What's on your mind?

[VanillaLion]

Can’t sleep

 

[sampa]

I don't think you have anything to be embarrassed about, Miss @sampa. You did nothing wrong.

Thank you! I'm trying to tell myself that. If he never responds, I don't have to worry about seeing him for another five or 10 years as far as awkwardness. It's just so weird because he's the only one at the reunion that I found really attractive, but I have no connection with him but I have mutual friends that were talking to him so he seems like he's a nice person.

 

[sampa]

feeling better thank you =]

PRAISE God!

Can’t sleep

Praying that you will be able to get some sleep. You need that.

 

[GospelS]

Ha ha...

There are three...

Made in the image of God...

I, We, and Us.

That's 3 and 3.

 

[Sif]

Feeling much much better and less stress now that I've passed my ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) certification.

 

[sampa]

Feeling much much better and less stress now that I've passed my ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) certification.

Congratulations! I hope this will be a step up for you. And it's always good to continue learning and building our skills.

 

[sampa]

Just finished another late night out for a friday. I'm so much better this week health-wise, except teeth issues, then I was the last 2 weeks.

Went and got a glittering black wire ribbon to go with my period costume in another few weeks. Hopefully it will make the dress look more authentic. Also went to a famous store for fitting undergarments to get an opinion about the waist trainer that I bought and if it is the right fit. I was referred to her because she has a hobby of cosplay. She told me my waist trainer was a nice one, I'm sure she wears more costume oriented ones, whereas this one's more quality with steel bone. It's getting a little easier to close the clasp. Will Just have to make a few adjustments to the ties in the back. It does take down a couple inches which is kind of nice and gives me a little shape. Thankful and blessed that I have friends that are willing to go along with my plans and like also being creative and putting costumes together, even when it won't be for Halloween.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

Just added some Queen onto my iPod, I love my music!

 

[sampa]

I guess I got my answer from the guy from The Reunion, I think he's not going to answer. Maybe that's the easiest response for him because of mutual connections. And it's not like I haven't done that either if I think it would be too complicated and time consuming with back and forth correspondence. Especially if you have a bunch of other people messaging or you know for sure that there's nothing that makes you a match.

It'll be another 5 or 10 years before I might have to deal with any awkwardness. But who knows maybe we could be invited to the same parties. I shouldn't expect that much from my profile with the Jesus filter that I use. I've debated about talking so much about Jesus and my profile, but I think it separates the true Christians and lets me know if someone has read my profile or not. Trusting God and I have a piece about what the future holds.

 

[SarahsKnight]

I shouldn't expect that much from my profile with the Jesus felt her that I use. I've debated about talking so much about Jesus and my profile,

Ohhhh, you meant to say Jesus filter, right? My guess is this was an instance when you would have been better off without auto-correct. ^-^

 

[SarahsKnight]

I just saw this written by someone on another part of the forums (won't say who so as to out that person in any way):

Abraham sent his servant Elazar to look for a wife for Isaac. (I wish that custom was still here with us, parents getting their children husbands and wives, those were the 'good ol days) (my opinion)


... And I'm like, I'm thinking not. That ... actually sounds like a terrible idea.

Don't get me wrong; I do actually like the story of how Isaac and Rebekah found one another and married. It is true that Abraham sent out a servant to find someone to marry his son, and the girl he found was Rebekah. The thing is, as the story goes in Genesis, it seems like both Isaac and Rebekah were compliant and willing with this kind of arrangement, though, being brought together by family. Rebekah seemed giddy at the prospect of being chosen and meeting Isaac, and Isaac apparently found her to be quite a beautiful lady he'd fall head over heels for right away. One of my favorite, most memorable quotes/pieces of writing from video games is this, as it is unusually profound and drives home the entire point of the story it is contained within, which turned out to be one of the best-told stories in all of fiction in my personal, humble opinion:

"Love in itself is just a chemical. We give it meaning by choice."

