Old Dutch Cheese popcorn. Absolutely love it.

I have a small, rose tattoo just below my left ankle. It's pretty faded now. Haven't worked up the courage yet to go in and have it redone.

I have a couple relatives like this. I try to avoid them throughout the year and during holiday get-togethers I usually just smile, give vague, polite answers and leave the room (if possible).

ROFL!
Avoid the stinging nettles!

Thank you.

I've heard that too, about charging from moonrise to moonset, and sunrise to sunset. I think it has to do with the kind of energy one needs. Help with dreams & emotions, etc. (feminine energy)...the moon. Help with inner strength, confidence, decision-making, etc. (masculine energy)...the sun.
At least, that's the way I've interpreted it. Lol, I could be way off. I'll be the first to admit that I still have a lot to learn.

Oh I like those incantations! Nice rhythm.

Mind if I borrow from that ceremony when I buy my selenite? (Planning a trip up to the cities next Sat. Yay!) I like the two-part indoor & outdoor aspect. Seems more complete.

I kinda miss Woolworths.

I can still remember, years ago, my Dad people-watching when it was time to go shopping for school clothes. There used to be a Woolworths inside the mall with a small diner attached. Dad would go sit in the diner and people-watch while Mom took sis & I through the stores. When Mom was done buying our school clothes, we always found Dad in the booth by the big window, watching the shoppers go by. He always had something interesting to report.

Good points both, ddn122 & Krimsa. Thank you.

I think they do, too. I don't have too many around my home (slowly building my collection) but I've noticed a difference since I started putting them out. Kind of interesting...I read in "Practical Feng Shui" (by Simon Brown) that crystals are good chi activators and help the flow of energy in an area of the home that feels stagnant.

Yes, I plan on buying her some changing pads.

If the baby pees during a diaper change, it will leak through the towel. Then, depending on where the baby's being changed, there's extra clean up. On the bed...then I have to rewash the bedding. On the kitchen table...then I have to get out the clorox. On the floor...then out comes the carpet cleaner.
(At least that's what I've seen in my limited experience. )
I love PacificStar48's suggestion of a waterproof table cloth.

Thanks Winx! I'm gonna check & see if she has something like a Diaper Genie in her house. If she doesn't, that would be another good gift idea.
At my place...I would love it if she took the really stinky ones out to the dumpster rather than throw them in my trash can. Hopefully it's something she's open to talking about.

That's ironic.


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Ok, I'll take you up on your offer. Here are some contradictions that I listed earlier in this thread. How about we start with these?

(NIV version)
What did Judas actually do?

Matthew 27:5 “So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.”
VS
Acts 1:18 “With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.”


Has anyone really seen God?

John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.

Exodus 33:20 “But, he said, you cannot see my face, for noone may see me and live.”

1 John 4:12 “No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

VS

Genesis 32:30 “So Jacob called the place Peniel saying, It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Exodus 33:11 “The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.

Isaiah 6:1 “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”

Job 42:5 “My ears have heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.”

Absolutely. I've got to put my foot down on that....in the nicest way I possibly can, lol. She's been a friend for years. I don't want her to think I'm calling her a bad mother, cuz she's not. I think she's just new to all this & hopefully I can communicate that when I talk to her about using the designated diaper changing spot.

I really appreciate the responses letting me know that it's not an unreasonable thing to ask of her, and I love most of the ideas given so far. Absolutely love the combined ideas of a designated changing spot with the waterproof table cloth and pads & bags nearby.

Wow, did I hit a nerve? I'm not claiming to be an authority any more than the next person. I read the bible, asked questions, and when they weren't answered began looking elsewhere.
Consider this...
For some conservative catholic scholars, the earth and the universe was created 5199 B.C. while some conservative Protestant scholars understand this event was in 4004 B.C. (from the bible's internal chronology) Astrophysicists understand from data compiled by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope that the earth is 4 billion years old and the universe is 14 billion years old.
If the Bible has the age of the earth and universe wrong what else does it have wrong? Archaeology and geology reveals there never was a Garden of Eden or Adam and Eve, nor was there ever in the earth's geologic history a universal Noah's Flood, and the Exodus -as portrayed in the Bible- is fiction according to the findings of archaeology.
People don't want to hear stuff like this, though. Because then they'd have to consider the possiblity that the bible is inaccurate. And if it's inaccurate..was it really written by God? And so on.....

Like I said....I shouldn't be, but I'm still amazed at the lengths people will go to explain away the contradictions, errors and inaccuracies in the bible.

feralcatlady wrote:


There are no contradictions only people's misunderstanding of what they are reading.




That's ironic.

I shouldn't be, but I'm still amazed at the lengths people will go to explain away the contradictions, errors and historical inaccuracies found in the bible.