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"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf
My EQ president sent out a text to a handful of us tonight regarding table and chair set up for tomorrow night's Christmas party. Things quickly took an unexpected turn. I think we were hoping that it would turn into the kid that accidentally got invited to Thanksgiving by grandma.
I am using LED to light the yard this Christmas. I don't have enough bulbs for the world.
Last night, my wife brought home one of those lights that project seasonal shapes on the side of your house. My goodness do those things suck. I had to climb up and disassemble the lights on each side of the garage just to avoid drowning out the dancing snowflakes. My neighbor has one of those laser things that puts green and red dots all over her house. Not as festive but much better coverage.
I always send out individual texts. Maybe I should rethink that.
If it helps, I always feel more obligation to show up, or at least respond, when it's an individual text. When I see that there's 27 other guys on the text, it's easier to convince myself that for or five of them are less busy than I am.
Those things are the height of laziness. Just spike it in the ground and wash your house in lights.
I am not a fan.
Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
In connection with the LTW program, our daughter was about to buy a year's free schooling for a female refugee through the International Rescue Committee and do so in the names of each of her two youngest kids' teachers. When her kids learned she was doing this, the eleven-year-old, who has been really into the LTW program, handed her $30 to help pay for it, thereby depleting all of his remaining spendable cash. Her 8-year-old gave her $20, noting that, "I'd just spend it on candy anyway." I told my daughter this made me really want to splurge on our Christmas gifts to them, but she rejected that idea, noting that they were really happy doing the things they've been doing and she wanted their only reward to be the good feelings that come from serving others and I shouldn't defile an otherwise selfless act with materialism. This is seriously cramping my style.
I am using LED to light the yard this Christmas. I don't have enough bulbs for the world.
Don't feel bad. You are lighting your part of the world.
"...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
- SeattleUte
In connection with the LTW program, our daughter was about to buy a year's free schooling for a female refugee through the International Rescue Committee and do so in the names of each of her two youngest kids' teachers. When her kids learned she was doing this, the eleven-year-old, who has been really into the LTW program, handed her $30 to help pay for it, thereby depleting all of his remaining spendable cash. Her 8-year-old gave her $20, noting that, "I'd just spend it on candy anyway." I told my daughter this made me really want to splurge on our Christmas gifts to them, but she rejected that idea, noting that they were really happy doing the things they've been doing and she wanted their only reward to be the good feelings that come from serving others and I shouldn't defile an otherwise selfless act with materialism. This is seriously cramping my style.
Seriously, some of the houses with those things look like they've contracted measles or chicken pox. Not good.
An inspiration and good advice coming from your daughter. Your daughter in NYC still doing well?
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
Seriously, some of the houses with those things look like they've contracted measles or chicken pox. Not good.
Frustrated becasue my son and I have only managed to get up half of our christmas lights so far this year, my wife threatened me with one of those LED house-"wash" lights. If all lights arent up by COB Saturday, Monday will see my place bathed in those little dots. A pox on my house indeed.
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