Wasn't the whole idea behind the 'I'm a Mormon' campaign to get people to judge the church based on the (very cherry-picked) members?
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Thanks for that link! The one time I briefly looked around (before we dog-sat and decided Proxy likes being an only child) I found a couple of sites but none that covered Utah. :)
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They sure master the pouty-face, don't they? We got really lucky with her because some friends of friends lost their house (and I think didn't want her anymore after they had a kid, otherwise they could have tried harder...) so we adopted her. She is, of course, the boss of the whole house and the reason I get to work early so I can get home earlier :) I would love to always have Bostons
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I was so glad to read that there was a happy ending to that story. Yesterday I had to go home and hug my Boston for 10 minutes straight. She wasn't very excited about that because she just wanted to go on a walk (it's amazing I still have all my extremities...)
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Too bad the analogy doesn't extend to the church following the first rule of fight club...
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I'm not a ton of help on the hair side, since I'm not usually very on top of keeping it nicely trimmed and end up at a Fantastic Sams when I finally notice it needs to be cut. For professional clothes you should try Express or The Limited. They are both at The One True Mall, but are at most of the other malls around, except Gateway, since they moved from there :(
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fidget Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love Fable! :) > > I also kick some serious Halo butt. > > For computer gaming, I enjoy Age of Empires. DH makes fun of me, but at least once a year I get a wild hair and play Age of Empires. Love it. We are currently bouncing between playing League of Legends and Starcraft II
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1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 1996 Pontiac Firebird 1993 BMW 325is 1993 Toyota 4runner 2000 Eagle Talon TSI 1999 Mitsubishi 3000gt VR4 2002 BMW 328i 2004 Audi A6 2005 BMW X5 2003 BMW M3 1998 Isuzu Rodeo 2008 Subaru STI 2006 Ford F150 2011 Subaru STI 2012 Kia Optima (Currently have the last 2) I left off any cars that we have owned for less than 6 months, which more than do
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As a child I remember being around when my grandmother would 'jokingly' tell everyone which ladies in the ward my grandpa would be allowed to marry if she died. It wasn't until years later, after she had passed and grandpa was telling everyone that 'god told him he would find another wife' that I put it all together. (He said the same thing after wife #2 passed as well)
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Last night while walking the dog, I happened upon a nevermo friend and neighbor outside talking to her neighbor. She was asking him if it was normal to come home to a random loaf of bread on the front porch with a post-it on it with just a name and #. He laughed and told her it was just the mormons. She then wondered out loud if it was from the woman that stopped by to introduce herself a we
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The thing that gets me while reading all their responses is how quick they are to warn everybody about all the half-truths and twisting of facts that the anti-mormons are doing on the internet, but don't seem to worry at all about the half-truths and twisting of facts that the church is blatantly doing. I have also been entertained by the ones warning against 'science' leading people away with
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Ex-CultMember Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You need to remember that there is a difference > between your ancestors and the fraud that is > Joseph Smith. Your ancestors were VICTIMS in all > this, just as we are today. You can still be > proud of your ancestors for everything they went > through and still despise Mormonism. They were
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I have to admit that I haven't even looked into which wife my family comes through. I kind of feel the need to vomit now...
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Last night I got a call from a good friend (of about 8 years) from work. He is in the hospital for mental health - again, but this time because of a suicide attempt. Last night while talking to him I was kind of in shock, obviously glad that he is still alive, and sad because he seemed to have been doing a lot better with counseling and some medication, and of course I feel like I should have
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Ah, this would explain the vomit-inducing letter I got from the bishop saying that the world is falling further from the ways of the lord, and inviting everyone in the ward boundaries to a 'special' 3rd sunday school session. I naively thought I'd lost them after we moved... I'm taking it as an answer to my 'prayers' since I've been trying to figure out how to get the name and address of th
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My friend does that for her summer BBQ's here in good ol' Utar. Yummy :)
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Holy crap! I had a similar situation and reaction at work a few weeks ago that put me into such a state that my boss had to talk me out of quitting on the spot. (He wasn't involved with the issue) I got through it and have pretty well moved on without knowing exactly why I freaked, but your post made me realize that it was because of the complete lack of respect towards my expertise, my imm
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As a child I remember being jealous of the converts, and thinking how much cooler it would be to have lived 'in the world' and to have recognized 'the truth' for myself. I realize now that I was jealous because I figured they had to have a really good testimony to join, and I never really had one, no matter how many times I read the BOM and prayed.
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Make brownies with it, just use it instead of the milk in the mix, then put some in the frosting. Yum Then take it to a work potluck :)
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Same relation to Johnny T...
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Ok, so we had a few decent days where I thought maybe I was overreacting. (Somewhere I gained some amazing skills in justifying everything...) Nope. Last night it went poorly and he ended up mumbling something about sleeping on the couch because his back hurt. This morning when I got up at 6 to exercise, he got up, got ready and left the house without saying anything. We carpool. So does a
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I came to the realization tonight that I am basically constantly working on ruining my marriage with my inability to express my needs and wants. I am afraid that one of these days something seemingly dumb is going to happen and it will be just enough to break my little secret resentment shelf and I will jump up, yell "I can't take it anymore!" and storm out, leaving him genuinely confu
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I have had to stay far away from the easter candy aisle when I'm grocery shopping. But I can always count on my mom to pick me up a couple bags at the day after sale :)
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No peeps, but don't get between me and a bag of cadburry mini eggs...
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What does your daughter like? It seems like by 3 she has probably moved a little toward liking frilly or not. I know that I was never very excited by the super-girly things I was dressed in when I was young (as evidenced by my frequent nudist-streak when my mother turned around when I was dressed for church, but not when in play-clothes)
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I got so angry after reading that before lunch and had to stop when I reached her 'OH MY GOSH I DONT EVEN WANT YOUR NEGATIVE COMMENTS' response. After some lame microwave food and girl scout cookies I carefully went back through the comments to see if I could find the negative posts that would make her pull out the Caps Lock. Nope. So perhaps miss 'I am mad at you because you left and now
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My nevermo coworker and very-TBM coworker had this conversation a few years ago. After letting him explain the church's stance on abortion, she calmly said 'you realize that technically means the church is pro-choice then, right?' He sputtered for a while and then suddenly had somewhere to be. Most of the people I've talked to about it feel that same way, but seem to think that 'pro-cho
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So you're saying it's not the fault of the people that are purposefully putting themselves into situations where they can't support themselves and can qualify for assistance, but that it's the fault of the people that have made that assistance available?
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I think I've posted this before, but when I was in grad school at the U, I rode the bus to school and work everyday. One day I was sitting in front of 2 girls that were probably about 21 that were loudly discussing (I had headphones in and could still hear them) their plans to start having babies ASAP and which office to go to and apply for all the aid they could get, and how they had to have
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I was the sheltered mormon girl. When DH and I started dating, I was already on my way out. It had nothing to do with him, (although he did know more about the 'meat' of the church than I did) but my family still feels deep-down, that he led their precious baby away. So either you end up converting and are unhappy, or he ends up leaving for you, and even if it works out, you are always the e
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