If you disagree....well, tough titties. I'm posting it under 'art', and it's staying here.* I've found a delightfully dismal little goodie to knit: a shrunken head drawstring bag. Short row shaping creates lips, a nose, and eyes, and ribbing and i-cords make up the dreadlocked head of h

Reply to Hobbies in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I knit. A lot. So much so that I've started to teach other people how to knit (and get paid for it, woo hoo!). I've also started spinning and dyeing my own yarn, which I'm having lots of fun with. I also knit a lot for other people (your littlest one is a recipient of my handiwork). Eventually, I hope to have a Saxon wheel (one of the big traditional spinning wheels that people usually envision when they hear 'spinning yarn') and perhaps even a sheep and a

Reply to Better than expected. in Surgery JoeUser Forums

He'll likely not take it as easy as he should (too much macho). Nope, he ISN'T taking as lightly as he should. He walks around the house without his immobilizer or brace on and it drives me crazy. I think that's part of the reason he's doing it, to be honest. He's on convalescent leave for 6 weeks. 6 WEEKS. Th

Reply to It speaks volumes in Marriage JoeUser Forums

Pseudo: I got Pt II this afternoon. You have me hooked (again). For us slow to catch on - AHA! Yeah, I try to keep things like that on the quiet. There are some things that I don't want to share with the world... <TD class=

Reply to It speaks volumes in Marriage JoeUser Forums

28 blogs later.... HAHAHHA! That's why I like you so much, Karen. Always (like me) worrying about the zombie uprising. Hey, you can never be too careful when it comes to zombies. &nb

It speaks volumes in Marriage JoeUser Forums

*This exchange happened as we were driving to the hospital last Friday* Him: 'Hey, if I'm left in a coma and a zombie attack happens - or even if one happens when I'm under anasthesia - I want you to take the kids and get out of town. But, before you go, I want you to leave my good boots under my bed so that when I finally come to I'll have them there waiting.' Me: 'Okey doke. Want me to leave anything else?' Him: 'Nope, just my boots.'. Me: "Sure t

Better than expected. in Surgery JoeUser Forums

D came through the surgery okay, and I brought him home last night. He spent the night on the couch - he said that he didn't think he'd be able to manage the stairs last night (was full of percocet and still drowsy from the anesthesia) - and when I got up this morning he was walking around the kitchen on his crutches. He's been bearing a little weight on his leg today and has been using his CPM (Continuous Passive Motion; it bends and straightens his knee a few degrees)

Bon chance, ma cherie in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Dave finally gets to have his ACL reconstruction surgery today. The past few days have been nightmare-ish; he's been calling all over the county and city, trying to make sure that Tricare will cover everything. They haven't, btw. They haven't covered everything - but we'll make do without the equipment they wouldn't cover. It pisses me off, and D's going to write his elected official(s) when he's recovered, but right now it's time to concentrate getting him through the op

Reply to I don't know where this path will lead in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Well well well....I go to work, visit my patient, and come home to find this. Wow. LW, you are absoultely correct. About all of it. The rest of you skinners...you epitomize the reasons I stay away from computer/programming and skinning issues like the plague. You are the most elitist bunch I've ever come across, you really are. God forbid that someone should sully the hallowed forums of WC....whether it be intentional or by accident.

Reply to I don't know where this path will lead in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Common sense really isn't. "her"? ..... There was supposed to be a 'him/' before the 'her'. My momma told me that if you don't have anything nice to say, it's best to say nothing at all. So, I have nothing else to say to you.

I don't know where this path will lead in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I've been licking my wounds all weekend, mourning anew my father's passing. Today was not a good pain day for me, either physically or emotionally. The Mrs was more herself today than I've seen her in a long time, but even the joy that came from witnessing that didn't last very long. Before long, the clouds rolled in and the day was grey again. I came home from work and sequestered myself on the couch, not wanting to talk to or see anyone. When the phone rang,

Reply to First birthday, first Father's day. in Misc JoeUser Forums

not as good as it used to be anyway. It really feels that way. it is amazing how a single human can have such an effect on the world around them I'm really glad that you were able to affirm that yes, it does feel like that. Like I said, in the days following his death, I really felt outraged that people were still carrying on as if n

Reply to First birthday, first Father's day. in Misc JoeUser Forums

See, now you've got me crying again....(it's not your fault, Joe. The tears have been coming on and off all day today). Thank you, and you're right. This too SHALL pass. Life goes on, the world keeps turning - even thought we may feel it an outrage that it does so. (How DARE the world go about it's business! Doesn't it know that my dad is gone?) I have found that W.H. Auden best verbalizes how it feels.... Stop all the clocks, cut off the

Reply to Hallelujah. Televangelists are evil. in Religion JoeUser Forums

Funnily enough, I was having a conversation about this earlier today. I had driven by a new mega-church that's going up near here (ANOTHER one) and I made the comment that I really, honestly believe that if god and christ are/were real, they'd be sickened by some of the things that are going on in their 'name' - mega-churches and tele-evangelists being but two of them. That evil old bastard Pat Robertson needs to go away too. He makes my skin crawl - if I had to name one p

First birthday, first Father's day. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Yesterday was my birthday - the first one since my dad died. Today is Father's Day. I didn't think it would be this hard. I didn't know I'd cry so much. I was ok all day yesterday; I did fine until my husband and kids sang 'happy birthday' for me last night - that was what did me in. My dad used to call and sing that to me over the phone every.single.birthday. Today has been bad. It wasn't as if I was thinking about it, fearing what would happen and h