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Seems like no one else noticed that the Dervish ate all of Neak's cats then "started in on the neighbors".

Now I wonder what neighbors taste like. Not that I would ever find out, but I have always been a curious sort.

I got the biggest kick out of reading the last few pages......... all except for Cinderellas problems with her car.

It's fun to watch the word play, I have been reading, but haven't had time to reply.

Cinderella, we hit part of a truck tire last week, and it It knocked the wheel well liner loose on the left front, and tore off the right rear quarter panel so that it dragged the ground. I got some duct tape and taped it back together, and have been driving it like that for a week. I hope to look at it this weekend, and maybe even fix it, but we'll see. I'm just glad it isn't totaled like yours is.

Has it been located yet?

I wanted you to have a vacation too. I think they are good for us.

You can always get a cheap airline ticket, and fly out to see T&L. I'm sure she would let you help her watch the grand kids. The entertainment value alone would be worth the ticket price I am sure.


Where are AJ and Mr C these days?

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I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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Hamilton, ON. The weather is much better than most of their trip, temperatures even above freezing sometimes, and just bits of snow every now and again.

They were in Kanata during that huge ice storm that killed people and shut down things in the north-east.


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I continue to pray (and to hope )that they will return to you safely. The photos you posted took me back through the years and I thought about when I lived in Canada. The people are very friendly, and kind, but I think I'll stay a little further south.

I am glad Mr C can travel with his dad, the memories will be priceless.

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I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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I am thinking about what you wrote also.

These truly are the last days....... when these things happen freely, and are not opposed.

Are you OK? Please tell the truth.

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I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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My car has been found - still in the lot of the original tow company. Instead of finding the paperwork for it, they sent someone out to walk around the lot - and THERE IT WAS!

This is good! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Rella I just KNEW that if we all kept praying the car thing would be sorted <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ..... now for the insurance company ....... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


SS I don't think its new, its just that in the past only the rich and powerful usually got away with it .... from Roman Emperors to Henry VIII to a Pope or two ... and anyone who disgreed got chopped <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
people have always been able to find an excuse to do what they want but shouldn't. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

A lesson in being careful for what you ask for ... sorry this is long ... but I'll feel better after <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

AW ... Boss I want a new job, I want a new job, I want a new job

Boss ... yes you do look tired

AW ... yes I need a new job with less pressure

Boss ... you know I'm glad you told me that

AW ... well its because I need a new job

Boss ... I know just how you feel

AW .... thats because I need a new job

Boss .. well are you in luck!!

AW .. oh thats good cause I need a new job

Boss .. here go up to parliament and answer these questions at this afternoons sitting

AW .. Oh crap <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />


...... later on ...

Member .. Chairman will you direct Mrs AW to answer the question ...
CM .. Mrs AW could you be more expansive in your response please ...
AW ... Yes Mr Chairman .. we dont house people ... we build accommodation .. we don't manage the housing
CM ..Then why are you here to answer the committees questions?
AW .. The hon Member requested our response Mr CM
Member .... there you see you can never get a straight answer they have 1000's of units
CM ... Does the Directorate have 1000's of units Mrs AW
AW ... Yes Mr Chairman however we don't manage them Community groups manage them to house disadvantaged members of the wider community as explained in the briefing papers
Member ... then why can't you answer the question?
AW ... As explained to the Hon Members ...we dont house people ... we build the accommodation ( for the 10 th time)
AW .. "thinking" ( YOU IDIOT)

about 6.00pm they decided to dismiss me and go to dinner <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> ... the hon Member was snoring by then ... apparently they had a good lunch earlier <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

when I got back my lousy BIL and his mangey mates in Policy were having a few wines & rolling about in the throws of laughter ... they thought it was funny ... he is just a bas.... oh sorry Neak I know I'm not supposed to swear any more ... I was just doubting his parentage. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> wait until I tell my big sister on him

I'm gonna get a REAL new job even if I have to get prego and stay home! so there! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I feel better now .. but no laughing <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />


Life may feel as if you are constantly getting kicked on a daily basis, living is about picking yourself up each day and going on and on and on regardless.

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Are you OK? Please tell the truth


No, I'm not OK. Actually I was never OK with lies, corruption, half truths, etc but as long as I was busy it was easier to go on living in the middle of a world full of all that.

now, I am basically on my own, and it's much more difficult to ignore. It all affects me personally. And I am also alone trying to stand up to it. I'm the outsider.

But I know its not like this elsewhere and maybe that makes it worse in one sense, because otherwise I might just accept it believing it is how life is.
That's what people tell me: that's just how life is! but I refuse to believe it, I refuse to cheat, to lie, to do less than I can, to steal etc just because it would make me more acceptable. I can't do it.

And there's nothing much I can do about it, I'm alone. I try but I don't get any support.

About WH I feel disgust. The overwhelming feeling is disgust and horror. These feelings are so strong they completely overshadow (?) any anger I may have. Sometimes I start getting angry because of something WH does or did but then the disgust at his being an adulterer is just greater. And on top of that I feel a freak because most people say, so what? everyone does it! And when you look around, it's true!

