Random Musings
Mindblowing concept: "an intellectual concentric"
Recent conversation in the parking garage while Dante was bopping and scatting around:
Batmite!: He really doesn't seem at all like your kid. He's always "on" and you're so laid back.
Me: *shrug* Idunno.
Dante: Does the machine give you change back?
Me: Not today.
Dante: Burn the machine!!!!!!! *(followed by "burn the machine dance" and chants of "Destroy it! Destroy it!")
Batmite!: Never mind. He's your kid.
Gross Understatement of the Week:
Director/Buddy: This could take a while.
Me, staring at stack of paperwork for annual statistical report: ..................
Best thing that happened so far this week:
Opening my bottle of "birthday" wine early and sipping on it all week. (My tradition, which I confess is only a year old, is to buy/receive a bottle of wine for my birthday, keep it unopened all year, and then open it on my next birthday while reminiscing about the year gone by.)
posted by contemplator at Monday, July 16, 2007
7 Comments:
I'll be celebrating my birthday for the first time ever later on this month by going out with a group of friends and I'll be sure to raise a glass in your honor.
Not to be morbid, but I think I'll raise a glass to those still trapped inside the dubs *sigh* like my friend who is legally blind and has against all odds managed to graduate this last May with her Bachelors and is applying to graduate school. This despite the overwhelming disapproval and censure of her congregation.
I can't even explain how much it took this incredibly shy person who was raised by an abusive and mentally disturbed father and a highly inbred narcissistic mother to buck the odds and make it through school. And yet she still buys into it, the guilt eating her up. THAT is why I hate the JWs so much!
Hey Happy Birthday!!
I've been wanting to ask, are you homeschooling Dante next year?
Ooh! Brunne, when's your birthday? Mine's the 23rd. I like my birthday celebration. I've only really been celebrating for a few years (it just seemed so weird before). I buy myself a few presents, I take myself to dinner, etc. I have people to do that for me, of course, but I make sure I do it for myself, in honor of still being around and having so much to live for.
It always blows my mind how the goal of most congregations seems to be keeping its people cleaning the floors of somebody else's business on a high school diploma. I just don't understand that kind of control.
Meg--You've hit a sore spot, I'm afraid (not that I'm upset with you!). I want so badly to homeschool Dante again, but I've worked myself into a corner. There's absolutely no time. He's going to do his 4th grade year in the local public school with plenty of Mommy intervention, if necessary. Maybe next school year. I didn't think he was coming back, so I crammed myself full of things to do. Now, I'm stuck seeing them through. Most of them aren't the kinds of things you can just up and quit without repercussions.
I wondered with it being such a sudden thing if that's what you were looking at. Well, the Mommy intervention will go a long way I'm sure.
I was born the 25th. Ironically enough I'll be going out to dinner with my friend that night, lol, though I'm sure I won't mention its my birthday.
As to the higher ed thing, it's simple - education is freedom. It would almost guarantee a loss of their brightest, though that's usually inevitable anyhow. For most people, attending university means learning to question and think critically. The dubs doctrines and practices could never stand up to that.
Congrats again on getting Dante back! My own sprout is going through growing pains and having weird emotional storms up and down. Always fun!
Happy Birthday for today. Good going!
Damn nice to see Dante's back too.
Oh, and I think I might steal that tradition. (It only sucks if nothing's happened)
okay, our trip's on for this weekend. Any chance of you and Dante joining the kids and I for dinner on Thursday?
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