And while arranged at first, it seems to me the way it is written in Genesis, Isaac and Rebekah did come to love by choice. The thing is, in how many cases would that be true if in our present time we sought out marriages on behalf of our children, siblings, friends, etc.? I imagine many would begrudge the notion of us choosing someone for them, and they would refuse to even try to love the person presented to them. They would not be willing. And a lack of the will to love definitely cannot be a foundation for a good marriage, if an existent one at all. Just because it worked out for Isaac and Rebekah's case doesn't mean it would for most today, or really at any time, it seems to me.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Also, had an ... unusual bit of recurring dialogue with a coworker today.

Early in the shift, in the wee hours of the morning , I was in the main lab where the two "liquids" techs reside, on a routine test that I have to go into their territory for a minute or two a few times throughout the day, and this occurs right next to the big stereo they have in there for satellite radio or something. I'm listening to the song for a moment and remark to Kayla, a black lady about my age whose tastes in music differ quite greatly from my own (so we often poke fun at each other's music when we cross areas to hear it), "hey, don't think I've ever heard this song. Who's the artist?" So from across the counter where she can see the title and group doing the song onscreen, she said something like "Cannons. 'Ruthless'."

I asked her to repeat it since I couldn't make that out. And afterward I joked that the first time I thought she said something like "Candice ... Groovy."


Thus, I immediately came up the idea for a best-selling James-Bondish-exploitation set of films, of the cheesy action/scifi variety, or a new mascot in the video game industry that would rightfully knock Bayonetta or Lara Croft from their perches and be the new face of the cute and lovable but tough as nails media trope.

Super kung fu crime-fighting heroine from the 60's, Candice Groovy.

Or maybe Kandice Groovy, with a K for a slight alteration on the spelling just to make it stand out more.


And I kept coming up with an idea or two to further develop this possible gold mine that I jokingly ran across Kayla every time thereafter in the shift that I had to come into the main where she normally works. She thought it was entertaining.



This is what we've got so far.

Kandice is either somehow actually from the 1960's and traveled through time to modern Earth in order to provide an alternate but viable method of unearthing and combating the schemes of criminal masterminds and international terrorists and conspiracies of the day where the authorities of the present time are unable to. ... Or somehow she is just a product of her parents' time and can't mentally remove herself from the decade even though she was still just a shared gleam in their eyes in the midst of Woodstock or something when it happened. She kind of looks like the sidekick girl from the second Austin Powers movie, except she's a brunette - we're leaving a red, violet, and blue rainbow as a possible color for her hair, instead - and dresses a little more conservatively. Not too much, though, to where she loses all sense of fashion. ^-^ She'll be like a Rule 63 James Bond - except less misogynistic, or, you know, whatever the gender-swapped term for misogynistic is, where it's the girl who is condescending and/or untrusting to men as a whole. And, she won't be known for killing everyone with a gun like Bond does. She'll be a little more harmless, using whirwind kung fu on the bad guys, instead, and uses her veritable cuteness to naturally seduce her opponents into submission or confessing their crimes. One look into the gleaming white-toothed smile and tie-dye colored eyes of this cute bruiser with the awesomemest name ever, and only the absolute most cold-hearted of super villains will resist giving up their wicked ways.

... we don't have a backstory or developed first-movie criminal plot for our heroine to get wrapped up in, yet. But hey, I see the basis for a million-dollar gold mine in the media, here.




So, yeah .... Kandice Groovy.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I am beat!

 

[sampa]

Ohhhh, you meant to say Jesus filter, right? My guess is this was an instance when you would have been better off without auto-correct. ^-^

Ohh nohaha. Thanks for letting me know about my goof. Yes! Jesus filter.

 

[sampa]

Abraham sent his servant Elazar to look for a wife for Isaac. (I wish that custom was still here with us, parents getting their children husbands and wives, those were the 'good ol days) (my opinion)


... And I'm like, I'm thinking not. That ... actually sounds like a terrible idea.

