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[Multifavs]

Praying for everyone.

Since it is prayer time, i need prayer for my test tomorrow.

Plus my stepdad needs prayer, he is very unwell, we are really worried. He's been sent to the hospital for blood test.

Definitely praying for you and your stepfather too.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

Since it is prayer time, i need prayer for my test tomorrow.

God willing.

Plus my stepdad needs prayer, he is very unwell, we are really worried. He's been sent to the hospital for blood test.

Darn, that makes two of us. I'll definitely pray for him, especially since he's at that age.

 

[Grandpa2390]

Perpetual Stew is an intriguing idea.... I want to try it.

 

[Saucy]

Perpetual Stew is an intriguing idea.... I want to try it.

Is that like the Everlasting Gobstopper?

 

[SarahsKnight]

Went to bed late last night quite in the reflective mood after seeing this movie Boys in the Trees.

After first I didn't really get what was going on and was tempted to call it quits a few times up to the halfway point or so in the film, but, I am glad I persevered and stayed on to the end. I think it had a lot of good morals and some wisdom of the ages to share. Of course as always in my mind I felt I had a lot to say about this movie and how it made me reflect on my own life and my character, and I just wanted to be able to get it all out to someone, even (or perhaps especially) to a group of friends online like you all, but of course I never can recall all those words well enough to put to writing for you all to see and clearly understand , so I'll just try to summarize with what IMBD says and what I managed to take away from the story:

It's Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a former childhood friend but now victimized by Jango's cruel streak, Corey takes pity on him and agrees to walk him home for old time's sake. What starts off as a normal walk through empty suburban streets descends into something darker and magical as they tell each other ghost stories, drawing upon their fears of the world around them. As they walk through their memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is surprised to discover how much he still has in common with his abandoned friend.


The childhood friend Jonah that the main protagonist Corey eventually forsook in the name of pursuing adulthood and "survival of the fittest" in their school's social structure, spoke a lot about the dreams that he and Corey wanted to pursue as children, that in simpler times childish ideals and fantasies like that were all that mattered to them. None of this "surviving as an adult" talk, certainly. And he insinuated heavily that even after "growing up" one should never let the dreams of childhood go. All in all I guess I just wonder what it is my own dreams are, much less how and when I should pursue them. Perhaps right now it is merely successfully getting to Canada and starting a new life there, whatever that life may entail. Just the journey of getting there is what matters right now if it is the Spirit's chosen path for me. May not sound like much of a dream - certainly nothing prestigious or even very challenging to achieve in the average human being's mind who is on the outside observing my life, but if realizing and successfully heeding God's will for your next major life choice is considered a dream of yours, then so be it. It is enough. ... Even enough to still think of myself as a kid full of ideals. I think while it is certainly good - even necessary - to achieve a kind of maturity that naturally comes with growing up, there should still be aspects of being a child, the innocence and idealism, that you should take with you into your physical adulthood, lest you become embittered, cynical, self-serving, and begin to walk in darkness the way that Corey saw himself and his newer, "grown up" gang of friends doing. A much different, personal and selfish kind of darkness than that darkness which Jonah as his present teenage self had descended from in order to lead Corey on their strange, surreal adventure that Halloween night, as it turns out. Unfortunately in a way it was too late for Corey to come to realize how he'd been star trekking in the twilight zone all these years as a teenager, and make amends for his abandonment and subsequent treatment of Jonah, but I think the movie still came to an overall happy ending with his lessons learned and there was a silent redemption you could see with even Jango (the leader of the gang that had become antagonistic towards Corey over the course of the night), who had almost wordlessly offered a restored friendship with Corey since Jonah could no longer be possible under the circumstances, one in which Jango would genuinely try to be a better person who would show caring for his friends rather than merely drag Corey along on all of his typical teen-level sexual escapades and cruel antics towards people like Jonah (you know, the tropes of teenage behavior that movies seem to always try to convince you is more common in people of that age than I think really happens in the real world).