I know I sound depressed, but I'm not really "clinically depressed". Pessimistic? I see it as realistic because I am optimistic at heart and I always hope for the best but I am nearly always disappointed.


Next week, Holy Week is a holiday for me and most people here. Another hypocrisy: this is a secular country (different from most south american countries) and yet Holy Week is a holiday, the whole week. It has other names: beer week, tourism week, there's an across country bicycle race during the week, and most people don't have to work. Until a few years ago, even the banks closed for the whole week.
It is autumn, the weather is great and most people either go to the countryside or camping or abroad.

These last few years I have made it Holy Week and I'm looking forward to it very much. I will be one of the few who stay home in the city. The dog and I.

I will go to special morning prayers at the Church, evening mass and some special prayer sessions. the rest of the time I will most probably stay home. One of dds is going away for the whole week, the other two haven't decided yet.


Since I stay in the city, I am on call for work the whole week and this year it is a little more complicated than last year so I expect to have to go at least a couple of times to the office. To start with I know I have to work on monday morning. And there is no extra pay or anything. But I don't mind that, it is my responsibility.

I pray I find something meaningful and useful in my life. And I wait. Patience is supposed to be a sign of maturity.

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CC I am sorry that you feel sad.
yet you have chosen to stay true to what you believe. rejoice in that no matter what other people may chose to do. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Take real joy in that.

people you love will make bad choices, they will make mistakes they will deliberately chose wrong. But it isn't 'just life' I agree with you.

It is always THEIR choice.
But even after choosing evil or apathy they can still choose to seek forgiveness... repent... have remorse and regret.... even if all realtionships are well and truly broken.... and work on living a good life... sticking to the true path. Make amends where they can <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

As for the big questions on a Holy week.. well its still Holy no matter what some choose to do or not do. I wonder sometimes if I asked the average person in the street what Easter was for besides chocolate eggs what answers I would get. I am not that sure if a few years ago I could have answered it myself I was so messed up. But we can all change God willing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

What gives me hope is hearing little ones tell you its 'about Jesus and the cross and stuff.. don't you know anything?? cheeky devils ..... but it shows not everyone is ignoring God. Even in their own little ways .... It gives me hope that the kids of today are not just spiritual vacuums. I bet our mums and dads thought that of us amd theirs of them at times. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> no its not hopeless at all.

Sadly CC we will always have those who choose to remain blind and deaf to that side of their soul. We can only try to remain faithful to what we believe in ... even though we fail at times too .... but it's the trying and doing that also is important <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I will pray that things do become better for you CC, you deserve happiness.


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It's not always going to be like this. We are privileged to be living in the last days, but it's also a difficult time when lawlessness abounds, and the love of many grows cold.



The Dervish said something funny, but now I can't remember what it was. All I can think of is pemmican.


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Well there was also what Neaksis' youngest, DS10, said earlier.

Mom: As long as you have yourself, you won't need enemies.
Neaksis: (whispering) You might want to explain that to him. I don't think he understands.
Mom: Of course he understands! DGS10, what did I mean?
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DS10: Uh, that I have to play with myself?

Note for any gutter-minded: I'm pretty sure he only meant keeping himself entertained in inoccuous, non-sexual ways. But no matter which meaning you choose, there is no escaping that he had NO CLUE what Mom was talking about.

Now you know why Neaksis' hair keeps falling out in clumps when it's time for reading comprehension. The above answer is pretty typical of his answers in school, too. Neaksis will have to tell you about the poor sad animals who die whenever it rains in the mountains, because there will be a flood and they won't survive anyway. And the deer who graciously and unselfishly offer themselves to the cougars, just so the cougars won't have to go hungry.


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Well, shoot, as long as we're laughing at him ... As many of you know, some of our kids' mental circuits have been at least temporarily fried by the effects of being molested. That's not funny at all. But some of their efforts at reading comprehension crack me up. Here's a sample of today's, courtesy Neaksis' DS10...

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1) The first inhabitants of North America were the Pemmicans.

2) Oh, wait--aren't Pemmicans those birds with the big beaks that eat fish?

3) Bartolomeu (mutilated pronunciation) Die-az (Dias) sailed to India in 1947, a journey of over 11 miles.

4) Space travel has long captured the human image.

5) The name of the space probe was the Looser (Lunar) Prospector.


I LOVE doing reading comprehension with him. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> He's afraid to get mad at me openly, so I get all the humor with none of the battles. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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Hope you are getting around better these days.

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Thank you for your interest, Cinderella. I'm being forced to increase my pace of healing because I'm running out of money and I need to go back to work before it completely dries up. I've been walking 2 miles a day for the last few days, trying to stretch out the scar tissue in my foot enough to hold up under 12 hrs. of pounding up and down hospital floors. Not my most favorite thing, but it does seem to be making a difference.

I do read the other thread that Neak started to let this one, and my life story, migrate towards the back pages of MB and into ancient history. I just don't have much to say these days, and what with pretty much having at least one grandkid with me all the time, not much time in which to say my "not much to say"!! crazy

If anything interesting ever occurs, I'll post it on the other thread, but mostly I just read what other people write. I guess I'll hobble off to bed now. No grandkid tonight--feels a bit strange.

t&l

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