I probably would agree. But in those times it was for having children. So in those times I just would have complied and tried to make the most of it like I do with my work. I need money to put food on the table and a shelter over my head. Plus insurance to help when medical issues come up.

And while arranged at first, it seems to me the way it is written in Genesis, Isaac and Rebekah did come to love by choice

Very true. I had a friend in Japan that his parents was an arranged marriage, and his mom didn't think his dad was very attractive but grew to love him. And of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Because the friend was really attractive to me, but in Japan he was told he didn't have a very attractive face. I asked other friends that were Western and they thought he was really good looking too. He still was able to marry the girl of his choice since he became sort of like a salary man. It was just sort of a process where he went to arrange dinners and found the girl that was going to fit with his career.

imagine many would begrudge the notion of us choosing someone for them, and they would refuse to even try to love the person presented to them. The

Yes, I might agree. All my life people have tried to set me up with somebody, and I thought what are they thinking? The guys of course were always interested in me but there was just nothing that clicked. And one that was through my family, and I resisted, I'm glad because later they were able to see what a bad choice he would have been. In Japan, many of them were worried that I should return home and find a husband and have babies. I was in my late twenties, and I guess they thought that when you turn 30 you become an old woman. At that time, after you turn 30 you're not considered prospect for marriage. And I've had friends, that I've noticed they have remained single. One of them went through a divorce because her husband was laundering money and had to go to prison. It's probably been 15 years and I have not seen her with anyone else.

.. we don't have a backstory or developed first-movie criminal plot for our heroine to get wrapped up in, yet. But hey, I see the basis for a million-dollar gold mine in the media, here.

Collaboration, stories and ideas are always a lot of fun in the workplace. It breaks up the monotony of your work.

 

[GospelS]

I just saw this written by someone on another part of the forums (won't say who so as to out that person in any way):

Abraham sent his servant Elazar to look for a wife for Isaac. (I wish that custom was still here with us, parents getting their children husbands and wives, those were the 'good ol days) (my opinion)


... And I'm like, I'm thinking not. That ... actually sounds like a terrible idea.

Yeah. Terrible.

If only parents were as righteous and faithful as Abraham was,...loving God with all their heart, mind, and strength.

It shouldn't be about having the custom of those good old days but having the same Spirit of love and goodness.

People leave the Spirit of God out of His Word, making customs and then oppressing the poor and innocent. They did this with the Messiah too and He rebuked them.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Wow, never discovered this quaint restaurant even in my small college town until a month or two ago, and after work today this is my first time dining in as a way of relaxing at the end of the day. ... There are a lot of cute girls working here, to add to the pleasantness of this first-time visit. ^-^

I think they might pretty much all be students still attending my alma mater just a block away, though. I may possibly still have the optimistic and idealistic romantic attitudes of one who is in his late teens or early twenties, and even retain the appearance passable for a college student as my very crush herself Erin graciously said of me once a few weeks ago ... but still, I think the actual age difference of myself and the majority of the ladies here might ward me from flirting with them beyond the basic politeness I have always wished to show to all ladies on general.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

Still feeling drained but happy that I almost got everything done that I wanted to do today, tomorrow is another day.

 

[SarahsKnight]

It shouldn't be about having the custom of those good old days but having the same Spirit of love and goodness.

People leave the Spirit of God out of His Word, making customs and then oppressing the poor and innocent. They did this with the Messiah too and He rebuked them

I had not thought about it this way when I presented the above sentiments about people being brought together by parents or other family members rather than finding each other on their own, that you had quoted me on, Miss Gospel. But I think you make a profound observation there.

 

[GospelS]

I had not thought about it this way when I presented the above sentiments about people being brought together by parents or other family members rather than finding each other on their own, that you had quoted me on, Miss Gospel. But I think you make a profound observation there.

Thank you, SK. You may have not realised you thought about it.

God is a Spirit. Those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth, and there is no fear or force in Perfect Love.