Anyway, I guess all in all, a movie with a story and sentiments such as this gives me hope for the future, even as a man well past physical childhood. Maybe ... I will even be so fortunate as to find a lovely Lady Knight up there in Ontario some day in the near future after I make it there, who will cause me to feel like a kid at heart again with my wild and crazy adoring love for her, as I once held for someone in the past even though it could not be fully realized. (There was also a reconciled romance subplot in the movie's course where Corey made amends with a girl he had formerly cast off as just some random hook-up that his gang lured him into one past night, you see, so that made me start thinking of both my future and past sentiments romantically as well. And it was a romance subplot that I must say that for once I was genuinely pleased to see, that seemed like a good and necessary indicator of Corey's changing character and worldview over the course of the night, and didn't feel cheap or forced in just for the heck of it ... and, wow!, also didn't feel it necessary to involve sex like that is the only thing that draws people together in love or rekindles it! Imagine that, Hollywood! A love story without banging! It's actually possible! )

 

[Squeakers]

When I was younger...I tried so hard to keep friends that I ultimately lost all of them.
Now that I'm older, I unintentionally tend to push friends away...but find that my true friends pull me right back in.

How this is working out...I have no clue...but I love each and every one of those people who have been with me through thick and thin, despite some of the changes I've been through.


On a completely different note...I forgot how Fullmetal Alchemist really pulls at the feels.

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

...Just thinking about walking the track at the local park here in town after I sign off CF and Facebook. But it's dark out there. o.0

 

[PeachieKeen]

Well.. The envelopes for my wedding invitations were faulty. They opened upon mailing despite being well sealed and having an additional sticker closure. The RSVP cards have fallen out and the empty envelopes are being mailed back to me.

Just like I always dreamed.

 

[kittysbecute]

Well.. The envelopes for my wedding invitations were faulty. They opened upon mailing despite being well sealed and having an additional sticker closure. The RSVP cards have fallen out and the empty envelopes are being mailed back to me.

Just like I always dreamed.

That’s crazy :o
I’ve never heard of that happening before.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Well.. The envelopes for my wedding invitations were faulty. They opened upon mailing despite being well sealed and having an additional sticker closure. The RSVP cards have fallen out and the empty envelopes are being mailed back to me.

Just like I always dreamed.

Uh oh .... Tracie's about to unleash her inner Bridezilla. We'd better run for it.

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Uh oh .... Tracie's about to unleash her inner Bridezilla. We'd better run for it.

What's she going to do? Remember Susan. RIP

 

[Grandpa2390]

Is that like the Everlasting Gobstopper?

lol. no it's like what people did in the old days when they didn't have access to fresh ingredients and so forth everyday (particularly during the winter). or they were poor. And they would replinish what they took out but with different ingredients and meats. and like a cast iron skillet, it's flavor gets better (assuming you do it right I guess).

but you keep it simmering all the time so that it stays out of the bacteria zone.

 

[Toro]

Tired all day..... time for bed.........

.....stay sleepy my friends.

 

[Citanul]

I've just been told that I need to take 10 days leave owing to me from last year by the end of June or I'll lose it. Me not using up my annual leave allocation is a perennial problem for me, and the reason I tend not to take leave is that I'll probably end up just spending it at home, which gets a little dull after a while. I don't get up going anywhere as travelling on my own isn't my favourite thing, so not having anyone to do stuff with results in me not bothering to take the time off.

 

[Strider1002]

Tired all day..... time for bed.........
.....stay sleepy my friends.

 

[Rigatoni]

Alright, game plan for today:

• Change service provider for new phone
• Vanquish those pesky octrees
• Be awesome
  
• Pester Saucy
  
• Watch Olympics opening ceremony

 

[MehGuy]

Starting to think biologically (including psychologically) males are just modified females.

Not sure why I didn't focus on this sooner.. seems solves a lot of personally mysteries I've pondered about regarding men and women.

 

[Citanul]

• Pester Saucy

Why have you crossed that one off? It should be an ongoing goal.

 

[Rigatoni]

Why have you crossed that one off? It should be an ongoing goal.

That's a great idea. I do need to get him back for the "Olive Garden" comment he made yesterday, lol.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

Alright, game plan for today:

• Change service provider for new phone
• Vanquish those pesky octrees
• Be awesome
  
• Pester Saucy
  
• Watch Olympics opening ceremony

• Lose 60 lbs.
• Find true love.
• Go to college.
• Learn to love myself.
  
• Win my father's acceptance.
• Milk a cow.

I'd say I'm making good progress so far...